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 and an integrative pediatrician is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, double board-certified in Pediatrics and Integrative Medicine, with a fellowship training in Integrative Medicine and Integrative Psychiatry. With a special interest in integrative nutrition, healthcare equity, childhood mental health, and intergenerational resilience, she serves on advisory boards of Integrative Medicine for the Underserved, Let’s Integrate and WholeHealthED. In clinical practice for 26 years,  she melds her passion to provide accessible integrative 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 the topics of nutrition, yoga, art, and resilience and has taught mindfulness, food as 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 after professional and personal burnout, Dr. French offers integrative resources she hopes will be helpful through her website and her Facebook, Linkedin and Instagram pages.  Her choice of meditation is walking her backyard labyrinth, being a mindful partner to her beloved and a mindful parent to her two precious daughters and her two wayward dogs.