Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being

What 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 challen...

Life lessons from the out breath. The exhale shines and spotlights many life lessons. The exhale is passive– the diaphragm relaxes in order to come back to a neutral position to push out the air from our lungs similar to our heart's diastolic cycle- the relaxation allows the heart to nourish and feed itself. The out breath is a reminder of the many circumstances that you can simply let happen for...

Having human expectations of humans is healthy.  This episode invites you to notice where your expectations of yourself and others may be unrealistic, unhealthy, and maybe even harmful.  Having human expectations of ourselves is healthy, healing, and an act of compassion. Humans struggle.  Humans are messy and perfectly imperfect.    Having human expectations of yourself is a powerful act of self-...

Experience 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.  C...

Hard is not more valuable. Struggle is not more worthwhile. Busy is not better. Recorded on Labor Day, we discuss how the culture of hard, busy, and struggle impede us from living our best, most authentic lives.  When you stop valuing being busy and you choose to drop your resistance to the world, you discover flow.   High-achieving women often feel that the fight is needed, that it's our job to s...

If 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: W...

Launching 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 wou...

Dance 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. Lea...

Good 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...

Who Am I Too…? We invite you to join us in exploring where this thought comes up in your life. What limiting beliefs do you have and how do they show up in your life? Becoming aware of our limiting beliefs, and their origins, and then holding them with mindfulness and self-compassion allows us to meet them, integrate them, change them, or be rid of them. We share recent experiences where our own l...

Blending wellness and interior design. A conversation about the intersection of beauty, space, nature, health, and healing.  Where do you find wholeness and sanctuary? What is an Optimal Healing Environment? How can you design a responsible space?   What makes a healing and healthy space for you? How can you bring curiosity into your life and work through intentional design?  How can you enhance c...

A 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 t...

Delight is NOT decadent. It is sustenance. When we honor diastole, we honor ourselves. Honoring diastole is healing for our own hearts. A necessary, but often neglected, action for healers. Today's episode includes a special guest, Dr. Gail Wright, a pediatric cardiologist, a disciple of Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, mindfulness teacher, and founder of Redwood Resilience. She also happens to be Jessie's...

We encourage you to opt-out of a life of urgency. Urgency and busyness are the norm and even celebrated in our culture, but hustle and bustle have a cost. You get to choose when urgency is truly urgent.   "It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol."- Brene Brown Our default is to create space and then recreate busy. We are uncomfortable w...

Many 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 epi...

Mindfulness 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...

Learning from a Physician Well-Being Think Tank. Part 1. Gratitude to the Teravana Foundation and Mindful MD for hosting the think tank "experience." Well-Being is a global issue. Today we discuss the parallel pandemic -- un-wellness and lack of well-being. Specifically physician well-being.  The vision of physicians as superheroes can actually cause harm. Physicians and nurses are humans and ther...

Is 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...

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...

What 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...

Mindfulness is an antidote to loneliness whether practiced alone or in community.   When mindfulness is practiced in community, the benefits are even greater. Awaken together. Heal together. Play and be together.    Community, even without mindfulness, is healing and energizing. Being together is MAGIC.   "We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness."  "Being with friends is never doin...

If 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 Or...

Mindfulness and intention are helpful in mother relationships. In this episode, we explore the idea of choice and showing up with mindful intention rather than expectation in your relationship with your mother. It's possible to hold dualities and allow your mom to be who and how she is and you to be who and how you are. It's possible to not necessarily like some aspects of your relationship with y...

May is mental health awareness month. In honor of Mother's Day, we share our personal mental health stories as women and mothers. We talk about depression, suicidal ideation, post-partum OCD, ADHD, and substance abuse, all with the hope of decreasing stigma. Our special guest  is Dr. Megan Galaske, mom, pediatrician, Co-Founder and CMO of Trace, a menstrual care company, energy healer, coach, myst...

A re-release of last year's pre-Mothers Day episode.  Tips to enjoy your Mother's Day to the fullest. Mother's Day is not always rainbows and joy.  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. When you approach t...