The Other Human in the Room

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Go to joanchanmd.com/course for the written version of this course to be sent directly to your email inbox.   Interested in working with Joan to apply these concepts to your work in healthcare? Visit joanchanmd.com/stop to apply now.

Go to joanchanmd.com/course for the written version of this course to be sent directly to your email inbox.   Interested in working with Joan to apply these concepts to your work in healthcare? Visit joanchanmd.com/stop to apply now.

Go to joanchanmd.com/course for the written version of this course to be sent directly to your email inbox.   Interested in working with Joan to apply these concepts to your work in healthcare? Visit joanchanmd.com/stop to apply now.

Join Joan on her commute to work as she talks about her most familiar emotion: anxiety

Anyone who works in healthcare encounters illness anxiety on a daily (if not hourly) basis. Anxiety about getting sick is a driving factor behind so much healthcare utilization, and can be draining for healthcare clinicians as well. Joan explores the most important thing to do when encountering illness anxiety in your patients: addressing the illness anxiety that exists in YOUR brain. Episode Outl...

Commute to work with Joan as she shares the concept of clean vs dirty pain, and how understanding the difference can really help when facing the impact of mistakes we’ve made.

The thing that your brain loves to worry about all day has happened - you made a mistake. In medicine!! Joan shares how to actually learn from these mistakes instead of drowning in shame spirals. Episode Outline Free email course on How to Stop Worrying About Your Patient? Sign up HERE Follow Joan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/ Follow Joan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/joanc...

Joan drives to work and shares her 4 step exercise to stop feeling overwhelmed and get on with your day

Hey healthcare human - are you already getting overwhelmed with everything you need to do this holiday season? Both inside your work in healthcare, and all the extra things you feel obligated to do for the holidays themselves? If yes - this episode is your overwhelm antidote! Episode Outline Free email course on How to Stop Worrying About Your Patient? Sign up HERE Follow Joan on Instagram: https:...

What kind of change do you want to make in your life, but struggle to follow through? Joan is reviewing her own process for creating sustainable change in her life over the next 3 episodes. In part 3, join Joan as she continues drives into Toronto (it's a long commute!) and uses the journey to reflect on how you create the discipline and consistency to turn your new desired change into a longstand...

What kind of change do you want to make in your life, but struggle to follow through? Joan is reviewing her own process for creating sustainable change in her life over the next 3 episodes. In part 2, join Joan as she drives into Toronto and uses the journey to reflect on the single concept you need to figure out the "How" of creating change in your life. Podcast outline Apply for 1:1 coaching her...

What kind of change do you want to make in your life, but struggle to make it?  Joan is reviewing her own process for creating sustainable change in her life over the next 2 episodes. In part 1, she reviews the scarcity vs abundant mindset, and how activating abundant mindset and emotions can reveal what changes you actually WANT to make in your life. Podcast outline Apply for 1:1 coaching he...

Joan reflects on how her practice has changed over the past year, using a framework of empowering her patients and herself.

Joan has a confession to make - she lies...a LOT. Listen in as she explores WHY she's learned to lie so much, and what she's discovered in the power of truth telling, both with her patients and with herself. Episode Outline Apply for 1:1 coaching here: https://www.joanchanmd.com/11-coaching Register for my next workshop Nov 17 2022 on Empowering Reluctant Patients - one of the secrets is truth tel...

Join Joan in her latest converesation with an awesome healthcare human - Dr Stephanie Hart. We explore the issue of weight stigma (also known as fatphobia) in medicine, and how it hurts our patients and ourselves as providers.  Relevant links: ASDAH (Health at Every Size) Intuitive Eating Some of Stephanie's publications: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/194/27/E953 https://www.cwimorg.com/post/we...

Joan shares one of the most useful self-reflection tools she has found in her journey as a personal development junkie. More resources on how to use the self coaching model are included in the episode outline Episode Outline Book a session with me: https://www.joanchanmd.com/11-coaching Register for my next workshop Nov 17 2022 on Empowering Reluctant Patients - we will be talking more about the m...

Listen in to Joan geek out about everything she has been learning about chronic pain with her chronic pain coach Deb Malkin! Here are some relevant links from our conversation: IASP Definition of Pain Pain Reprocessing Therapy (includes explanations of neuroplastic pain) Unlearn Your Pain Curable app for patients Deb Malkin's website Move with Deb The "FIT" Criteria (podcast episode) Connect with...

Do you feel pressure to be the "medical expert" in your work? Do you constantly feel like you don't know enough, or shame yourself for not having the Right Answer?  I hope this podcast helps undo this inhuman story for you. Episode Outline Website: https://www.joanchanmd.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/

Do you ever get stuck worrying about others being mad at you? So does Joan! Listen to her as she coaches herself through what’s really going on underneath this worry and what she can offer to herself to help

This is one of the most common fears I hear from my clients and colleagues - and I see how it is taking up so much time and energy which prevents them from setting boundaries and changing their relationship with their work! In this episode I explore three areas where this fear frequently shows up, and do my best to show the major thought errors that are keeping folks stuck.  I show how taking...

Another "The Only Human in this Van" episode! Join Joan as she drives to work and ponders these questions for herself and for you: is healthcare a job or a calling? How can we find our purpose in and outside of medicine that doesn't leave us drained or unfulfilled? “A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, “Why was I born?” Ask yourself this question three times a day, in the morning, in...

I am so grateful to my lovely collague Karen Cox for coming on the podcast to share what it's been like for her to be a human in healthcare - as a nurse practitioner, as a mom of small children during a pandemic, as a human who has chronic medical conditions of her own.  So many great gems and points of connection in this one! Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd...

Have you noticed yourself getting stressed when you encounter patients that can't be "fixed"? I see so many colleagues, clients and learners who feel guilt or shame when they are trying to help a patient and it seems there aren't any effective solutions. Underneath, it seems like unless we're fixing our patients, we're helpless or even wasting our time. I want to offer a completely different way o...

Join Joan on her drive to work as she processes the emotions that come up for her with tomorrow’s Day of Truth and Reconciliation.