Learning to Hold Space and Compassion for Yourself In this episode, Dr. Yvonne Juarez, a pediatrician and physician leader at TPMG, shares her transformative journey of self-compassion, personal growth, and professional renewal. Yvonne and Jessie’s friendship spans decades—they completed their pediatric residency together from 1999-2002 and both built their medical and leadership careers at TPMG. After years apart, they reconnected when Yvonne attended a Pause & Presence Coaching, Yoga, Mind...
Feb 09, 2025•45 min
Women physicians face pressure to give away their expertise for free, and feel intense guilt and discomfort when we say "no." This episode encourages all women physicians to reflect on how they give and receive help. We teach others to value us when we celebrate the value we bring to the table, set better boundaries, and stop undervaluing our time. There is a cost to “free” advice. When we value ourselves, others will follow suit. Women in medicine are socialized to be helpful at all costs. This...
Feb 06, 2025•44 min
When we hide our rejections, we become small. When we talk about them, the rejections become small. Today’s special guest is Dr. Sasha Shillcutt, a trailblazer in both medicine and women's empowerment. Dr. Shillcutt is a cardiac anesthesiologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and the founder and CEO of Brave Enough, a community dedicated to empowering women. Along with being a researcher, speaker, author, wife, and mom of four, Dr. Shillcutt is an advocate for gender equity ...
Feb 02, 2025•48 min
Are you absorbing too much of the system’s inefficiencies? Are You Taking on Too Much? Listen to learn about: Overcoming healthcare stress and how to stay compassionate without burning out" How to navigate healthcare challenges without overwhelm In this episode of The Mindful Healers Podcast, Dr. Jessie Mahoney and Dr. Ni Cheng Liang explore how to navigate healthcare-related stress with intention, presence, and boundaries. Healthcare is an incredibly human profession, full of complexity and cha...
Jan 30, 2025•45 min
Have you and/or your loved ones been rattled, disgusted, angered, saddened, and/or scared this past week? Discomfort is normal. It’s possible to find calm, more agency, and approach the current situations with clarity and intention when you expect and accept what’s happening. “Of Course” you feel rattled, upset, and scared. Of course, this is happening the way it is. Expect It Should you have expected something different? We may have hoped it would be different, but nothing happening is unexpect...
Jan 25, 2025•38 min
A deep dive into how to navigate the overwhelming uncertainty and change we’re experiencing in the world today. From unprecedented natural disasters to major political transitions, many of us are feeling unsettled, unsafe, and anxious. How do we move forward with clarity and calm, rather than getting lost in fear and catastrophizing? Embrace Uncertainty: With so much beyond our control, how do we find a sense of grounding? The Power of Acceptance: Accepting the present moment, even when it’s unc...
Jan 19, 2025•37 min
Grown, Not Done – The Evolution of Adulthood Growth doesn’t stop when we reach a certain age. Just as children grow and change, so do we. But what’s different now? How do we act, think, and live differently as we evolve? Welcome to Grown, Not Done ( or The Evolving Adult, if you prefer ), a podcast that explores the ongoing journey of self-discovery and transformation throughout adulthood. Because life is about more than just reaching milestones—it’s about continuing to learn, shift, and redefin...
Jan 12, 2025•37 min
It’s a celebration! The Mindful Healers Podcast turns 4, and in this special episode, we take a moment to pause, reflect, and celebrate how far we've come. It’s easy to focus on what still needs to be done, but today, we’re flipping that narrative. We’re celebrating the wins, the lessons, and the incredible journey of this podcast and community. What We’ve Done Well: A Look Back at 4 Years of Growth This episode reflects on the evolution of the Mindful Healers Podcast and what we’re most proud o...
Jan 05, 2025•45 min
This episode invites you to stop living from a place of inadequacy and instead embrace your inherent worth. By letting go of judgment and stepping into mindfulness, you can make decisions from a place of power, confidence, and authenticity. Jessie dives into one of the most common challenges many healthcare professionals face: the feeling of being "not enough." Whether it’s feeling unworthy, inadequate, or undeserving, these thoughts can hold us back from living and performing at our highest lev...
Dec 29, 2024•24 min
From Overcommitted to Empowered: A Life-Changing Practice for Women Physicians Women—especially women physicians—are high-functioning, capable, and deeply committed. We take on too much, believing everything is our job. While this benefits others in the short term, no one wins in the long run. The result? Exhaustion, overwhelm, and over-functioning. But what if you let go of unreasonable expectations? What if you stopped carrying what isn’t yours to hold? In this episode, Dr. Jessie Mahoney expl...
Dec 22, 2024•33 min
Our annual episode on the value and process of choosing intention words. In it, we share a tremendously valuable process we both now use every fall. We choose three words for the upcoming year. Setting intentions is science-based. Simply setting an intention gives your brain something to filter your experiences through. It’s like setting your GPS. Without a focus, our brains naturally go to the negative. We have shared three previous episodes on this same topic. 169. Setting Yourself Up for Succ...
Dec 15, 2024•49 min
Today we share helpful lessons to help you navigate family gatherings with less stress. Are you feeling a bit of anxiety and/or nervous anticipatory energy, maybe even unease, or dread? Are there potential or recurrent disagreements or points of contention that often arise when spending time with loved ones? Do you sometimes feel like an outsider or disconnected at family gatherings? Are holidays much better now than they ever have been? Are you often still somewhat disappointed after family gat...
Dec 08, 2024•47 min
Gratitude is much more complex than looking on the bright side. Gratitude and mindfulness often feel overused in wellness conversations. They are often thrown out as the answer to just about everything. Synonyms for gratitude include appreciation, thankfulness, acknowledgment, recognition, credit, regard, and respect. Interestingly gratitude is also listed as a synonym for a sense of obligation and indebtedness. For many practicing gratitude leads to feelings of guilt. There are many things many...
Dec 01, 2024•48 min
There is no recipe or rule book to start your dream practice. Dr. Anna Dowling, an ObGyn, joins us for a second time. In this episode, she shares her journey building a dream solo practice called Birth Story Obstetrics. Her first podcast episode was 155. Become Your Future Self. In today's episode, she shares what she found helpful in manifesting a practice that is fun and meaningful. Key to her success was setting up a team of supporters and helpers - a coach, her spouse, and friends who believ...
Nov 24, 2024•1 hr 2 min
An episode about what to do in challenging and disappointing moments. You may have noticed that we did not record a new episode last week. We opted to model self compassion and kindness in the face of laryngitis, back to back retreats, and a volleyball championship. After 225 weekly episodes we decided to give ourselves grace. The election was a pivotal moment of seeing what is. It was a clarifying moment. Mindfulness is a key component to moving forward with grace and ease. It is essential in d...
Nov 18, 2024•38 min
Being off kilter is a normal part of the human experience at least some of the time. Mindfulness and self-compassion offer opportunities to notice, show yourself compassion, and re-align. Getting help helps. Enjoy Jessie modeling how getting help helps. Listen as Ni-Cheng demonstrates mindful inquiry and how to explore body sensations, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. What might be helpful when you next find yourself off-balance Sunshine Yoga Exercise/movement Nature Music Human connection Nam...
Nov 03, 2024•47 min
What does non-striving in mindfulness mean? What is the invitation of non-striving? Why might you want to try it? Non-striving isn't about giving up aspirations and goals, it is about letting go. Letting go of control, of needing things to be a certain way, and/or to get a certain outcome. Non Striving is about patience, peace, presence, joy and transformation. Instead of constantly doing, non-striving is about focusing on being. Non-striving is allowing yourself to experience the moment without...
Oct 27, 2024•36 min
Are you sitting on a nail and not changing due to the fear of the discomfort of removing that nail? Discomfort, pain, and struggle feel familiar to most of us. We may not notice we are sitting on a nail. If we do, we are often so accustomed to discomfort we stay on the nail anyway. Transition and pivots, ie gettign of the nail are even more uncomfortable, even when they ultimately offer more freedom and space. Things often have to get SO bad before we are willing “give in” and change. What if we...
Oct 20, 2024•34 min
Do you feel like you are growing faster than your organization has space for? Are your roots trying to grow out the bottom of your pot? Dr. Holly MacKenna is the Founder of Dara Wellness an Integrative Psychiatry practice in New Orleans. She is Board Certified in Integrative Medicine and Psychiatry. She also has additional certifications in Helms auricular acupuncture and non-touch and distance Reiki. Dr. MacKenna shares the story of starting her integrative practice right before the Covid pande...
Oct 13, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Nourishing our mind, bodies, and spirits “well” feels amazing! Why do we talk about it as a task or something that requires discipline? What if we talked about lifestyle medicine and healthy eating as fun, indulgent, and part of a well-lived life? What if we moved exercise from the chore column to the gift column? You don’t need to exercise. You want to and you get to. When you feel great you make better decisions, you are more productive and happier as well as healthier. Great cooks make health...
Oct 06, 2024•35 min
Trees offer tremendous wisdom. In coaching, I often talk about setting an intention to be like a tree for upcoming difficult meetings or conversations. Being like a tree is a surprisingly effective leadership and life strategy. At the Connect in Nature Mindful Healers Retreat a few weeks ago, one of my intentions was to encourage others to be more tree . Specifically to : Draw strength from others. Ask for help when you need it. Be authentic. Attend to your core. Don't be afraid to branch out. G...
Sep 29, 2024•40 min
During times of stress or discomfort old and often maladaptive habits resurface. Many of these habits originate in our childhoods. This episode sheds light on “reparenting”- what it is and how it can help you meet needs that went unmet in childhood. The intention of reparenting is to move towards healing by creating new healthier patterns. Are there circumstances from your childhood that felt out of your control and like they harmed you? Might they be influencing your behavior as an adult? “Repa...
Sep 22, 2024•40 min
Every parent traverses into the space having an empty nest at some point. We want it to happen and we don’t. If it's not happening we worry. If it is happening we worry. This episode belongs in both the Parenting with Presence and Transition Well series. Jessie shares about her first week transitioning to an empty nest. The first week of a big life change is, “of course”, filled with intense and often conflicting emotions. It was a bit like landing in a foreign country. How you feel may be unexp...
Sep 15, 2024•24 min
Enjoy this Curious About Coaching session and learn about the art of intention setting. Choosing the tone and energy with which you show up is a life changing way to approach challenging situations. How a plane lands is determined long before the wheels touch the ground. It takes awareness, attention, focus, and intention to land with safety and grace. If a plane pilot were to not approach a runway with care and planning, the outcome would likely not be optimal. What if you determined “your appr...
Sep 11, 2024•21 min
We often think we can’t pivot because "what if" …? What if the job I pick doesn't work out? What if my wife gets cancer? Last year, Dr. Rakesh Jotwani shared his journey leaving a long-time employed hospitalist position to pivot to lifestyle medicine. Listen to that episode Mindfulness Can Lead You to a Plant-Based Diet and a Fulfilling Career here. When we take a risk and make a big change, we all worry about the possibility of catastrophic "what if's". In this encore episode, Dr. Rakesh Jotwan...
Sep 08, 2024•42 min
Listen to this Curious About Coaching Session with Dr. Jessie Mahoney to learn how to discern when something is unreasonable, what you can do about your own unreasonable expectations of yourself, and what you can do when others have unreasonable expectations of you. Most high achievers have unreasonable and/or unrealistic expectations of themselves. As parents, children, physicians, friends, and members of society. We were also trained in professional schools to have unreasonable expectations of...
Sep 06, 2024•31 min
Are you frustrated by the constraints that the current healthcare system places on physicians? Is your well-being jeopardized by challenges at work? Would you like to embody practicing whole-hearted medicine? Dr. Michelle Biehl’s inspirational story will galvanize you to feel empowered to take steps towards both living and practicing medicine wholeheartedly. Dr. Michelle Biehl is a pulmonary and critical care physician at the Cleveland Clinic. She is the founder of the Post-ICU Recovery Clinic a...
Sep 01, 2024•52 min
We don't like to disappoint people or be disappointed and we especially don't like it when our children are disappointed. Liam Mahoney is back for an encore episode. Listen to hear Liam’s story of navigating a big and unexpected disappointment. Hear how Jessie, as his mother, navigated his disappointment. Leave with some gold nuggets of advice to ease the bumps of frustration and anger that arise when we face disappointment. Our own or someone else’s. Coaching and mindfulness have dramatically c...
Aug 25, 2024•52 min
Do you find yourself frustrated when others show up late? Do you make it mean that others don’t respect you or don’t care when their “timing” and way of working through to-do lists, planning, and chores is different than yours? We hope this episode will leave you feeling liberated from chronic frustrations around timing, urgency, and the preferred paces of others. We all have different inner rhythms and preferences. Many of us were taught that there is a right and/or wrong way and/or a “polite” ...
Aug 18, 2024•30 min
Do you think you don't practice mindfulness “right?" Are you concerned about not being able to “clear your mind?" Does your inability to practice mindfulness the way you think you should make you feel anxious, guilty, or like a failure? Do you have a list of reasons why you think mindfulness doesn't work for you? This episode addresses all of these questions and more. Mindfulness is accessible to anyone, anytime, anywhere, doing or not doing anything at all. Mindfulness is the basic human abilit...
Aug 11, 2024•28 min
