Kim Vopni (00:01.294)
Hi, Katie. Welcome to the show. I am looking forward to this conversation. Not a topic that I have covered here yet. And I guess to start out with, if you can let us know, let the listeners know who you are and the type of work you do, and then we will jump into some questions.
Katie Beecher (00:18.664)
Sure, thank you for having me. Women's health is one of the most important things that I talk about. So I'm really excited to be here. I'm a medical and spiritual intuitive and a licensed professional counselor. And I work pretty differently. I've been doing this for over 35 years. And I start out knowing just someone's name and age. And then from there, I create a four page really detailed report and an intuitive soul painting.
And people watching, this is just one example of the soul paintings. They all look really different. It might be a plant or an animal or something, but it's a representation of the person. And in that report identifies symptoms, things that have happened in people's lives, traits, positive stuff, stuff that isn't working so well. It could be relationships, career.
child's end stuff, anything at all that is impacting you and your health and happiness. And I send those out before I meet with people. And then during the meeting, we go over the report. People ask questions. My guides will bring up more information. And the goal is a couple of things. I like to talk about intuition and teaching people how to connect to that and be in their bodies. I like to...
Identify all of the specific, more intense things that are going on and not only identify symptoms, I can't ethically or legally diagnose, but look at what's going on physically, emotionally and spiritually. What are some of the root causes for those things? Do some problem solving and look at it from nutritionally, emotionally.
all different kinds of things. But the goal is really to get to the root causes and then do some problem solving short term and long term around those things.
Kim Vopni (02:21.006)
Very cool. And what got you into this line of work? You said you've been doing it for over 30 plus years. So what led you down this path?
Katie Beecher (02:26.696)
I have. So when I was 16, I was kind of at the height of eating disorder and suicidal behavior because it was really hard to live with an intense eating disorder and I didn't really want to go on. And so I didn't really have the support of my family or my parents, but something made me want to live. And I have to call it divine intervention because I came home from school one day and called our pediatrician.
told them what I was doing. And it was the 80s, so no one was really talking about eating disorders. And so he basically said, you know, you'll get over it. It'll be fine. But I knew that I wouldn't. And he referred me to a Jungian therapist, a woman who saved my life. And for people who don't know about Carl Jung, they're very accepting of intuition and psychic abilities and trusting yourself and connecting.
with you and finding the answers within. So it was a perfect kind of therapy for me because even from a very, very young age, I picked up things that other people didn't pick up and I sent spirits and I picked up things from people who had passed on and just felt like a very old soul and very out of place. So she taught me how to not only accept it all, but also grow it and
use that to kind of befriend my eating disorder and the problems that I was having and looking at it from the point of view of how they could help me and why they were in my life. And from a women's health point of view, I also had PCOS and I have Ehlers-Danlos and hormonal issues and all kinds of things that
frankly were really hard to get help for and to get diagnosed properly. So I ended up becoming a licensed counselor, working really intuitively, accidentally channeling people's dead relatives along the way. just, yeah, it was sort of like, okay, you can't push this down. You're gonna have to use it in your work. using it anyway. And it's just sort of evolved from there, the more I learned about my own abilities and strengths and things.
Kim Vopni (04:26.062)
Mm-hmm.
Kim Vopni (04:50.478)
So fascinating. So when you say, you know, chatteling dead relatives, is it dead relatives coming in and sending messages? So you are hearing the messages that you're, that they're like, please tell them this. Is that kind of what you're doing?
Katie Beecher (05:01.064)
Yes, fertility connected. was working with a young woman and I had been working with her as an eating disorder client. And then she was doing a lot better and she was trying to get pregnant and it had been probably a year that they were on their fertility journey. So I was trying to help her connect with her intuition and her body and just she had no concept of that at all. So I said, well, is there anyone in your life that you felt
loved by and cared about by and maybe you can connect to them. And she said, yeah, my grandmother who was deceased. So I just said, well, let's practice kind of you talking to your grandmother. And I was her grandmother. And I literally ended up full on channeling her. And she showed me the attic that this person played with as a kid, the doll she played with, what it looked like, and brought in some really loving, comforting messages. And I
swear to God, within a month and a half, she was pregnant. yeah, meet that.
Kim Vopni (06:02.19)
Wow. That's really cool. That's really cool. When you were doing the introduction, you held up, for those of you that aren't seeing this on YouTube, you held up a painting. I could argue it looks kind of like a child's painting drawing. Is that you doing that based on the conversation? Or is that the client who's doing that painting?
Katie Beecher (06:16.56)
It does.
Katie Beecher (06:25.16)
No, it actually is part of the work I do before meeting with anyone. So I do the report and painting before knowing anything about the person or meeting with them. And I send it before we meet, so I can't BS it. But it's, I really like symbolism because sometimes words are scary and sometimes it's hard to express things through words and you can only regurgitate, you know, trauma or something like that so many times verbally.
Kim Vopni (06:29.646)
Kim Vopni (06:35.671)
interesting.
Katie Beecher (06:55.022)
So I'm careful about what I put in the reports. My guides tell me things sometimes that my clients have never told anyone, like about sexual abuse or something. So if I can deliver the information in a symbolic way, let's say through colors and placement and shapes on a painting, for example, sometimes it shows up as red around that second chakra area, so the reproductive area.
or even red in the throat because it's hard to get feelings out. And I just mentioned trauma, then people are like, I know exactly what that is. And it's easier to talk about it. I don't know who's gonna see those reports either. So I'm really, really careful. So it's just a really kind of cool way of both verifying.
what I got from my guides when I was creating the report and it also gives me additional information. People really like them, but yes, they do look like a five-year-old made them.
Kim Vopni (07:55.502)
Mm hmm. Yeah, no, and I don't mean that in judgy way. It's just like it's it's yeah. Yeah. So okay, so that and you do is that you know the name and the email or that's all you really know what the person name and age. Yeah.
Katie Beecher (07:58.344)
Yeah, no, no, no, no.
Katie Beecher (08:06.149)
Name and age and yeah, I get their contact them, but yeah.
Kim Vopni (08:10.816)
Yeah, so when you say your guides, I guess, your guides, what are first of all, what what are who are your guides? How do you sense or feel or hear or see those messages? And are they always part of once you are working or once they once you have that name or age of a person, are the guides always part of that process?
Katie Beecher (08:16.199)
Yes.
Katie Beecher (08:35.036)
Great question. So when I first started connecting to my intuition, I just started with generic God, know, a loving, loving presence. And the more that I did that, I realized that it wasn't just a loving presence of God, but it was also my sort of inner voice and also the spiritual guides who I don't know the names of.
I don't see their faces, but they're kind of like a row of people. once in the first row, know one is like my grandmother, my grandfather. One is a very elderly Native American male who was some sort of tribal leader. There's some other women in there. And then there's sort of layers and layers of people back that are helping me out, if you will.
And I'm not unique, there's nothing special about me. We all have this. We all have angels and guides and loved ones and things like that. So it's not really important that you know their names or even where they came from. It's just that you're connecting to something that's loving, that knows you, that's accepting. When you have this in your life, even if you're by yourself, you're never alone. And that's hugely significant for people.
And also the more that you can get what you need from your insides or from a spiritual guide, the less important it is what other people are doing and saying and thinking, because so many of us are so worried about what other people think and that's really normal. But it can get in the way and it can make it hard to set boundaries. Or if you're empathic and sensitive, it can be hard to filter out.
things coming from the rest of world or the people around you. So it just helps you be more authentic and set stronger boundaries.
Kim Vopni (10:36.174)
Mm hmm. Yeah, and you say that this is something and I've heard so many people in a similar space or capacity to you who will say we all have this within us. We all have these guides. It's about tapping into it. And, and into it is, you know, I could say put that as one word intuition. But I guess, how do we and that's part of the work that you're doing, how do people
happen to their intuition? What's the process you take people through to connect?
Katie Beecher (11:11.634)
So one thing I do is I remind them that we are always receiving information. And I'll just start with medical intuition. If you have a stomach ache, a headache, you feel tired, something, right? Your toe starts to hurt. You automatically go into detective mode and start figuring out like, did I just eat something? know, do I need to lay down? Do I need to go eat a cracker? Do I need to rest? Whatever the thing is, you automatically start.
trying to figure out the cause and what will help. So that's medical intuition right there. And we do it for our kids too and our loved ones. So, you know, I do it on, you know, the nth degree scale, but that's, we're all using that all the time. one of, there's a lot of different techniques in my book for connecting to intuition and the body.
And one of them gets into doing a written exchange. So writing to your intuition or your body. And I'll use my eating disorder as an example, but I wrote to it as my friend instead of something that was killing me or that I had to fix or had to figure out. And the goal was to heal. And it's the same as writing to your intuition. A lot of us run around kind of
detached from our bodies. And if you're detached from your body, you cannot listen to intuition, but you also can't receive the intuitive information that your body and your symptoms are sending you. So one of the ways to connect to intuition is listen to your body, what's happening and when and everything. But that written exchange, and there's a lot of different ways to do that, it sort of
cuts down on the anxiety, it makes you present, it's really powerful. And then a lot of it is not overthinking the process. So it's, my God, it's telling me to do something really scary. Like I need to leave this job or I need to say no, or I need to set boundaries or I need to stop drinking or I need to whatever. And all those things are really scary and overwhelming. So the tendency is to shut down.
Kim Vopni (13:31.97)
Mm-hmm.
Katie Beecher (13:35.612)
Whereas if you are open to it and even say that's really scary for me, but have a dialogue with it, allow it, then you can find out what it needs you to know. And you can take action before you have to do something like get into a really bad car accident or get really, really sick for it to get your attention. There's tons of ways to use it.
Kim Vopni (13:59.598)
Cut it.
Katie Beecher (14:04.336)
With women too, it's so tied into our female energy and female power and empowerment because we don't exactly live in a society that encourages that, it's getting better. But a lot of us did not grow up in families that encouraged that. So we weren't taught to trust our intuition or to speak up, it was kind of the opposite. So it's really important work, especially for women.
Kim Vopni (14:30.51)
Mm hmm. What are some of the C mentioned eating disorder? You mentioned another client who had that you've mentioned fertility. What are some of the more common types of maybe clients that you see or issues that they come and present with? Obviously the population that the majority of people listening to this are struggling with pelvic health considerations, maybe working with patients who have pelvic health considerations.
Does that ever come up? Like I'm now envisioning the drawing and I'm thinking like this mad scribble all around the pelvis with red.
Katie Beecher (15:03.72)
It does. Yes. Yeah, I don't remember working with a woman who didn't have some sort of issues of some kind in the pelvic area, which is really interesting. And it's often a combination of physical, emotional, and spiritual. So people work with me with all sorts of things. And sometimes it's just I want to make my relationship better.
endometriosis comes up a lot. I've been picking up a lot of Ehlers-Danlos, which is connective tissue disorder that can cause a lot of pelvic stuff. PCOS for sure. trauma related to sexual abuse or assault or, or bullying, you know, things like that. shaming of the body. they're just, there unfortunately are so many, you know, even
Kim Vopni (15:41.272)
Mm-hmm.
Katie Beecher (16:02.92)
bladder stuff and vaginitis and intercistal sticitis. think I said that right. And even like grief around miscarriage and things like that. the information usually comes to me in a bunch of different ways. I see a picture inside of the body. So I will often see inflammation or bumpiness.
Kim Vopni (16:09.294)
I know that's a hard one to say. I always stumble on that one too.
Katie Beecher (16:31.374)
or organs that are not where they should be, know, a tipped uterus or maybe from endometriosis, some things are pushed to the side. So even redness things. I will be shown pictures of people who may have influenced them or get a feel, let's say for, you know, a male energy or and more information about that. I actually feel people's physical symptoms. I see words.
Kim Vopni (17:00.59)
Wow.
Katie Beecher (17:01.296)
Yeah, I have to be careful of that one for sure. But if I'm working with somebody and I get a stomach ache or something, I'm always like, hey, is this me or you? But so many different things, even just a word that appears in my head sometimes, is I get information in a lot of different ways. So yeah, it's neat.
Kim Vopni (17:21.806)
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Yeah, I always like, I'm fascinated by the work that you do. And I'm incredibly, I admire the people who do the work. I think it would be very challenging. I almost I remember that movie, you know, the child who walks around saying I see dead people, right. And I think about you walking through a crowd of people. I'm just I'm just saying this, like, this is how I view it. I think of you being like,
Katie Beecher (17:41.628)
Yes.
Kim Vopni (17:50.648)
you thoughts jump in from other people's minds into yours, energy, you said you feel symptoms like that would be incredibly challenging to manage all of that. So how do you protect your own nervous system?
Katie Beecher (18:02.308)
It, right. So I really think that my background set me up to do this type of work and the very dysfunctional family that I grew up in. And there was a lot of negative evil energy there that I knew from a very young age, I had to protect myself from. And so one of the wonderful things that eating disorder did
Kim Vopni (18:23.416)
Mm.
Katie Beecher (18:29.702)
was it made me focus on me and kind of emotionally and later physically separate from the people in my environment who were negative influences. And also because I was so incredibly sensitive and literally the younger part of my life, I was overwhelmed all the time with energy and emotion. And I didn't know that I
am a separate entity. We are separate entities. And so we are in control of our energy unless we're in some sort of altered state and that I can put up that boundary. You know, I can say it's not time for that. And I think that's why I do my readings the way that I do is I take that time separately just by myself to process it. And then when I meet with people, kind of, it's automatic now, but I just sort of say to myself,
this is my time to tune into that other side. And then I will go back to having my healthy boundaries. And it's also a respect thing because the information I get is really personal and I never want to invade someone else's energy or violate their boundaries. So, you know, I really feel like I have a duty to stay separate and not get into anybody else's stuff.
Kim Vopni (19:57.24)
Mm-hmm.
Katie Beecher (19:58.108)
Those kind of things, you being a therapist for so many years and things, just those strategies have really helped.
Kim Vopni (20:05.71)
You talk about your own, you yourself have Ehlers-Danlos, a connective tissue disorder. This is something that shows up a lot in the pelvic health space. A lot of people are more susceptible to pelvic health challenges as a result of this connective tissue disorder. Can you kind of walk me through what somebody has come to you with EDS and what would a reading
Katie Beecher (20:10.578)
Mm-hmm.
Kim Vopni (20:35.426)
look like, what would maybe have shown up in a painting? And I know obviously there can be so many different nuances in there. And then what is the work that you have that person do afterwards?
Katie Beecher (20:40.508)
Right, right.
Katie Beecher (20:44.68)
Yeah. So that's a great question. I do pick up a lot of it. So it's not a rare disease. Some of the forms of it are extremely rare, right? But the more common ones are more common than we've realized, than the medical community has realized. And one of the first things is, as I'm doing my report, I will start to pick up traits of it. So I will pick up things like,
chronic pain or stiffness and flexibility in the body. You know, I will pick up pelvic floor issues, being extra sensitive, sometimes it's migraines, sometimes it's, so there's a lot of possible symptoms that come up as I'm doing the report and going through the whole body. And then a lot of times my guides will literally just say to me, either as I'm doing a report or when I first get on,
Zoom with someone, ask about hypermobility, ask about Ehlers-Danlos because this is coming up as a thing. And it's so crazy because sometimes my logical self will be like, I don't know, I'm not really seeing those symptoms. But I always listen to my guides because every time I do, it turns out that, it's either for them
or it could be for their child or a sister or somebody like that. So that's really cool part of what I do is I help a lot of people at the same time. And so as a licensed counselor, I am aware of some of the signs of L.A. Stanlos and just some of the flexibility things of the scale that they use. And I have it and my daughter has it, so I know a lot about it. So I do just a very, very informal
little screening type of thing. And it has been so incredibly frustrating to try and get people referred or get them help. And even for me, you know, it took me into my 50s. So I've created a letter written as a licensed counselor, and it basically says, I'm working with this person. We've identified some preliminary symptoms, possible preliminary symptoms of LHDN-LOS. I'm recommending that this person be evaluated.
Katie Beecher (23:09.852)
And then there's a lot of links for them, for the physicians, whoever. And I include a really long list of symptoms that I suggest people fill out on their own. And then they can take this letter to maybe a sports medicine doctor or an EDS clinic or a PT or someone, sort of as ammunition. So they're not the only ones saying, hey, I might have this.
And it's been really, really successful for people because it's like, you know, another professional, even though I'm obviously not a doctor saying, Hey, take a look at this. There may be something here. So, yeah, it's been, it's been really helpful. And I work with people all over the world. So it's a nice kind of strategy. And then we also talk about like, these are some of the emotional things coming up. These are some supplements. These are things that.
Kim Vopni (23:49.176)
Mm-hmm.
Katie Beecher (24:05.66)
based on my own experience have been helpful for me. These are your specific symptoms. What can we kind of work on to make your life as functional and healthy and happy as possible?
Kim Vopni (24:09.134)
Mm-hmm.
Kim Vopni (24:13.315)
Mm-hmm.
Kim Vopni (24:19.054)
And what would be, so as like somebody in this situation, they could come to you not even knowing they have EDS and maybe because of what you're sensing and the guides are telling you, you're then saying, you know what, you should look at this. And then maybe they go on to receive this diagnosis. There could also be people coming to you who may already know that they have a certain diagnosis. But I guess the point of my question is what, what brings people to you? How do they find you? And is that
Katie Beecher (24:35.972)
Right.
Katie Beecher (24:46.973)
Okay.
Kim Vopni (24:48.898)
Like, because it's not something that I don't know a lot of people who seek out. I'm going to see a medical intuitive or I'm joining me. So how do people end up in front of you and working with you?
Katie Beecher (24:55.718)
Yes, I do.
Katie Beecher (25:00.516)
I'm very fortunate to have a lot of client referrals. So that's lovely. I've also been really fortunate to have had several interviews on Goop and push, which is Courtney or Kardashian thing. I've been on like 200 something, you know, podcasts and predominant articles on my book, certainly heal from within. And I'm pretty healthy following on Instagram and Facebook. so, and even just sometimes as people Googling medical intuitive.
So it's a lot of different ways and it's, I'd say pretty high percentage of my clients, they have symptoms, they may have a diagnosis, they may not be sure that's what it is or they may be looking for the root causes. They may be like, I kind of know what's going on physically, but I feel like there's an emotional or spiritual also contributor to this. Can you help me with what that is?
And sometimes it's, have all these symptoms and I have absolutely no idea. And I've been to 8,000 doctors and spent a fortune and you're my last hope. So no pressure.
Kim Vopni (26:09.526)
Yeah. And what does it look like when you're working with somebody so you know their name, you've done the painting, you then is it on a zoom call that you or people to people see? Okay. And then and then how is it one session five sessions 10? Is it over months years? How does that work?
Katie Beecher (26:16.582)
Yep. Yep.
Katie Beecher (26:23.888)
Yeah. No, I try to be very efficient. you know, what I, I do charge a fair amount of money for what I do. And I appreciate that. And people are not, most people are not, you wealthy. So for a lot of people, for most people, we can get a ton of stuff done in just one session. It's really complete. Often there's too much information and people have to sort through it after, which is okay with me.
And so once they get the report in painting, we connect. I start by saying, you know, is there anything in the report or not that you want to make sure that we address? This is their time, right? And the session is very interactive. I want their input about what I wrote, what else is coming up? They ask questions, I offer things. So it's a really, you know, interactive thing.
And I want to help them build their intuition and connect to their body. So I don't want people dependent on me substituting my intuition for theirs. I do have a lot of people who make follow-up appointments and maybe we talk more about the things in there or other topics that came up or like I was meeting with someone today in Scotland and my guides kept bringing up a lot about her kids. So.
It turned out her kids were having some stuff going on and that is something that we may do a follow up on just you know to talk more about that. I do have people I meet with weekly or monthly on a more regular basis at a reduced cost so it's really really a lot but I try to. It's very very important that the people I meet with for the first time get some concrete answers and a concrete plan.
as a way to move forward.
Kim Vopni (28:21.922)
Yeah, and I can imagine for some people, as you mentioned, like there's so many different ways that people may choose to work with you. I I I imagine some people you just made the comment that you want to make sure that your intuition doesn't become there. So I think that there are some people who are comforted by somebody having some wisdom to share that makes them feel comforting and make gives them more confidence moving forward with certain decisions.
And there are other people who I think are they've heard it once they now have more guidance and they now kind of you never see them again and they go on. But what would be like after you've done the reading and you're having this conversation are there and I don't mean exercises as like picking up weights. mean like are there are there activities or practices that you
Katie Beecher (29:08.744)
That's right, that's right.
Kim Vopni (29:15.5)
maybe suggest for people to help them connect with their intuition. coming and sitting with you almost as we are here right now, and let's say you would have done a painting and you've written down some things and I'm looking at this information, how do I put this into action now so that I'm learning to tap into my intuition?
Katie Beecher (29:37.05)
Excellent question. It is really important that people leave me with things they can practically do. Whether it's, this is supplements to check out, or this is a referral to my, a naturopath I work with or whatever. my book is kind of a nice follow-up to the readings or a pre to the readings because there's a ton of different exercises and.
quizzes and affirmations and strategies and things like that. But so for example, let's say that someone is ready, knows they need to leave their relationship and it's really scary and it's overwhelming and they don't even know where to start. So I'm like, let's come up with a plan for some things that you can start to do. Like for example, meet with an attorney.
It will usually don't cost you anything. You don't have to tell anybody. You're just looking at your options. You're looking at your financial options. You're having finding a support system potentially, but you're just taking a first step. You don't have to act on it. You know, even just if somebody needs to do movement and they're in pain or they are afraid or PTSD or whatever, it's think about
Is there anything you used to like to do? Take one class for one afternoon and something that you've never done before that might seem silly. Or just start by getting a handheld tabletop bicycle type thing where you can just start by moving your arms. These are some prompts that you can use to write to your intuition.
in your body and these are some situations where it might come up. So the readings are all extremely individualized depending on what people need. yeah, I'm, having been a therapist for this long too, it's like, and I'm a very action oriented, hands-on person. Like it needs to be more than just theories. It's like, what can I actually do? And then you start to feel more empowered and gain some self-confidence too.
Kim Vopni (31:55.746)
Yeah, yeah. Can you speak to people in your past clients you've had who hysterectomy with something that showed up? What does that show up like on a painting?
Katie Beecher (32:08.604)
I love that question. I myself have had one. So yeah, what it often looks like is an empty space. When I look into that second chakra area, it's an empty space. It's organs that are kind of floating sometimes because they don't have the support of that uterus. I see scar tissue.
Kim Vopni (32:32.877)
Mm-hmm.
Katie Beecher (32:37.784)
I see emotional pain and grief and even like sometimes there's pain still left over if you have scar tissue or something or I will often see things without linear time. So my guys will bring up things that happened a long time ago or when they were a kid or like if somebody had something happen in the past, it will
I will see it less strongly so it feels a little more faint. And that's my signal that it happened in the past. So I'll be like, you know, picking up that there was surgery in this area and that there may be some things missing, but it doesn't feel frightening or as intense for right now. So yeah, all the physical, emotional and spiritual things connected.
Kim Vopni (33:29.486)
Mm-hmm.
Kim Vopni (33:36.492)
Yeah.
Katie Beecher (33:37.03)
Yeah, it's a good question.
Kim Vopni (33:39.308)
Yeah, did the I've you're the second of three podcasts recordings I'm doing today. It's a busy day for podcast recording. But the one I was doing earlier with with my friends or Benamou and we were talking about her. She had two hip replacements within three months and we were talking about all that. She's a biohacker. All the things she did leading up to her surgery as part of her recovery. And I have a pelvic surgery success program where I talk a lot about
Katie Beecher (33:45.953)
goodness.
Kim Vopni (34:05.74)
very similar principles, how to basically train for your surgery. as you're speaking, there's people who may find you after the fact, after they have had a hysterectomy, could be a hysterectomy 25 years ago. It could also be people who may become who may need or may be choosing a hysterectomy or another type of surgery. And a big part of what Zora and I were talking about and a part of what I...
Katie Beecher (34:09.436)
Yeah.
Katie Beecher (34:19.154)
Right.
Kim Vopni (34:33.954)
when I was preparing for my own pelvic surgery at the time was tapping into, I don't even know if it was intuition, but my mental preparation for my surgery, calming my nervous system, letting my body know that it was safe, that I trust the doctor, you know what I mean? I can see so much value in what you do for helping people navigating that process, because surgery can be very...
Katie Beecher (34:44.936)
Mm-hmm.
Katie Beecher (34:51.09)
I do.
Kim Vopni (35:00.078)
Like so many people are afraid of surgery and sometimes it's the best option but
Katie Beecher (35:01.207)
Well, and especially, yeah, and especially something as significant as your uterus, that's your center of creativity. You know, that's such a emotionally charged female area. And the way that I found out that I needed mine, quick story, was weird. I was having abdominal pain, very, very, very intense, 24 hours a day, wouldn't stop. We had gone through a significant amount of trauma in our family.
and I had been an artist and I stopped painting. And like I said, uterus is the center of creativity. So it went on and on and on and eight million tests and they found a cancerous weird tumor in my appendix when they took that out. So that was a weird aside, but finally, you know, I was done having kids and my doctor was like, we have no idea what's going on, but something finally feels weird. And I'm just like, take it out. can't, I cannot live this way anymore. I'm not afraid of this, just do it.
Kim Vopni (35:32.984)
Hm. Mm-hm.
Katie Beecher (35:59.264)
And when she was done, she said, well, we had to take one of your ovaries. Okay. And she said, I've never seen this before, but your fallopian tube had wrapped itself around your uterus. And I said, I know exactly what that is. And she's like, okay. I said, I stopped painting. I stopped my creative process because I was so depressed and stressed out about everything. And so my body's way of symbolically.
acting that out was to literally cut off my center of creativity and cause pain and make me realize that I had to connect back, you know, with my creativity. yeah, it's something I definitely learned a lot for my clients, you know, and for myself, but our mind, body, spirit is certainly connected.
Kim Vopni (36:54.88)
Yeah, that is so interesting. Well, that's such a cool place to to leave off. This is such a fascinating conversation. And I would really love to read your book and learn more. Where can people find you find out more about your work? You mentioned Instagram, where can they follow along?
Katie Beecher (37:10.408)
The easiest is my website. It's katiebeacher.com. From there you can connect to all the things and my books everywhere. Books are sold, but there's a link on my website and Instagram. It's katiebeachermedicalintuitive. You know, same as Facebook and I love to hear from people and thank you so much for having me on.
Kim Vopni (37:33.56)
Yeah, yeah, no, thank you. I said I, I think this is such fascinating work. And I really, this podcast is very much, you know, obviously very pelvic health focused. That's the majority of people are here, but I really want I love bringing on people that cover that it's not just medical, it's not just pelvic floor, physical therapy, it's not just Kegel exercises. There are so many other
Katie Beecher (37:54.28)
you
Kim Vopni (37:57.29)
options and strategies and therapies and people and when we know about them, not everything is going to resonate with every single person, but at least they've heard these options and they at least know that it's not just because people get shut down so quickly. You just need surgery or no exercise in the world is going to fix that and that they think that's their only option. And so I'm really,
I just feel so fortunate to have people like you and all the other amazing guests that I've had who come in and share and hopefully plant seeds of hope and opportunity and, you know, just little nuggets that send people down rabbit holes, right? And figure out maybe it's something that's going to work for them.
Katie Beecher (38:38.056)
Definitely. And I have EDS. I function great. I'm a 60-year-old competitive pole dancer. Yeah, it's kind of neat. I won a couple of competitions. So it doesn't have to be the stereotypical if you're of a certain age or if you have certain things that you have to limit yourself. I like trying to inspire people in that way, too.
Kim Vopni (38:46.22)
Wow.
Kim Vopni (38:50.286)
That's so cool.
Kim Vopni (39:03.438)
Okay, so you just dropped it like, you're a compen- how did you get into pole dancing first of all? And I didn't even know that there were competitions for pole dancing.
Katie Beecher (39:12.2)
So I was a gymnast when I was younger, really enjoyed it. I'd always looked for adult gymnast, just something I enjoy. Because if you enjoy what you're doing, it's not work. And it's not like, it's always been related to weight or things like that for me. So I wanted something fun. And my daughter started doing it I'm like, okay, that looks fun. So I started it at, I'm 16 now. I started it like six years ago.
Kim Vopni (39:24.066)
Mm-hmm.
Kim Vopni (39:30.136)
Mm-hmm.
Kim Vopni (39:38.637)
Wow.
Katie Beecher (39:39.386)
Yeah, and I'm stronger than ever. I have a better body image than ever. I'm bigger than I was because I have all this muscle on me and I wear a bikini because you have to to stick to the pole. So it's just, you know, amazing things. And yeah, there are national and regional competitions for for pole sport. And best thing I've ever done for myself, like it's all sizes, ages, shapes, whatever can do it. So, yeah, I have I do have an Instagram. It's like
Kim Vopni (40:01.882)
my gosh.
Katie Beecher (40:08.444)
Katie Beecher pole, think something like that. you know, from my, my own, you know, progress videos and things, but yeah, so.
Kim Vopni (40:11.8)
Okay, yeah, that's really cool. Good for you. I think that's really, really cool. Especially that, you know, I love that message too is this looks fun. I want to do this. Age is not, like so many people will be like, I'm too old for that and right, or I have a connective tissue disorder that wouldn't be right. Yeah.
Katie Beecher (40:18.984)
you
Katie Beecher (40:24.785)
Yes!
Katie Beecher (40:29.188)
Yeah!
Katie Beecher (40:33.358)
or I don't have the upper body strength or I don't have the nice turn, could do nothing. Nothing. So yeah, don't limit yourself.
Kim Vopni (40:35.49)
Yes.
Kim Vopni (40:40.034)
and now you're winning competitions. That's so cool. Good for you. Thank you so much. This was such a cool conversation.
Katie Beecher (40:47.78)
I agree, my pleasure. Thank you again.
