Where Healing Lives: Jennifer Mooney on Heart, Mind, and Medicine

Christy Belz sits down with Jennifer Mooney, founder of Heart Minded Medicine and integrative nurse practitioner based in Denver, Colorado — healer, entrepreneur, and lifelong student of what it truly means to heal. Jennifer grew up in a medical family in Longmont, lost her mother at 18, and found her way to medicine through classics, hospice volunteering, and a deep conviction that the body and heart can’t be treated separately. She spent decades in women’s health and family practice before launching Heart Minded Medicine mid-pandemic — one small office, a handful of loyal patients, and no real plan. Her son Julian, who lives with schizophrenia, has been one of her most profound teachers along the way. This is a conversation about loss, motherhood, women’s health, and what it looks like to build something meaningful out of the unexpected.

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Key Takeaways 

  • Losing her mother at 18 sent her to Vermont — and into classics: “Know thyself” and Aristotle shaped how she thinks about healing more than any clinical training did. 
  • Raising a son with schizophrenia taught her things no textbook covers: Julian’s journey — homelessness, hospitalizations, genetic testing for dopamine receptors — changed how she understands love, advocacy, and releasing expectations. 
  • The Women’s Health Initiative didn’t just pause hormone research — it scared an entire generation of providers: Jennifer breaks down what actually happened, what the data says now, and why women are still being turned away from hormones today. 
  • Perimenopause isn’t just a symptom list — it’s a full identity reckoning: The physical changes and the emotional ones arrive together, and Jennifer explains why that’s actually an opportunity. 
  • Heart Minded Medicine launched mid-pandemic because a physician backed out and nobody was hiring: She rented a small office, saw the patients who followed her, and built from there.

Connect with Jennifer Mooney: 

Website: https://www.amandaforcolorado.com 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heartmindedmedicine/ 

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