What if your relationship with the robots—the algorithms, the bots, and the emerging AI tools—could be approached with softness and intention, just like any other relationship in your life? A playful yet grounding episode, exploring the rise of artificial intelligence through a lens of mindful curiosity, wonder, and loving amusement. Rather than catastrophizing or glorifying AI, we explore how it might become a creative collaborator, a mirror for our own biases, and a surprising connector across...
Aug 17, 2025•34 min
Were you the one who always held it together? The responsible one? The one who made sure everyone else was okay—sometimes at the cost of your own well-being? In this episode, we explore what it means to grow up as the eldest daughter—and how the roles we took on early in life may have shaped how we show up as women, physicians, caretakers, and leaders. Whether or not you're technically the eldest daughter, if you're a woman in medicine, you may recognize yourself in this conversation. Together, ...
Aug 10, 2025•37 min
I am beyond delighted to share this beautiful conversation with Diana May, the yoga teacher who first taught me how to teach yoga. If you’ve ever practiced yoga with me, you, too, have been touched by Diana’s powerful, nurturing teachings. In this rich and heartfelt episode, we explore how both of us and the practice of yoga itself have evolved over the years. Our conversation is a journey through yoga, chronic pain, trauma, somatics, and the profound wisdom of the nervous system. Diana is a yog...
Aug 03, 2025•51 min
“Aging isn't just about getting older; it's about growing more evolved each day. More nuanced, more enriched. More beautiful. More ourselves” - Emily Dickinson How do we age with softness? How do we approach a birthday—or a fertility milestone—with compassion instead of judgment? In this rich and heart-forward conversation, I join Dr. Erica Bove, my birthday twin, to explore what it means to see with the heart, especially in moments of uncertainty, grief, and growth. Dr. Erica Bove is a reproduc...
Jul 27, 2025•53 min
Have you ever found yourself asking, Why can’t they just…? or Why are they doing this to me? These questions often swirl through our minds during frustrating moments on the road, at work, in our relationships, or even in response to news headlines and legislation. They come with a heavy emotional toll. Today, we explore the actual cost of resisting reality. We share vulnerable personal stories, practical tools, and insights from lived experiences that help soften the inner storm and shift us tow...
Jul 20, 2025•37 min
A real-time invitation to pause, reflect, and integrate. In this special mid-year episode, we offer you the spaciousness and tools to reconnect with your intentions, acknowledge your growth, and mindfully marinate in what matters most. We reflect openly on our guiding words for the year—how they’ve supported us, challenged us, and shaped our journeys so far. With humor, honesty, and heart, we invite you to slow down and notice what’s working, what’s shifted, and what your future self will thank ...
Jul 13, 2025•51 min
How many conversations in medicine today focus on how hard and how broken things are? This episode is a hopeful and grounded counterpoint. Enjoy a rich and thoughtful conversation with Dr. Jed Wolpaw, an anesthesiologist, critical care physician, educator, and host of the beloved medical education podcast ACRAC (Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary) Jed and I first connected at a speaker's dinner at the Holiday Seminars Anesthesia Conference in Aspen this winter. We bonded over ou...
Jul 06, 2025•56 min
This episode is an invitation to allow joy, play, and fun to take their rightful place in your life—without guilt, resistance, or apology. Beni Seballos, a family physician, mom, wife, daughter, and radiant soul shares how she went from overwhelmed and over-responsible to energized, creative, and genuinely happy. Beni transformed her from a life of self‑sacrifice and exhaustion to one of trust, fun, healing, and inspired leadership. Pearls of Wisdom: Joy isn’t frivolous—it’s foundational. Reconn...
Jun 29, 2025•46 min
Have ever felt like you had to hide parts of yourself to belong, especially in medicine? Honoring your truth, even in a high-intensity field like neurosurgery, can lead to deep healing, joy, and a renewed sense of purpose. An intimate and courageous conversation with Dr. Jenny Kang, a neurosurgeon who shares her inspiring story of transformation—one that challenges traditional definitions of success and fulfillment in medicine, particularly for women in surgery. Jenny and I first connected when ...
Jun 22, 2025•40 min
A heartfelt conversation with an ER physician, poet and author. From a Studio in Oakland, California: 108 Notes on Existence , is a must-read - whether you’re an ER physician, a young adult navigating the uncertainty of life, or someone simply seeking meaning and alignment. I discovered this book serendipitously a few weeks ago. Enia and I connected via her publicist, who reached out asking if I was interested in receiving a copy of the book. Because the title had the word Oakland in it, near wh...
Jun 15, 2025•51 min
This episode is an invitation to explore travel through a different lens—a mindful one. Whether you're traveling for work, visiting family, or taking a long-awaited vacation, we hope that this conversation helps you bring more intention, presence, and ease. We offer gentle, grounded tips to help you redefine what success looks like when you travel. It isn't about doing the most or chasing the perfect itinerary. It's about traveling in a way that honors your energy, desires, and well-being. Pearl...
Jun 08, 2025•51 min
A deeply personal and inspiring episode that invites you to gently explore a question many of us were never taught to ask: What are you proud of—about yourself? In this heart-opening conversation, we share honest reflections on identity, humility, and the discomfort so many of us feel around owning our success. You’ll hear personal stories about pride, parenting, professional pivots, and the quiet courage it takes to celebrate yourself out loud. You’ll also hear how this question has become a me...
Jun 01, 2025•38 min
In this reflective solocast, Dr. Ni-Cheng invites you to join her on a journey into the lives of two very special Bald Eagles—Jackie and Shadow—and their eaglets, high above Big Bear Lake, California. She shares both the magic of nature and powerful life lessons that resonate far beyond the treetops. This episode is for anyone who: Loves wildlife or is fascinated by eagles Enjoys learning from real stories in nature Wants to reconnect with their authentic self Could use a gentle, heartfelt remin...
May 25, 2025•31 min
In this episode of Healing Medicine, we explore the powerful metaphor of cleaning windows as a way to gain clarity in our minds and lives. Inspired by a real-life experience of hiring professionals to clean her skylights, Dr. Jessie Mahoney and Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang reflects on mindfulness, yoga, and coaching as intentional practices to clear the metaphorical grime from our perspective and lens of awareness. We don’t usually realize how cloudy our outlook has become until we make space for clarity....
May 18, 2025•23 min
This episode honors the many facets of mothering—through every season, from being a mom of young children to mothering teens, adult children, and even grandchildren. Whether you're a new mom or an empty nester, this episode is for you. Previous Healing Medicine Mother's Day Episodes include: 196. Stop Apologizing when you haven't done anything wrong 197. Do you feel Underappreciated? 134. Mindful Wisdom from a New Grandmother 74. Your Relationship with your Mother 72. Mother’s Day Gift 71. How t...
May 11, 2025•44 min
Welcome to Healing Medicine, formerly known as the Mindful Healers Podcast. This episode is a heartfelt thank you, an intentional pause, and a meaningful unveiling. After 250 episodes and over 150,000 downloads, we are stepping more fully into who we’ve always been—with clarity, purpose, and love. Our rebrand is not a departure, but a deepening. Healing Medicine reflects the essence of what we’ve been offering all along: medicine that heals, and a space to heal medicine—from the inside out. We a...
May 05, 2025•31 min
What if rebuilding strength isn’t about pushing harder—but trusting yourself more? After decades of practicing medicine with a mindset of pushing through exhaustion, injury, and disconnection, Jessie reflects on how partnering with a personal trainer helped her rebuild something she hadn’t even realized she had lost: trust in her own body. Jessie shares how mindful movement, compassion, and curiosity can heal old patterns of disconnection—and help you grow strength, resilience, and self-trust fr...
Apr 27, 2025•38 min
In honor of Earth Day, we invite you into a nurturing and grounding conversation about the wisdom of the Earth—and how it offers profound guidance for sustainable living, healing, growth, and leadership. In this episode, we explore the essential, often overlooked parallels between medicine, healing, and the rhythms of the natural world. Through stories, we share how nature reminds us what it truly means to flourish—imperfectly, interdependently, and in cycles. This Earth Day episode is a celebra...
Apr 22, 2025•47 min
A powerful and deeply inspiring conversation with Dr. Dawn Baker—an anesthesiologist, author, yoga teacher, coach, homesteader, and fellow mindful healer. Dawn shares her journey of pivoting from a conventional medical path to a multi-passionate, deeply aligned life grounded in freedom, purpose, and self-awareness. Her story is extraordinary and relatable, offering a roadmap for anyone longing to redefine success and live more authentically. Dawn's life took a profound turn after a serious healt...
Apr 20, 2025•45 min
This special pop-up episode is a heartfelt offering recorded the day before Tax Day. In it, I share a deeply personal and transformative journey—one that has taken me from anxiety and overwhelm to peace and even empowerment around something many of us dread: taxes. This isn’t a conversation about deductions or spreadsheets. It’s an invitation to explore how your experience with taxes may actually be a reflection of deeper themes—control, trust, perfectionism, scarcity, and self-worth. I walk you...
Apr 15, 2025•29 min
This milestone episode is a powerful and heartfelt exploration of one of the most tender and transformative topics: self-worth. So many physicians struggle with valuing themselves, charging fairly for their services, and letting go of guilt rooted in self-sacrifice. This episode is inspired by real conversations with courageous clients and a vulnerable moment of my own It is is a call to unlearn the deeply embedded scarcity mindset that pervades our training—and to embrace sustainability, worthi...
Apr 13, 2025•47 min
Embracing business and marketing doesn’t dilute the heart of practicing medicine—it strengthens it. Business and marketing are ultimately about human connection and trust. Medicine is too. As physicians, we were trained to heal—but not to advocate for ourselves, run a practice, or communicate our value effectively. The skills we need for a fulfilling and sustainable medical career aren’t just clinical. To thrive in medicine, we also need business, communication, leadership, and marketing skills ...
Apr 06, 2025•45 min
This episode is deeply personal and profoundly urgent. In it, we share our lived experiences of life-threatening illnesses during training and early practice—--stories that are more common than many of us realize, but are rarely spoken aloud. Through vulnerability and truth-telling, we illuminate the unseen and unacknowledged toll that medicine takes on women. This episode is being released on National Physicians Day as both a call to reflect and a call to action. We share our stories to hopeful...
Mar 30, 2025•47 min
In this inspiring and practical episode, I share how I made a long-time dream come true: leading fully funded, grant-supported wellness retreats for physicians—programs paid for by departments, organizations, and grants. I share with you how I helped make it happen and how you can too. This episode is a roadmap for those who want to bring truly impactful wellness programming to healthcare settings—programs that nourish, connect, and transform rather than check a box or deliver more burnout in di...
Mar 23, 2025•50 min
Today we explore the emotional toll of practicing medicine in a healthcare system that often feels like it’s working against us. Many physicians are feeling burnt out, unheard, and disrespected. If you feel exhausted by the weight of it all, this conversation is for you. This episode covers: Acknowledgment of the widespread sense of betrayal in healthcare Practical strategies for mindful resilience and emotional regulation Tools to set boundaries without guilt How to advocate for change without ...
Mar 16, 2025•54 min
What do you do when you feel stuck, unsure, or afraid to take the next step? This episode is for anyone who is standing at a crossroads in their career or life, feeling uncertain about what’s next. We are joined by Dr. Heather Fork, a former dermatologist who has now been a coach longer than she was in clinical practice. She shares her own journey of realizing medicine wasn’t the right fit for her, how fear often keeps us stuck, and how inner work is the key to finding clarity. Together, we expl...
Mar 09, 2025•44 min
In moments of chaos and uncertainty, mindfulness is more necessary than ever—yet it can feel harder to practice. If you’re struggling to sit still, focus, or even engage in the mindfulness practices that once felt easy, you’re not alone. In this episode, we share how we are personally practicing mindfulness in these tumultuous times—what’s working, what isn’t, and how to stay curious and compassionate in your practice. We invite you to embrace mindfulness in a way that works for you right now, w...
Mar 02, 2025•57 min
A conversation about wellness, sustainability, and restoring your purpose in medicine. This episode is an invitation to reframe how we view our role in medicine. We emphasize long-term well-being over short-term fixes and prioritizing the human side of medicine. We share practical tools for rekindling your passion and calibrating your energy. Dr. Linda Hawes Clever is the founding President of RENEW, a nonprofit dedicated to helping healthcare professionals, especially doctors, maintain and rega...
Feb 23, 2025•37 min
In today’s episode, we offer invaluable insights on how to effectively partner with leadership to make a compelling and effective case for physician well-being and organizational transformation. Dr. Brooke Buckley is an expert in navigating organizational systems and advocating for wellness and culture change within healthcare settings. She is currently the Chief Medical Officer of Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital. She is responsible for the leadership of the hospital’s physicians. Dr Buckley is a ...
Feb 16, 2025•58 min
Many accomplished women, especially physicians, find themselves drawn to partners with ADHD or those on the autism spectrum. I know this because I coach them—and because I am one of them. We feel alone in our relationships, but this dynamic is much much more common than we realize. This special episode of the Mindful Healers Podcast could also be called Mindful Love: Thriving as a High-Achieving Woman in a Neurodiverse Partnership, Loving Differently, or Mindful Connection: Understanding and Emb...
Feb 14, 2025•42 min
