This month's conversation is with Dr. Anu French. During our time together we discuss her childhood, being born in India and moving to England and back to India, and how it felt to not belong in both places. A mother of two young girls, we discuss how integrative living and integrative medicine go hand in hand. There are so many ways healing can happen and we discuss how the use of art, music, being an advocate, and being your authentic self can help us grow into ourselves with kindness and grace. To learn more about Dr. Anu French, please check out her website, Facebook, or Instagram.

Dr. Anu French Bio

Dr. French, an artist, musician, yogini, author andan integrative pediatrician is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics,double board-certified in Pediatrics and Integrative Medicine, with a fellowshiptraining in Integrative Medicine and Integrative Psychiatry. With a special interest in integrative nutrition, healthcareequity, childhood mental health, and intergenerational resilience, she serves onadvisory boards of Integrative Medicine for the Underserved, Let’s Integrateand WholeHealthED. In clinical practice for 26 years,  she melds her passion to provide accessibleintegrative pediatric care with craftivism through her affirmative art series,her meditative music and global advocacy at her St Louis, MO office.  She has researched and published on thetopics of nutrition, yoga, art, and resilience and has taught mindfulness, foodas medicine and sound healing workshops to medical, dietetic, and yoga students,pediatric and psychiatry residents and Montessori educators. Having found balance through the healing arts afterprofessional and personal burnout, Dr. French offers integrative resources shehopes will be helpful through her website and her Facebook, Linkedin andInstagram pages.  Her choice ofmeditation is walking her backyard labyrinth, being a mindful partner to herbeloved and a mindful parent to her two precious daughters and her two waywarddogs.