An open, honest, and entirely unscripted conversation about how self compassion can be practiced in the moment. We share our experiences of a recent major pre-planned event that did not go as expected due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control. We share how self-compassion can be used in the moment when shame, embarrassment, anxiety show up. We also explore how when we see someone else in a moment of difficulty, we learn so much about them, ourselves, and our capacity for compassion and self-c...
Feb 13, 2022•36 min
Taking care of yourself well is an act of kindness and self-love. This is the first episode in our series on Mindful Love. Choosing not to suffer or struggle unnecessarily is an option. Even in a world where suffering is often felt to be of value. Suffering is suffering. Less of it is better. We are all worthy of love, kindness, and compassion. We offer the possibility of caring for yourself rather than self sacrifice as the path to serve the highest good. We invite you to become aware of where ...
Feb 06, 2022•28 min
Mindful and intuitive eating can change your relationship with food to one that is healthier, kinder, more compassionate, and more enjoyable. In this episode, we invite you to consider no longer focusing on goals, weight, calories, and eating rules and instead enjoy the actual experience of food and eating. We introduce the options and benefits of both intuitive and mindful eating and we provide tips to help you practice both. Dr. Liang offers a mindful eating practice as the Mindful Moment offe...
Jan 30, 2022•37 min
Nature is healing and as such can be viewed as a form of medicine. Nature and mindfulness are synergistic. So many of us lack exposure to nature in our lives. Disconnection from nature has become the norm. Almost all our children also enjoy much less time in nature than we did as children. Lack of time spent in nature has a negative impact on all our well-being. Nature has both social and physiologic benefits that we are missing out on. Forest bathing is a magical practice that has many known he...
Jan 23, 2022•38 min
Mindfulness helps to ease life transitions, especially menopause. Allowing and accepting, honoring, and feeling through your experience of menopause is a healthy way to traverse this inevitable stage of life. Today we share another mindful guest conversation - with Dr. Keira Bar, a dual board-certified dermatologist and menopause specialist. Maybe menopause doesn't have to be challenging, bad, or a struggle? What if you told a different story about it? What if it was a positive experience? A lif...
Jan 16, 2022•43 min
Setting intentions is a mindful practice that provides tremendous growth and has a powerful impact on your life experience. It is much more effective as a New Year tradition than making a resolution. Take a listen to hear about our intentions for 2022 and tips and pitfalls for intention setting. As we share in the episode, there is no exact right way to set intentions. The act of setting them is where is the magic is. Intentions are setting your GPS and directing your attention and focus in a sp...
Jan 09, 2022•35 min
Happy birthday to the podcast! Reflections on our journey co-hosting the Mindful Healers Podcast. We call out the common discomfort many of us have about sharing successes and wins with others and the guilt that can sometimes creep in during celebrations. We practice having fun with celebrations, share the story and some new sounds of the infamous Mindful Healers Podcast singing bowl, and we share our thoughts on our favorite, most difficult, most popular, and most proud episodes. We thank you f...
Jan 02, 2022•45 min
A “hard reset” is when ctrl-alt-del happens in life. It very often feels “negative” but when the experience is approached with mindfulness and curiosity there is more comfort in the discomfort. And it can even be viewed as an opportunity. In today's episode normalize the challenges surrounding resets and how mindfulness can be used to both notice when a reset might need to occur and help you get through the difficulty of unexpected resets. Pain X Resistance = Suffering is an equation that can he...
Dec 26, 2021•31 min
Playing is not a waste of time. It is often interpreted as frivolous but it is actually an important source of both relaxation and stimulation for adults and children alike. Today we talk with special guest Dr. Brooke Buckley, CMO of Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital, about the importance of play at all ages. Playing is a stress reliever and it brings joy. It offers oodles of health benefits, is a productivity tool, and stimulates creativity and learning. Play also helps us solve difficult problems....
Dec 19, 2021•47 min
Mindfulness and intention are antidotes to consumerism, holiday excess, and overwhelm. In today's solo cast, Jessie explores her journey with Christmas over the years. More recently, she shares how mindfulness, intention, and mindful coaching have helped to decrease her holiday stress significantly. She offers the possibility that when you mindfully tap into the spirit of giving and let the pressure fall away—it's possible to find a renewed sense of joy. “We don't have to continue traditions tha...
Dec 12, 2021•32 min
Milestones often involve numbers, and they are a natural opportunity to pivot or to reflect. Your story around milestones determines your experience. Episode 50 of the podcast, is dedicated to discussing milestone events, including Jessie’s 50th birthday, Ni-Cheng’s 10-year cancerversary, and 40th birthday. We discuss how intention and mindfulness can bring about a richer, perhaps more meaningful experience. We invite you to pause, reflect, and appreciate what has been done and accomplished. We ...
Dec 05, 2021•35 min
Tips to mindfully approach charting or any other task you would rather not do. We share our own struggles with charting and ways in which a task such as charting can be mindfully completed by changing how one shows up for the task. We offer self-care as a tool to help one accomplish tasks that you would rather not do. Charting is an opportunity to practice mindfulness: accepting, but noticing judgment about not liking, noticing any shame, frustration, self-criticism that arises, and how the task...
Nov 28, 2021•29 min
Holidays often bring up stress and family drama. Today we share mindfulness and mindset tools to help you find more calm, peace, and joy during the holidays Setting a mindful intention helps guide you to respond and not react, even in the midst of the chaos. Having as few expectations as possible lessens disappointment and allows for opportunity and curiosity. Setting yourself up for success is key. Nourish yourself FIRST so that you have the most to give and share with others. Focusing on what ...
Nov 21, 2021•29 min
“Just Try it” Kristin Neff Ph.D. is an internationally renowned self-compassion researcher and teacher, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, co-developer of the mindful self-compassion curriculum, and author of multiple books, Self Compassion- The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself and Fierce Self-Compassion . The purpose of self-compassion is to alleviate suffering. It does not have to be hard. It can be as simple as being a good friend to your...
Nov 14, 2021•36 min
Mindfulness helps you both create and enjoy more intimacy and connection Mindfulness and intention can help you solve intimacy and sex “challenges”, struggles, conflicts and feelings of inadequacy. When you bring MF to intimacy and sex its possible find more connection, pleasure, peace and ease around this topic in your own relationship Connection, intimacy and sex relieve stress, are healing, and are a human need and are critical to health and happiness. When we're disconnected, alone, isolated...
Nov 07, 2021•38 min
Life as a parent can be overwhelming. You are not alone in having moments when it feels like a lot or too much. Mindfulness and self-compassion offer relief in navigating the difficult patches. We are all more than capable of encountering whatever is happening in life, even when it feels overwhelming. And asking for help, resting, and connecting helps ease our way through the rough patches. When in the throes of difficulty, our habitual old patterns of reaction tend to arise. In this episode, we...
Oct 31, 2021•28 min
Rest is of paramount importance to continue to function at the highest level. When we deprive ourselves of rest, we can do harm. In today's episode, we discuss why rest is essential for a healthy mind, body, and spirit. The weekends are supposed to be a period of rest. In other cultures, the siesta for instance, is normalized as a daily rest period in the afternoon. Sleep is a physiologic period of rest. What if we prioritized sleep and rest? We provide some examples of periods of rest such as s...
Oct 24, 2021•33 min
Being mindful can make you more productive. Time management is about managing your mind, focusing and managing your energy. It is often making a choice not to do things. Join us for an interactive conversation with special guest Dr. Serene Shereef, a trauma and acute care surgeon, and host of the Mindfulness and Productivity Systems Podcast. Take a listen to learn how mindfulness can be a productivity and time management tool. Leave with some practical tips about how you can incorporate mindfuln...
Oct 17, 2021•40 min
Mindfulness and intention helps you show up as the present parent you want to be. Showing up with fear, as a protector, and/or striving to be the best parent, even when it comes from loving space, limits our capacity for both giving and receiving love. When we show up with mindful intention, possibilities open up for expansive love and connection. Parenting is a long journey. One in which there are many seasons. It’s important to not get caught up in the importance of each moment along the way. ...
Oct 10, 2021•31 min
In this episode we offer mindful tools and strategies when encountering those with different beliefs that help you connect despite differences. Exploration with curiosity is a mindful way for mutual understanding. Reminding you that differences are a normal and beautiful part of the human spectrum of experience. What’s your intention? What would Connection Do? What would Understanding do? How are you alike? We can treat others as we would want them to treat us, with respect, especially when ther...
Oct 03, 2021•29 min
In today’s episode, Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang interviews special guest, Dr. Steven Hickman, psychologist, internationally renowned mindfulness and mindful self-compassion teacher, and now author of his new book, Self-Compassion for Dummies . Steve is the Founding Executive Director of the UCSD Center for Mindfulness and is the Executive Director of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. The definitions of empathy, compassion, and self-compassion are covered. Self-compassion as defined by Dr. Kristin N...
Sep 26, 2021•43 min
You are the utmost authority on your own life What is it ok to allow yourself or "approve" yourself to do? What rules do you have for yourself? Could you give yourself permission to be happy? Live an extraordinary life? Follow your authentic desires? Be yourself? Be different? Let others be themselves? Rest? Nourish yourself? In a world where there are so many external, and at times chaotic factors that are out of our control, giving ourselves permission is a way of taking control. Giving yourse...
Sep 19, 2021•30 min
Decisions are a fork in the road. A pivot. Do you always want to make the “best“ decision? Do you spend time, energy, and lots of angsty emotion weighing your options? Do you think the “best” decision is the one that has the "best" outcome? Do decisions torment you? Mindfulness creates a clear lens of the circumstances and the actual choices. It helps you recognize when excessive rumination is preventing a decision from being made and it allows you to recognize when a decision needs to be made. ...
Sep 12, 2021•29 min
Getting Help is a strength not a weakness. Getting help is an act of kindness for you, and for others. You can go farther, faster with help. Help helps you and helps you help others. “When have you been at your strongest?'' asked the boy ``When I dared to show my weakness.” “What is the bravest thing you have ever said?” “Help,” said the horse. “Asking for help isn't giving up, '' said the horse, '' it's refusing to give up. “ - Charlie Mackasy Coaching is a form of help. Yoga is a form of help....
Sep 05, 2021•32 min
Title 36. Kindness Is The Answer You are worth the same kindness you give to others. The current pandemic is a radical opportunity to choose to show up with kindness- for ourselves and others. From a place of kindness to self, so much more is possible. Being kind to yourself is kind and is so much better than being mean to yourself. True kindness to self always ultimately leads to more efficiency, productivity, and possibility. Your relationship with yourself is your most important relationship....
Aug 29, 2021•29 min
If you are feeling “not ok” right now, you are not alone. In this episode, as the pandemic surges yet again, and tragedies are unfolding around the world, we invite you to pause and name what you are feeling. Naming emotions, especially difficult ones, is a tool to disarm the amygdala and soften the edges of difficulty. Some other strategies to potentially help ease the struggle: Pause and be present with whatever “is” in this moment. Be curious and notice. Nourish yourself, offer yourself kindn...
Aug 22, 2021•37 min
Relationships, when someone is struggling with their mental health, can be amazing and full of love. When we change how we show up for them it can create space for the relationship to heal and even bloom. There are very real challenges when you love someone who struggles with their mental health. If you are in this situation, you are not alone. Mental health struggles are part of being human. The pandemic has made mental health un-wellness for someone within a family almost ubiquitous. Today’s e...
Aug 15, 2021•41 min
Joy is within you but it requires mindfulness and presence to find it. Allowing, finding, and creating joy is a gift to yourself and others. “The ultimate source of a meaningful life is within ourselves. If you live in this way, until your last breath comes you will be a happy person. That’s the goal of human life-- to live with joy and purpose.” - His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Book of Joy. With mindfulness practice, you can learn to more fully allow and accept moments of joy. Notice what mak...
Aug 08, 2021•30 min
Time is one of our most precious commodities and we can choose how to spend it. In today’s episode, we reflect upon our relationship with time and provide ideas to change it for the better. Using a mindful lens to reflect upon time provides spaciousness. It helps you make intentional shifts so you can do more of what it is you want to be doing. Time passes no matter what. Time scarcity is a stressor for many. We often judge how we use our time. Can we instead see time as an opportunity with many...
Aug 01, 2021•20 min
Today we share the magic of intentions and how this “mindful” approach to living helps you get closer to living the life you want to be living. Intentions can help you achieve your goals with more ease. They bring a different energy and vibrational frequency to our lives than when we focus on a goal. Intentions are light posts. They tell you where to focus your energy. An intention is something you want to amplify or cultivate. They are focused on the present, are about relationships, and are no...
Jul 25, 2021•32 min
