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In today's episode, Whole-Person Care with Melodye Gardner, PA-C | Wimberley Medical Clinic, we zoom in on the moment people say “I’m fine” in an exam room and unpack what it takes to be honest about stress, symptoms, and feeling unlike yourself. We talk with Melody Gardner about whole-person care, continuity of care, perimenopause and menopause support, and why trust with a clinician changes everything.
• how stress, grief, and worry show up as physical symptoms
• why the mind-body connection makes anxiety and hormones easy to confuse
• what continuity of care looks like in real life and why being known matters
• Melody’s path from teacher and coach to physician associate in family medicine
• how a PA can run and purchase a clinic in Texas with physician supervision
• what to say if you have avoided the doctor because of shame or fear
• practical ways clinicians help patients feel safe and unjudged in vulnerable exams
• what perimenopause and menopause can feel like and why it is not a personal failing
• common symptoms including sleep changes, fatigue, mood shifts, joint pain, and weight redistribution
• what “getting checked” involves and why symptoms often guide treatment
• how we talk through hormone replacement therapy concerns without rushing decisions
• why exercise supports sleep, bones, mood, and long-term health without perfection
• why weight is not just calories in and calories out and what else matters
Show Guest: Melodye Gardner PA-C, Wimberley Medical Clinic
Melodye Gardner is a Board-Certified Physician’s Associate and owner of Wimberley Medical Clinic, where she has cared for patients and families since 2010. If you live around here, she's likely looked in your ears, listened to your lungs, or talked you through something hard.
Melodye was born in Abilene and raised in Crawford, Texas. She started at McLennan Community College, then graduated magna cum laude from Tarleton State with a degree in exercise and sports studies. And before she ever wore a white coat, she was a teacher and a coach. She went on to earn a master's in physical education from Southwest Texas State, spent years working in exercise science, wellness, and weight management, including walking alongside patients before and after bariatric surgery, and then completed her master's in physician assistant studies at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 2006.
Her first job as a PA was at a community health clinic in Luling, serving people who did not have easy access to care. That season shaped her. It's where her commitment to accessible, compassionate medicine put down roots.
In 2010, she joined Wimberley Medical Clinic. And after sixteen years of caring for this community, she and her husband, Chas Humphrey, purchased the clinic, a practice that has served Wimberley for more than thirty years. In her words, this isn't simply a business. It's a commitment.
She cares for all ages: family medicine, preventive care, chronic disease management, perimenopause and menopause care, weight management, and those same-day sick visits we are all so grateful for.
You can connect with Melodye on Facebook, or at Wimberley Medical Clinic, 512- 847-6789.
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Show hosted by:
Catia Hernandez Holm, LMFT-A
Supervised by Susan Gonzales, LMFT-S, LPC-S
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