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Reimagining HealthcareIt’s Not Just About Nurses. It’s About ALL of Us.Last week, I stood alongside fellow nurses and other healthcare colleagues, social workers, physical therapists, chaplains, dietitians, rehab specialists, lab scientists, and more, in a 5-day labor solidarity strike at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. While I’ve returned to work due to financial necessity, my courageous NUHW colleagues remain on open-ended strike, defending safe staffing, fair contracts, dignified care, the right to remain in their unions, and access affordable benefits and healthcare. Isn’t it ironic, that healthcare workers do not have access to affordable and quality healthcare? I've seen a crucial reality firsthand as a nurse case m...2025-06-2901 min
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 20 ~ Sacred & Wild Healing with Marysia Miernowska🌿 What if healthcare could be rooted in reciprocity, Earth wisdom, and deep presence?In this special episode, I sit down with Marysia Miernowska—teacher, herbalist, author, and Earth activist—to explore what sacred and wild healing looks like in practice. This conversation is both personal and expansive, an invitation into healing that is embodied, relational, and rooted in the living world.Whether you're a nurse, herbalist, caregiver, or simply someone longing for reconnection, this episode offers a glimpse into a more regenerative future.🌱 Meet MarysiaMarysia Miernowska is the founder and director o...2025-06-201h 14
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 19 ~ Healing Business Blueprint with Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, MPHWelcome back to the Reimagining Healthcare podcast!This episode is the second in our special 3-part series, Grounded Medicine: Sacred Healing, Real Practice & Systemic Change, an intimate conversation with world renowned physician, author, and teacher, Dr. Bhaswati BhattacharyaThis is the second episode of our 3-part interview series with Dr. Bhattacharya, where we explore the art of building a holistic health business rooted in integrity, accessibility, and care.Together, we ask:How do we stay grounded in ancient wisdom while meeting the demands of modern medicine?How do we lead with integrity in...2025-05-291h 00
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 18 ~ What is Ayurveda? With Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, MPHGrounded Medicine: Sacred Healing, Real Practice & Systemic Change, an intimate conversation with world renowned physician, author, and teacher, Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya.In this FIRST episode of our 3-part interview series with Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, MPH, we explore the profound world of Ayurveda—a more than 10,000-year-old healing system, and how it has found its place in modern medicine. Dr. Bhattacharya shares her personal journey of integrating Ayurveda and Homeopathy into her family medicine practice, blending ancient wisdom with contemporary clinical care.We also take a look back at the history of Ay...2025-04-301h 26
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 17 ~ The Roots of Health with Janet Bakalian, NP-BCJanet Bakalian is a board certified Nurse Practitioner who has experience in the hospital setting and aesthetics industry. Her passion has always been health and wellness, however she didn’t always know what that meant. Due to the underpaid and overworked nature of the NP position, Janet hustled hard and unfortunately came to a point of burn out during Covid. Deep in her gut, she felt something was off and started to question the structure of Western Medicine - she knew there had to be a different approach to health and wellbeing. She began to explore the Medical Aesthetics an...2025-03-161h 08
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 16 ~ Rx to Freedom with Dr. Azadeh Khatibi, MD, MS, MPHDr. Khatibi is a fellowship-trained, board-certified physician, activist, filmmaker, actor and teacher of conscious wellness and mindful living. She’s testified before Congress, produced Academy Award short-listed and eligible films, named and described a disease, and much more. Her name means ”freedom” and she’s a fierce free speech and freedom activist. Her personal journey and work inspires living beyond illusory limitations and programming to fulfill a self-realized life as your true spirit self! Connect with her powerful work!Podcast:Twitter: @azadehkhatibimdIG: @azadehkhatibimdmsmphFacebookSubstack to be updat...2025-02-161h 55
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 15 ~ Rising Ritual for ClarityIn this week’s episode, I share a little about my waking hours and how I spend my mornings preparing my mind, body, and spirit to face the day. These daily practices support me in cultivating deeper awareness and clarity of my purpose in life. I hope this serves us to better compost the dead and decaying systems of the present, so we may continue building new ones that support the thriving of our planet and her people! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or ge...2025-01-0710 min
Reimagining HealthcareMy 2025 Healthcare ResolutionSupport the work of Cultivating Self and connect with us! www.cultivatingself.orgCheck out our Reclaiming Healthcare Fellowship and sign up for our newsletter to get notified of the dates for the next fellowship and upcoming events! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dianacantureyna.substack.com2025-01-0214 min
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 14 ~ Yoga for Healthcare with Harpinder Kaur MannHarpinder Kaur Mann is a yoga asana + meditation teacher, storyteller, entrepreneur, and community builder committed to making the world a better place by enabling people and organizations to reach their fullest potential.She is a 500-HR E-RYT, a Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher and Mindfulness Educator, and the Founder of the Womxn of Color Summit.Harpinder facilitates workshops and retreats and is a national speaker. She works with teens and adults focusing on mental health.Harpinder’s practice is rooted in her spiritual background of Sikhism and Buddhism and her ancestral roots in Panjab, India. Th...2024-12-011h 22
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 13 ~ Ethical Medicine with Dr. Suneel Dhand, MDDr Dhand is an internal medicine physician specializing in Lifestyle Medicine and Metabolic Health. He is also a personal trainer and health coach. Dr. Dhand was born in London and went to medical school at Cardiff University. He then hopped across the pond, completing his internal medicine residency in Baltimore, Maryland. Since then, he has worked up and down the east coast in a variety of settings.Dr. Dhand quickly realized that much of what he was seeing and treating involved merely putting a bandaid over preventable lifestyle-related diseases, if only our authorities would be motivated to...2024-10-271h 03
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 12 ~ Bridging East & West with Dr. Charlie Trinh, DAOMDr. Charlie Trinh is a rising force in holistic health, currently leading the activation of a men's group in Houston while taking coaching clients. With a deep expertise in astrology, Eastern Medicine, and healing arts, Dr. Trinh offers a comprehensive approach to wellness that integrates acupuncture, cupping, pranic healing, and herbal medicine. His unique ability to connect physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of health makes him a sought-after healer for those seeking true alignment and healing.In addition to his private practice, Dr. Trinh is a board member of Cultivating Self, a non-profit organization dedicated to the...2024-09-031h 21
Reimagining HealthcareEVOLution of the PodcastWelcome to the new face and philosophy of the show!We are choosing to radically evolve healthcare through collaboration, humility, and grace. I have shifted focus towards promoting critical thinking, implementing tangible changes and measurable outcomes, and creating spaces for open and respectful conversations that bridge divides.Let’s REIMAGINE HEALTHCARE together and work towards a more just and equitable society for all!If you or someone you know would like to be on the show, connect with me on my Substack or get in touch through my nonprofit at CultivatingSelf.org 2024-07-2805 min
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 10 ~ Leslie PriscillaLeslie Priscilla is a first generation non-Black Chicana mother to three bicultural children. She is a descendant of Indigenous Tarahumara Rarámuri and Spanish lineages who has resided on occupied Tongva and Acjachemen land, also known as Orange County, CA, all of her life. Leslie shares her medicine by offering coaching, workshops, support and advocacy for Latinx/Chicanx families locally, nationally, and internationally both in-person and online via the Latinx Parenting organization. She founded this bilingual organization and movement intentionally rooted in children's rights, social and racial justice, the individual and collective practice of nonviolence and reparenting, intergenerational and a...2024-02-121h 14
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 9 ~ Adam UribeAdam Uribe is the Founder of the Red Earth Movement, an indigenous-led organization dedicated to advancing a strategy of healing the land and its people. They do this work through various projects that create spaces to inspire people to come together in health and wellness through education, relationship with the elements, sharing techniques for sustainable building, regenerative agriculture, and close council with youth and elders.Adam comes from generations of seed holders. He has a lifetime of experience in regenerative agriculture taught and passed to him by his father Miguel Uribe of the Wirarika nation. Adam is...2023-12-151h 43
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 8 ~ Dr. Rupa Marya, MDDr. Rupa Marya is a physician, activist, writer, mother, and a composer. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she practices and teaches internal medicine. Her work sits at the nexus of climate, health and racial justice. Dr. Marya founded the Deep Medicine Circle (DMC), an organization committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story and learning. Bringing together farmers, artists, land stewards, cooks, activists and healthcare workers, the DMC is advancing a model of the food system based in care called Farming is Medicine. She has toured twenty-nine countries with her b...2023-11-2844 min
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 7 ~ Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFTNatalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist working primarily with BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) survivors of complex trauma—ranging from racial trauma, sexual trauma, attachment trauma, and intergenerational trauma carrying cultural and legacy burdens. Natalie is a certified internal family systems therapist and Assistant Trainer for Internal Family Systems. Natalie’s individual and group healing work blends the intersections of psychotherapy, activism, intuitive and ancestral wisdom. She is a mother of 2 on the journey trying to break generational curses.Connect with Natalie~natalieygutierrez.cominstagram.com/natal...2023-10-301h 23
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 6 ~ "A Letter to My Abuser"🎙️Ep. 6 ~ A Letter to My Abuser: Healthcare Worker Suicide and a CALL to ACTION❗️This episode is dedicated to all the nurses and healthcare workers we have lost to suicide as a result of the ongoing abuse and exploitation of healthcare staff especially in hospital settings. I read the chilling letter “A Letter to My Abuser” written by Tristin Kate Smith, a 28 year old registered nurse who died from suicide on August 7, 2023. The letter was found on her laptop by her family and is dated March 2023.I also read an entry from my journal at a ti...2023-10-1229 min
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 5 ~ Dr. Azadeh Khatibi, MD, MS, MPHGuest Bio ~Dr. Azadeh Khatibi is a fellowship-trained and board-certified ophthalmologist. She was a Regent’s Scholar at UCLA and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Highest Departmental Honors in Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology. She began her career as an actor while simultaneously pursuing studies at one of the top medical schools in the country, UCSF, in the Joint Medical Program, which only accepted 12 people per year. She also got her Master’s in Public Health and a master’s in Health & Medical Sciences, both from UC Berkeley. She completed internal medicine internship and residency at UC, Irvine, where sh...2023-10-101h 38
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 4 ~ Vivian Kanchian, MPHVivian Kanchian, MPHhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/liveonpurpose/https://www.instagram.com/nutrition_with_a_mission/https://www.shroomer.com/author/vivian-kanchian/Vivian Kanchian holds a Masters degree in Public Health, and a Bachelors in Nutrition. She is a firm believer in food as medicine and has seen its incredible power to heal firsthand. Some of her accomplishments include helping successfully launch and grow a Food Is Medicine program in LA Country from inception and working alongside an integrative doctor to help women of all life stages balance their hormones...2023-09-231h 02
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 3 ~ Book Club ~ Reading & ReflectionThis is a reading from the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice. This episode also offers an intimate and personal reflection of the WHY behind this podcast series This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dianacantureyna.substack.com2023-09-0925 min
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 2 ~ Dr. Daniel José Gaztambide, PsyDDaniel José Gaztambide, PsyD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Queens College, a psychologist in private practice, and author of the book “A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology”. He is a candidate in psychoanalytic training at the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and conducts research centered on decolonial, community participatory action approach to examining colonial mentality among Puerto Rican populations, and how intersecting identities inform the experience and resilience of individuals and communities. In his scholarly work he writes about social justice and cultural competency, psychoanalysis and race, and the his...2023-08-281h 40
Reimagining HealthcareEp. 1 ~ Welcome to Decolonizing Healthcare with Diana Cantú-Reyna, BSN, RNan introduction to the podcast, Decolonizing Healthcare This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dianacantureyna.substack.com2023-08-1805 min
Political Hope074: Community Healing Gardens: Debrief with Diana Cantu-ReynaReflecting on Presentation regarding "Community Healing Gardens" https://records.hawaiicounty.gov/WebLink/1/edoc/122542/2023-04-12%20HCDP%20Meeting%20Packet.pdf ... https://sedonayogafestival.com/trauma-conscious-yoga-training-syf/ ... https://www.youtube.com/@UC5Qit-WMz451eRU_ITEC4FA ... https://www.patreon.com/politicalhope2023-04-1355 min
MokshaWaking Up To The Radical Paradigm Shifts of Health With Diana Cantu-ReynaMy dear friend, Diana joined me to expand today! She is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and served over seven years in the pediatric intensive care unit. Prior to that, she received a BA in Political Science from San Diego State University where she discovered her passion for social justice and community service. She has created Cultivating Self, a non-profit that serves to help combat compassion fatigue and burnout for nurses with implementing safe containers to learn holistic practices and creating innovative educational programs. Diana is interested with modern medicine while increasing access for BIPOC...2022-08-0554 min
The Nurse Keith ShowNurses Cultivating Self and CommunityOn episode 284 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing career and healthcare podcast, Keith interviews Lucy Camarena, RN, DNP, CCRN, CNL, CPN, and Diana Cantu-Reyna, RN, BSN, CCRN of Cultivating Self, a burgeoning community of nurses who are leaning deep into self-care and wellness through a plethora of healing arts modalities. If you're a nurse seeking rejuvenation and a reconnection with your authentic self, you've come to the right place! Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, as well as a professional podcaster, published author, inspiring speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. The Nurse Keith S...2020-08-1454 min
Hello BeYouTifulNavigating Compassion Fatigue (with Diana Cantu-Reyna)Ready to Grow in a supportive and expanded way? I want to help you!Join The GlowUP a 30-day course to reignite your Soul & help you live your best lifeApply to work 1:1 w SamanthaConnect on InstagramConnect with Diana Cantu-Reyna:www.cultivatingself.orghttps://www.instagram.com/cultivatingselfnow/
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