Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being

Mindfulness helps you both create and enjoy more intimacy and connection Mindfulness and intention can help you solve intimacy and sex "challenges", struggles, conflicts and feelings of inadequacy. When you bring MF to intimacy and sex its possible find more connection, pleasure, peace and ease around this topic in your own relationship Connection, intimacy and sex relieve stress, are healing, and...

Life as a parent can be overwhelming.  You are not alone in having moments when it feels like a lot or too much.   Mindfulness and self-compassion offer relief in navigating the difficult patches.     We are all more than capable of encountering whatever is happening in life, even when it feels overwhelming. And asking for help, resting, and connecting helps ease our way through the rough patches....

Rest 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 p...

Being 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...

Mindfulness 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 ar...

In 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 a...

In today's episode, Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang interviews special guest, Dr. Steven Hickman, psychologist, internationally renowned mindfulness and mindful self-compassion teacher, and now author of his new book, Self-Compassion for Dummies . Steve is the Founding Executive Director of the UCSD Center for Mindfulness and is the Executive Director of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion.  The definitions...

You 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...

Decisions 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...

Getting 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 th...

Title 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,...

If you are feeling "not ok" right now, you are not alone.  In this episode, as the pandemic surges yet again, and tragedies are unfolding around the world, we invite you to pause and name what you are feeling. Naming emotions, especially difficult ones, is a tool to disarm the amygdala and soften the edges of difficulty.  Some other strategies to potentially help ease the struggle: Pause and be pr...

Relationships, when someone is struggling with their mental health, can be amazing and full of love.  When we change how we show up for them it can create space for the relationship to heal and even bloom. There are very real challenges when you love someone who struggles with their mental health.  If you are in this situation, you are not alone.    Mental health struggles are part of being human....

Joy is within you but it requires mindfulness and presence to find it.   Allowing, finding, and creating joy is a gift to yourself and others.     "The ultimate source of a meaningful life is within ourselves.  If you live in this way, until your last breath comes you will be a happy person.  That's the goal of human life-- to live with joy and purpose." - His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Book of...

Time 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...

Today 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...

When you intentionally take a pause to attend to mind, body, and spirit - all at the same time- it's powerful medicine.  Taking time for yourself to experience a fully nurturing immersion experience shifts your perspective.  Building in respite for ourselves is a necessity for a happy, healthy human existence.  Don't hesitate.  You are worth it Health doesn't just come from medicine- it comes from...

Mindfulness 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 a...

There is discomfort where you are and where you are going.  Resisting it makes it more uncomfortable.  Don't let discomfort get in your way.   Don't shy away from it.  Accept and allow it,  even expect it, so it moves through you more quickly.  Use discomfort as a message to be mindful, pause and be present with it, and then move forward with purposeful intention. We usually have no problem notici...

This 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...

Because we want the best for our children and we have smart brains that are trained specifically to think in certain ways- we often encounter a fair amount of conflict around this topic.    "What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it is supposed to be." Mindfulness and coaching tools can help you traverse the journey of co-parenting more easily and show up with peace, calm...

Nourishment 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 discu...

In 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"...

Experiencing delight is one of life's joys, and is part of living into a variety of experiences.   We can choose to live a light hearted life, and learn and practice experiencing delight while also knowing life won't all be fun and isn't supposed to be.   "You need the darkness to see the light, the light to understand the darkness." Delight is a counter balance to difficulty and part of full spec...

In today's episode, we share our stories of mindful entrepreneurship and the success and pleasure that can come when you apply pause and presence to business and personal growth.  Key learnings and wisdom in this episode: It's ok to do more of what you love and get paid doing it.  If it doesn't feel right,  turn inwards and ask yourself why? Curious introspection can help serve as your own authent...