Cooking can be perspective-shifting and heart-opening. It can be a source of surprise and wonder and a healthy way of expressing love. Enjoy a conversation about cooking as both love and service with the husband of a woman physician who understands what exhausted, depleted women physicians crave. Enjoy a special guest episode featuring Jessie's husband Mark, the Pause & Presence retreat chef. Mark is a full-time lawyer who has been the primary cook for his family for 26 years. When a chef as...
Feb 12, 2023•47 min
Hyper independence and over-responsibility are common in high-achieving women, especially women physicians. These attributes are cultivated and praised in medical training and in many cultures. They continue on driven by a fear of failure, inadequacy, and/or bad outcomes. They may have been expected and needed initially but they are also not sustainable. They cause isolation, burnout, exhaustion, and potential harm to self. How do we change our relationship with responsibility and independence? ...
Feb 09, 2023•32 min
The Mindful Healers Podcast 118. Self-Sacrifice and Martyrdom Should Not Be Glorified Published on February 5, 2023 Self-sacrifice and martyrdom are glorified in medical training. They help us get through our training but have high, unappreciated costs for the rest of our lives. This podcast is a compassionate and loving invitation to consider changing your relationship with self-sacrifice and martyrdom. In medicine, parenthood, and caregiving of all kinds, females are expected to sacrific...
Feb 05, 2023•40 min
Bigger impact and more joy come when you learn to recognize what matters most and manage your energy well. Lessons from another successful coaching journey. Dr. Nerissa Kreher, a CMO at a Biotech/Pharma start-up shares how coaching changed her life by helping her recognize what matters most. Coaching helped Nerissa recognize the power of her thoughts and see that her thoughts and stories were not truths. When she learned to recognize what matters most and live into her life became filled with mu...
Feb 02, 2023•53 min
Mindfulness eases the journey of caring for aging parents. It enhances your ability to adapt and bounce back in the face of stress. It helps you recognize your stress response so you can pause and then intervene with calmness. Today is a Special Guest Episode with Dr. Mary Norman, a wise and experienced geriatrician, who has a newfound passion for bringing mindfulness to caregivers of those with dementia. Mindfulness helps you go from a place of frustration, fear, anger, grief, and isolation to ...
Jan 29, 2023•40 min
Inspired by a mindfulness exercise Dr. Liang led at the Mindful Healers Connect in Nature Retreat. A solocast exploring how lines may show up in our lives, and where it may benefit us to color outside the lines, remove or have no lines. Ni-Cheng shares how lines have shown up in her life, identity, and roles, and where mindfulness, self-compassion, and playful curiosity have helped in changing lines that no longer serve. She shares recent developments as an Integrative Medicine trained pulmonolo...
Jan 22, 2023•27 min
The words we choose matter. What if we modeled healthy, intentionally healing, and loving language in hospitals and medical environments? What words would healing use? What if we opted out of language that creates fear, scarcity, and wartime energy in medical settings? What if we began using words that embody positive, hopeful, helpful, and healing energy? Choosing words with intention is a powerful tool. The default words you use with regularity in all parts of your life also matter. When someo...
Jan 15, 2023•40 min
Lessons from a successful coaching journey. "Coaching is doable, available to everyone, and life-changing." It takes time, but when it becomes a part of you – it results in magic. “I now navigate my days from a more lighthearted, simple, and spacious spot. I see and know magic and the adventure continues.” This is a special guest episode with Karen, one of Jessie’s coaching clients. Karen came to coaching two years ago hoping to learn how to change others so she could feel more comfortable. She ...
Jan 08, 2023•52 min
Effective physician wellness goes well beyond an oxygen mask. Oxygen masks are needed in depressurized planes in the midst of a crisis. If you are in crisis- please do start with an oxygen mask. And then acknowledge that this is just the first step. Oxygen masks are NOT a strategy for sustainable living. They are NOT a strategy for happiness and health. They are NOT the path to love, purpose, peace, and truly living. Our minds, bodies, spirits, and souls all need adequate nourishment in order to...
Jan 01, 2023•25 min
Setting intentions is much more effective as a New Year tradition than making a resolution. It is a mindful practice that has a powerful impact on your life experience. There is no exact right way to set intentions. The act of setting them is where the magic is. Intentions direct your attention and focus in a specific direction. They are a way of calling out a quality or virtue that you want to cultivate more of in your life. Intentions almost always infiltrate into the nooks and crannies of you...
Dec 29, 2022•35 min
Listen to a rerelease of our 2021 podcast to learn how to choose intentions well. Learn why intentions are better than goals, and how to choose them with care and intention. Understand the early version of Jessie's now infamous process of choosing intentional words for the year. Hear about the hazards of goal setting and what you miss when you focus on the outcome rather than the journey, the growth, and the joy. What's magic about intentions is that they also help you to reach desired goals and...
Dec 27, 2022•32 min
Learn how to grow self-trust and approve of yourself. Learn how to stop looking for the answer and instead show up as the answer. Deciding you are doing it right is powerful. Your way to do it is the right way for you. Choose the story you want to tell about yourself. Amazing things happen when you decide to belong Get a coach and go back to basics. Do Thought downloads and practice daily self-coaching Learn to "think in models" Notice "borrowed thoughts" Start living as your future self Build o...
Dec 25, 2022•55 min
A conversation about the value of wellness retreats with Dr. Liz Treynor. Understand why retreat are not luxurious or indulgent but are "responsible." Learn what is special about Nourish & Transform, Connect in Nature and Honoring Diastole. Learn why you shouldn’t miss out on any of them and why Liz will be returning for more retreats in 2023. Hear some of the actionable, implementable, and effective tools Liz learned that she is still practicing today. Retreats offer potent medicine AND joy...
Dec 18, 2022•46 min
People pleasing and fear of rejection are normal human emotions. Mindfulness and self-compassion are the key to coming back home to yourself. What is people pleasing? Doing whatever it takes to make other people happy and putting others' needs ahead of your own- even when it causes you harm. People pleasers are often seen as agreeable, helpful, kind, and highly attuned to others. Underneath people pleasers have trouble advocating for themselves and often have harmful patterns of self-sacrifice a...
Dec 08, 2022•40 min
Finding and maintaining deep connections and friendships is challenging for most high-achieving professional women. If you have difficulties making friends, you are not alone. No matter your age and life stage, it's possible to make new and meaningful connections and friends. In this episode, we discuss a few common thought errors that make friendships harder to find and navigate. Thoughts about not belonging, time scarcity, fear of rejection, people pleasing, fear of failure, worry about what o...
Dec 03, 2022•39 min
"Loving amusement" is a "feeling" that can help you create ease in challenging relationships. Listen to find out how to use this fun tool to create connection and more ease in your life. There is also much to be learned from loving yourself enough to engage in amusement. How might choosing amusement for yourself help you and the others around you? Join us at the Mindful Healthcare Collective if you haven't already. We will be starting monthly Tea and Be sessions to hold space for whatever is pre...
Nov 27, 2022•32 min
A cyber Monday re-release of last year's mindful gifting episode What would love gift? Mindfulness, coaching and intention are antidotes to consumerism, holiday excess, and overwhelm. These tools can help you decrease holiday stress significantly. Gift-giving is an opportunity to reflect on and honor your relationships and your intentions for them. “We don't have to continue traditions that leave us broke, overwhelmed, and tired.”- Joshua Becker, minimalist living. Listen for tips on managing ex...
Nov 25, 2022•32 min
A re-release of last year's pre-Thanksgiving episode. Holidays often bring up stress and family drama. We hope this episode helps you find more calm, peace, and joy no matter your life or family situation. Setting a mindful intention helps you respond and not react, even in the midst of holiday chaos and family drama. Having as few expectations as possible lessens disappointment and allows for curiosity and possibility. Setting yourself up for success is key. Nourish yourself FIRST so that you h...
Nov 24, 2022•29 min
Manure is fertilizer for the most beautiful gardens. Resisting sh*t causes more suffering. If we choose to embrace life’s challenges and sh*tstorms, in a loving and intentional way, we can help ourselves move through sh*tstorms more easefully. Listen to learn how to implement helpful coaching tools and strategies to get through life’s manure piles with more calm and ease. “Our greatest freedom is in how we react to things.” - The Boy the Mole the Fox and the Horse, Charley Mackesy With loving am...
Nov 20, 2022•35 min
Inspired by fall back and the impending transition from fall to winter. In our harried technology-filled lives of the 21st century, our schedules create extra hours of light and artificially lengthen activity, even when the earth’s natural rotation and orbit around the sun changes the duration of natural daylight hours. Animals instinctually change with the seasons. It’s built into their DNA. If they do not change with the seasons, their existence is threatened. Humans override these patterns of...
Nov 13, 2022•28 min
The world will not fall apart if you follow your heart. This podcast came about because we followed our hearts. Its existence required that we quit and declutter other less aligned roles. The word “quit” can be triggering because of the commonly held association between quitting and failure and weakness. Quitting also often brings up guilt. You can decide you are "transitioning", "graduating", and/or "pivoting" instead. Quitting can be seen as winning. It almost always requires immense courage. ...
Nov 06, 2022•41 min
Did you know that the questions you ask yourself shape your mindset, happiness, and overall well-being? While we carefully consider how we ask questions to others—our patients, children, partners, colleagues, and bosses—we often overlook the quality of the questions we ask ourselves. Listen to this episode to understand the power of asking better questions and how this simple shift can help you create more happiness and clarity in your life In this episode of The Mindful Healers Podcast , we exp...
Oct 30, 2022•40 min
What we can learn from water, a solocast with Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang. Water can inspire us to foster well-being. Learn about self-care through hydration, and being on, in, or around natural bodies of water. Enjoy lessons from paddleboarding and paddling on a dragon boat team. And be inspired by the benefits of warm baths and cold plunges. “Nothing is softer or more flexible than water. And yet nothing can resist it.” - Lao Tzu Please share and leave stars and reviews for our podcast to help us sprea...
Oct 23, 2022•28 min
Learn to navigate jealousy. Jealousy does not have to be a problem. It can be a teacher. Until coaching, I saw jealousy through the lens of scarcity and inadequacy and fear. Jealousy is an emotion that sheds light on the things you are interested in, like, want, or are important to you.It doesn’t mean you need something different to be content or that you lack something. Jealousy helps you set your GPS more accurately and notice and connect with your values. It is a learning tool that provides ...
Oct 16, 2022•29 min
What would compassion do? In honor of World Mental Health Day, today's podcast is offered to decrease stigma and normalize mental health struggles in every family. This episode is vulnerably shared to address the huge gap of support for family members of those struggling with their mental health. Jessie shares her wisdom and coaching tips to help family members of those with mental health challenges show up in ways that are truly compassionate and loving - for both themselves AND those they love...
Oct 09, 2022•49 min
Life lessons from the out breath. The exhale shines and spotlights many life lessons. The exhale is passive– the diaphragm relaxes in order to come back to a neutral position to push out the air from our lungs similar to our heart’s diastolic cycle- the relaxation allows the heart to nourish and feed itself. The out breath is a reminder of the many circumstances that you can simply let happen for you, rather than you trying to control. A common guided part of breath meditation is to envision tha...
Oct 02, 2022•31 min
Having human expectations of humans is healthy. This episode invites you to notice where your expectations of yourself and others may be unrealistic, unhealthy, and maybe even harmful. Having human expectations of ourselves is healthy, healing, and an act of compassion. Humans struggle. Humans are messy and perfectly imperfect. Having human expectations of yourself is a powerful act of self-compassion. It's fierce self-compassion. Struggling is not a problem or a weakness. Struggling about strug...
Sep 25, 2022•29 min
Experience live coaching of a loving yet worried physician mom. Witness her shift from spinning in worry and swirling in anxiety to embracing acceptance, compassion, and learning. See how coaching can provide relief when mindfulness does not. When this mom notices how “shoulding” is getting in the way and how compassion helps- she feels more at ease. Most moms want to be supportive and present. Coaching helps you do this. When you reconnect to the belief that no matter what happens more than lik...
Sep 18, 2022•50 min
Hard is not more valuable. Struggle is not more worthwhile. Busy is not better. Recorded on Labor Day, we discuss how the culture of hard, busy, and struggle impede us from living our best, most authentic lives. When you stop valuing being busy and you choose to drop your resistance to the world, you discover flow. High-achieving women often feel that the fight is needed, that it's our job to save the world, and that we are supposed to constantly be busy and fix, change, and manage things. It's ...
Sep 11, 2022•23 min
If you are thinking about it, try it. Mindfulness and coaching are synergistic. They are better together. Today's special guest shares her story as a real-life example of the power and magic of blending mindfulness and coaching. The tools today's guest has found most powerful: the pause, naming emotions, noticing her “shoulds” and reframing her stories about medicine. Her favorite Jessie-isms: What If? Of Course. What would love do? What is her secret weapon for practicing mindfulness and coachi...
Sep 04, 2022•36 min
