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Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being267. Replace Expectations with Intentions: Birthday Reflections on Aging Softly, Living Intentionally (and Fertility)“Aging isn't just about getting older; it's about growing more evolved each day. More nuanced, more enriched. More beautiful. More ourselves” - Emily Dickinson How do we age with softness? How do we approach a birthday—or a fertility milestone—with compassion instead of judgment? In this rich and heart-forward conversation, I join Dr. Erica Bove, my birthday twin, to explore what it means to see with the heart, especially in moments of uncertainty, grief, and growth. Dr. Erica Bove is a reproductive endocrinologist and integrative fertility coach for women physicians. She is a be...
2025-07-2753 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being266. Why Can't They? The High Cost of Resisting Reality and How to Reclaim PeaceHave you ever found yourself asking, Why can’t they just…? or Why are they doing this to me? These questions often swirl through our minds during frustrating moments on the road, at work, in our relationships, or even in response to news headlines and legislation. They come with a heavy emotional toll. Today, we explore the actual cost of resisting reality. We share vulnerable personal stories, practical tools, and insights from lived experiences that help soften the inner storm and shift us toward mindful acceptance. You'll learn how to move from re...
2025-07-2037 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being265. The Power of Mid-Year Reflection: Pause, Integrate, and Move Forward with IntentionA real-time invitation to pause, reflect, and integrate. In this special mid-year episode, we offer you the spaciousness and tools to reconnect with your intentions, acknowledge your growth, and mindfully marinate in what matters most. We reflect openly on our guiding words for the year—how they’ve supported us, challenged us, and shaped our journeys so far. With humor, honesty, and heart, we invite you to slow down and notice what’s working, what’s shifted, and what your future self will thank you for. This is an imperfect, spontaneous practice of...
2025-07-1351 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being260. Presence Over Pressure: Choosing Ease, Joy, and Meaning in TravelThis episode is an invitation to explore travel through a different lens—a mindful one. Whether you're traveling for work, visiting family, or taking a long-awaited vacation, we hope that this conversation helps you bring more intention, presence, and ease. We offer gentle, grounded tips to help you redefine what success looks like when you travel. It isn't about doing the most or chasing the perfect itinerary. It's about traveling in a way that honors your energy, desires, and well-being. Pearls of Wisdom: Setting a clear intention—before and during travel—transfo...
2025-06-0851 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being259. What Are You Proud Of? A Conversation About Worth, Identity, and Redefining SuccessA deeply personal and inspiring episode that invites you to gently explore a question many of us were never taught to ask: What are you proud of—about yourself? In this heart-opening conversation, we share honest reflections on identity, humility, and the discomfort so many of us feel around owning our success. You’ll hear personal stories about pride, parenting, professional pivots, and the quiet courage it takes to celebrate yourself out loud. You’ll also hear how this question has become a meaningful part of Jessie’s retreats and how it has changed li...
2025-06-0138 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being257. Windex and Wisdom: Clean Your Windows, Clear Your MindIn this episode of Healing Medicine, we explore the powerful metaphor of cleaning windows as a way to gain clarity in our minds and lives. Inspired by a real-life experience of hiring professionals to clean her skylights, Dr. Jessie Mahoney and Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang reflects on mindfulness, yoga, and coaching as intentional practices to clear the metaphorical grime from our perspective and lens of awareness. We don’t usually realize how cloudy our outlook has become until we make space for clarity. Listen to discover how letting in more light—both literally and figu...
2025-05-1823 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being256. Lessons from Mothering: A Mindful Journey Through the Seasons of MotherhoodThis episode honors the many facets of mothering—through every season, from being a mom of young children to mothering teens, adult children, and even grandchildren. Whether you're a new mom or an empty nester, this episode is for you. Previous Healing Medicine Mother's Day Episodes include: 196. Stop Apologizing when you haven't done anything wrong 197. Do you feel Underappreciated? 134. Mindful Wisdom from a New Grandmother 74. Your Relationship with your Mother 72. Mother’s Day Gift 71. How to be an even better mom 121. Explori...
2025-05-1143 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being254. Healing the Hidden Wounds of Medical Training: How to Rebuild TrustWhat if rebuilding strength isn’t about pushing harder—but trusting yourself more? After decades of practicing medicine with a mindset of pushing through exhaustion, injury, and disconnection, Jessie reflects on how partnering with a personal trainer helped her rebuild something she hadn’t even realized she had lost: trust in her own body. Jessie shares how mindful movement, compassion, and curiosity can heal old patterns of disconnection—and help you grow strength, resilience, and self-trust from the inside out. This episode invites you to explore the parallel journeys of physical healing and emotional...
2025-04-2738 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being250. From Scarcity to Self-Worth in MedicineThis milestone episode is a powerful and heartfelt exploration of one of the most tender and transformative topics: self-worth. So many physicians struggle with valuing themselves, charging fairly for their services, and letting go of guilt rooted in self-sacrifice. This episode is inspired by real conversations with courageous clients and a vulnerable moment of my own It is is a call to unlearn the deeply embedded scarcity mindset that pervades our training—and to embrace sustainability, worthiness, and alignment instead. If you've ever questioned what you're allowed to charge, how to tal...
2025-04-1346 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being242. Building Bridges: Partnering with Leadership on Wellness and Culture Change with Dr. Brooke BuckleyIn today’s episode, we offer invaluable insights on how to effectively partner with leadership to make a compelling and effective case for physician well-being and organizational transformation. Dr. Brooke Buckley is an expert in navigating organizational systems and advocating for wellness and culture change within healthcare settings. She is currently the Chief Medical Officer of Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital. She is responsible for the leadership of the hospital’s physicians. Dr Buckley is a general surgeon by training. She also serves on the Committee of Clinical Leadership for the American Hospital Association and on the American Medical...
2025-02-1658 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being240. Learning to Hold Space and Compassion for Yourself with Dr. Yvonne JuarezLearning to Hold Space and Compassion for Yourself In this episode, Dr. Yvonne Juarez, a pediatrician and physician leader at TPMG, shares her transformative journey of self-compassion, personal growth, and professional renewal. Yvonne and Jessie’s friendship spans decades—they completed their pediatric residency together from 1999-2002 and both built their medical and leadership careers at TPMG. After years apart, they reconnected when Yvonne attended a Pause & Presence Coaching, Yoga, Mindfulness & Culinary Medicine CME Retreat at Sagrada. At a time when she felt depleted—after enduring the pandemic, personal losses, family transitions, and profes...
2025-02-0945 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being239. Breaking the Over Helping Habit: Valuing Your Expertise as a Woman PhysicianWomen physicians face pressure to give away their expertise for free, and feel intense guilt and discomfort when we say "no." This episode encourages all women physicians to reflect on how they give and receive help. We teach others to value us when we celebrate the value we bring to the table, set better boundaries, and stop undervaluing our time. There is a cost to “free” advice. When we value ourselves, others will follow suit. Women in medicine are socialized to be helpful at all costs. This leads to burnout...
2025-02-0643 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being238. Rejection As Redirection: How to Shift from Feeling Shame to Feeling Empowered with Dr. Sasha ShillcuttWhen we hide our rejections, we become small. When we talk about them, the rejections become small. Today’s special guest is Dr. Sasha Shillcutt, a trailblazer in both medicine and women's empowerment. Dr. Shillcutt is a cardiac anesthesiologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and the founder and CEO of Brave Enough, a community dedicated to empowering women. Along with being a researcher, speaker, author, wife, and mom of four, Dr. Shillcutt is an advocate for gender equity and making space for women in leadership roles. This conversation is a must-listen for anyo...
2025-02-0247 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being237. Managing Healthcare Burnout: How to Set Boundaries and Avoid Physician OverloadAre you absorbing too much of the system’s inefficiencies? Are You Taking on Too Much? Listen to learn about: Overcoming healthcare stress and how to stay compassionate without burning out" How to navigate healthcare challenges without overwhelm In this episode of The Mindful Healers Podcast, Dr. Jessie Mahoney and Dr. Ni Cheng Liang explore how to navigate healthcare-related stress with intention, presence, and boundaries. Healthcare is an incredibly human profession, full of complexity and challenge. 🎙️ What else will you learn in this episode: ✔️ How to recognize if y...
2025-01-3045 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being231. Not Your Job: Letting Go of Overfunctioning and OverwhelmFrom Overcommitted to Empowered: A Life-Changing Practice for Women Physicians Women—especially women physicians—are high-functioning, capable, and deeply committed. We take on too much, believing everything is our job. While this benefits others in the short term, no one wins in the long run. The result? Exhaustion, overwhelm, and over-functioning. But what if you let go of unreasonable expectations? What if you stopped carrying what isn’t yours to hold? In this episode, Dr. Jessie Mahoney explores a transformative coaching practice to help you clarify what is actually your jo...
2024-12-2232 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being225. When You Find Yourself Feeling Off KilterBeing off kilter is a normal part of the human experience at least some of the time. Mindfulness and self-compassion offer opportunities to notice, show yourself compassion, and re-align. Getting help helps. Enjoy Jessie modeling how getting help helps. Listen as Ni-Cheng demonstrates mindful inquiry and how to explore body sensations, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. What might be helpful when you next find yourself off-balance Sunshine Yoga Exercise/movement Nature Music Human connection Name it to ta...
2024-11-0346 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being218. How to Navigate the Early Acute Phase of Empty Nesting with Grace and CompassionEvery parent traverses into the space having an empty nest at some point. We want it to happen and we don’t. If it's not happening we worry. If it is happening we worry. This episode belongs in both the Parenting with Presence and Transition Well series. Jessie shares about her first week transitioning to an empty nest. The first week of a big life change is, “of course”, filled with intense and often conflicting emotions. It was a bit like landing in a foreign country. How you feel may be unexpected...
2024-09-1523 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being215. What to Do About Unreasonable Expectations - Yours and Those of OthersListen to this Curious About Coaching Session with Dr. Jessie Mahoney to learn how to discern when something is unreasonable, what you can do about your own unreasonable expectations of yourself, and what you can do when others have unreasonable expectations of you. Most high achievers have unreasonable and/or unrealistic expectations of themselves. As parents, children, physicians, friends, and members of society. We were also trained in professional schools to have unreasonable expectations of ourselves (think residency!) The expectations of our patients and our employers are also often unreasonable and/or...
2024-09-0631 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being213. Managing Disappointment: When A Dream Ends Abruptly with Liam MahoneyWe don't like to disappoint people or be disappointed and we especially don't like it when our children are disappointed. Liam Mahoney is back for an encore episode. Listen to hear Liam’s story of navigating a big and unexpected disappointment. Hear how Jessie, as his mother, navigated his disappointment. Leave with some gold nuggets of advice to ease the bumps of frustration and anger that arise when we face disappointment. Our own or someone else’s. Coaching and mindfulness have dramatically changed how I react to disappointment whether it be with those I love...
2024-08-2552 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being210. Why Yoga Is Possible for You – Adaptable, Accessible, and TransformativeDo you think you can’t do yoga? If you’ve ever struggled with yoga, felt like you weren’t “a yogi,” or believed that yoga wasn’t for your body, this episode is for you. Yoga is not about flexibility, contorting into complex poses, or standing on your head. It’s about movement, breath, and nervous system regulation—and with the right approach and teacher, yoga can work for every body, at every stage of life. What Keeps People from Trying Yoga? Many people avoid yoga due to misconceptions about what it is. Here are some...
2024-08-0438 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being209. Choose Connection Over Perfection: Why Doctors Struggle with Public Speaking and What We Can Do About It with Hilary BlairThe world needs physician voices. Enjoy a fun conversation with Hilary Blair, founder of Articulate Real & Clear, about how mindfulness, intention, and most of all presence can help anyone, especially doctors, give a great talk. The way we are trained to think as physicians makes public speaking more of a challenge than it should be for most physicians. We are trained to: worry what others will think of us fear judgment, rejection, and shame talk fast and "not waste time" always share as much information as possible ...
2024-07-2847 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being208. Forest Bathing Makes You Healthier and Happier with Dr. Suzanne Bartlett HackenmilleWhat is forest bathing? How does forest bathing impact mental health? How does it impact physical health? Nature is medicine. Forest = For Rest There have been many studies to show that forest bathing and simply being in nature is a way to decrease stress and improve well-being. It improves mental and physical health conditions. It impacts both our vital signs and our outlook. Dr. Suzanne Bartlett Hackenmille, MD, FACOG, ABoIM is board-certified in integrative medicine and ObGyn. She has additional certifications in herbal medicine, Ayurveda, and meditation. She is al...
2024-07-2148 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being207. Lead With Your Heart and Lean Into Your Wisdom: What I Learned Working With A Speaking CoachIf you struggle with public speaking or you want to share your message more succinctly and more powerfully, listen to this episode. Diana Dresser, Jessie’s speaking coach this past winter, is our special guest. Diana is a self-described theater nerd and actress. We offer helpful tools and a new understanding of how working with a coach on speaking, and everything else in life, helps. What makes a talk compelling? Practice, the courage to be vulnerable, and a willingness to show more of yourself. Coaches have insight into you an...
2024-07-1449 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being200. Manifesting Dreams Takes Courage, Intention, and ActionDreams are available to all of us but they don’t just happen by wishing, hoping, or luck. In this episode, Jessie shares how she manifested her dream of owning her own retreat space. She was inspired by others fulfilling their dreams. They helped her know that fulfilling one's dreams is possible. In sharing her journey she hopes to be the person who inspires you to pursue your dreams. How do you manifest a dream? What are important and replicable steps to manifesting a dream? Believe in yourself and the...
2024-06-0241 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being196. Stop Apologizing When You Haven't Done Anything WrongHave you said “I’m sorry” even though the circumstance wasn’t your fault? Have you started off a conversation or a presentation with “I’m sorry?” Do you say "Sorry I’m running behind", "Sorry for taking up space or time in a group session", "Sorry for crying", "Sorry for not understanding", or "Sorry I am not available"? Listen to understand why you over-apologize and the impact it can have on your life, health, and happiness. Learn about common situations where you don’t need to apologize and mindful and strategic tips to...
2024-05-0534 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being195. How to Make a Big Decision with Liam MahoneyAn amusing discussion about mindful decision-making with 18-year-old Liam Mahoney, a high school senior. In this episode, Liam shares his college decision-making process. He showcases his extremely abundant mindset, his positivity bias, and why he chose to become a UC Berkeley 2028 rather than a UCLA 2028. Liam shares how he made an authentic decision for himself despite conflicting advice from his two brothers and his grandparents. He shares why he didn’t let the opinions of his peers influence his decision. He also shares what parents can do to be helpful to their children and...
2024-04-2835 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being194. Permission to Pivot with Dr. Jillian RigertWords of wisdom from a professional pivoter. In today's episode, we delve into the transformative power of pivoting in both life and career. Dr. Jillian shares strategies for embracing change, giving yourself permission, and learning to put your opinion above the opinion of others. Trigger warning: Blunt mentions of suicide and eating disorders occur in this episode. Giving yourself permission to pivot is hard. Societal pressures often lead us astray from what truly matters. We spend a lot of time in our lives worrying about crap that doesn't actually matter. ...
2024-04-2140 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being192. How to Thrive in the Sandwich GenerationAre you sometimes overwhelmed and depleted by the demands of caregiving for both your parents and your children? Does caregiving wear you down or cause stress and anxiety? Do you think YOU have to do it all? The inspiration for this podcast is the very full plate that we have both been living as caregivers for both aging parents and our own children. We invite you to approach this abundance of caregiving with love, self-compassion, mindfulness and intention. If you can, you will likely find much more spaciousness and ease. Some rec...
2024-04-0741 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being184. Healing with Contemplative Medicine with Koshin Paley EllisonWhat is good medicine? What is the medicine you actually need? How do you want to live? Who is your Obi-Won-Kenobi teacher? Who are you? What does it mean to be upright in your life? How do we create connections? We discuss all this and more in this very special guest episode with Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison who is Co-Founder, President, & Guiding Teacher of the New York Zen Center an educational non-profit dedicated to integrating contemplative approaches to care with contemporary medicine. Through Kosh...
2024-02-2553 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being179. Why You Work for FreeJust because something has always been done that way doesn’t make continuing to do it that way right. Do you work through lunch? Do you attend meetings during lunch? Do you teach for free? Give talks without compensation? Do you respond to patient emails and address results when you aren’t at work? We have been indoctrinated into an archaic system with unrealistic expectations of healthcare professionals. It’s key to recognize when we are complicit in this, and that it’s ok and necessary to say NO and to se...
2024-02-0453 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being175. Mindful Negotiating Tips with Mark Mahoney, Esq.Do you think you aren’t good at negotiating? Do you worry about offending people or disappointing them? Do you want to learn some mindset strategies for effective negotiating? Listen to learn why doctors and women often struggle to negotiate. Learn the basics of effective negotiating. Leave with mindfulness and coaching tools to help you negotiate better. There is much more to be learned from listening to this podcast, discussing the topic in person, and getting coached on negotiating. If this podcast resonates, coaching and mi...
2024-01-1738 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being174. How to Become the Best Version of YourselfIf you want to become the most wise, authentic, engaged, and impactful version of yourself, you need a coach. This episode is part 2 of Jessie answering questions from women physicians. Questions I address in this episode include: Why did I choose “coaching”? What drew me to it? What is the difference between coaching and therapy? Is coaching and running Pause & Presence what I expected? Are there people that coaching is not right for? What is the most surprising thing I have discovered about coaching?
2024-01-1439 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being171. Something You Can’t Find Anywhere ElseMake 2024 the year you sign up for something truly magical. The inspiration for today's podcast was the completion of the 14th Nourish & Transform Mindfulness Coaching, Yoga and Culinary Medicine Retreat at Sagrada. There is nothing out there like it. We share why we do what we do at Sagrada and why we do it there. These retreats happen amidst nature and natural beauty. There is beautiful light and spectacular views. It's private and secluded but also easy to get to. The retreat does not happen at a spa or a hotel. T...
2023-12-311h 00Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being168. Complicated Dynamics: Tools to Navigate Holidays and Families“Holidays, especially when spent with young adults, first grandchildren and newly blended families from different cultures are the epitome of “complicated dynamics.” “Complicated dynamics” is a beautiful, apt, kind and neutral description of the blend of love, hope, good intentions, confusion, disappointment, pride, grief and more love that accompanies these gatherings. A wealth of varied emotions always accompanies new life phases. Holidays add to that. Time together is short. Everyone wants it to feel “like it used to.” When” it felt good.” And it is never exactly what they or you hope it wou...
2023-12-1041 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being165. It’s Ok to Trust Yourself (And The Process)Who knows better than you what’s right for you? Not trusting has a huge cost. It leads to self doubt, fear, anxiety, imposter syndrome, and comparing and despairing. It is “expensive”-- emotionally, physically, and spiritually. We are trained in medicine to not trust. We are trained to trust and confirm, to be hypervigilant, and to ruminate and worry about unexpected outcomes and worst case scenarios -- many of which are outside of our control. This is an exhausting way to move through the world. Our lives are abundant with opportuniti...
2023-11-1931 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being159. Move Towards Health Equity with Dr. Melissa ChenLearn how to move toward health equity with Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang and Dr. Melissa Chen. Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor, Department of Medicine at the Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science is also the Medical Director of the Interprofessional Community Clinic (ICC) and Health Equity Course Director. Dr. Chen shares her journey as a cancer patient navigating the challenges of the healthcare system, and how that helped ignite her passion for health equity work. It is normal to feel discomfort when delving into recognizing our own implicit biases, a...
2023-10-0849 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being157. When You Get Deposed - How to Lessen Fear, Anxiety, and Unnecessary SufferingAlthough being deposed as a treating physician in a third party liability case is never fun, this episode will help you prepare mindfully and intentionally, so you can suffer, stress and ruminate less. Jessie shares a conversation with her husband, Mark, about how physicians can use mindfulness and knowledge to make the deposition process easier. Mark is an attorney who has worked for nearly 20 years as a civil trial attorney. During his career, Mark has taken and defended hundreds of depositions–including dozens of depositions of treating physicians. Jessie also shares her own experience being depos...
2023-09-2440 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being156. Grief Often Looks Different than You ExpectWe don’t just grieve with death and tragedy. We grieve loss, change, our childhoods, unmet expectations, and unfulfilled hopes and dreams for relationships. We grieve lives that didn’t turn out how we thought they would or wanted them to. We often grieve during transitions. We grieve for our past selves. Grief is complicated and frustrating, especially when we don’t recognize our feelings as grief. Noticing helps. Accepting and allowing, perhaps even embracing grief as part of the process of becoming the next version of you h...
2023-09-1728 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being155. Become Your Future SelfFrom stuck, depleted and despairing to grounded, aligned and hopeful. "Today was a breakthrough for me. You not only gave me the permission, but also the courage, to dream, innovate, and create something I never thought was possible. I've reached the tipping point and it's a place I never ever imagined landing in.” Dr. Dowling initially practiced Ob/Gyn in Alaska. She then transitioned to private practice Ob/Gyn in Washington state. Next she switched to a full-time hospitalist OB at a large hospital-based system. She was working 1.2 FTE, was the primary breadwinner for h...
2023-09-1052 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being154. Move Beyond Imposter SyndromeEveryone who does new things and stretches themselves has imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome doesn't mean you are a problem or there is a problem. For most of us, imposter syndrome is a normal reaction to new things and a habitual response. Reach out, connect and ask for support. Noticing the objective qualities and credentials you possess is helpful. Focusing on your experience, skills, knowledge, strengths and the hundreds that you have helped already in your life helps. What you have accomplished already” Borr...
2023-09-0342 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being153. How to Become OK with UncertaintyIt should be different but you can still make a difference. Dr. Meg Lelonek started coaching about two years ago. At that time she describes herself as ”on the tile floor.” Today she is practicing medicine at a job she loves and also practicing radical self-acceptance and enjoying the beauty of her life as it is. The tool that got Meg up “off the tile floor” and brought her hope, groundedness, courage and initiative to make a change –was the thought she learned in coaching – “It should be different, but I can still make a differe...
2023-08-2744 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being151. Launch Your Young Adult Children with Love (Encore) This is an encore release. Launch the children you love with love. What would love do? What would grace do? What would presence do? Love would show up with curiosity and wonder rather than catastrophize. Love would focus on what you can control. Love would set an intention and model trust, problem solving, elegant vulnerability and connection. Grace would accept, allow and validate all feelings that come up. Grace would remember parenting is a long game and step out of scarcity and urgency. Join...
2023-08-1739 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being150. Parenting Athletes with PresenceA different twist on our parenting with presence. In this episode, we share ways mindfulness and coaching can help you approach parenting your youth athlete. Mindful reflection and intention can help you parent in ways that empower your student athlete to be the best version of themselves and make decisions from a place of strength rather than compare and despair, scarcity, and FOMO. Harder and more is not better for student-athletes. We share our personal journeys as parents of student-athletes as well as Jessie's story of playing sports in high school and college. J...
2023-08-1344 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being147. Mind-Body MedicineMind-body medicine enhances the mind’s interactions with bodily function to improve overall health and well-being. Mind Body Medicine is what the Mindful Healers Connect in Nature Retreat is about. What did people have to say about the retreat? “This was the best thing I did for myself in a very long time.” “This retreat is really unique because it is run by physicians who understand the challenges of being a physician, how our training magnifies stresses, and the pathophysiology behind the stress and interventions.” “Loved coming back for a seco...
2023-07-2349 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being146. Let Your Passion Be Thy Medicine with Dr. Sabrina Falquier MontgrainWe are joined by special guest, Dr. Sabrina Falquier who is a board certified internal medicine, culinary medicine and lifestyle medicine physician. Dr. Falquier worked as a primary care doctor for over 15 years and in 2020 founded Sensations Salud, which focuses on empowering through nutritional knowledge and culinary literacy through culinary medicine education and consulting. Her work can be seen through the powerful documentary: The Kitchenistas. Sabrina shares her journey of living into her passion of culinary medicine, and how she allowed herself to become the best version of herself in creating new paths. She encourages us to h...
2023-07-1634 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being142. Navigate Transitions Well - Tips for New Dad’s, New Grads, and Job SeekersA special Father’s Day episode with a new father, who also happens to be my son. Slade shares his experience as a young adult navigating new parenthood, graduation, and a job search. We discuss his struggles to practice mindfulness and the importance of following your intuition and listening to yourself. In this podcast, Slade offers the following advice: 3 Tips for New Dads Accept and allow whatever is happening with your baby, your spouse, and yourself; Accept all the family members and other helpers as they are and not who you wan...
2023-06-1837 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being141. How Physician Leaders Can Effectively Support Wellness with Dr. Karin ShavelsonIs there a magic bullet to solve burnout? No, wellness looks different for everyone. We hope you enjoy this lively discussion between Dr. Jessie Mahoney, a long time physician wellness leader, and physician coach and Dr. Karin Shavelson, the Chief Medical Officer at Marin Health. We talk about the value of retreats, in particular the Honoring Diastole Retreat that Dr. Shavelson recently attended. Her belief is that wellness in a post-pandemic world looks like coming together with others who have shared experiences. Community and connection and people and place are key and...
2023-06-1445 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being138. Mindfulness Creates Autonomy with Dr. Gail GazelleDr. Ni-Cheng Liang is joined by special guest Dr. Gail Gazelle, Master Coach, certified mindfulness teacher, faculty at Harvard, and author of her new book Mindful MD. We discuss the synergistic relationship of coaching with mindfulness and how she considers coaching as mindfulness in action. She highlights the importance that we are not our thoughts and that our thoughts are not necessarily true. We discuss the impermanence of thoughts, emotions, and body sensations, and how important it is to recognize this, using mindfulness, as a key to our autonomy as healers. Do...
2023-06-0435 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being137. Find Inner Spaciousness Through Reflective Writing with Dr. Gail WrightReflective writing is a tuning fork for the heart. It is a portal to deep listening which is necessary to live a whole and healthy life, as healers and as humans. Today’s special guest is Dr. Gail Wright, a pediatric cardiologist and ICU physician who is a disciple of Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen. She is also Jessie’s co-leader for the Honoring DIastole Retreats at Pie Ranch in Pescadero, California. Reflective writing is a tool to help you put down the weight of aloneness, remember your wholeness and voice yourself into b...
2023-06-0254 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being134. Mindful Wisdom from a New GrandmotherAll "mother" relationships are wonderful AND complicated. Grandmothering is an extension of mothering. It includes mothering, being a mother-in-law, and often a daughter too. These roles encompass the full spectrum of human emotions. They are full of worry, frustration, expectation, resentment, judgment, and self-doubt. They are full of worry about failure. They are also full of intense love, desire, connection, hopes, and dreams. In this episode, Dr. Jessie Mahoney reflects on approaching both her grandmother and mother roles with mindful intention. Intention-setting is spiritual, energetic, and strategic. Inten...
2023-05-1441 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being131. The Value of a Nature PrescriptionWhen was the last time you saw both the sunrise and sunset? What might happen if your kids spent the same amount of time in nature as they did on a screen each day? What might happen if you spent as much time outside in nature as you do on recreational screens? Prescribing nature for our patients and ourselves is good medicine. The restorative power of a simple dose of nature is tremendous. Nature prescriptions began as a movement in Pediatrics about 10 years ago. They have more recently spread to...
2023-04-2331 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being129. Coaching At Every Level: The Key to Culture Change in Medicine with Dr Tonya CaylorIntegrating physician coaching seamlessly into graduate medical education is the most effective and impactful intervention we can do to prevent burnout and create a healthy and sustainable culture of medicine. Enjoy a vibrant conversation between two physician coaches who coach in graduate medical education. Bringing coaching to training programs is a win-win-win. Getting funding for coaching for your team, residents, and/or fellows doesn’t have to be complicated. It also isn't hard. There are lots of creative ways to make it happen. Once in place- the ROI of coaching for tr...
2023-04-1656 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being122. Every Body Needs A Friend : Improve Body Image and Lessen Self-CritcismDo you struggle with body image and self-criticism? Every body, especially yours, needs a friend. Being kind to yourself and a friend to your body is not complacent or lazy. Being a friend to your own body is a performance tool. Why wouldn’t you be friends with your body? What if you and your body could be teammates? Could you start by appreciating the functionality of your body? Perhaps thanking it for its service? Remembering where you have...
2023-02-2635 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being120. Cooking As A Love Language with Mark MahoneyCooking can be perspective-shifting and heart-opening. It can be a source of surprise and wonder and a healthy way of expressing love. Enjoy a conversation about cooking as both love and service with the husband of a woman physician who understands what exhausted, depleted women physicians crave. Enjoy a special guest episode featuring Jessie's husband Mark, the Pause & Presence retreat chef. Mark is a full-time lawyer who has been the primary cook for his family for 26 years. When a chef aspires to nourish, heal, and inspire you, the experience of food and eating f...
2023-02-1247 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being117. Learn to Recognize What Matters Most with Dr. Nerissa KreherBigger impact and more joy come when you learn to recognize what matters most and manage your energy well. Lessons from another successful coaching journey. Dr. Nerissa Kreher, a CMO at a Biotech/Pharma start-up shares how coaching changed her life by helping her recognize what matters most. Coaching helped Nerissa recognize the power of her thoughts and see that her thoughts and stories were not truths. When she learned to recognize what matters most and live into her life became filled with much more joy. She learned to ma...
2023-02-0253 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being116. Caring for Aging Parents with Grace and Presence with Dr. Mary NormanMindfulness eases the journey of caring for aging parents. It enhances your ability to adapt and bounce back in the face of stress. It helps you recognize your stress response so you can pause and then intervene with calmness. Today is a Special Guest Episode with Dr. Mary Norman, a wise and experienced geriatrician, who has a newfound passion for bringing mindfulness to caregivers of those with dementia. Mindfulness helps you go from a place of frustration, fear, anger, grief, and isolation to gratitude, patience, peace, laughter, and joy. A few of the m...
2023-01-2940 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being110. Why Intentions Are Better Than Goals (Encore Episode)Listen to a rerelease of our 2021 podcast to learn how to choose intentions well. Learn why intentions are better than goals, and how to choose them with care and intention. Understand the early version of Jessie's now infamous process of choosing intentional words for the year. Hear about the hazards of goal setting and what you miss when you focus on the outcome rather than the journey, the growth, and the joy. What's magic about intentions is that they also help you to reach desired goals and outcomes more easefully and e...
2022-12-2731 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being109. How to Grow Self-Trust, Start Approving of Yourself, and Finally Decide "You Belong"Learn how to grow self-trust and approve of yourself. Learn how to stop looking for the answer and instead show up as the answer. Deciding you are doing it right is powerful. Your way to do it is the right way for you. Choose the story you want to tell about yourself. Amazing things happen when you decide to belong Get a coach and go back to basics. Do Thought downloads and practice daily self-coaching Learn to "think in models" Notice "borrowed thoughts" Start living as your future se...
2022-12-2554 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being102. Embracing Sh*tManure is fertilizer for the most beautiful gardens. Resisting sh*t causes more suffering. If we choose to embrace life’s challenges and sh*tstorms, in a loving and intentional way, we can help ourselves move through sh*tstorms more easefully. Listen to learn how to implement helpful coaching tools and strategies to get through life’s manure piles with more calm and ease. “Our greatest freedom is in how we react to things.” - The Boy the Mole the Fox and the Horse, Charley Mackesy
2022-11-2034 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being99. Ask Better Questions, Live a Better Life: A Mindful Approach to Self-InquiryDid you know that the questions you ask yourself shape your mindset, happiness, and overall well-being? While we carefully consider how we ask questions to others—our patients, children, partners, colleagues, and bosses—we often overlook the quality of the questions we ask ourselves. Listen to this episode to understand the power of asking better questions and how this simple shift can help you create more happiness and clarity in your life In this episode of The Mindful Healers Podcast, we explore: ✅ How self-inquiry and mindful questions impact your daily life ✅...
2022-10-3040 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being98. The Healing Benefits Of WaterWhat we can learn from water, a solocast with Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang. Water can inspire us to foster well-being. Learn about self-care through hydration, and being on, in, or around natural bodies of water. Enjoy lessons from paddleboarding and paddling on a dragon boat team. And be inspired by the benefits of warm baths and cold plunges. “Nothing is softer or more flexible than water. And yet nothing can resist it.” - Lao Tzu Please share and leave stars and reviews for our podcast to help us spread the ripple...
2022-10-2327 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being96. How to Help When Your Loved One Struggles with Their Mental HealthWhat would compassion do? In honor of World Mental Health Day, today's podcast is offered to decrease stigma and normalize mental health struggles in every family. This episode is vulnerably shared to address the huge gap of support for family members of those struggling with their mental health. Jessie shares her wisdom and coaching tips to help family members of those with mental health challenges show up in ways that are truly compassionate and loving - for both themselves AND those they love. She encourages family members to step out of ha...
2022-10-0948 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being93. Parent Coaching in Action: Helping a Mama Bear Find Relief from AnxietyExperience live coaching of a loving yet worried physician mom. Witness her shift from spinning in worry and swirling in anxiety to embracing acceptance, compassion, and learning. See how coaching can provide relief when mindfulness does not. When this mom notices how “shoulding” is getting in the way and how compassion helps- she feels more at ease. Most moms want to be supportive and present. Coaching helps you do this. When you reconnect to the belief that no matter what happens more than likely it's all going to turn...
2022-09-1850 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being91. Better Together - Finding Alignment With Mindfulness and Coaching with Dr. April WazekaIf you are thinking about it, try it. Mindfulness and coaching are synergistic. They are better together. Today's special guest shares her story as a real-life example of the power and magic of blending mindfulness and coaching. The tools today's guest has found most powerful: the pause, naming emotions, noticing her “shoulds” and reframing her stories about medicine. Her favorite Jessie-isms: What If? Of Course. What would love do? What is her secret weapon for practicing mindfulness and coaching consistently? A question she learne...
2022-09-0435 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being90. Tips to Gracefully Launch Your ChildrenLaunching children you love with love. What would love do? What would grace do? What would presence do? Love would show up with curiosity and wonder rather than catastrophizing. Love would focus on what you can control. Love would set an intention and model trust, problem solving, elegant vulnerability and connection. Grace would accept, allow and validate all feelings that come up. Grace would remember parenting is a long game and step out of scarcity and urgency. Join Jessie for Parenting with Presence this fall. Lear...
2022-08-2839 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being89. How to Recharge YourselfDance in the trees, listen to chocolate, and experience mindfulness, yoga, and coaching -- in a garden, at the beach, in a yurt, and amidst the redwoods of Muir Woods. In this episode, we share the why of the mindful practices we explore at the Mindful Healers Connect in Nature Retreat. Understand the body scan, and appreciate the release and freedom offered in mindful and restorative yoga. Learn about attentive listening and how coaching can help you feel better. Explore ways to bring fun into mindfulness. What did those who...
2022-08-2156 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being88. The Brain is a Powerful Sex Organ Dr. Kelly CaspersonGood sex happens when you are calm and accepting. Sex works “best” when you aren’t stressed. In this episode, Jessie and special guest Dr Kelly Casperson, author of You Are Not Broken and host of the You Are Not Broken Podcast, chat about the mind and sex. Kelly reminds us that the brain is a powerful sex organ. We talk about how mindfulness can make sex better. And how a scarcity mindset makes it worse. In line with previous Mindful Healers Podcast episodes, transitioning well is key to enjoying se...
2022-08-1454 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being85. The One Thing That Changes EverythingA solo cast sharing Jessie’s journey both getting coached and as a coach. This episode is an opportunity to hear why Jessie pivoted to coaching, clarify potential misconceptions about coaching, and explain why coaching is magically impactful as an intervention for high-achievers, especially physicians. Listen to hear how coaching is different from therapy, mentorship, and friendship and some of the evidence of its impact on burnout. In 2020, Jessie left her thriving pediatric practice and multiple physician leadership roles to become a life coach. Jessie didn't leave medicine because of burnout, She left because coaching was...
2022-07-2449 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being82. Solving Complex Problems with Out of the Box Approaches - More Learnings from A Physician Well-Being Think TankMany helpful well-being lessons can be learned from industries outside healthcare. Our second episode sharing insights from Jessie’s experience at the Mindful MD/Teravana Foundation's Think Tank on Physician Well-Being. Perspectives outside of medicine are integral to solving the complex problem of physician burnout and creating a sustainable practice of medicine in the United States. In this episode, we share what we can learn from artificial intelligence, the military, interior design, virtual reality, photo-journalism, yoga, art, and nature about how to bring more sustainability and wellness into the practice of medicine. I...
2022-07-0344 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being81. What Do We Do When Our Hearts Hurt - Responding Rather than Reacting to the Overturning of Roe v WadeMindfulness and thought work can help when we are faced with challenging and upsetting information and realities. Today we explore how they can help when we are faced with hard-to-fathom decisions, especially when those decisions impact us so personally. Thought work can help us respond buoyantly and purposefully to disappointment, disbelief, anger, and even rage. And many are feeling rage, anger, and violation today. If you are feeling upset, despondent, desperate, or exhausted you are not alone. Whatever you are feeling is valid and your truth. Naming it, and feeling it helps us allow and a...
2022-06-2628 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being79. Being Kind To Yourself is Better than Being NiceIs it possible to be too kind to yourself? Niceness and kindness are different. "Niceness stays quiet. Kindness speaks up. Niceness is toxic. Kindness is healing. Niceness lies to keep the peace. Kindness knows the only way to make peace is to tell the truth. Niceness holds back. Kindness moves forward with humility, gentleness, and grace." - Alison Yesterfelt Is it possible to be too kind to yourself? How can you be kind to yourself in this moment? ...
2022-06-1233 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being78. Parent from Abundance - An Invitation to Step Out of the Parenting “Rat Race”Tools to traverse common parenting stresses with mindfulness. Another episode in our Parent with Presence series. As a parent, you are not alone in potentially having a compare and despair mindset. You can learn to recognize your tendencies to feel like you aren't doing enough,“ to want to do more” and/or have your children “do more.” We encourage you to show up as a parent from a place of trust, abundance, and groundedness. We all want the best for our kids. Our worry comes from love. Every fami...
2022-06-0533 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being77. Navigating Intense Emotions in the Wake of TragedyWhat can you do when you feel rage, sadness, and overwhelm. frustration and grief in the face of incomprehensible tragedy? In response to the recent shootings, we offer help, compassion, and tools to find grounding and hope. We offer the important tools of allowing all your emotions without judgment and choosing to move forward with intention. It's possible to hold dualities in our experience, of sadness, grief, anger, and disbelief while also holding onto hope and making room for joy. This episode is infused with inspiring and hopeful quotes from Charles Mackesy's book Th...
2022-05-2929 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being74. Loving Awareness In Action - The Science of Social Justice with Dr. Sará KingIf you have a body, you deserve well-being Dr. Sará King joins us for a special episode. She is a mother, neuroscientist, political and learning scientist, medical anthropologist, social entrepreneur, public speaker, and certified yoga and meditation instructor. She is the Founder of MindHeart Consulting, an NIH postdoctoral fellow in Neurology at Oregon Health Science University (OHSU) in the Oregon Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Neurological Disorders, and she is a core team member of Mobius, a non-profit supporting compassion in technology. She is also the Director of Science and Community Engagement for the Em...
2022-05-1558 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being71. How To Be An Even Better MomParent with presence, peace and purpose. In honor of Mothers Day, we share our reflections from another year of “mothering.” We explore the option of approaching this role with mindfulness, love, attention and intention. And to consider approaching the mothering role with gratitude, awe, love, curiosity, and wonder. “Little did I know that in the end, you would be one of my greatest teachers. I love how life always gives us what we need most. And life gave me you."- Janet Archer, An Invitation to Pause Again. What have you done well as...
2022-05-0136 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being70. When Life Happens Don’t Resist the WindWhen life happens you get to choose how to respond. It’s ok not to know what to do and feel stuck. It’s ok not to feel wise. Connection, conversation, and reaching out for help helps. Sometimes life happens TO YOU, sometimes FOR YOU, and sometimes WITH YOU. Today’s episode is an open and honest conversation about "storms" in our own lives. You can be in the eye of the storm while it swirls all around you. No matter how many tools you have in your toolbox sometimes you get swept up in the swirl...
2022-04-2432 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being64. Change Your Relationship with Your BodyLearn how to start being kind to yourself, why you should choose to be on the same team as your body and how to make it happen. Learn to notice when you do yourself harm and how to start employing the loving, compassionate strategy of choosing to see yourself as others do. Join Jessie for a special solo cast on how to change your relationship with yourself and your body. "The biggest gift you can give yourself is to love yourself the way you wish someone else did." This is where yo...
2022-03-1342 minHealing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being58. Change Your Relationship with FoodMindful and intuitive eating can change your relationship with food to one that is healthier, kinder, more compassionate, and more enjoyable. In this episode, we invite you to consider no longer focusing on goals, weight, calories, and eating rules and instead enjoy the actual experience of food and eating. We introduce the options and benefits of both intuitive and mindful eating and we provide tips to help you practice both. Dr. Liang offers a mindful eating practice as the Mindful Moment offering. We will be exploring mindful eating at our Mindful Healers Retreat...
2022-01-3037 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being51. Mindful Gifting - What Would Love Gift?Mindfulness and intention are antidotes to consumerism, holiday excess, and overwhelm. In today's solo cast, Jessie explores her journey with Christmas over the years. More recently, she shares how mindfulness, intention, and mindful coaching have helped to decrease her holiday stress significantly. She offers the possibility that when you mindfully tap into the spirit of giving and let the pressure fall away—it's possible to find a renewed sense of joy. “We don't have to continue traditions that leave us broke, overwhelmed, and tired.”- Joshua Becker, minimalist living. Listen for tips on ma...
2021-12-1231 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being50. MilestonesMilestones often involve numbers, and they are a natural opportunity to pivot or to reflect. Your story around milestones determines your experience. Episode 50 of the podcast, is dedicated to discussing milestone events, including Jessie’s 50th birthday, Ni-Cheng’s 10-year cancerversary, and 40th birthday. We discuss how intention and mindfulness can bring about a richer, perhaps more meaningful experience. We invite you to pause, reflect, and appreciate what has been done and accomplished. We also discuss using milestones as a tool to bring about wanted change. Do you have a milestone coming up? It’s the p...
2021-12-0534 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being47. Mindful Self-Compassion- A Conversation with Kristin Neff Ph.D.“Just Try it” Kristin Neff Ph.D. is an internationally renowned self-compassion researcher and teacher, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, co-developer of the mindful self-compassion curriculum, and author of multiple books, Self Compassion- The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself and Fierce Self-Compassion. The purpose of self-compassion is to alleviate suffering. It does not have to be hard. It can be as simple as being a good friend to yourself. “The goal of practicing self-compassion is to be a compassio...
2021-11-1436 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being44. Why You Should RestRest is of paramount importance to continue to function at the highest level. When we deprive ourselves of rest, we can do harm. In today's episode, we discuss why rest is essential for a healthy mind, body, and spirit. The weekends are supposed to be a period of rest. In other cultures, the siesta for instance, is normalized as a daily rest period in the afternoon. Sleep is a physiologic period of rest. What if we prioritized sleep and rest? We provide some examples of periods of rest such as savasa...
2021-10-2432 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being43. How Mindfulness Can Help You Get More DoneBeing mindful can make you more productive. Time management is about managing your mind, focusing and managing your energy. It is often making a choice not to do things. Join us for an interactive conversation with special guest Dr. Serene Shereef, a trauma and acute care surgeon, and host of the Mindfulness and Productivity Systems Podcast. Take a listen to learn how mindfulness can be a productivity and time management tool. Leave with some practical tips about how you can incorporate mindfulness into your life. How do y...
2021-10-1739 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being42. Parent with Presence Instead of WorryMindfulness and intention helps you show up as the present parent you want to be. Showing up with fear, as a protector, and/or striving to be the best parent, even when it comes from loving space, limits our capacity for both giving and receiving love. When we show up with mindful intention, possibilities open up for expansive love and connection. Parenting is a long journey. One in which there are many seasons. It’s important to not get caught up in the importance of each moment along the way. When things don't go right, ch...
2021-10-1031 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being41. Connecting Despite DifferencesIn this episode we offer mindful tools and strategies when encountering those with different beliefs that help you connect despite differences. Exploration with curiosity is a mindful way for mutual understanding. Reminding you that differences are a normal and beautiful part of the human spectrum of experience. What’s your intention? What would Connection Do? What would Understanding do? How are you alike? We can treat others as we would want them to treat us, with respect, especially when there are differences in beliefs and opini...
2021-10-0328 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being39. Give Yourself PermissionYou are the utmost authority on your own life What is it ok to allow yourself or "approve" yourself to do? What rules do you have for yourself? Could you give yourself permission to be happy? Live an extraordinary life? Follow your authentic desires? Be yourself? Be different? Let others be themselves? Rest? Nourish yourself? In a world where there are so many external, and at times chaotic factors that are out of our...
2021-09-1930 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being38. Decisions Can Be SimpleDecisions are a fork in the road. A pivot. Do you always want to make the “best“ decision? Do you spend time, energy, and lots of angsty emotion weighing your options? Do you think the “best” decision is the one that has the "best" outcome? Do decisions torment you? Mindfulness creates a clear lens of the circumstances and the actual choices. It helps you recognize when excessive rumination is preventing a decision from being made and it allows you to recognize when a decision needs to be made. MIndful coac...
2021-09-1229 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being37. Getting Help HelpsGetting Help is a strength not a weakness. Getting help is an act of kindness for you, and for others. You can go farther, faster with help. Help helps you and helps you help others. “When have you been at your strongest?'' asked the boy ``When I dared to show my weakness.” “What is the bravest thing you have ever said?” “Help,” said the horse. “Asking for help isn't giving up, '' said the horse, '' it's refusing to give up. “ ...
2021-09-0532 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being36. Kindness Is The AnswerTitle 36. Kindness Is The Answer You are worth the same kindness you give to others. The current pandemic is a radical opportunity to choose to show up with kindness- for ourselves and others. From a place of kindness to self, so much more is possible. Being kind to yourself is kind and is so much better than being mean to yourself. True kindness to self always ultimately leads to more efficiency, productivity, and possibility. Your relationship with yourself is your most important relationship. It impacts all of y...
2021-08-2929 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being32. Time is AbundantTime is one of our most precious commodities and we can choose how to spend it. In today’s episode, we reflect upon our relationship with time and provide ideas to change it for the better. Using a mindful lens to reflect upon time provides spaciousness. It helps you make intentional shifts so you can do more of what it is you want to be doing. Time passes no matter what. Time scarcity is a stressor for many. We often judge how we use our time. Can we instead see time as an opportunity...
2021-08-0120 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being31. Why Intentions Are Better Than GoalsToday we share the magic of intentions and how this “mindful” approach to living helps you get closer to living the life you want to be living. Intentions can help you achieve your goals with more ease. They bring a different energy and vibrational frequency to our lives than when we focus on a goal. Intentions are light posts. They tell you where to focus your energy. An intention is something you want to amplify or cultivate. They are focused on the present, are about relationships, and are not focused on outcomes. Having both go...
2021-07-2531 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being29. Building A Mindful ScaffoldMindfulness can be a learned way of being that creates spaciousness in a healer’s life. In this episode we share the concept of building a scaffold of mindfulness as taught in Dr. Liang’s Mindful Physician course. From her journey through her own burnout and cancer experience, she could not wait for the system to change. Her suffering became a catalyst for practicing and teaching mindfulness as a way to build her own “mindful scaffold of support.” Reflection Questions offered in this episode: What could the practice of medicine feel like if you had a scaf...
2021-07-1133 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being27. Owning Your Story As A Heroine’s JourneyThis special interview with Dr. Yvonne Ator was recorded on Juneteenth. The first time it was recognized as a federal holiday. Dr. Ator shares her story of how her mission-driven work manifested into her heroine’s journey, her poignant thoughts about Juneteenth, and provides some gold nuggets of wisdom from her vast expertise in coaching. She also shares with listeners how she has meditated for over 2200 consecutive days in a row. Dr. Yvonne Ator, is a personal and executive coach for mission-driven physicians. She is a Certified Facilitator of the Daring Way and Dare To Lead...
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Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being25. Nourish Yourself: The Secret Sauce To A Life Better LivedNourishment is a prerequisite for transformation and a life better lived. There are many ways to nourish yourself beyond food. Today Jessie is joined by a special guest, Dr Anne Kennard. Dr Kennard is Board-Certified in ObGyn, Integrative Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine and is an herbalist and a yoga teacher. We discuss the art of nourishing oneself with unscheduled time and white space. We discuss minimalism, nature, and sunshine as forms of nourishment for all the senses. We touch on coaching, yoga, ayurveda, mindfulness, and the importance of human touch and social connection. Teas and herbs and s...
2021-06-1341 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being24. Choose How You Spend Your Time & EnergyIn today's episode we talk about mindful and strategic approaches to emerging from the pandemic. This moment in time is an opportunity to be intentional about where you spend your time and energy, knowing that being busy isn’t better, less can be more. This moment is an opportunity to prune, consume less, and enjoy more stillness, quiet, and time to “be.” Just because something has “come back” doesn't mean you have to partake. It is time to tap into your values and alignment and make decisions with those top of mind. You can give yourself permi...
2021-06-0635 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being19. A Mother's Day GiftMother’s Day is not always rainbows and joy. When you approach the day with mindfulness and intention, it’s possible to experience beauty, connection, love, and a day you will remember with fondness- no matter what transpires. To help you prepare for an enjoyable Mother’s Day, we share several strategies and approaches, all grounded in mindfulness, to help you find joy and presence, whether you are a mother or not. These strategies also help on other significant “life days” such as holidays and birthdays. Curiosity helps. Asking yourself “How interesting…” when the day unfolds differentl...
2021-05-0234 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being18. What Would Love Do?Today’s episode is the first in a series on “Mindful Love” “We are not held back by the love we did not receive in the past but by the love we are not extending in the present.” Extend maximal love to both yourself and others by asking yourself “What would love do”? When you are feeling stuck, confused, frustrated, and resentful, ask yourself “What would love do?” Asking what love would do helps you create more connection, peace, and love in your life. Asking what love would do fosters kindness, curio...
2021-04-2535 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being14. We Are Just Getting Started: Celebrating the Women Physician Leaders Behind The Mindful Healthcare CollectiveThe more you give the more you receive. In honor of National Physician’s Week and the one-year anniversary of the Mindful Healthcare Collective, this episode is both a celebration and a chance to learn. One year ago, the Mindful Healthcare Collective was formed urgently at the outset of the pandemic to support those working in healthcare through this tragically difficult time. Over the past year, it has blossomed into so much more. The Mindful Healthcare Collective is now a vibrant community of over 2100 healthcare professionals from across the country and the world who are comin...
2021-03-2842 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being03. Jessie’s Story: Healing with IntentionJessie Mahoney is a pediatrician, mindful life coach, yoga instructor, physician wellness leader, and co-host of The Mindful Healers Podcast. So many of you are wanting to find peace, calm, contentment, and clarity in your lives. This podcast was created to help you bring more pause and presence into your lives and relationships. Jessie shares her journey finding these tools and how she currently makes it her life’s work as a mindful coach to share them with others. Jessie started medical school with a love of learning and science. She was committed to becoming a ped...
2021-01-1029 min
Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being00. Pause and Be PresentWelcome to the Mindful Healers Podcast with Dr. Jessie Mahoney and Dr. N-Cheng Liang. We are here to help you learn to pause and be present, awaken your breath, and harness the ripple effects of mindfulness for radiant health. We get you. We know you. We were you. We have both been successful on the surface yet struggling underneath. We have both had cluttered brains, been overwhelmed, and exhausted. We are healers who have found solutions and want to share them with you. There is a better...
2020-11-2903 min