HEALING MEDICINE PODCAST

Practicing peace is an intentional choice. It is not something we wait for once circumstances improve. It is something we practice in our breath, our bodies, and our awareness, even while uncertainty and grief remain present.

This conversation offers a reminder that peace begins with you. Peace is not denial or bypassing. 

This solocast reflects on what giving a TEDx talk taught me about nervous system regulation, self-trust, and choosing love over control. In a medical culture that rewards certainty and discourages vulnerability, visibility is a nervous system challenge. Standing on a red circle requires staying present when every instinct says to hide.

This episode is a real-time, honest exploration of how high-achieving women—especially physicians, leaders, and caregivers—respond to emotionally charged moments of disapproval, and how to begin unwinding the nervous system patterns that often get activated.

I share a recent, raw experience with receiving unexpected criticism that sent my nervous system into full activation, despite all my mindfulness tools, coaching experience, and good intentions. Alongside Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang, we unpack how medical culture, leadership visibility, and deeply ingrained perfectionism contribute to why these moments can feel so threatening and how to meet them with compassion and presence instead of shame and overreaction.

Not believing in ourselves can feel protective, yet it frequently keeps us confined to versions of life that no longer fit. Belief is not naïve optimism. It is a skill and a gift that can be practiced and borrowed when our own feels unsteady.

Medical culture rewards certainty while sidelining imagination, hope, and belief. Imagining what is possible, even without a clear path, is essential for healing, leadership, and sustainable change. Practicing belief does not abandon logic or science. It creates the spaciousness and courage to move toward alignment.

Have you ever considered how a few carefully chosen words could shape your year, your energy, your decisions, and the way you experience life?

In this annual tradition, we share our personal practice of choosing intention words for the year ahead. This isn't about goals or resolutions. It's about choosing how you want to be, move through, and live your life.

In this solo episode, I invite you to step into a new understanding of your patterns without judgment or shame.

Explore the "overs" and the "toxics" - the subtle (and not so subtle) ways our best traits become burdens when they’re overdone.

If you’ve ever felt depleted by the traits that once helped you succeed, or wondered why awareness alone isn’t shifting your patterns, this episode is for you.