Podcast Dr Ni Cheng Liang

This is a special solocast, reflecting on Ni-Cheng's morning in dragon boat paddling camp with Nathan Salazar, head coach of Team USA for the US Dragon Boat Federation for multiple divisions. So many lessons in paddling apply to life! Dragon boat racing originated 2,500 years ago, during the Warring States Period (402-221 BC). Duan Wu Jieh or the D…

In the name of productivity and achievement, we often downplay and minimize the importance of sustainability. This is a mistake. Sustainability should be one of your highest life priorities if you want to be around, happy and healthy for a long time. Strategies for sustainability shared in this episode include: Drop your resistance Lower your expec…

Mess is almost always a sign of growth, learning and connection in children. Another episode in our Parenting with Presence series and an invitation to shift your mindset around what it means to parent "well". Great parents have kids who have meltdowns and messy noisy homes. A clean house,well-dressed children, and order do not mean you are doing a…

“No Mud No Lotus, “ Thich Nhat Hanh’s famous quote translates to every aspect of our lives. Life, our jobs, our relationships, and our physical spaces are all often messy. Mess is part of being human and is an integral part of a beautiful, fully-lived life. Messes do not define our worth or make it mean we have fallen short. We can choose to tell d…

Do you struggle with body image and self-criticism? Every body, especially yours, needs a friend. Being kind to yourself and a friend to your body is not complacent or lazy. Being a friend to your own body is a performance tool. Why wouldn’t you be friends with your body? What if you and your body could be teammates? Could you start by appreciating…

Mothers-in-law have a bad reputation. This episode is an invitation to change that. Mother-in-law relationships are charged because there is so much love all around. They love their son or daughter and you love their son or daughter. Choosing an intention for this relationship is a powerful practice. You can choose to show up deliberately with love…

Cooking can be perspective-shifting and heart-opening. It can be a source of surprise and wonder and a healthy way of expressing love. Enjoy a conversation about cooking as both love and service with the husband of a woman physician who understands what exhausted, depleted women physicians crave. Enjoy a special guest episode featuring Jessie's hus…

Hyper independence and over-responsibility are common in high-achieving women, especially women physicians. These attributes are cultivated and praised in medical training and in many cultures. They continue on driven by a fear of failure, inadequacy, and/or bad outcomes. They may have been expected and needed initially but they are also not sustai…

​ The Mindful Healers Podcast ​118. Self-Sacrifice and Martyrdom Should Not Be Glorified​ Published on February 5, 2023 Self-sacrifice and martyrdom are glorified in medical training. They help us get through our training but have high, unappreciated costs for the rest of our lives. This podcast is a compassionate and loving invitation to consider …

Bigger impact and more joy come when you learn to recognize what matters most and manage your energy well. Lessons from another successful coaching journey. Dr. Nerissa Kreher, a CMO at a Biotech/Pharma start-up shares how coaching changed her life by helping her recognize what matters most. Coaching helped Nerissa recognize the power of her though…

Caring for aging parents is a path almost all of us walk at some point. Today is a Special Guest Episode with Dr. Mary Norman, a wise and experienced geriatrician, who has a newfound passion to bring mindfulness to caregivers of those with dementia. In today's episode, we share how mindfulness can help smooth the journey of caring for aging parents…

Inspired by a mindfulness exercise Dr. Liang led at the Mindful Healers Connect in Nature Retreat. A solocast exploring how lines may show up in our lives, and where it may benefit us to color outside the lines, remove or have no lines. Ni-Cheng shares how lines have shown up in her life, identity, and roles, and where mindfulness, self-compassion,…

The words we choose matter. What if we modeled healthy, intentionally healing, and loving language in hospitals and medical environments? What words would healing use? What if we opted out of language that creates fear, scarcity, and wartime energy in medical settings? What if we began using words that embody positive, hopeful, helpful, and healing…

Lessons from a successful coaching journey. "Coaching is doable, available to everyone, and life-changing." It takes time, but when it becomes a part of you – it results in magic. “I now navigate my days from a more lighthearted, simple, and spacious spot. I see and know magic and the adventure continues.” This is a special guest episode with Karen…

Oxygen masks are needed in depressurized planes in the midst of a crisis. If you are in crisis- please do start with an oxygen mask. And then acknowledge that this is just the first step. “Wellness” goes well beyond an oxygen mask. In this episode, we share many tools to nourish your mind, body spirit, and soul. Oxygen masks are NOT a strategy for …

Setting intentions is much more effective as a New Year tradition than making a resolution. It is a mindful practice that has a powerful impact on your life experience. There is no exact right way to set intentions. The act of setting them is where the magic is. Intentions direct your attention and focus in a specific direction. They are a way of c…

Listen to a rerelease of our 2021 podcast to learn how to choose intentions well. Learn why intentions are better than goals, and how to choose them with care and intention. Understand the early version of Jessie's now infamous process of choosing intentional words for the year. Hear about the hazards of goal setting and what you miss when you focu…

On the other side of discomfort is growth, fun, and FREEDOM: Listen to hear Jessie share wisdom gained during Master Coach Training journey. She explains how to grow self-trust and approve of yourself. How to stop looking for the answer and instead show up as the answer. The power of deciding you are doing it right. And the gift of declaring your w…

A conversation about the value of wellness retreats with Dr. Liz Treynor. Understand why retreat are not luxurious or indulgent but are "responsible." Learn what is special about Nourish & Transform, Connect in Nature and Honoring Diastole. Learn why you shouldn’t miss out on any of them and why Liz will be returning for more retreats in 2023. Hear…

People pleasing and fear of rejection are normal human emotions. Mindfulness and self-compassion are helpful for coming back home to yourself. What is people pleasing? Doing whatever it takes to make other people happy and putting others needs ahead of your own- even to your own detriment. People pleasers are often seen as agreeable, helpful, kind,…

Finding and maintaining deep connections and friendships is challenging for most high-achieving professional women. If you have difficulties making friends, you are not alone. No matter your age and life stage, it's possible to make new and meaningful connections and friends. In this episode, we discuss a few common thought errors that make friends…

"Loving amusement" is a "feeling" that can help you create ease in challenging relationships. Listen to find out how to use this fun tool to create connection and more ease in your life. There is also much to be learned from loving yourself enough to engage in amusement. How might choosing amusement for yourself help you and the others around you? …

A cyber Monday re-release of last year's mindful gifting episode What would love gift? Mindfulness, coaching and intention are antidotes to consumerism, holiday excess, and overwhelm. These tools can help you decrease holiday stress significantly. Gift-giving is an opportunity to reflect on and honor your relationships and your intentions for them.…

A re-release of last year's pre-Thanksgiving episode. Holidays often bring up stress and family drama. We hope this episode helps you find more calm, peace, and joy no matter your life or family situation. Setting a mindful intention helps you respond and not react, even in the midst of holiday chaos and family drama. Having as few expectations as …

Manure is fertilizer for the most beautiful gardens. Resisting sh*t causes more suffering. If we choose to embrace life’s challenges and sh*tstorms, in a loving and intentional way, we can help ourselves move through sh*tstorms more easefully. Listen to learn how to implement helpful coaching tools and strategies to get through life’s manure piles …

Inspired by fall back and the impending transition from fall to winter. In our harried technology-filled lives of the 21st century, our schedules create extra hours of light and artificially lengthen activity, even when the earth’s natural rotation and orbit around the sun changes the duration of natural daylight hours. Animals instinctually change…

Thank you for listening to the Mindful Healers Podcast! We are at episode 100! The world will not fall apart if you follow your heart. This podcasts came about because we followed our hearts. And it required that we quit/declutter some of our other roles. The word “quit” can be triggering due to it's commonly held association with failure and weakn…

The way you ask questions and the questions you ask significantly impact whether you feel content or happy with your life. The questions I am referring to are not the questions you ask others–they are the questions you ask yourself. We spend a lot of time and pay careful attention to how we ask questions of others. We ask patients, children, partne…

What we can learn from water, a solocast with Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang. Water can inspire us to foster well-being. Learn about self-care through hydration, and being on, in, or around natural bodies of water. Enjoy lessons from paddleboarding and paddling on a dragon boat team. And be inspired by the benefits of warm baths and cold plunges. “Nothing is s…

Learn to navigate jealousy. Jealousy does not have to be a problem. It can be a teacher. Until coaching, I saw jealousy through the lens of scarcity and inadequacy and fear. Jealousy is an emotion that sheds light on the things you are interested in, like, want, or are important to you.​It doesn’t mean you need something different to be content or …

What would compassion do? In honor of World Mental Health Day, today's podcast is offered to decrease stigma and normalize mental health struggles in every family. This episode is vulnerably shared to address the huge gap of support for family members of those struggling with their mental health. Jessie shares her wisdom and coaching tips to help f…

Life lessons from the out breath. The exhale shines and spotlights many life lessons. The exhale is passive– the diaphragm relaxes in order to come back to a neutral position to push out the air from our lungs similar to our heart’s diastolic cycle- the relaxation allows the heart to nourish and feed itself. The out breath is a reminder of the many…

Having human expectations of humans is healthy. This episode invites you to notice where your expectations of yourself and others may be unrealistic, unhealthy, and maybe even harmful. Having human expectations of ourselves is healthy, healing, and an act of compassion. Humans struggle. Humans are messy and perfectly imperfect. Having human expecta…

Experience live coaching of a loving yet worried physician mom. Witness her shift from spinning in worry and swirling in anxiety to embracing acceptance, compassion, and learning. See how coaching can provide relief when mindfulness does not. When this mom notices how “shoulding” is getting in the way and how compassion helps- she feels more at eas…

Hard is not more valuable. Struggle is not more worthwhile. Busy is not better. Recorded on Labor Day, we discuss how the culture of hard, busy, and struggle impede us from living our best, most authentic lives. When you stop valuing being busy and you choose to drop your resistance to the world, you discover flow. High-achieving women often feel t…

If you are thinking about it, try it. Mindfulness and coaching are synergistic. They are better together. Today's special guest shares her story as a real-life example of the power and magic of blending mindfulness and coaching. The tools today's guest has found most powerful: the pause, naming emotions, noticing her “shoulds” and reframing her sto…

Launching children you love with love. What would love do? What would grace do? What would presence do? Love would show up with curiosity and wonder rather than catastrophizing. Love would focus on what you can control. Love would set an intention and model trust, problem solving, elegant vulnerability and connection. Grace would accept, allow and …

Dance in the trees, listen to chocolate, and experience mindfulness, yoga, and coaching -- in a garden, at the beach, in a yurt, and amidst the redwoods of Muir Woods. In this episode, we share the why of the mindful practices we explored at the Mindful Healers Retreat last month. Understand the body scan, and appreciate the release and freedom off…

Good sex happens when you are calm and accepting. Sex works “best” when you aren’t stressed. In this episode, Jessie and special guest Dr Kelly Casperson, author of You Are Not Broken and host of the You Are Not Broken Podcast, chat about the mind and sex. Kelly reminds us that the brain is a powerful sex organ. We talk about how mindfulness can ma…

Who Am I Too…? We invite you to join us in exploring where this thought comes up in your life. What limiting beliefs do you have and how do they show up in your life? Becoming aware of our limiting beliefs, and their origins, and then holding them with mindfulness and self-compassion allows us to meet them, integrate them, change them, or be rid of…

Blending wellness and interior design. A conversation about the intersection of beauty, space, nature, health, and healing. Where do you find wholeness and sanctuary? What is an Optimal Healing Environment? How can you design a responsible space? What makes a healing and healthy space for you? How can you bring curiosity into your life and work thr…

A solo cast sharing Jessie’s journey both getting coached and as a coach. This episode is an opportunity to hear why Jessie pivoted to coaching, clarify potential misconceptions about coaching, and explain why coaching is magically impactful as an intervention for high-achievers, especially physicians. Listen to hear how coaching is different from …

Delight is NOT decadent. It is sustenance. When we honor diastole, we honor ourselves. Honoring diastole is healing for our own hearts. A necessary, but often neglected, action for healers. Today’s episode includes a special guest, Dr. Gail Wright, a pediatric cardiologist, a disciple of Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, mindfulness teacher, and founder of R…

We encourage you to opt-out of a life of urgency. Urgency and busyness are the norm and even celebrated in our culture, but hustle and bustle have a cost. You get to choose when urgency is truly urgent. “It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.”- Brene Brown Our default is to create spac…

Many helpful well-being lessons can be learned from industries outside healthcare. Our second episode sharing insights from Jessie’s experience at the Mindful MD/Teravana Foundation's Think Tank on Physician Well-Being. Perspectives outside of medicine are integral to solving the complex problem of physician burnout and creating a sustainable pract…

Mindfulness and thought work can help when we are faced with challenging and upsetting information and realities. Today we explore how they can help when we are faced with hard-to-fathom decisions, especially when those decisions impact us so personally. Thought work can help us respond buoyantly and purposefully to disappointment, disbelief, anger…

Learning from a Physician Well-Being Think Tank. Part 1. Gratitude to the Teravana Foundation and Mindful MD for hosting the think tank "experience." Well-Being is a global issue. Today we discuss the parallel pandemic -- un-wellness and lack of well-being. Specifically physician well-being. The vision of physicians as superheroes can actually caus…

Is it possible to be too kind to yourself? Niceness and kindness are different. "Niceness stays quiet. Kindness speaks up. Niceness is toxic. Kindness is healing. Niceness lies to keep the peace. Kindness knows the only way to make peace is to tell the truth. Niceness holds back. Kindness moves forward with humility, gentleness, and grace." - Aliso…

Tools to traverse common parenting stresses with mindfulness. Another episode in our Parent with Presence series. As a parent, you are not alone in potentially having a compare and despair mindset. You can learn to recognize your tendencies to feel like you aren't doing enough,“ to want to do more” and/or have your children “do more.” We encourage …

What can you do when you feel rage, sadness, and overwhelm. frustration and grief in the face of incomprehensible tragedy? In response to the recent shootings, we offer help, compassion, and tools to find grounding and hope. We offer the important tools of allowing all your emotions without judgment and choosing to move forward with intention. It's…