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 is Episode 155. Become Your Future Self.

In this 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 believed in her.

What else was essential to her success?

A healthy mindset. She shares how her physician mindset made starting a dream practice even harder. The pre-work she did to learn to notice and begin to let go of catastrophizing, the desire for control, her scarcity mindset, imposter syndrome, and perfectionism were essential to her success. Learning to accept and not like uncertainty and to embrace unsettledness was also crucial. We also talk about the importance of optimizing your physiology and the power of both fun and “yet.”

Listen to hear some of the other powerful and unlikely tools for setting up a successful dream practice.

If you are thinking you might want to make a transition in your career, join Transition Well. If you aren’t sure yet, simply have a gnawing sense you were meant for more, Transition Well small group coaching brings clarity, courage, confidence, and commitment. You can add 1:1 coaching sessions to your group if you want time for just you. And you can get CME for all of it. Dr. Dowling has done Transition Well, Ongoing Presence, and a lot of 1:1 coaching over the last few years. She was a part of the group when she had her big breakthrough.

Her words: “You gave me the permission and the courage to dream, innovate, and create something I never thought was possible. I've reached the tipping point and it's a place I never ever imagined landing in. Thank you”

Find out more about Transition Well. It’s very small group coaching - max group size is twelve so don’t delay in signing up. We start in mid-January 2025. https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/transition-well

If growing Ongoing Presence and cleaning up your mindset before you jump feels more like where you are, Ongoing Presence Group Coaching is another great option. It also starts in late January and is open for sign-up now. https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/ongoing-presence

If doing the work in person sounds more appealing, join me for a retreat intensive. There are retreats almost every month in 2025.

https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreat-nicasio-creek-farm

Move beyond consuming this amazing podcast. True change happens when you work with us - virtually and/or in-person. www.jessiemahoneymd.com

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

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 difficult circumstances such as this.

Listen to hear tips for choosing your language thoughtfully, asking helpful questions, and how to tell generous and helpful stories.

This moment is an abundant opportunity to practice noticing your thoughts and feeling your feelings.

Feel to heal and name to tame.

It is also a great moment to accept and be disappointed, accept and be angry, accept and not like, and to accept and allow.

Resisting reality is very costly.

Optimizing your neurochemical soup is in your control at this moment and it can help.

Practicing mindful self-care is also in your control and also helps.

You might find being alone helpful or community may be what you need.

Support yourself with healthy food, nature, and sleep to give yourself the most capacity to respond intentionally rather than create.

Consider practicing tons of hand to heart and self compassion. Oxytocin increases creativity, curiosity, and problem solving

Disappointment and challenges often lead to our biggest growth — personally and collectively. Let this moment in time be the nudge you need to engage in mindfulness and mindset coaching. Working with us is much more powerful than simply listening to a podcast.

Set yourself up for a smoother ride through the next four years by reaching out for 1:1 or small group coaching or signing up for a 2025 retreat.

https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/coaching

https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/ongoing-presence

https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreat-nicasio-creek-farm

Start practicing yoga with me on YouTube.

Listen to other episodes of the Mindful Healers Podcast. It’s Ok to Not Be Ok and When Bad Things Happen are a great place to start.

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

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

• Name it to tame it

• Feel it to heal it

• Patience

• Being not doing

• Self-compassion

• Be like a tree

We encourage you to move beyond consuming this podcast and engage in the work. Having a full toolbox at the ready when the off-kilter day arrives is priceless.

Practice these tools in person at a retreat in 2025. www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreats

Blending mindfulness, yoga, farm-to-table food as medicine, and mindset work together make change possible that otherwise wouldn’t be. When you are physiologically and neurochemically in an optimal state opens up a world of creativity and opportunity.

You can also choose to respect the moment and start your journey to better right away by signing up for online mindful coaching with Jessie.

Coach with Jessie - 1:1, in topic-focused small groups. Transition Well and Ongoing Presence start again in January 2025. People are signing up already.

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

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 judgment.

It creates space to simply be rather than always reacting to try to change things.

We are human BEINGS, not human DOINGS.
“Being is where the magic and healing happen.” - Dr. Holly MacKenna

Non-striving involves accepting yourself as you are and others as they are. It is about being content where you are, without the need to be anyone else or anywhere else.

Non-striving increases the richness in your life. It helps you find the extraordinary in the ordinary.
The space opened up in non-striving opens portals to clarity, curiosity, creativity, and connection.

Where are some areas of life that you would like to adopt a non-striving attitude? What are some ways you might try non-striving? What could you commit to not doing? What would more “being” look like?

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

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 aren’t "giving in" or giving up when we decide to get off a nail. What if we are giving ourselves permission to finally act in alignment with our core values.

Who would you be, could you be, if you stopped sitting on so many nails?

Some common thought patterns and beliefs that keep you sitting on nails:

• Scarcity mindset

• Not valuing yourself or your happiness. The belief that you don't deserve to have a comfortable pain-free life.

• The belief that being uncomfortable is a badge of honor

• Lack of boundaries

• Fear of change, the what if, or making a mistake

• Fear of judgment or being seen as " - "

• So used to discomfort and pain we don’t notice the discomfort of the nail

• Believing that struggling and suffering and hard are valuable

Listen to the episode to learn more. And then sign up to work with us. Consuming this podcast helps but the big shifts happen when you work with us.

Personal mindset coaching and experiencing and practicing mindfulness are what actually help you see where you are sitting on nails and grow the courage and belief to finally get off those nails even when getting off is scary.

Make 2025 the year you stop sitting on nails.

*Many thanks to Dr. Sonal Haerter for sharing the concept of sitting on nails during her talk at Brave Enough 2024.

Join Jessie for 1:1 coaching or a retreat. Now is the time to jump in if you want to use 2024 CME time or funds. It’s also the time to secure yourself a spot at Nicasio Creek Farm or Sagrada in 2025. www.jessiemahoneymd.com

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

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 pandemic. She embraced the journey because she felt like she had grown beyond what her organization had space for. Her roots were trying to grow out the bottom of a pot.

She shares the importance of coaching and leaning into a community of support when building something new. She recommends if you don’t have a community, find one or create one. Coaching helped Dr. MacKenna give herself permission to let go of the unspoken rules in her head and make her own rules for the practice and life she was building.

Holly attended the Connect in Nature Mindful Healers Retreat six weeks ago. She recently shared in a Facebook group that she had learned so much at the retreat “without realizing it.”

In today’s podcast, we discuss why and how this happened and the power of nature, especially trees and experiential learning.

Holly’s two most powerful learnings at the retreat:

1. Lean into curiosity

2. Being is where the magic and healing happen.

Dr. MacKenna also shares her thoughts as a psychiatrist on the controversies and benefits of coaching and the importance of choosing a qualified coach.

You can find Dr. MacKenna @ www.darawellnessnola.com or www.hollymackennamd.com

Move beyond consuming this amazing podcast. True change happens when you work with us - virtually and/or in-person.

The date of next year's Connect in Nature Retreat will be released soon. We are leaning into curiosity and will be holding it in a new location and at a new time of year.

Coach with Jessie - 1:1, in topic-focused small groups, or at a retreat. www.jessiemahoneymd.com

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

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 healthy food a delight to eat. You get to taste with your eyes and treat your taste buds. As health care providers we can make eating healthy about a feast and delight for the eyes, body, spirit, and soul.

Dr. Rak and I hope you will join us for this fun conversation about the power of “marketing” a healthy lifestyle to ourselves and others.

Join a Pause & Presence Retreat to taste with your eyes and nourish every cell in your body in delightful ways.

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