Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being

The intention of this episode is to help moms all over the world tap into their innate capacity for mindfulness and intention as a key parenting and personal nourishment tool.   We hope to help moms rest in the trust of their instincts and abilities as a mother, and be intentional about how they want to show up for themselves and their children. Mindfulness, by its very definition, leads us to be...

Mindfulness can help guide us and ground us through this most intimate of life's relationships.  Love isn't always harmonious and it doesn't always feel good. In this episode, we explore the idea of choice and showing up with mindful intention rather than expectation.  We share how it's possible to hold dualities and allow your mom to be who and how she is. It's possible to not necessarily like so...

Mother'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 a...

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 hel...

In today's episode, Dr. Liang shares her first-hand experience of Anti-Asian racism and microaggressions, helping to bring awareness to the fact that there has been a 149% increase in Asian American Pacific Islander hate crimes reported in 16 major cities in the US over this past year.  Dr. Liang shares how mindfulness can be used to choose constructive responses in the face of racism all while ho...

There is a deep longing in our country to be able to show up differently for our stuff and our lives and to make changes.  And it feels very hard to do so.  In this episode, we share how mindfulness is a key component to success.  And how minimalism is a state of mind, a mindset. Mindful minimalism requires you to pause and be present, notice and be aware, and move forward with intention and witho...

Allowing yourself to shine is a gift -to yourself and others. We hope this episode inspires those of you who may be "staying small" to show up more fully and bloom. "you too have come into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine."- Mary Oliver We share how there is strength in choosing to bloom, right where you are and that leaning into vulnerability helps you grow,...

The 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 yea...

In this episode we normalize and call out the idea of pre-anticipatory anxiety and worry--  whether it is "Scanxiety" about an upcoming cancer surveillance scan, stress about what might transpire during a hospital call, or something else. This episode applies to EVERYONE because worry and anxiety are part of life.  We share how you have a choice in how you experience uncertainty.  You can choose t...

Buoyancy is a word and a concept that you can use to change your life experience.  In this episode we share how you can use words and language to change and/or color your life experiences in ways that serve you, while staying true to your experience.   Buoyancy is a tool that can help you navigate storms and choppy seas.  It is different from resilience and it is different from floating.   It is a...

"Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it is about unbecoming everything that isn't you so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place."- anonymous Learning to unbecome is not a journey with a destination in mind. It is a constant change that we notice over time.  Life is not a self-improvement project. It is about being, and sometimes, evolving and growing.  "U...

Mindfulness is available to anyone, anytime, anywhere. Mindfulness is a skill that is innately in us as human beings. Mindfulness is oftentimes introduced as a "tool." In actuality, it is an intentionally created lifestyle that can seep into all the nooks and crannies of your life- if you practice it and if you let it.  Choosing to live a mindful life takes practice, learning, AND un-learning. Min...

Episode 09: Yoga as Medicine – Healing Your Body and Mind On and Off the Mat Yoga is not about being able to do a headstand . It's not about achievement, mastering a perfect pose, or even the aesthetics of a beautiful yoga studio. Yoga is about healing, nourishment, learning, compassion, and growth . It is about showing up for yourself , wherever you are, and using movement, breath, and presence t...

How can you make your marriage more amazing?  Decide it's amazing by approaching it mindfully and learning mindset tools. Mindfulness and intention are powerful tools to help strengthen and grow loving intimate relationships.  These tools help whether your relationship is struggling or is feeling good. Connected relationships are a pillar of health.   Weak connections and stressful relationships a...

Our brains are hardwired to pay attention to negative events much more than positive events. Having a way to live with stress is so important. Protecting time to practice mindfulness and having mindset tools are effective ways to manage stress inclusive of COVID-19 related stressors.   The pandemic has introduced a new level of stress for so many people.  In this episode Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang shares...

Down days are part of the tapestry of life.  It's a universal part of being human. Oftentimes, we try to ignore or resist the negative feelings we get on these days. Everyone has them.  Being mindful- noticing, with curiosity and without judgement, helps you move through a down day with skill.  Down days can be opportunities to open our hearts and have compassion for ourselves.  In this episode we...

We take a hippocratic oath to do no harm as physicians. However, we often forget that this oath also includes doing no harm to ourselves.  In this episode, we discuss how self-compassion is key to both reaching our full potential as healers and preventing burnout. We focus so often on not being perfect and many healers beat themselves up for small mistakes.  It turns out that this strategy and in...

When you engage in both mindfulness and mindset coaching simultaneously, the effects are magical.  The resultant transformation is usually much bigger and faster than with either tool alone.  In this episode, we share our experiences with the magic and synergy of using these tools together.  The definition of mindfulness is paying attention on purpose to the present moment without judgment.  Mindf...

Jessie 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...

Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang is an adult pulmonologist, mother, wife, and a cancer survivor.  She shares her story about how she was given the devastating news.  Fear and uncertainty led to learning about mindfulness. She acknowledges that cancer was her teacher. Mindfulness helped anchor herself into the present moment, while accepting and allowing the inevitable unknowns with surviving cancer.  Important...

In this introductory episode, we share the story of our meeting during our journey to Bora Bora, and what that journey ultimately led to. After listening to this episode, our hope is that you see how incredible the mindfulness space is, you recognize the power of the pause, the magic of presence, and the possibilities available through mindful and intentional living.  Join other physicians and hea...

Welcome 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 exhaust...