God's Healing Wisdom - Alexandra Yu

welcome back to another episode of

Christian Natural Health today I am very

pleased to have Alexander U with us

Alexandra is an author and registered

nurse with many years of experience in

the clinical research industry her

passion for for holistic health led her

to launch her holistic uh her holistic

healing podcast uh Alexandra's mission

is to encourage women to seek God's

wisdom first for their health and life

so that they can experience true lasting

healing that will allow them to make a

greater impact Eternal impact in their

homes and communities Alexander is a

wife and mom of three children she loves

to read work out travel and play the

piano and she has a passion for helping

atrisk children welcome Alexandra thanks

for H thanks for being on the show yeah

thanks so much for having me I just love

your show I love what you're doing so

it's really a privilege for me to be on

your show thank you well thank you I'm

so glad so how did you get interested in

holistic health first of all since you

started out in more traditional areas

right

right so when I was younger I I would

say I was kind of like a junk food Queen

I didn't believe that food could do

anything for our health I just did

whatever most people do I thought we

just do what the doctor says and then

we'll be healthy you know everything's

good um and I was I was thin when I was

younger I've always been on the thin

side and people would say to me you know

when you're older you're not going to be

thin anymore so you should just eat

whatever you want so that's basic oh

yeah just ate whatever I wanted and then

when I got older I became a nurse and um

I worked on the a med surge floor so I

saw a lot of different patients and we

started seeing a lot of the P same

patients over and over again and the

charge nurse would call them frequent

flyers and they would just you know get

their treatment and then go and then

come back and then you know over and

over again and then I would just think

to myself man do do patients ever get

better you know is this are we actually

helping them and so when I got when I

started getting sick um when I was

younger I would always have these bad

reactions to medications and so I just

really wanted to find the root cause

like what is really going on with my

body I dove into a bunch of bunch of

research I found some natural remedies I

changed my diet and it was it helped so

much and um I was just so grateful but

then over time I would do some of the

same things but it wouldn't work as well

and that's when I felt like God really

showing me that there's so much more to

health and food and exercise like um we

have to focus on our spiritual health

our relationships we have to heal trauma

you know there's so many different

things to health and so that's really

brought me to be interested in holistic

health yeah it's awesome so it was

really your own personal Journey that

inspired you to want to share it with

other people right yeah so your book uh

so discover God's Health wisdom exposing

eight common myths that keep you sick

give us like the elevator pitch why did

you write it and what's kind of the

overview so when I so as I said I worked

as a nurse and then I I kind of had a a

background in clinical research so after

I felt like bedside nursing wasn't for

me I went back into the clinical

research field and that's where I really

found that I feel like a lot of people

feel like drugs are safe for us like we

do the best job at making our drugs safe

but the reality is is that the clinical

research field like so like all the

other fields is full of people that are

can be apathetic there's a really a high

turnover rate um and unfortunately there

are so many drugs on the market that are

not so safe our medical system is far

from perfect as we all know but also

there are wonderful people that work in

the field but I just wanted people to

see to know that we should really be

going to God first when it comes to our

health because there's so many

conflicting opinions even when I dove

into the holistic field Alternative

Health there's so many you know people

will say this is a superfood and then

another will say no it's not and you

know there's just so many yes

conflicting opinions out there so I

really feel like in every area of our

life sometimes it's easier to go for God

when it comes to like a career or a

business but we don't often stop to say

you know God what is the best for my

body you know because every body is

different every situation is different

and what he may lead you to may be

different for me so that's why I wrote

the book yeah awesome so it's really

focused on seeking God's wisdom

individually and learning to hear God's

voice like is that kind of what you're

focusing on primarily yeah so the first

section is about the eight common health

myths and then the last section is about

really seeking God's wisdom here in

God's voice um talks about what the

Bible says about health and healing yep

awesome okay so I'm GNA come back to

that but can you tell us like real quick

give us broad Strokes like 30,000 foot

overview of what the eight common health

myths are sure so I I'll go over some of

them you can stop me or if you have any

questions yeah I have the book right

here so the first one is if a health

protocol worked for someone else it will

work for me too um like I was saying

before um like take all these diets for

instance some people say oh you know

keto diet was wonderful for me I lost

all this weight another person will say

oh I switched to become a vegan and it

was so wonderful for my health and then

but another doctor would say oh I

switched to vegan it was the worst year

for my health and you know every like I

said everybody is different so that's

that's one myth um the treatment didn't

harm someone else it won't harm me

either once again we're all different we

all struggle with different things um we

all you know have different levels of

toxicity in our body so just because

your neighbor took that treatment and

you know was completely fine doesn't

mean that you know you'll be completely

fine so it's always good to go to God

first um if the drug stopped the symptom

my health has

improved right yes I give an example of

you know I'm driving down the road and

my gas light comes on um and instead of

stopping to get gas I go under the hood

and I tinker with the gas light to get

it to turn off and so I go on my Merry

way and then my car stops well that's

not a true story but that's often what

we do for our health instead of getting

giving our bodies what we truly need

like if our gas light comes out in our

car we're gonna get gas we're not going

to go under the hood just to turn off

the gas light but um if if you know if I

really did that you'd probably think I

was crazy but oftentimes we do that with

our health instead of you know really

digging in to see you know why am I

having all these symptoms we just put a

bandid on it we mask the symptom and go

on our way and that's really not what's

going to make better in the long run

absolutely the symptoms are are clues

that are there for a reason to guide you

to the the actual source of the problem

absolutely sure uh do you want me to go

on or please yeah so I'm this is great

okay um another one is if I want to

eliminate my health symptoms I only need

to focus on the physical needs of my

body um that's another a really big one

and um one thing I like to point out I

feel like a lot of people don't talk

about it is the spiritual warfare so

there was this one time where I felt

just really bad um gastrointestinal pain

and I feel like I've gotten to the point

where I can pretty much tell where my GI

issues are coming from whether it be

something I ate or if I'm stressed about

something but this time it was different

and I just I had to lie down but then um

I asked people to pray for me um we have

this you know text message thread at

church and ask people to pray for me I

turn on worship music and within 15

minutes it was gone and I really feel

like sometimes our health issues can be

from spiritual warfare from demons and

stuff like that but that's you know

often not mentioned but that could be

the source you know that could be one of

the sources right yeah so that's another

one um another myth is natural

treatments and non-conventional methods

do not work if you go on public Med .go

you will and you search for any type of

herb or any type of just anything that

you're wondering about there are studies

out there and throughout history people

have been using herbs and foods for

healing and just on your show um it's

just such a great resource there's so

many different things that we can do for

our health we don't always need to pop a

pill so natural treatments and

non-conventional methods definitely do

work absolutely sometimes they take time

sometimes they take more time you know

and along those lines just put throwing

this out there too I think also it

depends on how you use them what the

reason is because it's absolutely

possible to use a natural substance or

an herb in a suppressive manner to turn

off the symptom and then you're not

actually fixing the problem you might

get some benefit probably not as much as

a pharmaceutical because they're not as

useful at suppressing symptoms as

Pharmaceuticals are they're not quite as

strong they're not designed for that but

if you use it to fix the problem the

symptoms will go away so almost anything

it really depends on the how and the

philosophy under which you're using it

as to whether or not it's going to be

beneficial for you one of my pet peeves

is like all these studies that will say

oh like there's this huge double blind

Placebo controlled trial that says B12

is great for fatigue therefore if I have

fatigue I should get a B12 shot and that

will that's true only if you're

deficient in B12 if you're not in Def in

B12 it's not going to work at all and I

just hate the way that that thinking

tends to pck whole treatments with

symptoms rather than looking at the

story as a whole but that said

absolutely yes there's there's lots of

evidence that these things do work when

you use them appropriately for sure

right definitely agree yeah um another

one is my body is inherent inherently

dysfunctional and there's nothing anyone

can do about it oh my goodness

yes I mean there are people you know we

we all are born into different things

things and we all have different you

know we some of us are healthier than

others but I believe that the body is

fearfully and wonderfully made um God

designed the the body to heal itself so

I feel like instead of the message of

like you need this or you need this

medication to get better that's not you

know that's not really that's not always

true yeah I love it that one I hear all

the time that if I have this this

diagnosis is Destin

um and this is going I'm going to have

this for the rest of my life and I'll

just have to live with it and people

have all of those assumptions that are

just not the case absolutely yeah right

definitely another one is I can sit back

and let the medical system take care of

me uhuh for this chapter I I just

painted a picture of what it looks like

on a Nur nursing shift you know um we

don't get a lot of sleep we're so tired

we see so many patent s when I when I

before I was a nurse I thought I'd have

time to spend with my patients but I

often did not I was like running around

putting out fires people are screaming

for their toothbrush when like the next

person in the Next Room is dying and um

it's just super stressful and you know

Things fall through the cracks all the

time medical errors are like the number

three cause of death or something like

that so I really want to encourage

people to once again pray ask God for

wisdom be your own ad Advocate do your

own research definitely stand by your

family if they have to go to the

hospital definitely um take charge of

those situations right yeah

absolutely um and the last thing the

last myth is the Bible has nothing to

say about my

health yes yes so let's use that as the

jumping off point so what does the Bible

say about health and healing and why is

that the starting place or why should it

be our starting

place so um the the next chapter I I

called have faith and ask God for wisdom

so this as we were talking about before

we press record this it can be a very

controversial topic um and I will say

that I'm not a theologian I don't

completely understand it I believe that

there there is some mystery to it but if

we go back to um the story of the woman

who was bleeding for 12 years um

she when she saw Jesus on the street she

reached out to him she touched the Hem

of His cloak or whatever he was wearing

and um you know Jesus turned around and

he basically said your faith has made

you well um so I do definitely believe

that faith our faith as you know plays a

part in our healing um we are not to

worry about the outcome you know I I

believe that God can heal people in

instantaneously but I also believe that

God takes us to through a process often

times that's why I also say we must ask

God for wisdom um there's a story in the

Bible Joshua if you know Joshua um to me

he's like this huge man of Faith um and

he's definitely one of the leaders in

the Bible but there is this story where

um he was deceived by the gibeonites and

it says that he didn't seek counsel from

the Lord and that can happen in any you

know in any aspect of our life whether

it comes to our health you know business

relationships but I feel like that's

often a missing piece in our culture we

don't go to God first for wisdom on

treatments on practitioners on

supplements on what kind of diet you

know and God really wants to walk side

by side with us through everything and

so for not asking him at least for

wisdom for counsel when it comes to the

big things you know that be really

detrimental for our health yeah

absolutely so um and I know there's

there's different perspectives on how

God uses Health there like on one

extreme there's he

uses um disease or negative things in

order to teach us something there's

people on that extreme um and versus the

idea of sometimes he will heal

instantaneously other times like he

might say yes he might say no um and

then there's he wants us well well

healing is a good thing so what would

you say to people on each of those those

levels so I would say and this is going

to sound kind of strange but I think

that I

mean okay my friend was telling me that

when we look at the Bible through a

western lens we don't always see it as

clearly um but if you if you look at it

from like a Jewish perspective they kind

of see things different L and they

believe that one thing can be true and

another thing can be true and it's I'm

I'm not saying that it's conflicting

what I'm saying is is that there is a

mystery to it um I I believe that our

our faith does play a part I believe

that God wants us to be well but he can

also use hardships for um you know to

teach us something to be a witness um

but as I was saying I I believe it comes

back to having faith as a child that's

what he calls us to he doesn't call us

to understand everything but he does it

does in the Bible it says God wants us

to ask him for good things you know so

just ask him ask him for that good thing

ask if you haven't been healed ask him

why why aren't you healing me you know

talk with him he wants a relationship

with you and that's the most important

thing that's where our heart is you know

and let him worry about it you know I I

have dug into like different theologic

iCal viewpoints and I you know I haven't

you know landed on either side you know

I'm not God I think we have to realize

that like there are certain things we're

not going to understand but it's so

clear to me when we look at the New

Testament that our faith plays a part

but that doesn't mean that if you're

healed that you don't have enough Faith

No that could be a reason it could it

might not be you know we might never

know but if we don't ask you know like

imagine you know know that you're a lot

of your viewers probably have kids like

imagine if you were like a a

trillionaire right but then you're adult

child you know fell into some trouble

and like she doesn't have enough money

to to eat but she doesn't go to you and

then you find out later from someone

else um you would go to your daughter

and say why don't you ask me you know

I'm a trillionaire I can give you money

for food I kind of feel like God sees us

that way like do you understand how big

I am like why can't you just ask me you

know yeah he might not do what we ask

and might look completely different but

you know he tells us to ask to have

faith as a child sure well and one thing

too that really sort of shifted my

thinking on this was looking at how

Jesus responded to people who approached

him for healing so we're told over and

over and over again that he is the

express image of God he did nothing

except what he saw the father doing and

literally every single person who came

to him for healing was healed it's says

that over and over and over everyone was

healed so under no circumstances did he

ever say I'm sorry you have that disease

because God is trying to teach you

something you're not done yet we're

gonna we're going to let this play out a

little bit longer because he's got a

real purpose in this never he said I am

come that they might have life and they

might have it more abundantly and the

enemy is the one who comes to steal kill

and destroy so it's very clear

delineation who's the villain who's the

hero here he came so by his stripes we

are healed and I love the story that you

talked about in terms of the woman with

the issue of blood because in that case

he didn't even he wasn't even involved

he he was the conduit but she reached

out and he turned around and he he felt

the power go out of him already and he

was just so amazed that she was able to

draw on it to the point where she put

her own life in danger and she was she

could have been stoned for being unclean

and for contaminating all of these

people and yet she was so determined

that is such a beautiful picture of

Faith like action that is involved in

faith of reaching out and having that

confidence that he's good and that if

all all I have to do is Touch the Hem of

His Garment and I will be healed so yeah

absolutely and I love what you're

talking about in terms of seeking wisdom

that what James tells us about seeking

wisdom means that you know he he never

says no when you approach him for wisdom

and you ask him the reasons for these

things and he can give you that

information but what would you say to

somebody who says but I can't hear

God that has been my struggle and I feel

like we we all struggle with that um and

once again I'll go back to God is a

mysterious God but I will also say that

the Bible says if you draw close to God

He will draw close to you so keep on

keep on drawing closer to him keep

praying um meditate on the Bible um

meet with other other people that that

um that can help grow you there um know

that I think it's in job or something

that it says God speaks one way and

another but we don't perceive it um God

can speak through Thunder he can speak

through things that we see he can speak

through so many different ways um I'm

thinking of Moses in the Bible where I

find it fascinating because God made it

a point to say when I speak to Moses I

speak face to face when I speak to

others I speak through prophets so um

and I believe he said that because Moses

was at that time I think the meekest man

on Earth so I think that has something

to do with it um if we humble

ourselves

um he'll draw closer to us I believe or

that's what I take from that story um

but God is faithful and and there are so

many times where I would listen to

people and be like man I can't hear God

that clearly like what's wrong with me

but but um just it'll I mean like I said

if you draw closer to God he'll draw

closer to you um he really will sure

yeah and so one of the things that um my

experience has been that when God talks

to me it's usually through scripture

that's brought back to my remembrance um

and what Jesus said before he went to

the Cross is I'm if it's good for you

that I go away because when I go away I

send the comforter and he will guide you

into all truth and he will bring to your

remembrance everything that I have said

and that's the holy spirit's Ministry to

us part of our part of his ministry is

to convict us of righteousness that we

are righteous in God in Christ Jesus

because of what Jesus has done and of

the of of sin that the ruler of this

world is judged that Satan has already

been judged as a result of what what

Jesus did on the cross so we're no

longer subject to him it's te the holy

spirit is here to teach us that we have

the victory over Satan who is trying to

steal kill and destroy and he's going to

bring to your remembrance everything

that God has said to you but then Paul

later tells us if we renew our mind with

scripture faith comes by hearing and

hearing by the word of God and the more

we renew our minds the more language

it's like that's the vocabulary the Holy

Spirit has to speak to you so the more

you hide that word in your heart the

more he can can bring it back to you and

share those those truths with you that

are you can't screw that up like there's

so many other ideas that we can have

like things popping into our mind oh I

think maybe this was God could have been

me could have been something I just ate

could have been something that the devil

planted there but if it's scripture then

you can have confidence that this truly

is from God so I think that like a lot

of it has to do with just using that

time and renewing our our minds with

What God Says so that we can have that

guidance

so yeah absolutely yes very important

yeah I I completely agree because people

can say that God told me this but if it

doesn't align with scripture definitely

not you know absolutely and if you don't

know scripture it's very easy to be

deceived as a result of that like if we

look at how when Satan came to Jesus in

the wilderness he tried to use scripture

but he twisted it and Jesus knew

scripture well enough to know nope

that's not what it says or that's not

what it means in some cases that was

what it said but it was out of context

uh but because he had the awareness he

was able to recognize the counterfeit um

but that's it because Satan is the

father of Lies absolutely but yeah God

is God is going to give us wisdom and

he's going to use every single tool that

he has available to him that we've made

available by doing our part to give us

the direction that we need for sure yeah

so um what else would you say that you

want to make sure that you leave with

our

audience so we kind of touched on it

already but um it's really getting into

the word um meditating on the word I'll

tell you a story it's not my story but

it's really powerful so I I know this

life coach um in her words she was uh

boring uh stay-at-home mom um her

husband would travel at uh for work a

lot but one day she had heard a knock on

the

door um and there was a man standing

there and the man said to the woman your

your husband owes me money and that man

turned out to be a pimp and in the

driveway was a prostitute so she found

out on that day that her husband had

been sleeping with

prostitutes so um she was really you

know really upset like telling God like

why didn't you even warn me like what's

going on um and what she did though was

she took scripture and she started

writing it on Post-it notes she put the

posted notes all over her walls and then

um her kids were really young at the

time and then when the posted notes

started falling down they said oh we got

to put the posted notes back because we

know that they help Mama and so I just

think that's such a beautiful story that

that um it says in Josh I believe Joshua

that we need to be meditating on the

word day and night um because we're

bombarded all the time with lies but if

we have that word in our heart right um

we and and you know like Satan comes to

us and says see like you're never going

to get better or you know it's just

going to get worse you can you can throw

that away and said and say no like you

said God came to give me life to give me

abundance you know and he'll give me

that Joy he promised he promised me joy

he promised me peace you know we got to

continuously fight back with that word

and um it's so important absolutely

absolutely that is the sword of the

spirit for sure so where can people go

to pick up a copy of your book to learn

more about you so they can my book can

be found on Amazon basically anywhere

Barnes & Noble Walmart um you can go to

her holisti healing.com

book um I have a podcast called her

holistic healing and my website is her

holisti healing.com and I would love to

um just meet all your listeners I also

have a Facebook group so you can find

that all on my website too fabulous

awesome well I will link on the show

notes for all of that and thank you so

much Alexandra this has been really fun

thank you so much for having me on my

show I really appreciate it

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