Episode 87-Dr Gabe Roberts-Honor Every Emotion

·1 hr 16 min·5 clips

Gabe says chronic pain often becomes a learned brain-and-memory response, not just a body problem.

Robyn Stebbins opens the episode with the Medicine Girl podcast’s healing-first frame. She introduces chiropractor Dr. Gabe Roberts and quickly moves into functional medicine, allopathic medicine, and the way she sees both sides as part of the same larger medical system, including a reference to Rockefeller taking over both sides of medicine. The tone is direct. Robyn says she and Gabe have different perspectives on things like muscle testing and homeopathy, but she still treats the exchange as a useful place to sort out what testing can and cannot tell you. The episode gets under the hood of diagnosis. They talk through lab tests, blood tests, and the odd gap between a diagnosis and the lived reality of symptoms, including the way Lyme testing can create confusion when people are testing positive or symptomatic. The body keeps coming back. Gabe says he can look at someone and see what emotions they are harboring and what trauma may show up on the body by looking at the face, including anger, lack, and unprocessed grief. The conversation turns into an inventory. They talk about repression, trauma, missingness, and the idea that repeated expressions over years can leave visible traces. Nothing is polished. The episode sounds like a direct, open-ended conversation, and that roughness is part of the point because the hosts are not trying to sound detached. There is also a clear invitation. Gabe frames this way of seeing people as a privilege and says it helps him assist clients beyond lab work, hair tests, and other external measures. The show keeps returning to the same claim. If the body is carrying unprocessed emotion, then healing is not only about tests, supplements, or a label, but about looking honestly at what has been buried. Robyn lands on the same larger theme. She says all emotions are precious, and the episode treats that belief as a starting point for understanding why people get stuck, sick, or divided inside themselves. It ends on reflection rather than resolution. The final shape is less a verdict than a challenge to look inward before looking for the next protocol, the next diagnosis, or the next expert.

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A conversation that pits medical systems against each other while tracing where belief, diagnosis, and healing meet.

Robyn Stebbins and chiropractor Dr. Gabe Roberts spend their time in a real back-and-forth, weighing functional medicine against allopathic medicine and touching muscle testing, homeopathy, Lyme testing, and lab work.

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