Healing Medicine: Mindfulness, Mindset & Physician Well-Being

Mothers-in-law have a bad reputation. This episode is an invitation to change that.  Mother-in-law relationships are charged because there is so much love all around.   They love their son or daughter and you love their son or daughter.   Choosing an intention for this relationship is a powerful practice. You can choose to show up deliberately with love, kindness, neutrality, connection, or openne...

Cooking 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. Mar...

Hyper independence and over-responsibility are common in high-achieving women, especially women physicians.  These attributes are cultivated and praised in medical training and in many cultures. They continue on driven by a fear of failure, inadequacy, and/or bad outcomes.  They may have been expected and needed initially but they are also not sustainable. They cause isolation, burnout, exhaustion...

​ The Mindful Healers Podcast ​ 118. Self-Sacrifice and Martyrdom Should Not Be Glorified ​ Published on February 5, 2023   Self-sacrifice and martyrdom are glorified in medical training. They help us get through our training but  have high, unappreciated costs for the rest of our lives. This podcast is a compassionate and loving invitation to consider changing your relationship with self-sacrific...

Bigger 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 no...

Mindfulness 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...

Inspired by a mindfulness exercise Dr. Liang led at the Mindful Healers Connect in Nature Retreat. A solocast exploring how lines may show up in our lives, and where it may benefit us to color outside the lines, remove or have no lines.    Ni-Cheng shares how lines have shown up in her life, identity, and roles, and where mindfulness, self-compassion, and playful curiosity have helped in changing...

The words we choose matter.   What if we modeled healthy, intentionally healing, and loving language in hospitals and medical environments? What words would healing use? What if we opted out of language that creates fear, scarcity, and wartime energy in medical settings?  What if we began using words that embody positive, hopeful, helpful, and healing energy? Choosing words with intention is a pow...

Lessons from a successful coaching journey. "Coaching is doable, available to everyone, and life-changing." It takes time, but when it becomes a part of you – it results in magic .   "I now navigate my days from a more lighthearted, simple, and spacious spot. I see and know magic and the adventure continues."     This is a special guest episode with Karen, one of Jessie's coaching clients.  Karen...

Effective physician wellness goes well beyond an oxygen mask. Oxygen masks are needed in depressurized planes in the midst of a crisis. If you are in crisis- please do start with an oxygen mask.  And then acknowledge that this is just the first step. Oxygen masks are NOT a strategy for sustainable living.  They are NOT a strategy for happiness and health.  They are NOT the path to love, purpose, p...

Setting intentions is much more effective as a New Year tradition than making a resolution. It is a mindful practice that has a powerful impact on your life experience. There is no exact right way to set intentions. The act of setting them is where the magic is.  Intentions direct your attention and focus in a specific direction. They are a way of calling out a quality or virtue that you want to c...

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 gr...

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-co...

A conversation about the value of wellness retreats with Dr. Liz Treynor. Understand why retreat are not luxurious or indulgent but are "responsible." Learn what is special about Nourish & Transform, Connect in Nature and Honoring Diastole. Learn why you shouldn't miss out on any of them and why Liz will be returning for more retreats in 2023. Hear some of the actionable, implementable, and effect...

People pleasing and fear of rejection are normal human emotions.  Mindfulness and self-compassion are the key to coming back home to yourself.  What is people pleasing? Doing whatever it takes to make other people happy and putting others' needs ahead of your own- even when it causes you harm. People pleasers are often seen as agreeable, helpful, kind, and highly attuned to others. Underneath peop...

Finding and maintaining deep connections and friendships is challenging for most high-achieving professional women. If you have difficulties making friends, you are not alone. No matter your age and life stage, it's possible to make new and meaningful connections and friends. In this episode, we discuss a few common thought errors that make friendships harder to find and navigate. Thoughts about n...

"Loving amusement" is a "feeling" that can help you create ease in challenging relationships. Listen to find out how to use this fun tool to create connection and more ease in your life. There is also much to be learned from loving yourself enough to engage in amusement. How might choosing amusement for yourself help you and the others around you? Join us at the Mindful Healthcare Collective if yo...

A cyber Monday re-release of last year's mindful gifting episode What would love gift? Mindfulness, coaching and intention are antidotes to consumerism, holiday excess, and overwhelm.  These tools can help you decrease holiday stress significantly. Gift-giving is an opportunity to reflect on and honor your relationships and your intentions for them.   "We don't have to continue traditions that lea...

A re-release of last year's pre-Thanksgiving episode. Holidays often bring up stress and family drama. We hope this episode helps you find more calm, peace, and joy no matter your life or family situation. Setting a mindful intention helps you respond and not react, even in the midst of holiday chaos and family drama. Having as few expectations as possible lessens disappointment and allows for cur...

Manure 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 freedo...

Inspired by fall back and the impending transition from fall to winter.     In our harried technology-filled lives of the 21st century, our schedules create extra hours of light and artificially lengthen activity, even when the earth's natural rotation and orbit around the sun changes the duration of natural daylight hours.    Animals instinctually change with the seasons. It's  built into their D...

The world will not fall apart if you follow your heart. This podcast came about because we followed our hearts.  Its existence required that we quit and declutter other less aligned roles. The word "quit" can be triggering because of the commonly held association between quitting and failure and weakness. Quitting also often brings up guilt. You can decide you are "transitioning", "graduating", an...

Did 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...

What 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 noth...

Learn to navigate jealousy.   Jealousy does not have to be a problem. It can be a teacher. Until coaching, I saw jealousy through the lens of scarcity and inadequacy and fear. Jealousy is an emotion that sheds light on the things you are interested in, like, want, or are important to you.​It doesn't mean you need something different to be content or that you lack something. Jealousy helps you set...