The Other Human in the Room

Sign up for THIS week's free Capacity Check-Up workshop here (March 6, 2024): https://www.joanchanmd.com/capacity How often do you find yourself stressing about which option is the Right Answer? This podcast is my best response to that impossible question. Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠

Sign up for next week's free Capacity Check-Up workshop here: https://www.joanchanmd.com/capacity How is your life reflecting and honouring your body & mind's capacity? In this episode I share an update on my year-long experiment with scheduling my life UNDER my maximum capacity - and the suprising results. Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠

The spring cohort of Interconnected is open for applications now! We start March 20. Apply here: https://www.joanchanmd.com/interconnected How often have you thought to yourself "I don't even know what I want"? This is so common, especially for those of us socialized inside the self-abdandoning norms of healthcare culture. In this week's episode I describe what it can look like t...

The spring cohort of Interconnected is open for applications now! We start March 20. Apply here: https://www.joanchanmd.com/interconnected Have you noticed how often the things that feel most painful and anxiety-provoking are threats to your sense of belonging? How can we start to create a more authentic sense of belonging for ourselves and each other? Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠ https://ww...

The spring cohort of Interconnected is open for applications now! We start March 20. Apply here: https://www.joanchanmd.com/interconnected Dr Roxanne Cooper is the kind of funny, creative, and insightful physician that our system needs. In this episode she shares the dehumanizing impact of medical training and culture over her years of practicing family medicine as a solo practitioner in Newfoundl...

I am so grateful to know Dr Caroline Bowman! In this episode she shares her journey through diagnosis of multiple sclerosis while working as a family physician, and what this experience has revealed to her about healthcare and humanity along the way. Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠ Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠...

When was the last time you actually allowed yourself to experience a moment of pleasure at work? For most of us, our lives are too busy and stressful and overwhelming to even notice if something lovely happens in the midst of the chaos. In this week’s episode, I dive further into the practical ways we can practice Pleasure Activism in our work. I give lots of powerful insight’s from adrienne maree...

For most of us in healthcare, intentionally doing things for pleasure feels wasteful or even wrong - but what if finding a way to feel good is actually the key to rehumanizing ourselves and our healthcare system as a whole? In this episode, I share some specific pleasure practices I have been enjoying recently, as well as introducing the concept of pleasure activism. Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagra...

How much time does your brain spending trying to figure out who to blame and how to avoid being in a position of being blamed? We all live and work in a very blame-heavy culture, and it can be a major barrier to us actually facing and learning from our mistakes. In this podcast I explore a simple but powerful reflective exercise that can shift our approach from blame to accountability, and actuall...

When we're feeling really tired, overwhelmed, burned out it can be hard to imagine a way for our lives to feel better. In this New Year's episode I ofter a simple but powerful exercise to connect with our future selves and gain some insight and inspiration for inviting change in this new year. I also share my own future self's vision for myself and for healthcare as a whole. Connect wi...

Wishing you happy holidays and a happy new year (plus sharing a poem about trees) Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠ Last call to use the code DEC23 to get 50% off the Restoring Your Time Course: https://joanchanmd.thinkific.com/courses/restore-your-time (offer expired Dec 31, 2023)

Another bonus episode recorded on Joan's commute to work! This one was inspired around the theme of "noncompliance". P.S. It's time to create space for you! Use the code DEC23 to get 50% off the Restoring Your Time Course: https://joanchanmd.thinkific.com/courses/restore-your-time (offer expired Dec 31, 2023)

How do you react when you learn a patient has been harmed under your care? This can be a really challenging experience for most of us who work in healthcare ... and it's an inevitable one. In this week's podcast I share strategies to reduce harm - not only to patients...but to ourselves. Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠ P.S. It's time to create...

How many weeks have you been alive? Does knowing that the average human gets around 4000 weeks to live on this earth change anything about your priorities? This week I am sharing some of my favourite passages from the book Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman and applying them to our work inside of healthcare. Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠ P.S. It's...

The number of amazing healthcare humans I've met through TikTok (of all places) continues to grow! I really enjoyed this candid conversation with Dr Willough Jenkins about making space for her humanity in her work as a child psychiatrist, and how that space has lead her many interesting places including social media. Willough's contact info: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drwilloughjenkin...

Do you ever feel guilty for having a particular emotion in a room with a patient? Then this episode is for you. Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠ P.S. You are invited to Joan's latest upcoming workshop Getting Curious About Chronic Pain on Tuesday November 28 at 8pm EST. Register here: ⁠ https://www.joanchanmd.com/workshops⁠

This week's topic is potentially controversial: interrupting our patients. What if interrupting our patients can actually be a good thing? Link to study referenced in the podcast: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9512556/ Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠ P.S. You are invited to Joan's latest upcoming workshop Getting Curious About Chroni...

What a nourishing and inspiring conversation with Dr Matt Chellew - ER physician and somatic experiencing practitioner. I love connecting with other humans in healthcare who are sharing what has helped them rehumanize their work - and Matt was no exception. Listen in to his journey from burnout to thriving, and how it helped him navigate emergency medicine during the pandemic, and learn to reconne...

It's always a pleasure to talk chronic pain, bodies and nervous systems with chronic pain coach Deb Malkin! This time, we're diving deep on CURIOSITY. What is it? What does it feel like? And how does it help humans living with chronic pain? You are invited to our upcoming workshop Getting Curious About Chronic Pain on Tuesday November 28 at 8pm EST. Register here: https://www.joanchanmd.co...

When you consider setting boundaries or reducing your workload to honour your capacity, does your brain tell you that you’d have to “care less” in order to follow through? Have you ever asked yourself WHAT you are supposed to care less about? Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠ ⁠joanchanmd.com/courses⁠⁠ Connect with me on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.c...

It's cold, flu & COVID season where I'm working right now - and that's got me thinking about surge capacity. Does your schedule and life have space for times of increased demand? What is your surge capacity? You are invited to the Body to Body Medicine Workshop happening TOMORROW Tuesday October 24 at 8pm EST! Register here: ⁠https://jamieleefinch.com/bodytobody⁠ Want to take this...

What do you love about being on call? What do you hate? What if you have more power than you think to change what you hate, and invite in what you love? You are invited to the Body to Body Medicine Workshop happening Tuesday October 24 at 8pm EST! Register here: https://jamieleefinch.com/bodytobody Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠ ⁠joanchanmd.com/courses...

For anyone who needs a space to grieve this week

You are invited to the Body to Body Medicine Workshop happening Tuesday October 24 at 8pm EST! Register here: https://jamieleefinch.com/bodytobody Jamie's Info: email: hello@jamieleefinch.com website & course: https://jamieleefinch.com/ facilitation application: https://forms.gle/rSWR1j2q1inLrMw9A instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamieleefinch/ Joan's Info: website: joanchanmd.com...

What percentage of your day do you spend rushing? How do you feel as when you rush? What do you think might happen if you tried to intentionally slow down? Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠ ⁠joanchanmd.com/courses⁠⁠ Connect with me on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/