The Mindful Healers Podcast with Dr. Jessie Mahoney and Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang Dr. Jessie Mahoney and Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang

 
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 others should do to appreciate us.
We also believe that they should know what will make us feel appreciated.
We expect others to read our minds and be fair.
Your expectations may or may not be reasonable- even if they feel 100 percent reasonable to you. Even if they are reasonable they may or not be feasible or possible.
Could you drop your expectations and decide to enjoy the day (and your life) moment by moment exactly as they are?
If you are not happy then, choose to stay, choose to keep doing what you are doing - or not.
If you decide to stay for now, notice how others show you appreciation, even if it doesn’t look like you think it should.
Need help with this?
Small group coaching and retreats are the answer.
Move beyond consuming this amazing podcast. True change happens when you work with us - virtually and/or in person. www.jessiemahoneymd.com; www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreats
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*Nothing shared in the Mindful Healers Podcast is medical advice.
 
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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 mindful and strategic tips to help you stop overapologizing.
 
What if, instead of apologizing you said:
"Thank you for waiting"
"I appreciate your patience"
"Hope you enjoyed a pause while helped someone else."
"I’m curious about.."
"I would love to know more about ..."
"I wish you felt better."
"I wish it was different ."
 
Listen to learn more tips.
When have you apologized where you didn’t need to?
Why did you apologize?
What were the thoughts, emotions, and body sensations that led to the apology?
 
Mindful coaching is super helpful to let go of habits such as over-apologizing. Intentional language is a game changer in improving your health, happiness, and the way you feel and move through the world. 
We encourage you to enjoy this episode’s mindful moment: Gratitude as an Antidote.
Move beyond consuming this amazing podcast. True change happens when you work with us - virtually and/or in-person.
Coach with Jessie - 1:1, in topic-focused small groups, or at a retreat. www.jessiemahoneymd.com
Work with both of us in person at The Mindful Healers Annual Retreat www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreats
Hire one or both of us to speak or lead a workshop. Jessie's superpwoer is creating team retreats, teaching yoga, and offering experiential mindfulness for teams, groups, grand rounds, and at conferences.
www.jessiemahoneymd.com/mindful-healers-podcast
www.awakenbreath.org 
www.jessiemahoneymd.com/speaking
*Nothing shared in the Mindful Healers Podcast is medical advice.
 
#physicianwellness #mindfulnesscoach #pauseandpresence #physiciancoach
 

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 influence his decision. He also shares what parents can do to be helpful to their children and young adults in the decision-making process.  
Our discussion also touches on the luck factor, the strategy of having your own back, consulting your future self, connecting with who you want to become, and the value of patience and sitting with a made decision for a while. 
We hope you will leave inspired, amused, and better equipped for your next big decision.
“Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.” - Paul Coehlo, The Alchemist
*special thanks to Dr. Monica Sood for sharing this quote right before we recorded this episode.
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Move beyond consuming this amazing podcast. True change happens when you work with us - virtually and/or in-person.
Coach with Jessie - 1:1, in topic-focused small groups, or at a retreat. www.jessiemahoneymd.com
Work with both of us in person at The Mindful Healers Annual Retreat www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreats
Hire one or both of us to speak or lead a workshop on any topic covered in the Mindful Healers Podcast. We also create team retreats, teach yoga, and offer experiential mindfulness for teams, groups, grand rounds, institutions, and conferences.
www.jessiemahoneymd.com/mindful-healers-podcast
www.awakenbreath.org 
www.jessiemahoneymd.com/speaking
*Nothing shared in the Mindful Healers Podcast is medical advice.
#physicianwellness #mindfulnesscoach #pauseandpresence #physiciancoach #howtochooseacollege #berkeley2028
 

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 time in our lives worrying about crap that doesn't actually matter.
Ask yourself these questions:
Are my current actions aligned with my current goals and aspirations?
Am I open to embracing change, or do I tend to resist it?
What pivotal moments have I experienced in my own life or career and what would I do differently?
Career paths are rarely linear, and sometimes it's necessary to pivot to pursue new passions or align with our changing priorities.
In medicine, we are told that pivoting is equal to failure. What if it is actually success?
We hope you enjoy this special guest episode.  Find more about Dr. Jillian Rigert at www.jillianrigertcoaching.com. https://www.youtube.com/@JillianRigertDMDMD https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillian-rigert/
Listen to Jessie as a guest on Dr. Jillian's YouTube channel A Life True to You here.  We discuss Sustainable Well-being.
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Move beyond consuming stories and information. True change happens when you do the work - virtually and/or in-person.
Coach with Jessie - 1:1, in topic-focused small groups, or at a retreat. www.jessiemahoneymd.com Work with both of us in person at The Mindful Healers Annual Retreat www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreats Hire one or both of us to speak or lead a workshop on any topic covered in the Mindful Healers Podcast. We also create team retreats, teach yoga, and offer experiential mindfulness for teams, groups, grand rounds, institutions, and conferences.  www.awakenbreath.org , www.jessiemahoneymd.com/speaking *Nothing shared in the Mindful Healers Podcast is medical advice.
#physicianwellness #mindfulnesscoach #pauseandpresence #physiciancoach #burnout
 
 

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 unnecessary urgency. Medicine is full of necessary and unnecessary urgency.
Urgency, necessary or not has a huge emotional and energetic cost. 
 
Listen to learn how to be discerning about urgency. Learn how to navigate urgency, whether it be the urgency of others or your own, with more grace and ease.
Move beyond consuming this amazing podcast.
True change happens when you work with us - virtually and/or in person.
Coach with Jessie - 1:1, in topic-focused small groups, or at a retreat. www.jessiemahoneymd.com
Work with both of us at The Mindful Healers Annual Retreat www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreats
Hire one or both of us to speak or lead a workshop on any topic covered in the Mindful Healers Podcast.
We also create team retreats, teach yoga, and offer experiential mindfulness for teams, groups, grand rounds, institutions, and conferences.
www.jessiemahoneymd.com/mindful-healers-podcast
www.awakenbreath.org 
www.jessiemahoneymd.com/speaking
*Nothing shared in the Mindful Healers Podcast is medical advice.
 
#physicianwellness #mindfulnesscoach #pauseandpresence #physiciancoach
 

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 more spaciousness and ease. 
Some recommendations we share in this episode:
Notice stories of time scarcity and uncomfortable emotions. When difficult emotions and body sensations arise, notice them.  Feeling frazzled, rushed, and unsettled is reasonable, maybe even expected.
Accept and allow discomfort and uncomfortable. Accept and allow busy, unmet expectations, conflicting emotions, and different opinions. Accept and don’t like this season of abundant caregiving. Resisting the reality of the situation is expensive emotionally and energetically.
Stay out of judgment. Rather than blaming yourself, or any of your loved ones, simply acknowledge the challenges of a complex situation and a full life. 
Take a pause. Pause and breathe. Pause and be present. Pause and take a break.
Practice kindness and self-compassion. What would kindness do? What would love do?
Care for yourself as well. Acknowledge and prioritize your own well-being and the potential need for blank space. Even though physicians are experts at caregiving, we also have human needs. 
Ask for help. Getting help helps. Enlist other family members and give yourself permission to not be THE ONE to do it all. Step out of, self sacrifice, martyrdom, and toxic independence.
Connect with gratitude for having an abundance of loved ones of all ages, resources, knowledge, and skills.
Think generously.  Assume good intent. Tell loving stories. Practice loving amusement.
Stay out of over-responsibility, perfectionism, and people-pleasing. 
Practice boundaries from a place of love.
Prioritize yourself and your human needs first. No one else will.
Move beyond consuming this amazing podcast.
True change happens when you work with us - virtually and/or in person.
Coach with Jessie - 1:1, in topic-focused small groups, or at a retreat. www.jessiemahoneymd.com
Work with both of us in person at The Mindful Healers Annual Retreat www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreats
Or retreat with Jessie at Sagrada or Pie Ranch. While it might seem like you don't have time for a retreat. You just might not have time not to retreat. The benefits can be lifesaving.
Hire one or both of us to speak or lead a workshop on any topic covered in the Mindful Healers Podcast. We also create team retreats, teach yoga, and offer experiential mindfulness for teams, groups, grand rounds, institutions, and conferences.
www.jessiemahoneymd.com/mindful-healers-podcast
www.awakenbreath.org 
www.jessiemahoneymd.com/speaking
*Nothing shared in the Mindful Healers Podcast is medical advice.
 
#physicianwellness #mindfulnesscoach #pauseandpresence #physiciancoach