The Christian Clinician

About The Christian Clinician

What if your symptoms aren't only about what is happening physically? Medicine needs alternative ways of thinking about chronic symptoms — ways that account for how both physical and non-physical factors influence our health. The Christian Clinician explores the often-overlooked connections between physical health, stress, thoughts, emotions, relationships, spiritual struggles, and our relationship with God, and the ways each can influence our health. Hosted by Dr. Tanya Paynter, a licensed naturopathic physician with a master's degree in Christian apologetics from Colorado Christian University, this podcast brings together current research and best practices with functional medicine, biblical truth, and clinical insight to help Christian women better understand what may be contributing to their symptoms. Episodes explore topics such as anxiety, hormones and perimenopause, thyroid health, gut health, sleep, fatigue, stress physiology, emotional health, and nervous system regulation — alongside questions of faith, doubt, suffering, unanswered prayer, fear, control, and healing. Through practical teaching and conversations with physicians, theologians, authors, and other experts, you'll learn to look at health through the interconnected lenses of the body, mind, emotions, relationships, and spirit. Faith isn't just another health intervention, and better spiritual habits won't eliminate disease. But understanding your health more fully while pursuing healing with Christ at the center — that's just good medicine.

Publisher

Dr. Tanya Paynter

Category

health & fitness · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Oct 2023

Latest episode

5 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

62 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Nov 2026

   Signs of Perimenopause: Why You Don't Feel Like Yourself

   How do you know if you’re in perimenopause? Brain fog, mood swings, anxiety, sleep changes, fatigue, and feeling unlike yourself can all be signs of perimenopause—but they can also overlap with other hormone and health issues. In this episode, Dr. Tanya Paynter explores why perimenopause symptoms affect some women so much more than others, what may be making the transition harder, and how stress, relationships, identity, and faith can shape the way this season feels.

2. 

   15 Oct 2026

   Why Isn’t My Anxiety Treatment Working? Find the Triggers You May Be Missing

   If your anxiety treatment isn’t working the way you hoped, the missing piece may be an anxiety trigger you haven’t connected to your symptoms yet. In this episode, Dr. Tanya Paynter explores less obvious contributors to anxiety — including physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual patterns — and explains how identifying the right clues can help you choose treatment strategies that are more likely to fit what’s actually going on.

3. 

   8 Oct 2026

   High-Functioning Anxiety in Christian Women: When Responsibility Becomes Control with Ashely Hagamen

   High-functioning anxiety doesn’t always look like anxiety. It can look like productivity, overthinking, perfectionism, staying busy, taking care of everyone else, and feeling responsible for outcomes you were never meant to control. In this episode, Dr. Tanya Paynter talks with licensed professional counselor Ashley Hageman about anxiety in Christian women, the need for control, shame, over-responsibility, faith, and why “just have more faith” can make things worse instead of better.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

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