The Functional Nurse Podcast - Nursing in Functional Medicine · Brigitte Sager, DNP

Interview With Brooke Forsythe, RN, NC-BC

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I read The Secret by Rhonda Byrne and just stopped my medications—my mind got clear.

Bridget Sager interviews Brooke Forsyth, an 18-year nurse with deep personal and professional insights on mental health care. Brooke shares her journey from childhood anxiety through a devastating medication spiral following her parents' divorce (five psychiatric medications by 2020), her transformative discovery of The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, her dramatic mindset shift that led her to discontinue all medications, and her mission to reform healthcare through mindset-based coaching. She discusses how healthcare overrelies on pharmaceutical solutions, the suppression of emotions in nursing culture, the role of negative self-talk in creating disease patterns, and her memoir Dispensing Pills Popping Pills which chronicles her experiences. Brooke articulates the hidden epidemic of nurse burnout and unhealthy healthcare workers, advocates for functional medicine approaches (serotonin in the gut), and calls for healthcare systems to return to Florence Nightingale's one-to-one nurse coaching model.

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A nurse-to-nurse conversation about mental health, connection, and healing in practice.

Brooke Forsyth and Bridget Sager keep the episode anchored in a nurse with 18 years of practice who has also lived through her own mental health struggles. That gives the conversation its weight.

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Hear a nurse turn her own mental health story into practical coaching wisdom.

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