An opportunity to learn from and be inspired by another successful coaching journey.

NYU Radiologist Dr. Lucy Modahl shares how she transformed, evolved, and ultimately graduated from coaching.

When she started she was angry, frustrated, and reactive. When she finished she felt lucky, grateful, and happy.

She shares how her previously very strong scarcity mindset shifted into a new belief that she is enough and there is enough.

She shares how coaching was a catalyst for self-confidence and clarity and the tool that helped her finally choose a job where she could thrive.

Once she transitioned into her new out-of-the-box job, ongoing coaching then helped her create a life she loves.

A life that includes practicing medicine in a way she loves, adequate self-care, time with family, and a whole new area of growth for her - exploring her creativity.

Some of the best things Dr. Modahl discovered during coaching:

• Be kind to yourself. You have enough. You are enough;

• Enough is a decision not an amount;

• You can give yourself space to do things you love;

• You can trust that you have something to offer;

• "Down days" are expected;

• Don't bottle up your feelings. Relax and let life flow.

• Listen to yourself and your desires every day

If you are ready to start your own coaching journey, I am here to help! If you are angry frustrated and reactive or anxious, overwhelmed, and exhausted- feeling grateful, lucky, and happy is possible for you too.

If you are in a Transition, consider joining Transition Well Small Group Coaching. This group was an important part of Dr. Modahl's journey and it starts THIS WEEK. https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/transition-well

To find more calm, peace, alignment, and joy, reach out to me directly: www.jessiemahoneymd.com/work-with-me

*Nothing in this episode should be considered medical advice.

A special Father's Day episode with a new father, who also happens to be my son. Slade shares his experience as a young adult navigating new parenthood, graduation, and a job search. We discuss his struggles to practice mindfulness and the importance of following your intuition and listening to yourself. In this podcast, Slade offers the following advice:

3 Tips for New Dads

1. Accept and allow whatever is happening with your baby, your spouse, and yourself;

2. Accept all the family members and other helpers as they are and not who you want them to be;

3. Stay in the moment, but don't beat yourself up when you stray.

7 Tips for Navigating Transitions and Living with Intention

1. Take time to check in with yourself;

2. Be honest with yourself and listen to your intuition;

3. Avoid comparing yourself to others;

4. Stop catastrophizing - most things work out in the end;

5. Know that there will never be "a right time";

6. Create your own journey;

7. Live your decisions fully.

Happy Father's Day to all the fathers and new grads!

Wishing everyone navigating transitions ease, mindfulness, intention, and peace!

If you are embarking on a transition to parenthood or grandparenthood, retirement, entrepreneurship, or a different practice environment, join Jessie for Transition Well Group Coaching. It's FUN, and helpful, and starts June 29th, 2023.

If you want to find calm, contentment, and a clear and meaningful path forward in areas of your life beyond relationships, I invite you to explore private mindful coaching with Dr. Mahoney www.jessiemahoneymd.com

If you want to develop a mindfulness practice, reach out to Dr. Liang www.awakenbreath.org

*Nothing in this episode should be considered medical advice.

Is there a magic bullet to solve burnout? No, wellness looks different for everyone.

We hope you enjoy this lively discussion between Dr. Jessie Mahoney, a long time physician wellness leader, and physician coach and Dr. Karin Shavelson, the Chief Medical Officer at Marin Health.

We talk about the value of retreats, in particular the Honoring Diastole Retreat that Dr. Shavelson recently attended. Her belief is that wellness in a post-pandemic world looks like coming together with others who have shared experiences. Community and connection and people and place are key and that is why retreats offer such value as a wellness intervention.

We encourage the idea that we can all be "students of wellness" including organizational leaders, physician leaders, and everyone on the healthcare team.

Our tips for advocating for institutional wellness funding and increasing engagement in wellness programming

• Attend wellness events and retreats yourself, especially if you are an influential leader

• Attach CME to wellness events

• Talk about the science behind wellness interventions

• Offer lots of creative options

• Use language other than "wellness", "burnout" and "moral injury."

Our tips for improving health and wellness if you are a senior leader

• Talk about struggles, challenges and "what's really happening"

• Acknowledge systemic problems as a root cause

• Be vulnerable about your own experience and what has helped you

• Model healthy boundaries yourself

Join Us:

If you are inspired by Dr. Shavelson's description of Honoring Diastole, please join us at Pie Ranch on either September 24th or October 28th, 2023. www.jessiemahoneymd.com/honoring-diastole

If you don't want to wait till then, or you want to experience a longer mindfulness retreat, join Dr. Liang and Jessie at Green Gulch Farm and Zen Center for The Mindful Healers Retreat, Connect in Nature, July 14-16th. There are only 3 spots left! www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreat-connect-in-nature

If you want to follow in Marin Health, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Stanford, and TPMG's wise footsteps, plan a private retreat for your team or institution. Private retreats are a valuable and meaningful investment in building community, optimism, and hope. They are an opportunity to restore, heal, and grow – as individuals and collectively. Learn more: www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreats-by-design

If retreats aren't your thing, consider mindful physician coaching. It's transformative, fun, and an evidence-based intervention for healing burnout, lessening dissatisfaction, and improving quality of life. Find out more here: www.jessiemahoneymd.com/physician-coaching

*Nothing in this episode should be considered medical advice.

Someone will be disappointed whether you quit or stay.

Make sure you are not the one who is disappointed.

It's normal to worry about burning bridges when you quit.

What if you are building a bridge back to yourself instead?

Quitting is not a failure. It might be a win.

It is often growth and evolution.

Very often we quit when things are no longer "a fit" for this season of our career or our lives.

We step down when things are no longer in alignment with who we are in this moment.

Most of us wait too long to quit.

Quitting, pivoting and stepping back is brave, and courageous.

It is supposed to be hard.

Rather than focusing on "quitting" - a word that often has negative connotations consider instead that you may have had " enough of" something and /or you might be ready to graduate.

Quitting can be one of the most radical acts of self-compassion. And it can be done with intention and grace.

What will the world miss out on if you don't quit?

What will you gain from quitting?

If you are considering quitting, pivoting, or changing course, join Jessie for Transition Well. A small group coaching program for women who are navigating change. The purpose of the group is to help you set yourself up for a healthy and well transition. Traversing change with support is MUCH better. www.jessiemahoneymd.com/transition-well

Not yet ready for a transition- or not sure what you are ready for yet? Ongoing Presence Small group Coaching fro Women Physicians also starts soon. www.jessiemahoneymd.com/ongoing-presence

This is also the last call for the Connect in Nature Retreat. We are happy if you make an in-the-moment decision BUT hotel rooms are at a premium in Marin in the summer because it's so nice there. Don't miss out on a unique and in-person chance to work with both of us, enjoy nature, and earn CME. July 14-16 at Green Gulch Muir Woods.

Leave with a toolbox to help you find clarity and navigate change with grace and presence. www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreat-connect-in-nature

*Nothing in this episode should be considered medical advice.

Reframing, telling better stories, holding dualities, and self-compassion can change things dramatically.

In this episode, Dr. Kelli Bullard Dunn, a colorectal surgeon, shares her experience attending two Nourish & Transform Retreats at Sagrada. Sandwiched in between Kelli also did four months of small group coaching.

She shares how the tools she learned helped her completely transform her thinking, her relationship with her children, her home, and her approach to her career.

Learn what can happen to both your life and your cover letters when you tell "better stories."

Learn about holding dualities, remembering what you like, and what can happen when you step out of all-or-nothing thinking.

Learn how coaching can help you launch and parent young adult children.

Learn how coaching can help you learn to be kind to yourself and grow true self-compassion, especially during times of transition.

Hear how coaching helped Kelli do more of what she loves and less of what she doesn't - at work and at home.

The episode ends with an eye-opening discussion of "fit" and how to process disappointment.

We often make something that is "not a fit" mean that "we are not a fit."

Kelli shares this powerful thought instead: "Maybe we are actually disappointed that they weren't who we hoped they would be."

This thought is the crux of coaching.

We can let others be who they are, we can honor ourselves and our disappointments, and we can move forward with grace, compassion, hope, and intention.

We hope you enjoy this episode.

Transition Well Small Group Coaching begins June 29th www.jessiemahoneymd.com/transition-well

Ongoing Presence for Women Physicians starts July 18th. www.jessiemahoneymd.com/ongoing-presence

What's the difference between them?

In Ongoing Presence we coach on EVERYTHING that women physicians struggle with- marriage, parenting, leadership, practice overwhelm and burnout, charting, unexpected outcomes, communication with colleagues, admins, patients, etc.

In Transition Well we coach on navigating CHANGE with more ease. If you are pivoting, considering a pivot, retiring or considering retiring, going through menopause, launching children, starting a business or a new job, this is the group for you. Mindful coaching offers a myriad of tools to help smooth the journey, lessen the grief and optimize hope and success.

If you want to follow in Kelli's footsteps and become a Sagrada regular, join me for a retreat. There are a few spots in September and November 2023 and Spring 2024 dates are available already too. www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreat-nourish-and-transform

*Nothing in this episode should be considered medical advice.

Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang is joined by special guest Dr. Gail Gazelle, Master Coach, certified mindfulness teacher, faculty at Harvard, and author of her new book Mindful MD. We discuss the synergistic relationship of coaching with mindfulness and how she considers coaching as mindfulness in action.

She highlights the importance that we are not our thoughts and that our thoughts are not necessarily true.

We discuss the impermanence of thoughts, emotions, and body sensations, and how important it is to recognize this, using mindfulness, as a key to our autonomy as healers.

Download a free chapter of her book here: https://gailgazelle.com/mindfulmd

Get additional resources for physician well-being on her website at https://gailgazelle.com

Come practice all of the wisdom and insights shared in this episode in the great outdoors with me and Dr. Jessie Mahoney at our second Mindful Healers Connect in Nature retreat at magical Muir Beach and Muir Woods in July 2023. We still have some openings, but hotel rooms in the area are more limited now, so please decide soon! We would love to have you join us! www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreat-connect-in-nature

If you want to find calm, contentment, and a clear and meaningful path forward, coach with Dr. Mahoney www.jessiemahoneymd.com

If you want to develop a mindfulness practice, reach out to Dr. Liang www.awakenbreath.org

*Nothing in this episode should be considered medical advice.

Reflective writing is a tuning fork for the heart.

It is a portal to deep listening which is necessary to live a whole and healthy life, as healers and as humans.

Today's special guest is Dr. Gail Wright, a pediatric cardiologist and ICU physician who is a disciple of Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen. She is also Jessie's co-leader for the Honoring DIastole Retreats at Pie Ranch in Pescadero, California.

Reflective writing is a tool to help you put down the weight of aloneness, remember your wholeness and voice yourself into being.

Reflective writing is one of the few spaces where we as healers get to have our stories and our hearts be witnessed.

It is also an opportunity to bear witness to others.

Reflective writing is also a tool that invites a sense of possibility, especially when done at the edge of the continent- on a hilltop at Pie Ranch.

If you can write a list you can enjoy reflective writing. You might be surprised at the spaciousness and perspective that the practice of reflective writing inspires.

Join Gail and Jessie at Pie Ranch for a one-day Honoring Diastole Retreat. Join us on a sustainable coastal farm to nourish and heal individually and collectively. Join us to cultivate practices that allow you to open your heart. www.jessiemahoneymd.com/honoring-diastole

One day retreats are especially transformative because they don't separate you too far from your reality. The realization that you don't have to travel too far and you don't have to stay too long to feel significantly better, lighter and healthier is powerful.

Connect with Gail at www.redwoodresilience.com.

Join Saturday writing groups at www.writingmedicine.org.

If you are in transition, coaching is also a super powerful modality to ease the bumps of the journey. Jessie's Transition Well Small Group Coaching Program begins June 29th. www.jessiemahoneymd.com/transition-well

*Nothing in this episode should be considered medical advice.

Gratitude increases happiness, well-being, and a positive mood. Awe and wonder provoke self-diminishment and increased connectedness with other people that may decrease markers of chronic inflammation, increase kindness and generosity.

This episode seeks to inspire you to reflect upon, perhaps even seek out experiences internally and externally that can evoke gratitude, awe, and wonder.

Using mindfulness, we can choose to pay attention and evoke gratitude, awe, and wonder in various environments.

Join us at the Mindful Healers Connect in Nature Retreat which will have ample opportunities to practice gratitude and experience awe and wonder, especially amongst the Giant Redwoods of Muir Woods. Limited spots remain! www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreat-connect-in-nature

If you want to find calm, contentment, and a clear and meaningful path forward in areas of your life beyond relationships, I invite you to explore private mindful coaching with Dr. Mahoney www.jessiemahoneymd.com

If you want to develop a mindfulness practice, reach out to Dr. Liang www.awakenbreath.org

*Nothing in this episode should be considered medical advice.

Our brains and bodies are constantly being bathed in neurochemicals and neuromodulators.

We can bathe ourselves in cortisol, norepinephrine, and stress hormones,

or

we can bathe ourselves in dopamine and oxytocin,

relaxation and love hormones.

We can strategically engage our neurochemistry to help us feel better and enjoy our lives more.

We can intentionally create a healthier "neurochemical soup."

How?

Yoga, mindfulness, hand-to-heart, self-compassion, gratitude, awe, wonder, nature, wildflowers, the ocean, the woods, and coaching-- they all influence the release of neurochemicals and neuromodulators in a positive way.

We can make choices to practice more of these and set ourselves up for success.

We can choose to make each day as healthy as possible by being mindful and intentional about our thoughts and actions so we can bathe our cells in a healthier neurochemical soup.

We can choose NOT to add more struggle to the struggle.

We can choose not to bathe our cells in extra stress.

Stress impacts neuromodulator release.

Mindfulness releases a different, more flavorful soup.

Mindful coaching optimizes the flavor of the soup.

And retreats that offer both mindfulness and coaching have an even bigger, synergistic, impact.

Kindness and self-compassion release a cascade of healing neurochemistry– dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin.

Shame, blame, and guilt release cascades of stress hormones- norepinephrine, cortisol, and others.

Which soup do you want to bathe your cells in?

A 1% or 5% shift in the emotions you feel makes a big difference.

We can train ourselves to look for good,

we can pause, and take in the good in deliberately,

with ALL of our senses.

This influences the release of neurochemicals and neuromodulators in a positive way.

A few practices that can help you try to create a more flavorful soup (all of which we share at our retreats and in Jessie's coaching)

• Start your day well - hand to heart

• Mudita- a Sanskrit practice of taking joy in others' joy

• Smiling

• Cultivating compassion

• Presence

• Loving-kindness practice

• Nature

What's the status of your current neurochemical soup?

What are some of "the flavors" you are used to?

Are there new flavors or recipes for the soup that you would like to try or change?

How might you change something to make your neurochemical soup taste better for you?

We would love to help you create a more optimal neurochemical soup at the upcoming Mindful Healers Connect in Nature Retreat. All adults are welcome, bring your beloveds and friends. CME is available.

You just might leave with the "lowest cortisol levels you have had in years."

If you want to create a healthy neurochemical soup to bathe your cells in sign up to coach with me www.jessiemahoneymd.com. Calm, contentment, and a clear and meaningful path forward are just a few sessions away.

*Nothing in this episode should be considered medical advice

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All "mother" relationships are wonderful AND complicated.

Grandmothering is an extension of mothering.

It includes mothering, being a mother-in-law, and often a daughter too.

These roles encompass the full spectrum of human emotions. They are full of worry, frustration, expectation, resentment, judgment, and self-doubt. They are full of worry about failure. They are also full of intense love, desire, connection, hopes, and dreams.

In this episode, Dr. Jessie Mahoney reflects on approaching both her grandmother and mother roles with mindful intention.

Intention-setting is spiritual, energetic, and strategic.

Intentions take advantage of neurochemicals to impact results.

Intentions focus your attention on what matters most.

And they help smooth and optimize the relationships that matter.

What matters most in your mothering relationships?

Do you want to focus on the fun and the magic or the to-dos and what-ifs?

What might be different if you focused on the awe and wonder?

When you look back 5 years from now, what will you be proud of?

Coaching helps you find joy in all your mothering roles. Reach out if you want to bring more joy, magic, and fun into your mothering roles. www.jessiemahoneymd.com

If you want to develop a mindfulness practice, reach out to Dr. Liang www.awakenbreath.org

*Nothing in this episode should be considered medical advice.

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