🎙️ In this powerful episode of the Breaking Normal Podcast, Dr. Isabelle Amigues — a board-certified rheumatologist, cancer survivor, and founder of UnabridgedMD — shares how receiving a diagnosis of **Stage 4 breast cancer on her 40th birthday** became the most pivotal gift of her life.

We dive deep into how her **open-mindedness, surrender, and willingness to explore beyond Western medicine** — including **shamanic healing, placebo awareness, and emotional transformation** — not only helped her heal, but reshaped her entire path.

💊 We unpack the science and spirituality behind **proactive placebos**, and how the belief systems we hold (as patients AND doctors) might be one the most powerful medicines of all.

She now lives cancer-free, having left a marriage, launched her own thriving direct-care practice, and continues to teach that **“whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re probably right.”**

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🔥 Topics We Cover:

• Why she calls Stage 4 cancer her *birthday present*

• The role of **placebo and belief in healing**

• Shamans, surrender, and science — how they merge

• Her divorce and rebirth as a medical entrepreneur

• The mind-body connection most doctors ignore

• And the 10 Breaking Normal questions...

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🧠 Connect with Dr. Isabelle Amigues:

Website: https://www.unabridgedmd.com  

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unabridgedmd

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📖 Read or listen to *Breaking Normal* (narrated by Daniel Eisenman & JP Sears):  

https://amzn.to/3IH4Ktp

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