The Power of Healing Together: Reflections on Facilitating The Queen’s Inaugural Retreat for Stage IV Breast Cancer Patients and Their Spouses

It is not an exaggeration to say that facilitating a retreat for breast cancer patients and their spouses was one of the most profound and transformative experiences of my life. As we gathered in the serene and peaceful landscape of Lanai, I witnessed the raw strength, vulnerability, and deep connection that forms when individuals unite around a shared experience of facing one of life’s most challenging circumstances. The retreat was not merely a program; it became a safe haven where healing went beyond the physical body and touched the emotional, psychological, and spiritual realms. Through this journey, I came to understand how deeply intertwined the experiences of patients and their spouses are, and how vital it is to support both on their path toward healing. As one of the patients later shared her impression: This was a “cancer-healing moon.”

In this week's podcast, I'd like to share why it matters for us to:

• Slow Down
• Practice Mindfulness
• Care for ourselves

Decide that our present mind matters and do all we can to protect it.  A deep gratitude to National Breast Foundation for their generous support of our retreat. To learn more about how you can get help or donate to help others, please visit: https://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/

 

I have always wanted to do a podcast about infertility. Both from the point of view of those experiencing it as well as those who offer support for people going through it.

Erica Bove, MD, is a double board certified OB-GYN and Reproductive Endocrinologist (REI) physician at the University of Vermont, as well as a certified life coach through The Life Coach School. She is also the founder of Love and Science: Thriving Through Infertility.  She has a keen interest in marrying an evidence-based approach with intuitive knowing in the context of a trusting relationship. She empowers professional women to build their families with confidence and self compassion. Her mission is to heal and support the healers and to create a legacy.

To learn more about her feel free to visit her at www.loveandsciencefertility.com 

Also, last week to sign up for our retreat. 

Hey, do you love incorporating wisdom as how to live your life from a place of acceptance and self compassion? Then, you want to join me, Ami and Gen for a 4 day magical retreat in Oahu, Honolulu. 

This October, for the third time, we are gathering to eat well, practice yoga, dive into breath work as well as connect with like minded women physicians to deepen our gratitude and celebrate who we are.  Don't miss this intimate gathering.  To learn more or simply to sign up go to www.drfaryal.com/retreat2024 

 

A conversation on Grief, Grace and Gratitude.  You don't want to miss this conversation with Dr. Kim Harms. After losing her mother and her son to suicide, she dove into deep depression. She shares her story of slow survival and how she made her story of being shattered into a story of reslience and recovery from depth of grief. 

Dr. Kimberly Harms has been around the block in life.  She has served as a Commissioned Officer in the United States Public Health Service, a dental school professor, a grief counselor, a death doula, a civil mediator, a clinical dentist with her late husband Jim in Farmington MN, a school board Chair, President of an international women’s organization, the first woman President of the Minnesota Dental Association, a National Spokesperson for the American Dental Association (21 years), an award-winning, best selling author and international speaker on the topics of grief, conflict and legacy planning.  She has also suffered many personal losses, including the deaths by suicide of her mother and son and the death by broken heart of her husband after their son’s death.  Her most important role now is mother to her two surviving children and grandmother to 6 precious grandchildren.   The best way to reach her is at my website: drkimberlyharms.com the link to her book is:    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHG23HD5 Don't miss learning more about her.    *******

Hey, do you love incorporating wisdom as how to live your life from a place of acceptance and self compassion? Then, you want to join me, Ami and Gen for a 4 day magical retreat in Oahu, Honolulu. 

This October, for the third time, we are gathering to eat well, practice yoga, dive into breath work as well as connect with like minded women physicians to deepen our gratitude and celebrate who we are.  Don't miss this intimate gathering.  To learn more or simply to sign up go to www.drfaryal.com/retreat2024 

Dr. Junaid Niazi is a board certified internist and pediatrician who works as a primary care physician for a large healthcare organization in the upper Midwest. Part of his time is spent as an Information Services Medical Director working on optimizing the EHR for physician use and patient care.

 

As of October 2023, his primary care group is now the largest private sector union in the country, and he serves on the bargaining committee.

 

He is married to a pediatrician and has two young children.

 

In addition to the above roles, Junaid is also a physician life coach and the entrepreneur behind Prosperous Life MD, where he coaches physicians on all things wellness, productivity, business, and careers.

 

He runs a group coaching program called Charting Conquered where he helps physicians complete their charting at work and has helped over 400 physicians & APPs reclaim their time at home for themselves.

 

Junaid wants to help more physicians stay in medicine, if they choose, because everyone benefits the more of us stay in medicine. Here's where to learn about his free webinar and more. 

- free training reg page: www.leaveyourworkatwork.com - IG profile: https://www.instagram.com/prosperouslifemd

Travel is on everyone's bucket list.  No matter whether you are faced with a serious illness or not. So, you can imagine my excitement when I was able to invite my this week's guest on the podcast. Dr. Devon Gimbel has made it her life's work and mission to teach us all the ways that we can use our everyday life expenses and turn them into currencies with which we can travel the world with.  Do not miss this week's episode where you learn about how to live an abundant life no matter where you are with your mindset around your finances.  And my favorite: Learn what is on Devon's bucket list?

To learn more about all things point related, please check out https://www.pointmetofirstclass.com/podcast

Enjoy this week's conversation. And oh yeah! Want ways to accrue more points for future travel? Join me on my exclusive retreat this year in the beautiful Turtle Bay.  Then, you want to join me, Ami and Gen for a 4 day magical retreat in Oahu, Honolulu. 

This October, for the third time, we are gathering to eat well, practice yoga, dive into breath work as well as connect with like minded women physicians to deepen our gratitude and celebrate who we are.  Don't miss this intimate gathering.  To learn more or simply to sign up go to www.drfaryal.com/retreat2024 

 

A mother; A cancer survivor; A pediatrician; A high performance Coach and a fierce advocate for wellness for the medical community: Dr. Erin Hurley is this and so much more.  I think you will enjoy my conversation with her about her cancer journey and what made her pivot to be doing what she is doing today. 

Learn more about this Transformational Doc at www.happyhealthyhealer.com 

Hey, do you love incorporating wisdom as how to live your life from a place of acceptance and self compassion? Then, you want to join me, Ami and Gen for a 4 day magical retreat in Oahu, Honolulu. 

This October, for the third time, we are gathering to eat well, practice yoga, dive into breath work as well as connect with like minded women physicians to deepen our gratitude and celebrate who we are.  Don't miss this intimate gathering.  To learn more or simply to sign up go to www.drfaryal.com/retreat2024 

 

Parenting is hard! If anyone tells you otherwise, they are probably outsourcing most of the hard work.  That's my personal experience anyway.  That is why I am excited to have our today's guest on the show. Dr. Juli O'Laughlin of "Authentic Parenting" shares her story of what has worked and what has not given her own personal story of traumatic childhood.  Join us for this intimate conversation to learn more about what it takes to heal yourself fro inside out- so that you can parent better than you have been parented.

You can learn more about her and her program at www.drjuliparentcoach.com 

To learn more about how you can be a part of her coaching program please visit her website to learn more. 

And as she is going to be one of our guests in our Hawaii Retreat this year, join us so you can meet her in person and connect in a more meaningful way. 

Then, you want to join me, Ami and Gen for a 4 day magical retreat in Oahu, Honolulu. 

This October, for the third time, we are gathering to eat well, practice yoga, dive into breath work as well as connect with like minded women physicians to deepen our gratitude and celebrate who we are.  Don't miss this intimate gathering.  To learn more or simply to sign up go to www.drfaryal.com/retreat2024 

 

Wealth means different things to different people.  Of course money always come to mind, but in my own mind, your health should take front and center when it comes to recognizing and prioritizing your true wealth.  Join me as I interview Dr. Bonnie Koo, the creater of Wealthy Mom MD facebook group, podcast and coaching program for women physician, as she shares a very spirited and inspiring story.  She will share her personal story of near death experience and how she navigated her mind and life around that chapter of her life.  I hope you'll enjoy this interview as much as I enjoyed recording it.  To learn more about Bonnie, please check out www.wealthymommd.com 

As she talks about her retreat, I am curious, are you interested in attending one? If so, then check out her site to sign up for her event next year, or come join me!

Because,  do you love incorporating wisdom as how to live your life from a place of acceptance and self compassion? Then, you want to join me, Ami and Gen for a 4 day magical retreat in Oahu, Honolulu. 

This October, for the third time, we are gathering to eat well, practice yoga, dive into breath work as well as connect with like minded women physicians to deepen our gratitude and celebrate who we are.  Don't miss this intimate gathering.  To learn more or simply to sign up go to www.drfaryal.com/retreat2024 

 

First of all, welcome to the NEW podcast! Same amazing content and guests, a new title and art work.  "Write Your Best Chapter"

If I am being honest, the theme was always how to write your best chapter. No matter what is happening in our lives, we can always retell our stories so we are not innundated with worry and anxiety.  Retell you story, rewrite your chapter and live a completely different life.  This brings me to this week's guest: Dr. Hope Seidel.  She is a peditatrition and a parent coach. Our conversation is going to inspire you to take all that you have and make the most of the life that Universe gives you. I hope you can enjoy this talk as much as I did. To learn more about her, please check out www.parentwithhope.com  

Also, do you want to join us this October to learn how to write your best chapter every day?

Then, you want to join me, Ami and Gen for a 4 day magical retreat in Oahu, Honolulu. 

This October, for the third time, we are gathering to eat well, practice yoga, dive into breath work as well as connect with like minded women physicians to deepen our gratitude and celebrate who we are.  Don't miss this intimate gathering.  To learn more or simply to sign up go to www.drfaryal.com/retreat2024 

 

This week's guest is full of love and light. Dr. Kate Louise Mangona is a Pediatric Radiologist, mother of three girls under 6 and married to an amazing radiation oncologist. In a double interview, we will discuss:

• How to manage your mind around your love when you feel resentful. 
• How coaching can teach you how to fall back in love with your relationship or work

Kate and I discuss the importance of taking time for ourselves. How a retreat for yourself or your marriage maybe the pause you need to fall deep into appreciating love and intimacy. 

To learn more about Kate's coaching, podcast and amazing retreat in Maui in October called Honeymoon 2.0 please check out her website www.medicinemarriageandmoney.com 

Hey, do you love incorporating wisdom as how to live your life from a place of acceptance and self compassion? Then, you want to join me, Ami and Gen for a 4 day magical retreat in Oahu, Honolulu. 

This October, for the third time, we are gathering to eat well, practice yoga, dive into breath work as well as connect with like minded women physicians to deepen our gratitude and celebrate who we are.  Don't miss this intimate gathering.  To learn more or simply to sign up go to www.drfaryal.com/retreat2024