Do you think you can’t do yoga? If you’ve ever struggled with yoga, felt like you weren’t “a yogi,” or believed that yoga wasn’t for your body, this episode is for you. Yoga is not about flexibility, contorting into complex poses, or standing on your head. It’s about movement, breath, and nervous system regulation—and with the right approach and teacher, yoga can work for every body, at every stage of life. What Keeps People from Trying Yoga? Many people avoid yoga due to misconceptions about wh...
Aug 04, 2024•39 min
The world needs physician voices. Enjoy a fun conversation with Hilary Blair, founder of Articulate Real & Clear, about how mindfulness, intention, and most of all presence can help anyone, especially doctors, give a great talk. The way we are trained to think as physicians makes public speaking more of a challenge than it should be for most physicians. We are trained to: worry what others will think of us fear judgment, rejection, and shame talk fast and "not waste time" always share as muc...
Jul 28, 2024•48 min
What is forest bathing? How does forest bathing impact mental health? How does it impact physical health? Nature is medicine. Forest = For Rest There have been many studies to show that forest bathing and simply being in nature is a way to decrease stress and improve well-being. It improves mental and physical health conditions. It impacts both our vital signs and our outlook. Dr. Suzanne Bartlett Hackenmille, MD, FACOG, ABoIM is board-certified in integrative medicine and ObGyn. She has additio...
Jul 21, 2024•48 min
If you struggle with public speaking or you want to share your message more succinctly and more powerfully, listen to this episode. Diana Dresser, Jessie’s speaking coach this past winter, is our special guest. Diana is a self-described theater nerd and actress. We offer helpful tools and a new understanding of how working with a coach on speaking, and everything else in life, helps. What makes a talk compelling? Practice, the courage to be vulnerable, and a willingness to show more of yourself....
Jul 14, 2024•49 min
Have you been ill and thought “I can tough this out” or “I don’t want to bother anyone?” When you seek care, do you apologize for the inconvenience and/or feel the need to justify why? In this episode, we normalize that it is hard for physicians to seek timely medical attention. We name some of the potential causes and share ideas about how you might take sooner action when it comes to addressing your own healthcare needs. The deep indoctrination of putting others' needs above our own is hard to...
Jul 07, 2024•47 min
I LOVE helping physicians get back to loving what they trained for so long and so hard to do. Coaching and retreats are amazing tools to accomplish this outcome. It's possible even in medicine today. Even if you are in primary care. And even if you have been practicing for a long time and are exhausted. Lara shares how embracing authenticity and a positive mindset helped her get back to both joy-filled patient care and professional fulfillment. At a retreat in 2022, Lara learned how to listen to...
Jun 30, 2024•49 min
Do you want to know how to create vitality through simple daily choices? What does a sustainable life with vitality mean? How do you actually make a sustainable lifestyle happen? Dr. Siri Chand Khalsa, MD, MS, founder and CEO of Chandrima is a pioneering force in the realm of integrative, Ayurvedic, and lifestyle medicine. With over three decades of education, training, and clinical experience, Dr. Khalsa has dedicated her career to bridging the gap between traditional and modern healthcare prac...
Jun 23, 2024•51 min
This episode answers a question I get often- Do I coach men? The answer is yes! I am a mom of three young adult men, the sister of two brothers, and a wife. I am surrounded by men. As an institutional wellness leader for over twenty years, I worked with all comers. In honor of Father’s Day, Dr. Adam Was, joins me to chat about how coaching, which he came to primarily for help with career decision-making, also helped his family life. He shares the perspective of a physician dad, in a dual-physici...
Jun 16, 2024•48 min
Do you struggle with family dinners? Would you like to enjoy drama-free mealtimes? Are your children picky eaters? Find more peace and presence around the dinner table. Listen to this discussion about how families can gather, cook, and eat healthier together. Dr. Jaclyn Albin, a med-peds physician at UT Southwestern joins us today. She is the director of the culinary medicine program, an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and practices primary care across the lifespan. She ...
Jun 13, 2024•47 min
Wishing is not indulgent or fluff. Wishing is powerful, strategic, and fun. Alexa Fisher is the founder of Wishbeads “the original intention-setting jewelry.” Her Wishbead bracelets are an integral part of my retreat business. My personal Wishbead bracelets are partly responsible for my big wish (dream) coming to fruition recently. Wishing is a form of intention setting. As such it releases motivational neurochemicals such as dopamine and acetylcholine. Wishes don't just happen. They require cou...
Jun 09, 2024•54 min
Dreams are available to all of us but they don’t just happen by wishing, hoping, or luck. In this episode, Jessie shares how she manifested her dream of owning her own retreat space. She was inspired by others fulfilling their dreams. They helped her know that fulfilling one's dreams is possible. In sharing her journey she hopes to be the person who inspires you to pursue your dreams. How do you manifest a dream? What are important and replicable steps to manifesting a dream? Believe in yourself...
Jun 02, 2024•42 min
“What do you think is the biggest waste of time?" "Comparing yourself to others," said the mole.” ― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Do you compare yourself to others? Feel like you don’t belong or are lesser than? In groups, do you feel like you are behind or don’t measure up? In this episode, we discuss the compare and despair mentality and its costs. We hope to help you finally let go of this expensive habit Our brain thinks comparing ourselves helps us and pushes us ...
May 26, 2024•44 min
When you decide to make a pivot as big as leaving your medical practice after 20 years expect scary. It takes time and courage. And, it just might turn out better than you expect. Even if your husband has an unexpected cancer diagnosis right in the middle of your transition. Coaching, mindfulness, and taking a pause helped Dr. Wazeka leave her employed pediatric pulmonary job, navigate her husband’s cancer diagnosis, and send her oldest daughter off to college with grace and equanimity. In this ...
May 19, 2024•47 min
Do you feel under-appreciated for your efforts on behalf of your family, your patients, and/or your institutions? Have your expectations of others in expressing their love, thanks, and appreciation been mismatched with what you perceive is "right" or deserved? Listen for tools, strategies, and a framework of understanding to help you move forward with mindfulness and compassion. Feeling not appreciated enough is usually a case of mismatched expectations and beliefs. We have an idea of what other...
May 10, 2024•30 min
Have you said “I’m sorry” even though the circumstance wasn’t your fault? Have you started off a conversation or a presentation with “I’m sorry?” Do you say "Sorry I’m running behind", "Sorry for taking up space or time in a group session", "Sorry for crying", "Sorry for not understanding", or "Sorry I am not available"? Listen to understand why you over-apologize and the impact it can have on your life, health, and happiness. Learn about common situations where you don’t need to apologize and m...
May 05, 2024•35 min
An amusing discussion about mindful decision-making with 18-year-old Liam Mahoney, a high school senior. In this episode, Liam shares his college decision-making process . He showcases his extremely abundant mindset, his positivity bias, and why he chose to become a UC Berkeley 2028 rather than a UCLA 2028. Liam shares how he made an authentic decision for himself despite conflicting advice from his two brothers and his grandparents. He shares why he didn’t let the opinions of his peers influenc...
Apr 28, 2024•36 min
Words of wisdom from a professional pivoter. In today's episode, we delve into the transformative power of pivoting in both life and career. Dr. Jillian shares strategies for embracing change, giving yourself permission, and learning to put your opinion above the opinion of others. Trigger warning: Blunt mentions of suicide and eating disorders occur in this episode. Giving yourself permission to pivot is hard. Societal pressures often lead us astray from what truly matters. We spend a lot of ti...
Apr 21, 2024•41 min
Life, relationships, and medicine are full of urgency mismatches. Their urgency is not your urgency. Your urgency may also not be their urgency. Many things that feel urgent aren't urgent. How often do you receive emails and texts from someone wanting something from you urgently ? What story do you tell about it? How do you feel when you receive these messages? Do you feel anxious, resentful, resistant, maybe even angry? How often is it truly urgent? We live in a society with a lot of unnecessar...
Apr 14, 2024•33 min
Are you sometimes overwhelmed and depleted by the demands of caregiving for both your parents and your children? Does caregiving wear you down or cause stress and anxiety? Do you think YOU have to do it all? The inspiration for this podcast is the very full plate that we have both been living as caregivers for both aging parents and our own children. We invite you to approach this abundance of caregiving with love, self-compassion, mindfulness and intention. If you can, you will likely find much...
Apr 07, 2024•42 min
Our special guest for this episode is Dr. Sogol Pahlavan. She is a board-certified pediatrician and a physician mindfulness coach, and TEDx speaker, co-founder of SoulpreneurMD and host of the Mindful Living Podcast. She’s a mother, a wife, a daughter of immigrant parents, and a managing partner of a pediatric clinic. She shares her journey of recognizing when she had burned out and the path she took to find her current state of calm, ease, and joy, and how mindfulness was interwoven into it. Sh...
Mar 31, 2024•46 min
The legal system is not medicine. Very little is in your control in a medicolegal cases. What is in your control? How you respond and whether you get help and support along the way. Mindfulness, self-compassion, therapy, and coaching are all key to staying as healthy, balanced, and buoyant as possible. Lawsuits pull the rug out from under physicians. There is trauma behind every curve. Lawsuits bring out the harmful side of our common default thought patterns as physicians. Many physicians who e...
Mar 24, 2024•1 hr 1 min
"The life you lead are the lessons that you teach." Do you wish you had a more abundant mindset? Do you wish you were better at supporting other women and colleagues? Do you want to share mindfulness and coaching with loved ones and colleagues but struggle to do so effectively? Dr. Miriam Rhew is a pediatrician and an unconditional supporter of friends and colleagues. She is a most effective influencer of family members, friends, and colleagues when it comes to mindfulness and wellness. Dr. Rhew...
Mar 17, 2024•35 min
We all “work” with our spouses all the time - we just don’t realize it. Even if you don’t run an actual business or LLC together, you work together as parents and intimate partners. Running a home and family is the equivalent of a small business. To work better with your spouse: Show up with mindful intention Choose the tone and energy you want to bring Communicate clearly and explicitly. Even if your spouse knows you really well, they still can't read your mind Set yourself up for success with ...
Mar 13, 2024•44 min
Do you want your child to do and be more than what they are capable of? Have you yourself been indoctrinated into toxic achievement culture? Would you like to break free from the constraints of toxic achievement culture for yourself and your children? This episode is another in the Parent with Presence series. Our intention is to call out and identify toxic achievement culture and how, to some extent, most of us have been indoctrinated into it. Through mindfulness and self compassion, we can not...
Mar 10, 2024•25 min
It is very hard for those of us in medicine to pause or slow down. We were trained and acculturated to think that the pause and rest are not worthwhile. We were trained to think that pausing and resting is complacent and/or lazy. If we were to pause or rest we would definitely fall behind. In actuality-- the more you do the more you need to rest. Our society glorifies busy, empty, and exhausted. We are addicted to busyness and productivity. This leads us to burnout, exhaustion, frustration, and ...
Mar 03, 2024•39 min
Do you think there is a right and wrong way to go about change? And/or a right or wrong time to change? Is the fear of making a mistake holding you back from change? When you are “successful” it is harder to change. What makes charge hard for those trained in medicine? We assume negative outcomes and tend to catastrophize. We focus on negative what if’s and we don’t like uncertainty. We like control, plans, and evidence-based action. We tend to be people pleasers and don't want to disappoint. We...
Feb 28, 2024•32 min
What is good medicine? What is the medicine you actually need? How do you want to live? Who is your Obi-Won-Kenobi teacher? Who are you? What does it mean to be upright in your life? How do we create connections? We discuss all this and more in this very special guest episode with Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison who is Co-Founder, President, & Guiding Teacher of the New York Zen Center an educational non-profit dedicated to integrating contemplative approaches to care with contemporary medicine....
Feb 25, 2024•54 min
Do you and your partner have different levels of sexual desire? Do libido differences cause tension in your relationship? Do you feel guilt, blame or shame about your desire for sex? Studies show that a lack of interest in sex is by far the most common and distressing sexual problem. When sex suffers, so do all other areas of life. The brain is our most powerful sex organ." Take a listen to Episode 88 with Dr. Kelly Casperson to learn more. As such, mindfulness and coaching are key to finding so...
Feb 18, 2024•41 min
How might you care for your heart? What if you made your relationship with yourself your primary focus? This episode focuses on heart-centered approaches to life, love, and health. We discuss why we are committed to growing love, practicing love, and celebrating love. We outline what you can do to care for your heart – physically, spiritually, and emotionally. We share how to grow self-compassion and we offer acts of kindness, self-acceptance, self-compassion and self-love. Practicing mindfulnes...
Feb 14, 2024•32 min
Happy Lunar New Year! Welcome to the Year of the Wood Dragon. The Dragon is an auspicious creature that symbolizes vitality, vision, vigor, power, nobility, honor, luck, and success. ( chinahighlights.com ). Dragon years are defined by momentum . The element is wood, which fuels flames and enhances the intensity and instability of the dragon. Globally, a Wood Dragon year might mean that things might get a bit turbulent, progress will come, but it might not be smooth. The lesson isn’t about compr...
Feb 10, 2024•20 min
