Launching children you love with love. What would love do? What would grace do? What would presence do? Love would show up with curiosity and wonder rather than catastrophizing. Love would focus on what you can control. Love would set an intention and model trust, problem solving, elegant vulnerability and connection. Grace would accept, allow and validate all feelings that come up. Grace would remember parenting is a long game and step out of scarcity and urgency. Join Jessie for Parenting with...
Aug 28, 2022•40 min
Dance in the trees, listen to chocolate, and experience mindfulness, yoga, and coaching -- in a garden, at the beach, in a yurt, and amidst the redwoods of Muir Woods. In this episode, we share the why of the mindful practices we explore at the Mindful Healers Connect in Nature Retreat. Understand the body scan, and appreciate the release and freedom offered in mindful and restorative yoga. Learn about attentive listening and how coaching can help you feel better. Explore ways to bring fun into ...
Aug 21, 2022•56 min
Good sex happens when you are calm and accepting. Sex works “best” when you aren’t stressed. In this episode, Jessie and special guest Dr Kelly Casperson, author of You Are Not Broken and host of the You Are Not Broken Podcast, chat about the mind and sex. Kelly reminds us that the brain is a powerful sex organ. We talk about how mindfulness can make sex better. And how a scarcity mindset makes it worse. In line with previous Mindful Healers Podcast episodes, transitioning well is key to enjoyin...
Aug 14, 2022•54 min
Who Am I Too…? We invite you to join us in exploring where this thought comes up in your life. What limiting beliefs do you have and how do they show up in your life? Becoming aware of our limiting beliefs, and their origins, and then holding them with mindfulness and self-compassion allows us to meet them, integrate them, change them, or be rid of them. We share recent experiences where our own limiting beliefs showed up, and how we challenged them using mindfulness and coaching. Coaches and lo...
Aug 07, 2022•29 min
Blending wellness and interior design. A conversation about the intersection of beauty, space, nature, health, and healing. Where do you find wholeness and sanctuary? What is an Optimal Healing Environment? How can you design a responsible space? What makes a healing and healthy space for you? How can you bring curiosity into your life and work through intentional design? How can you enhance connection in the design of space? What’s one thing you could change today to make one of your spaces mor...
Jul 31, 2022•43 min
A solo cast sharing Jessie’s journey both getting coached and as a coach. This episode is an opportunity to hear why Jessie pivoted to coaching, clarify potential misconceptions about coaching, and explain why coaching is magically impactful as an intervention for high-achievers, especially physicians. Listen to hear how coaching is different from therapy, mentorship, and friendship and some of the evidence of its impact on burnout. In 2020, Jessie left her thriving pediatric practice and multip...
Jul 24, 2022•50 min
Delight is NOT decadent. It is sustenance. When we honor diastole, we honor ourselves. Honoring diastole is healing for our own hearts. A necessary, but often neglected, action for healers. Today’s episode includes a special guest, Dr. Gail Wright, a pediatric cardiologist, a disciple of Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, mindfulness teacher, and founder of Redwood Resilience. She also happens to be Jessie’s friend, soul sister in many endeavors, and her co-lead for the Honoring Diastole Retreats at Pie Ra...
Jul 17, 2022•1 hr 4 min
We encourage you to opt-out of a life of urgency. Urgency and busyness are the norm and even celebrated in our culture, but hustle and bustle have a cost. You get to choose when urgency is truly urgent. “It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.”- Brene Brown Our default is to create space and then recreate busy. We are uncomfortable with space and void. "Busy" is a form of buffering. Doing something to not feel uncomfortable that ulti...
Jul 10, 2022•38 min
Many helpful well-being lessons can be learned from industries outside healthcare. Our second episode sharing insights from Jessie’s experience at the Mindful MD/Teravana Foundation's Think Tank on Physician Well-Being. Perspectives outside of medicine are integral to solving the complex problem of physician burnout and creating a sustainable practice of medicine in the United States. In this episode, we share what we can learn from artificial intelligence, the military, interior design, virtual...
Jul 03, 2022•45 min
Mindfulness and thought work can help when we are faced with challenging and upsetting information and realities. Today we explore how they can help when we are faced with hard-to-fathom decisions, especially when those decisions impact us so personally. Thought work can help us respond buoyantly and purposefully to disappointment, disbelief, anger, and even rage. And many are feeling rage, anger, and violation today. If you are feeling upset, despondent, desperate, or exhausted you are not alon...
Jun 26, 2022•28 min
Learning from a Physician Well-Being Think Tank. Part 1. Gratitude to the Teravana Foundation and Mindful MD for hosting the think tank "experience." Well-Being is a global issue. Today we discuss the parallel pandemic -- un-wellness and lack of well-being. Specifically physician well-being. The vision of physicians as superheroes can actually cause harm. Physicians and nurses are humans and there should be human expectations of us. We also need to have human expectations of ourselves. Anything ...
Jun 19, 2022•38 min
Is it possible to be too kind to yourself? Niceness and kindness are different. "Niceness stays quiet. Kindness speaks up. Niceness is toxic. Kindness is healing. Niceness lies to keep the peace. Kindness knows the only way to make peace is to tell the truth. Niceness holds back. Kindness moves forward with humility, gentleness, and grace." - Alison Yesterfelt Is it possible to be too kind to yourself? How can you be kind to yourself in this moment? One way to be kind AND nice to yourself is to ...
Jun 12, 2022•33 min
Tools to traverse common parenting stresses with mindfulness. Another episode in our Parent with Presence series. As a parent, you are not alone in potentially having a compare and despair mindset. You can learn to recognize your tendencies to feel like you aren't doing enough,“ to want to do more” and/or have your children “do more.” We encourage you to show up as a parent from a place of trust, abundance, and groundedness. We all want the best for our kids. Our worry comes from love. Every fam...
Jun 05, 2022•33 min
What can you do when you feel rage, sadness, and overwhelm. frustration and grief in the face of incomprehensible tragedy? In response to the recent shootings, we offer help, compassion, and tools to find grounding and hope. We offer the important tools of allowing all your emotions without judgment and choosing to move forward with intention. It's possible to hold dualities in our experience, of sadness, grief, anger, and disbelief while also holding onto hope and making room for joy. This epis...
May 29, 2022•30 min
Mindfulness is an antidote to loneliness whether practiced alone or in community. When mindfulness is practiced in community, the benefits are even greater. Awaken together. Heal together. Play and be together. Community, even without mindfulness, is healing and energizing. Being together is MAGIC. “We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.” “Being with friends is never doing nothing” - Charlie Mackesy The Mindful Healthcare Collective is MUCH MUCH MUCH more than a Facebook group....
May 22, 2022•26 min
If you have a body, you deserve well-being Dr. Sará King joins us for a special episode. She is a mother, neuroscientist, political and learning scientist, medical anthropologist, social entrepreneur, public speaker, and certified yoga and meditation instructor. She is the Founder of MindHeart Consulting, an NIH postdoctoral fellow in Neurology at Oregon Health Science University (OHSU) in the Oregon Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Neurological Disorders, and she is a core t...
May 15, 2022•59 min
Mindfulness and intention are helpful in mother relationships. In this episode, we explore the idea of choice and showing up with mindful intention rather than expectation in your relationship with your mother. It's possible to hold dualities and allow your mom to be who and how she is and you to be who and how you are. It's possible to not necessarily like some aspects of your relationship with your mother and still be immensely grateful to her and honor the parts of the relationship that work....
May 11, 2022•44 min
May is mental health awareness month. In honor of Mother's Day, we share our personal mental health stories as women and mothers. We talk about depression, suicidal ideation, post-partum OCD, ADHD, and substance abuse, all with the hope of decreasing stigma. Our special guest is Dr. Megan Galaske, mom, pediatrician, Co-Founder and CMO of Trace, a menstrual care company, energy healer, coach, mystic, and Master Reiki practitioner. In this episode, we share about what helped us heal. We hope that ...
May 08, 2022•1 hr 7 min
A re-release of last year's pre-Mothers Day episode. Tips to enjoy your Mother's Day to the fullest. Mother’s Day is not always rainbows and joy. We share several strategies and approaches, all grounded in mindfulness, to help you find joy and presence, whether you are a mother or not. These strategies also help on other significant “life days” such as holidays and birthdays. When you approach the day with mindfulness and intention, it’s possible to experience beauty, connection, love, and a day...
May 04, 2022•35 min
Parent with presence, peace and purpose. In honor of Mothers Day, we share our reflections from another year of “mothering.” We explore the option of approaching this role with mindfulness, love, attention and intention. And to consider approaching the mothering role with gratitude, awe, love, curiosity, and wonder. “Little did I know that in the end, you would be one of my greatest teachers. I love how life always gives us what we need most. And life gave me you."- Janet Archer, An Invitation t...
May 01, 2022•36 min
When life happens you get to choose how to respond. It’s ok not to know what to do and feel stuck. It’s ok not to feel wise. Connection, conversation, and reaching out for help helps. Sometimes life happens TO YOU, sometimes FOR YOU, and sometimes WITH YOU. Today’s episode is an open and honest conversation about "storms" in our own lives. You can be in the eye of the storm while it swirls all around you. No matter how many tools you have in your toolbox sometimes you get swept up in the swirl. ...
Apr 24, 2022•33 min
In this special solocast with Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang, she shares the definition of loving-kindness otherwise known as metta. Inspired by the work of world renown meditation teacher, Sharon Salzberg, she discusses the components of loving kindness as encompassing compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. Ni-Cheng shares her story of how she came to loving-kindness practice and how she practices it daily. Through intention, curiosity, and practice you too can incorporate loving-kindness into your l...
Apr 17, 2022•26 min
How and why mindfulness works. It's not woo woo. There is lots of science to support its impact. Our brain is capable of change. Mindfulness is the path. We welcome back Dr. Ellen Cooke, radiation oncologist, mindfulness teacher and Founder of the Circle of Hope. She shares literature covering benefits of mindfulness on hormonal regulation, neurofeedback, and epigenetics – especially amongst cancer patients. Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang shares some of the neuroscience and neuroanatomy of how mindfulness a...
Apr 10, 2022•37 min
Teens need mindfulness more than ever right now. Today's episode includes a special guest Dr. Dzung Vo, who is a pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine, He is Founding Director of the BC Children’s Hospital Centre for Mindfulness, and a clinical associate professor and division head for the Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. He is author of The Mindful Teen: powerful skills to help you handle stress one moment at a time. There is a teen mental health ...
Apr 03, 2022•43 min
What’s your money narrative? A conversation with special guest Erin Gray, a former certified financial planner and pharmacy tech, who is now a life coach and adventurer. Erin is also a mom, wife, daughter, and traveler. In this episode we encourage you to mindfully notice your relationship with money, and if there are any aspects of it that need compassion, understanding and love, to offer yourself this. The feelings you have about money are shaping your lived experience whether you are aware of...
Mar 27, 2022•48 min
Our job as parents is to love our children not "fix them." Not fixing our kids is an act of love - for ourselves and for them. Trying to fix them is to help us feel better not them. It's hard to watch your children suffer and struggle, yet it is necessary for their growth and development into healthy and responsible humans. Struggling and suffering to some degree is how we all learn how to solve problems. When the urges to “snow plow” and “helicopter” as parents come up can you meet these urges ...
Mar 20, 2022•27 min
Learn how to start being kind to yourself, why you should choose to be on the same team as your body and how to make it happen. Learn to notice when you do yourself harm and how to start employing the loving, compassionate strategy of choosing to see yourself as others do. Join Jessie for a special solo cast on how to change your relationship with yourself and your body. "The biggest gift you can give yourself is to love yourself the way you wish someone else did." This is where your power lies ...
Mar 13, 2022•42 min
Mindfulness and intention can change your family life for the better. Today's episode explores how they can help to both bring in experiential learning and broaden your lived experiences. A conversation with a special guest, Dr. Ellen Cooke, a radiation oncologist, founder of the Circle of Hope and a mindfulness teacher. If you have been looking for ways to bring mindfulness into your own family life and for ways to practice with and teach your kids mindfulness this episode shares many helpful i...
Mar 06, 2022•44 min
Exercise is one of the most beneficial and powerful medicines we have! And yet so many still struggle with making it a habit. Exercise can be fun, play, and an act of love. It's possible to let go of exercise as a should, and a duty. We discuss new ways to think and feel about exercise that don't include motivation, shame, and guilt. We hope to inspire you to develop a healthier, perhaps more mindful relationship with exercise. We offer inspiration, excitement, and pleasure as tools to optimize ...
Feb 27, 2022•36 min
Choose to stop rushing as a parent and rediscover joy. Savor every moment. Being present in the moment, whatever age and stage it is, is where the magic is. Mindfulness magnifies parenting’s inherent joys and helps us not miss the beauty right in front of us. In today's episode, we offer the opportunity to stop engaging in mental time travel with our children. We offer the possibility of no longer focusing on getting to the next developmental milestone or next grade level and instead focusing on...
Feb 20, 2022•34 min
