Your Healing Playground – Dr. Tina Koopersmith 

What if healing isn’t something that happens to you—but something that awakens within you?

Join me for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Marianne Pinkston-Mueller, an integrative medicine physician, entrepreneur, educator, podcast host, and living example of transformation. After overcoming obesity, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, and autoimmune disease—and losing 180 pounds herself—Dr. Pinkston has dedicated her life to helping others discover their own capacity to heal.

Together, we explore a powerful question:

What if the stories you’ve been told about your body, your health, and your diagnosis are only part of the story?

For generations, we have been taught that disease happens to us and that healing comes primarily from outside sources. While medicine, surgeries, and prescriptions can be valuable tools, Dr. Pinkston and I discuss a deeper truth: the body is constantly changing, adapting, and attempting to restore balance.

In this episode, we explore:

How our beliefs and stories shape our health choices
Why symptoms may be messages rather than enemies
The difference between managing illness and creating wellness
How food, emotions, thoughts, and relationships influence healing
The body’s remarkable ability to regenerate and adapt
Why emotions are “energy in motion” and were never meant to stay stuck
How physicians themselves are often conditioned by the stories of modern medicine

Using a beautiful metaphor, we discuss how a cast can help a broken bone heal—but if left on forever, it creates new problems. In much the same way, treatments can be lifesaving and necessary, while still inviting us to ask deeper questions about the choices, habits, emotions, and beliefs that created the conditions for healing in the first place.

Most importantly, we discuss a message that both of us have learned through our own journeys:

Your body is not trying to hurt you. Your body is trying to communicate with you.

If you’ve ever felt trapped by a diagnosis, frustrated with your health, or curious about the connection between mind, body, emotions, and spirit, this conversation will inspire you to see your healing journey through a new lens.

Because perhaps true wellness isn’t about fighting your body.

Perhaps it’s about learning to trust it.

Join us for this inspiring conversation with Dr. Marianne Pinkston-Mueller and discover how living “at ease” may be the pathway out of dis-ease.

Dr. Marianne Pinkston-Mueller is an integrative medicine and family practice physician in San Antonio, TX over 25 years. Dr. Pinkston is aligned with Salem Media for a national and internationally appearing podcast “The Better Life with Dr. Pinkston” with over 20k subscribers.

Dr. Pinkston graduated from Texas Tech University, UT Health Science Center San Antonio and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Family Practice Residency Program. Currently, Dr. Pinkston is Co-Founder and CMO of NuBloom Weight Loss Centers (myNuBloom.com) solo practice 25years, >40,000 patients seen in San Antonio, >11,000 teaching hours, adjunct professor of 11 schools, was president or Vice President of several local school PTA or extracurricular programs, medical director of several clinics including PDLabs and Jim LaValle’s clinic, The LaValle Performance Health Center in Cedar Park, Texas, Serenity Med Spa in San Antonio, TX, and Alliance Wound Care Services. 

Dr. Pinkston at one point had 3 locations of practice and owned a premier med spa in San Antonio, TX for 2 decades and was accepted to a research position at NASA and the Astronaut Program until NASA was disbanded in the 1990’s. 

Dr. Pinkston is a proud mom of 3 children, all in college, who personally lost 180 lbs from 300lbs  after having suffered Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis, cancer, and autoimmune hepatitis. She has been voted “Most Compassionate Doctor and Best Doctor” by patients and peers many times by multiple organizations. Recent positions: Vice Chair of Arthritis Foundation of Central and South Texas, Board Member of the Texas Kidney Foundation and San Antonio Women’s Chamber of Commerce, Global Pain Association, editor of SAMonthly Magazine, 2ten Sports Magazine, LatinaX and  member of more than 11 professional organizations, and adjunct professor of more than 15 schools. 

Dr. Pinkston is completing a fellowship in Integrative Medicine through A4M/ Morsani School of Medicine in association with George Washington University, and is certified in Hormone Replacement, Weight Management, and Stem Cell and Peptides as well as writing several books. Dr. Pinkston, a previous radio talk show host for 6 years in the San Antonio, TX area now appears exclusively on her podcast/YouTube nationally and internationally on every podcast media and at Sirius XM – on the Healthy Choices Network.

Dr. Pinkston-Mueller, recently married, has established a YouTube Network, “Better Life TV” highlighting other like minded podcasts and network channels. Please view all information at

Drpbetterlife.com

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~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~ 

Dr. Tina Koopersmith has practiced Western medicine for over 30 years. But she is so much more than a physician. An integrative medicine and fertility specialist, she is a transformational healer and coach who not only brings life to her patients but reminds them that it is their responsibility and, in their power, to bring themselves back to vibrancy and vitality.

Root cause healing starts with energy, emotions, communication—between your cells and your soul.

As a speaker-coach-author as well as mother, nonconformist, and recovering perfectionist, she is dedicated to modifying our health care system from one focused on illness and sickness to one devoted to prevention and wellness.

She reminds us all that love, play, pleasure and purpose are the secret ingredients to wellness. She starts with the premise we all have the same parts and very similar DNA, and yet we all have different experiences and imprinting. Our unique signature means we are all wired to access safety and pleasure in a slightly different fashion; this diversity is to be praised and celebrated.

When our body feels safe, we can move from our “childhood” survival stress mode to our “Wise Sage Self”. Healing, recovery and regeneration thrive only when we stop resisting what is and celebrate all of life with acceptance of the NOW.
Health and Wellness is nourished with empathy, compassion innovation and connection—a total integration of the mind body, the heart body, the physical body and the energetic. ALL are worthy of self-care, self-acceptance and self-love.

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