Stress is Optional: Integrating Lifestyle Medicine and Coaching with Dr. Robyn Tiger

Download The Physician Fertility Roadmap- a 6-step, evidence-based plan to optimize your fertility over the next 6-12 months. https://support.loveandsciencefertility.com/The-Physician-Fertility-RoadmapIn this episode of the Love and Science Podcast, Dr. Erica Bove sits down with Dr. Robyn Tiger, a double board-certified physician in diagnostic radiology and lifestyle medicine, trauma-informed mind-body expert, and founder of Stress-Free MD.Dr. Robyn shares her powerful personal journey through chronic, unexplained physical symptoms that ultimately stemmed from severe chronic stress — and how discovering yoga, meditation, and lifestyle medicine quite literally saved her health and her life.Together, Dr. Erica and Dr. Robyn explore what it truly means to integrate science, medicine, and whole-person care, especially for women navigating high-stress medical careers, fertility journeys, and life transitions.This conversation is grounded, compassionate, and deeply practical, offering both hope and actionable tools for healing.How Dr. Robyn reclaimed her health and life after years of unexplained symptoms, beginning with yoga and nervous system regulation.We discuss: Her unexpected pregnancy complicated by a fetal anomaly, the grief that followed, and how she found the courage to move forwardWhy chronic stress is often the missing diagnosis in modern medicineEvidence-based stress reduction techniques that actually workHow lifestyle medicine, trauma-informed care, and coaching can be integrated for true whole-person healingGuest Details:Robyn Tiger, MD, DipABLM is a double board-certified physician inDiagnostic Radiology and Lifestyle Medicine and a trauma informedmind-body expert. As founder of StressFreeMD, she uniquelycombines her trainings in medicine, yoga therapy, meditation & lifecoaching to teach physicians a whole person approach to relieve stresswhile increasing both lifespan and healthspan. Her innovativecoaching, courses, presentations, retreats, podcast and book focus oncreating effective behavior changes in the key topics of stress relief,nutrition, exercise, sleep, social connection and nature whilecultivating physical, mental, and emotional well-being and resilience.stressfreemd.net Support the showAs always, please keep in mind that this is my perspective and nothing in this podcast is medical advice.If you found this conversation valuable, book a consult call with me using this link:https://www.loveandsciencefertility.com/private-fertility-consultFollow us on social media:IG: www.instagram.com/loveandsciencefertilityFB: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553692167183Please don’t let infertility have the final word. We are here to take the burden from you so that you can achieve your goal of building your family with confidence and compassion. I’m rooting for you always.In Gratitude,Dr. Erica Bove