Mindfulness is available to anyone, anytime, anywhere. Mindfulness is a skill that is innately in us as human beings.

Mindfulness is oftentimes introduced as a "tool." In actuality, it is an intentionally created lifestyle that can seep into all the nooks and crannies of your life- if you practice it and if you let it. Choosing to live a mindful life takes practice, learning, AND un-learning.

Mindfulness is about being rather than doing. It is a lifestyle. It takes advantage of the power of your mind, the power in the pause, and the power in being present.

Learn about opportunities to work with us to cultivate a mindful life for yourself at: https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/mindful-healers-podcast

If you work in healthcare, join us in the Mindful Healthcare Collective Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1443705385809109/

or at mindfulhealthcarecollective.com.

If you do not work in healthcare but are inspired to join us on this journey, join the Mindful Healing Collective Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindfulhealingcollective/insights/?section=members

Learn about in-depth mindfulness offerings with Dr. Liang at www.awakenbreath.org

Learn to create more calm, ease, and a meaningful path forward in your life through private mindful coaching with Dr. Mahoney at https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/

*Nothing in the Mindful Healers Podcast should be considered medical advice.

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Episode 09: Yoga as Medicine – Healing Your Body and Mind On and Off the Mat

Yoga is not about being able to do a headstand. It's not about achievement, mastering a perfect pose, or even the aesthetics of a beautiful yoga studio.

Yoga is about healing, nourishment, learning, compassion, and growth. It is about showing up for yourself, wherever you are, and using movement, breath, and presence to create balance, clarity, and resilience.

Yoga Is a Practice – Not Just Exercise

Yoga is the integration of body and mind.

✅ It is not about the pose—it's about who you become in the pose. ✅ What you do with your body has a profound effect on what you do with your mind. ✅ What you do with your mind deeply influences how you feel in your body.

The Power of Yoga for Health & Healing

Unlike traditional exercise, yoga offers a proactive rather than reactive approach to health.

🌿 Supports mental health & emotional resilience – Yoga reduces stress, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion. 💪 Addresses chronic disease & lifestyle-related conditions – A growing body of research supports yoga's role in improving cardiovascular health, chronic pain, and inflammation. 💤 Improves sleep & nervous system regulation – Yoga shifts the body into parasympathetic (rest & digest) mode, supporting deep rest. 🧘‍♀️ Promotes mindful movement & self-compassion – Encourages kindness toward your body and awareness of movement patterns.

Yoga is a low-tech, highly effective, and portable tool that can be practiced anywhere. However, always check with your physician before starting a new activity, especially if you have significant health concerns.

Yoga's Role in Healing the Healthcare System

Yoga isn't just about healing individuals—it has the potential to transform the way we approach well-being in medicine.

When introduced into healthcare settings, yoga has been shown to: 🏥 Decrease stress and burnout among healthcare professionals 🤝 Build stronger community and team connections 💛 Promote self-compassion and emotional resilience 📉 Reduce healthcare costs and system strain by improving patient outcomes

Yoga for physicians, healthcare teams, and medical students isn't a luxury—it's a necessity.

How to Practice Yoga with Jessie

💛 Join a Retreat (Best Way to Learn!): www.jessiemahoneymd.com/yoga-retreats 💛 Practice Live on Zoom (Free!): www.jessiemahoneymd.com/mindfulyoga 💛 Follow Along on YouTube Anytime: www.youtube.com/@JessieMahoney

Want to Go Deeper in Your Practice?

🌟 Join the Mindful Healers Podcast Community – Learn how mindfulness, yoga, and coaching can create sustainable well-being in medicine. www.jessiemahoneymd.com/mindful-healers-podcast

Yoga isn't just movement—it's a way of living, thinking, and healing.

If you've been curious about yoga but hesitant to try, consider this your invitation to begin.

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How can you make your marriage more amazing? Decide it's amazing by approaching it mindfully and learning mindset tools.

Mindfulness and intention are powerful tools to help strengthen and grow loving intimate relationships. These tools help whether your relationship is struggling or is feeling good.

Connected relationships are a pillar of health. Weak connections and stressful relationships are known to threaten our health and well-being.

Being in a marriage requires more than commitment. It requires mindfulness, intention, and showing up exactly as you are for your partner.

Expectations can also cause more stress in your marriage. As we share key lessons from our marriages, be open and mindful about how you see yourself in your own marriage.

Coaching and mindfulness are magic for committed relationships because they focus on something YOU can control and change.

Choosing to be more present and connected with yourself and those you love helps you experience your intimate relationships more fully. Listen to the episode to learn more practical tips.

If you want to turn your struggling relationship into an amazing one through mindfulness and intention check out Jessie's Mindful Love Coaching program and/or sign up for individual coaching. Coaching changes everything for the better. "One coaching session with you was better than 4 sessions of marriage counseling." https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/relationship-coaching

If you are a physician and have a partner who struggles with their mental health. Request to join this private group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/supportingphysicianswhosepartnersstruggle

If you work in healthcare and want to join us in the Mindful Healthcare Collective Facebook group. Request to join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1443705385809109

If you want to learn more about how mindfulness and mindset work can transform your life for the better, connect with us here: https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/mindful-healers-podcast

Our brains are hardwired to pay attention to negative events much more than positive events. Having a way to live with stress is so important. Protecting time to practice mindfulness and having mindset tools are effective ways to manage stress inclusive of COVID-19 related stressors.

The pandemic has introduced a new level of stress for so many people.

In this episode Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang shares her experience working as a pulmonologist during this pandemic. We discuss stressors specific to COVID-19 and how we can approach these and all the other stressors in our lives in healthier ways.

Don't miss the opportunity to practice with a mindful moment at the end of the episode.

Mindfulness and coaching are shared passions of ours. If you would like to learn more about working with one of us, or both of us, take a moment to find out more at https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/mindful-healers-podcast

Our Mindful Healers Programs offer options to develop your own mindfulness practice further and/or develop mindful mindset tools to help you decrease anxiety, find peace, and live with clarity and intention.

If you work in healthcare, please consider joining the Mindful Healthcare Collective facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1443705385809109

Learn more at https://www.mindfulhealthcarecollective.com/

*Member of Doctor Podcast Network

Down days are part of the tapestry of life. It's a universal part of being human. Oftentimes, we try to ignore or resist the negative feelings we get on these days. Everyone has them.

Being mindful- noticing, with curiosity and without judgement, helps you move through a down day with skill. Down days can be opportunities to open our hearts and have compassion for ourselves.

In this episode we share how allowing, accepting, naming all the feelings, and showing yourself compassion on the "No Good Very Bad Day" can be helpful.

Don't miss the opportunity to enjoy a mindful moment at the end of the episode.

Find out more about mindful yoga and mindful movement with Jessie https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/yoga

Mindfulness and coaching are shared passions of ours. If you would like to learn more about working with us, take a moment to connect with us at https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/mindful-healers-podcast

If you are in healthcare, please consider joining the Mindful Healthcare Collective facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1443705385809109

And learn more at https://www.mindfulhealthcarecollective.com/

*Member of Doctor Podcast Network

We take a hippocratic oath to do no harm as physicians. However, we often forget that this oath also includes doing no harm to ourselves.

In this episode, we discuss how self-compassion is key to both reaching our full potential as healers and preventing burnout.

We focus so often on not being perfect and many healers beat themselves up for small mistakes. It turns out that this strategy and in particular- shame- gets in the way of learning and growing from our mistakes. Changing our perspective to one where we embrace our imperfections allows us to accept ourselves and grow and develop into the best version of ourselves. Mindfulness and self-compassion increase our curiosity and help us build better relationships with ourselves, those we love, those we work with, and those we care for.

Don't miss the opportunity to enjoy a mindful moment at the end of the episode.

Mindfulness and coaching are shared passions of ours. If you would like to learn more about working with us, take a moment to connect with us at https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/mindful-healers-podcast

If you are in healthcare, please consider joining the Mindful Healthcare Collective facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1443705385809109

And/or learn more at https://www.mindfulhealthcarecollective.com/

*Member of Doctor Podcast Network

When you engage in both mindfulness and mindset coaching simultaneously, the effects are magical. The resultant transformation is usually much bigger and faster than with either tool alone. In this episode, we share our experiences with the magic and synergy of using these tools together.

The definition of mindfulness is paying attention on purpose to the present moment without judgment. Mindfulness creates space, relaxes the nervous system, and sets your brain up for optimal response to coaching. It helps you lengthen the pause so you can be more present and receptive to mindset coaching. You can more easily choose to respond instead of reacting. Creating and living a life of intention and alignment becomes much more accessible.

Don't miss the opportunity for your own mindful moment at the end of the episode.

Mindfulness and coaching are shared passions of ours. Would you like to learn more? Take a moment to find out more about mindfulness practice and coaching and connect with us at https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/mindful-healers-podcast

Jessie Mahoney is a pediatrician, mindful life coach, yoga instructor, physician wellness leader, and co-host of The Mindful Healers Podcast.

So many of you are wanting to find peace, calm, contentment, and clarity in your lives. This podcast was created to help you bring more pause and presence into your lives and relationships. Jessie shares her journey finding these tools and how she currently makes it her life's work as a mindful coach to share them with others.

Jessie started medical school with a love of learning and science. She was committed to becoming a pediatrician to educate parents and improve the health of the next generation. During the process of medical training, she found herself confused by the culture of medicine. A culture where doctors weren't taught or encouraged to show themselves the same compassion and humanism that they showed their patients. She shares her story of advocating for change in healthcare over her 17-year career as a physician wellness leader and pediatrician. Her passion for mindfulness and mindset coaching came out of this work.

Mindful healing is a shared passion of ours. Are you interested in learning more? Take a moment to connect with us at https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/mindful-healers-podcast

Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang is an adult pulmonologist, mother, wife, and a cancer survivor.

She shares her story about how she was given the devastating news. Fear and uncertainty led to learning about mindfulness. She acknowledges that cancer was her teacher. Mindfulness helped anchor herself into the present moment, while accepting and allowing the inevitable unknowns with surviving cancer.

Important lessons are shared from her cancer journey.

We are currently enrolling for mindfulness courses with Dr. Liang starting 1/9/2021 and mindful coaching with Dr. Mahoney. Build a scaffold of support for a life of presence and authenticity. Find out more at https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/mindful-healers-podcast

In this introductory episode, we share the story of our meeting during our journey to Bora Bora, and what that journey ultimately led to.

After listening to this episode, our hope is that you see how incredible the mindfulness space is, you recognize the power of the pause, the magic of presence, and the possibilities available through mindful and intentional living.

Join other physicians and healthcare providers who are embarking on this journey here: https://www.mindfulhealthcarecollective.com/

Mindfulness is a shared passion of ours. Is it yours too? Take a moment to connect with us at https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/mindful-healers-podcast