Track 08: Is it Woo-Woo, or is it You-You?
Let’s talk about it.
Is it Woo-Woo… or is it You-You?
Somewhere along the way, the world convinced women that needing help meant weakness.
That if you couldn’t do it all on your own — raise the kids, run the business, manage the burnout, keep smiling — something was wrong with you.
That’s not empowerment.
That’s patriarchy, baby.
You’re not lazy.
You’re burned out.
And you deserve support.
I remember rolling up to the Alexandria Mall 20 kids deep because my mom and all the other Indian aunties literally raised us together, village style. But in today’s society, I have to send a Microsoft teams invite 2 months in advance to schedule a playdate for Ari! This ish is bananas, B A N A N A S!
So – in order to start getting us back to our roots — let’s talk about “woo woo medicine.”
I taught essential oil classes all over the state for two years.
I still use them every day.
And the number of people who laughed about it? Endless. My fellow hospital doctors absolutely roasted me in the dictation room, although I’m sure Peyman Roohani still misses my special blend of Wild Orange and Peppermint diffusing through the halls every morning. (The focus blend)
You’ve seen that meme — where a patient has had their leg cut off and someone says, “Get the lavender, stat!”
Funny? Sure. But also? So disingenuous.
Because it implies you can only believe in one or the other — science or ancestral wisdom.
Evidence or intuition.
Let me be clear:
If you have MRSA, I’m giving you vancomycin.
But if your nervous system is fried, your cortisol is spiking, and you haven’t felt peace since 2020 —
I’m also diffusing lavender.
Because the truth is —
OUI believe in both.
OUI are the perfect blend of east meets west. Kind of like a doctor born to Indian parents but raised in Alexandria, LA. I’m Girl Scouts and Ganesh, Medicine meets Mississippi Masala.
With my Indian upbringing and American education,
I might refer you to a CBT therapist and a hypnotherapist for guided visualization.
I might prescribe Lexapro and sunshine.
Or I might say you need Pilates AND Pinot Grigio!
Because you don’t get extra points for doing it alone, but you do get extra points for doing it with a community and finding some pockets of happiness on the journey.
Don’t forget, JOY IS ANTI-INFLAMMATORY! Not that you need a reason to justify joy.
Speaking of inherited generational guilt over being a woman who dares to prioritize herself, the modern 12-month calendar we live by?
It wasn’t handed down by Mother Nature — it was designed by committees of men trying to standardize agriculture, taxes, and wars.
Meanwhile, many other traditions followed a different rhythm:
13 moon cycles, roughly 28 days each.
That’s about how long the moon takes to orbit Earth —
and, not coincidentally, the average length of a woman’s menstrual cycle.
Some call it the 13 Moon Calendar, where every month has 28 days and one extra “day out of time.”
It’s a symbolic return to flow — to cycles that honor rest, renewal, and rhythm instead of relentless output.
So when I say the patriarchy even colonized time, I’m not exaggerating.
We as women were literally pulled out of sync with our own biology and then shamed for not keeping up.
If we still lived by the moon — by those 13 equal months —
every woman would feel empowered by her cycle instead of being constantly at war with it.
But instead, we’ve been gaslit into “consistency culture” —
a world that worships productivity over presence,
linear growth over rest.
And that’s where medicine went wrong, too.
Because true healing isn’t one-size-fits-protocol.
It’s seasonal, cyclical, layered, intuitive.
So when people ask me,
“Dr. Jaya, do you believe in energy healing? Meditation? Acupuncture? Ketamine therapy? Even microdosing psilocybin?”
I say,
“Yes. I believe in all of it.”
Because healing isn’t dogma, and medicine isn’t purely science. Any doctor will tell you it’s more art than math.
Healing means using your toolbox.
And my job is to hand you every tool that works — whether it’s a supplement, a syringe, or a sound bath.
I appreciate evidence-based medicine — I live by it.
But I’m also not waiting for mainstream medicine to catch up to what I already see working every day.
At The Oui Doctor, we practice high-touch medicine with zero shame.
Real plans. Real access. Real transformation.
One of my patients said,
“I felt like I had a partner for the first time ever, and someone who didn’t judge me for the ideas I had about my own journey.”
And that’s it.
That’s the point.
So the next time someone calls you “woo-woo,”
smile and tell them:
“No, honey. It’s not woo-woo.
It’s you-you.”
Say OUI to all of it — the science, the spirit, and the self that knows the difference.
“The future of medicine is female — and she’s already here.”