Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being

Parent 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...

When 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 a...

In this special solocast with Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang, she shares the definition of loving-kindness otherwise known as metta. Inspired by the work of world renown meditation teacher, Sharon Salzberg, she discusses the components of loving kindness as encompassing compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. Ni-Cheng shares her story of how she came to loving-kindness practice and how she practices it d...

How and why mindfulness works. It's not woo woo. There is lots of science to support its impact. Our brain is capable of change.  Mindfulness is the path.  We welcome back Dr. Ellen Cooke, radiation oncologist, mindfulness teacher and Founder of the Circle of Hope. She shares literature covering benefits of mindfulness on hormonal regulation, neurofeedback, and epigenetics – especially amongst can...

Teens need mindfulness more than ever right now. Today's episode includes a special guest Dr. Dzung Vo, who is a pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine, He is Founding Director of the BC Children's Hospital Centre for Mindfulness, and a clinical associate professor and division head for the Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. He is author of The Mindful...

What's your money narrative? A conversation with special guest Erin Gray, a former certified financial planner and pharmacy tech, who is now a life coach and adventurer. Erin is also a mom, wife, daughter, and traveler.  In this episode we encourage you to mindfully notice your relationship with money, and if there are any aspects of it that need compassion, understanding and love, to offer yourse...

Our job as parents is to love our children not "fix them."  Not fixing our kids is an act of love - for ourselves and for them.    Trying to fix them is to help us feel better not them. It's hard to watch your children suffer and struggle, yet it is necessary for their growth and development into healthy and responsible humans. Struggling and suffering to some degree is how we all learn how to sol...

Learn 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 ca...

Mindfulness and intention can change your family life for the better. Today's episode explores how they can help to both bring in experiential learning and broaden your lived experiences.  A conversation with a special guest, Dr. Ellen Cooke, a radiation oncologist, founder of the Circle of Hope and a mindfulness teacher.  If you have been looking for ways to bring mindfulness into your own family...

Exercise is one of the most beneficial and powerful medicines we have! And yet so many still struggle with making it a habit.  Exercise can be fun, play, and an act of love.  It's possible to let go of exercise as a should, and a duty.  We discuss new ways to think and feel about exercise that don't include motivation, shame, and guilt.  We hope to inspire you to develop a healthier, perhaps more...

Choose to stop rushing as a parent and rediscover joy. Savor every moment. Being present in the moment, whatever age and stage it is, is where the magic is.   Mindfulness magnifies parenting's inherent joys and helps us not miss the beauty right in front of us.   In today's episode, we offer the opportunity to stop engaging in mental time travel with our children.   We offer the possibility of no...

An open, honest, and entirely unscripted conversation about how self compassion can be practiced in the moment.  We share our experiences of a recent major pre-planned event that did not go as expected due to circumstances beyond anyone's control.   We share how self-compassion can be used in the moment when shame, embarrassment, anxiety show up.  We also explore how when we see someone else in a...

Taking care of yourself well is an act of kindness and self-love.  This is the first episode in our series on Mindful Love. Choosing not to suffer or struggle unnecessarily is an option. Even in a world where suffering is often felt to be of value. Suffering is suffering. Less of it is better. We are all worthy of love, kindness, and compassion.   We offer the possibility of caring for yourself ra...

Mindful 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 t...

Nature is healing and as such can be viewed as a form of medicine. Nature and mindfulness are synergistic.  So many of us lack exposure to nature in our lives.  Disconnection from nature has become the norm.  Almost all our children also enjoy much less time in nature than we did as children.  Lack of time spent in nature has a negative impact on all our well-being. Nature has both social and phys...

Mindfulness helps to ease life transitions, especially menopause. Allowing and accepting, honoring, and feeling through your experience of menopause is a healthy way to traverse this inevitable stage of life.  Today we share another mindful guest conversation - with Dr. Keira Bar, a dual board-certified dermatologist and menopause specialist. Maybe menopause doesn't have to be challenging, bad, or...

Setting intentions is a mindful practice that provides tremendous growth and has a powerful impact on your life experience.  It is much more effective as a New Year tradition than making a resolution. Take a listen to hear about our intentions for 2022 and tips and pitfalls for intention setting.  As we share in the episode, there  is no exact right way to set intentions.  The act of setting them...

Happy birthday to the podcast!   R eflections on our journey co-hosting the Mindful Healers Podcast. We call out the common discomfort many of us have about sharing successes and wins with others and the guilt that can sometimes creep in during celebrations.   We practice having fun with celebrations, share the story and some new sounds of the infamous Mindful Healers Podcast singing bowl, and we...

A "hard reset" is when ctrl-alt-del happens in life.  It very often feels "negative" but when the experience is approached with mindfulness and curiosity there is more comfort in the discomfort. And it can even be viewed as an opportunity.   In today's episode normalize the challenges surrounding resets and how mindfulness can be used to both notice when a reset might need to occur and help you ge...

Playing is not a waste of time. It is often interpreted as frivolous but it is actually an important source of both relaxation and stimulation for adults and children alike. Today we talk with special guest Dr. Brooke Buckley, CMO of Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital, about the importance of play at all ages.  Playing is a stress reliever and it brings joy. It offers oodles of health benefits, is a pr...

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 pre...

Milestones 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 meaningf...

If charting is taking over your evenings, weekends, and mental space, this episode is for you. Dr. Jessie Mahoney — board-certified pediatrician, physician coach, and former physician wellness leader at Kaiser Permanente — shares a mindful, sustainable approach to clinical documentation that doesn't require working faster, working later, or another productivity hack. Most charting advice for docto...

Holidays often bring up stress and family drama.  Today we share mindfulness and mindset tools to help you find more calm, peace, and joy during the holidays Setting a mindful intention helps guide you to respond and not react, even in the midst of the chaos. Having as few expectations as possible lessens disappointment and allows for opportunity and curiosity.  Setting yourself up for success is...

"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 t...