HEALING MEDICINE PODCAST

with Dr. Jessie Mahoney and Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang

Healing Medicine was formerly known as the Mindful Healers Podcast.
Same hosts, same mission, same conversations — new name.

​The Healing Medicine Podcast is a mindfulness and leadership podcast for physicians.

It sits at the intersection of medicine, mindfulness, and meaning. It is slow and grounded, and offers physicians space to breathe, reflect, and choose differently.

Episodes include mindfulness practices and vulnerable physician discussions designed to offer deep emotional resonance rooted in lived physician experience.

The podcast shares original frameworks grounded in mindfulness and nervous system awareness, offered in a calm, wise tone that resists. We are anti-hustle and anti-urgency. We encourage leadership development, sustainable practice, and healthy relationships through presence, connection, and intention.

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Episodes:

Featured
301. What 40 Years of Love Has Taught Me: Relationship Wisdom for Women Physicians
301. What 40 Years of Love Has Taught Me: Relationship Wisdom for Women Physicians

In this episode, I share what has helped sustain my long-term relationship over four decades. 

I don’t have secrets; I have an approach.

Resentment grows from silent expectations. Shifting from expectation to intention makes more room for connection.

Since I started approaching my relationship with intention, it is better than ever.

300. What Do You Want to Be Known For?
300. What Do You Want to Be Known For?

We are celebrating 300 episodes with an incredible question - "What do you want to be known for?" This question can be a decision-making filter, a boundary-setting tool, and a compass for alignment. It can help you lead with love and live closer to your true self.

One thing we want to be known for --- this podcast. We hope it has been helpful for each and every one of you. And we are beyond grateful that so many of you listen to it and us.

This episode explores how default identities take hold and the high cost of being known for things that no longer serve you. We offer the question - "what do you want to be known for?" as a tool to help you make mindful, values-aligned choices about how you want to show up in your work, your life, and the world.

299. Fun Filter: Deciding What Lights You Up (with Dr. Melissa Parsons)
299. Fun Filter: Deciding What Lights You Up (with Dr. Melissa Parsons)

In this special co-released episode, we’re joined by Dr. Melissa Parsons—fellow retired pediatrician, coach, and kindred spirit—for a conversation about living through a “fun filter.” We explore what it looks like to let joy, ease, and alignment guide our decisions instead of obligation, striving, or outdated beliefs.

298. What Are You Waiting For? Reclaiming Agency for Physicians Trained to Delay Life
298. What Are You Waiting For? Reclaiming Agency for Physicians Trained to Delay Life

This conversation is not about leaving medicine. It is about staying in medicine without disappearing ourselves in the process.

Many of us were trained to endure quietly and trust that relief would come later. What we are exploring instead is the possibility of choosing ourselves now, even gently and imperfectly.

Coaching and retreat spaces are one way we practice this shift together.  Not to fix ourselves, but to remember that our lives matter now, not someday. We are allowed to live full lives alongside meaningful work.

297. Why Women Physicians Are So Good at Doing Too Much
297. Why Women Physicians Are So Good at Doing Too Much

Today’s conversation is an invitation to notice overfunctioning with compassion. It may have helped you succeed in medicine, but it often costs you intimacy, energy, and connection.  

Overfunctioning and underfunctioning, along with the resentment that follows, are a familiar relational dynamic in women physicians. Overfunctioning is not a personality flaw; It’s a role we step into. It is shaped by our training, context, and culture. 

296. When the World Feels Unsteady, Choose Intention Not Panic: Nervous System Tools for Physicians
296. When the World Feels Unsteady, Choose Intention Not Panic: Nervous System Tools for Physicians

In this conversation, Ni-Cheng and I name the moment without bypassing it: collective fear, grief, exhaustion, and moral distress. We also name minority stress and racial trauma as real, lived experiences that shape safety in the body.

When we are activated, our wise brain is harder to access. 

More Episodes

Healing Medicine is a podcast for physicians navigating burnout, identity, leadership, and the quiet longing for a more sustainable way to practice and live.

Like so many of you, we’ve felt the exhaustion, the disillusionment, and the weight of a career that demands so much, often at the expense of our well-being.

Healing medicine starts with healing ourselves.

This podcast explores mindfulness, mindset, and real, sustainable well-being—not as another task to add to your plate, but as a way to experience medicine and life differently.

Each episode offers practical strategies, coaching tools, and real conversations to help you feel more present, fulfilled, and in control of your career, your relationships, and your life.

Join us for refreshing perspectives, mindful practices, and empowering insights.

*Healing Medicine was formerly called the Mindful Healers Podcast

​Trusted Voices in Physician Well-Being and Leadership

Dr. Jessie Mahoney, MD
Physician, coach, keynote speaker, and founder of Pause & Presence. Jessie works with physicians and healthcare leaders navigating burnout, identity transitions, and sustainable leadership. Her work integrates mindfulness, nervous system regulation, coaching, and years of clinical experience.

Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang, MD
Pulmonologist and mindfulness teacher. Dt. Liang brings expertise in mindfulness-based practices, nervous system awareness, and nature-based healing to support physicians in cultivating presence, resilience, and compassionate leadership.

Dr. Mahoney and Dr. Liang speak nationally at medical conferences, leadership retreats, and healthcare organizations on topics including:

• Physician burnout and moral injury
• Mindfulness and nervous system regulation
• Sustainable leadership in medicine
• Culture change and clinician well-being

Their talks reflect the same grounded, presence-based approach listeners experience on the podcast.

Kind Words About the Podcast

  • “So so so essential”

    I didn’t know how much mindfulness would change my experience. Night and day. These coaches understand how to communicate mindfulness in doable, informative presentations. A true life-changing treasure.”

  • “The best podcast! Thank you so much for all the inspirational advice!”

  • “Every episode contains beautiful, practical wisdom for all areas of life.”

  • “Soothing and Inspiring! I really enjoy this podcast.

    Both of these incredible physicians have such a peaceful presence and their conversations always leave me reflecting long after each episode ends.

    I often turn this on when I’m needing to calm my busy brain or slow down. Although they keep a gentle pace, I’m left feeling very motivated and reenergized after.”

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For Those Who Want to Go Deeper

For many listeners, the podcast is a doorway.

The conversations you hear on Healing Medicine are woven into coaching, retreats, and leadership experiences designed to support physicians and healthcare leaders in practicing presence, agency, and sustainable leadership in real life.

These offerings grow naturally from the same values and practices shared on the podcast.

LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING & RETREATS WITH DR. MAHONEY

​Core Strengths of the Healing Medicine Podcast

Deep alignment with physician pain points.

Episodes explore real and raw topics such as burnout, over-responsibility, self-worth, pricing, identity, and career transitions. Rather than offering surface-level advice, Healing Medicine brings heart-centered, experience-informed insights grounded in lived clinical experience.

A distinct and steady voice

While many physician wellness podcasts follow a familiar interview-and-tips format, Healing Medicine offers something quieter and deeper. The tone is calm, wise, and reflective—especially in solo episodes—featuring original frameworks and mindfulness as a lived, integrated practice rather than a buzzword.

Intimate, reflective, and philosophically grounded


Healing Medicine is not trying to fix medicine or hustle physicians out of burnout. Instead, it creates space to breathe, feel, and choose differently—inviting sustainable change from the inside out. This depth and tone make Healing Medicine a trusted voice for physicians, leaders, and organizations seeking meaningful culture change in medicine.