Doctor Mike

Why does it always take something going wrong in people's lives, or it happens so often that something goes wrong in people's lives, that they're at a low point that they seek this information out, whereas it seems so valuable and it should just be part of your everyday being, just like perhaps the gym is.

We have a PE hour in school, but there's not so much talk about the spirituality aspect of

Before I answer it, I have a question about that.

Part curiosity, part devil's advocate.

I frequently hear guests, friends, coworkers say things like, I'm so grateful for the struggles that I went through.

Some share about childhood abuse.

Some share about their mental health struggles.

Recently, I had a guest who is blind talk about her blindness and how she doesn't want the cure for her blindness because it's made her who she is.

And I'm curious because when I ask them the next question, they have different answers.

So I'm curious where you land on this.

Would you wish your struggles on someone else?

No, no way.

But yet you're so grateful for them.

Is it because of the potential that they may not deal with them in the ways that you have and they could have ended worse?

Yeah, it's interesting because I think about, so to answer your question, I've had some messed up things happen in my childhood that I don't really talk about ever on camera.

But in thinking of whether or not I'm grateful for these things, it's such a weird thing.

because I'm very practical.

I like to be as useful to people as possible.

That's probably why I'm a primary care doctor.

So to me, I started thinking about, okay, am I happy that this happened?