What if every symptom in your body was trying to tell you something? In our latest podcast, Life is Beauty Full, Evalina Beauty's CEO and Founder, Samantha Legge, sat down with Dr. Divi Chandna, a former family physician turned intuitive coach, speaker, author, and founder of the Center for Mind Body Spirit Medicine.
If you’ve ever felt stuck, stressed, or disconnected from yourself — this conversation is your reminder that peace, healing, and beauty all start within. Discover the powerful mind–body–spirit connection, how intuition guides real transformation, and why shifting your thoughts can shift your health and how true healing begins when we stop fighting our bodies and start listening to the emotions behind our pain.
Dr. Divi’s journey is nothing short of inspiring. After beginning her career in traditional medicine, she faced her own health struggles that conventional approaches couldn’t solve. What followed was a profound path of self-discovery that led her from yoga and intuitive exploration to a whole new way of helping others heal. Today, she has supported thousands of people worldwide in connecting to the emotional and energetic roots of their illnesses, reminding us that healing is as much about the mind and spirit as it is about the body.
Her story begins in the fast-paced world of family medicine. By her late twenties, she was deeply unwell—chronic pain, allergies, infections, and an overwhelming list of symptoms left her relying on 12 to 14 medications just to cope. As a physician, she knew firsthand how her case would be handled in the system: chart notes, prescriptions, and little exploration into “why.” Instead of accepting that path, she followed an inner nudge. That led her to a massage therapist, then to yoga, and eventually to an entirely new relationship with her body. Within months of starting a regular yoga practice, her pain eased. Within a year, her allergies disappeared. The experience was so transformative that she trained as a yoga teacher—not to teach, but to understand why she got better.
From there, her life unfolded in unexpected ways: opening a yoga studio, becoming a mother, and discovering her intuition had sharpened profoundly. A series of intuition courses led her into a new career path—helping others not only manage symptoms but truly uncover the emotional, relational, and energetic roots of their health challenges.
One of the most powerful insights she shared is that most chronic illnesses are connected to the mind and emotions. Conditions often reflect unresolved patterns, particularly in relationships—with ourselves, with family, and with those closest to us. She emphasizes that while Western medicine has its place, especially for acute or life-threatening issues, it often falls short in answering why illness happens. That’s where mind-body-spirit approaches step in. Autoimmune diseases, for example, can mirror the body “fighting itself,” while cancer may reflect deep anger turned inward. These patterns aren’t about blame—they’re clues, guiding us to look within and uncover what our bodies are trying to communicate.
This theme is also central to her TEDx Talk: “The cure is not in the pill.” She explains that while medication can be helpful for symptom management, true healing comes from addressing the mind. Our thoughts and beliefs shape our health, relationships, and even our abundance. Living in chronic fear, anger, or stress inevitably affects the body. By contrast, learning to shift our perception, cultivate love, and align with the “divine mind” allows us to experience not just healing, but miracles. As she put it:
“If you don’t work with your mind, it will work on you.”
For anyone wondering how to begin, Dr. Divi offers simple but powerful practices. She suggests journaling as a way of externalizing thoughts and bringing awareness to patterns that run quietly in the background. Meditation, too, is key—not to silence the mind, but to observe it. By watching thoughts rather than being run by them, we loosen their grip. She also encourages seeking support, whether from a counselor, coach, or guide, to help us see what we cannot yet see for ourselves. Tools like the Insight Timer app make meditation accessible, especially for beginners. And she reminds us that meditation isn’t about perfection; it’s about presence.
Much of our healing also involves looking at limiting beliefs. These are the scripts we inherit, often from parents or early experiences, that restrict what we believe is possible for us. They shape our health, relationships, and even our financial lives. The good news, she reminds us, is that limiting beliefs are only thoughts, and thoughts can change. By identifying them, questioning them, and replacing them with more empowering truths, we shift our reality. As she put it, “A thought becomes a belief, and a belief becomes your reality. If you don’t like your reality, start by looking at your beliefs.”
We also touched on intuition, which she believes is a natural gift we are all born with. That “gut feeling” or inner knowing is always there, but most of us are too busy or too noisy in our minds to hear it clearly. Cultivating intuition requires slowing down, practicing meditation, and treating it like a muscle that strengthens with use. Importantly, she explains that intuition always speaks from love. Fear-based voices are not intuition—they’re the chatter of conditioning. By learning to tell the difference, we can make decisions with more clarity, guided by something greater than logic alone.
At the heart of her message is the reminder to slow down. In a culture that glorifies busyness, she encourages us to ask why we are filling our lives with so much and what we might be afraid of if we pause. Healing flows through love, and love often arises in stillness. By slowing down, we create space to listen, to trust, and to reconnect with the deeper currents of life that always have our back.
Since Life is Beauty Full is about redefining beauty, Samantha asked Dr. Divi how her own definition has evolved. Her answer was simple yet profound:
“Beauty is internal. It’s about whether you are joyful or miserable, and that energy shows up on your face and in your body.”
True beauty isn’t surface-level. It radiates from within, from joy, presence, and authenticity. And like healing, it begins by tending to our inner world.
This conversation was a beautiful reminder that while medicine can treat, true healing happens when we connect mind, body, and spirit. By journaling, meditating, questioning limiting beliefs, and cultivating intuition, we open ourselves to transformation that no pill alone can deliver. As Dr. Divi so powerfully puts it, there are really only two ways to live: miserably, or joyfully. The path to joy may require work—sometimes messy, emotional, vulnerable work—but it leads us to more health, more happiness, more abundance, and more miracles.
At Evalina Beauty, we believe beauty is about so much more than appearance. It’s about honouring your worth, your wholeness, and your journey toward becoming the best version of yourself. Here’s to slowing down, tuning in, and remembering that life is, indeed, beauty full.