When you decide to make a pivot as big as leaving your medical practice after 20 years expect scary. It takes time and courage.

And, it just might turn out better than you expect. Even if your husband has an unexpected cancer diagnosis right in the middle of your transition.

Coaching, mindfulness, and taking a pause helped Dr. Wazeka leave her employed pediatric pulmonary job, navigate her husband’s cancer diagnosis, and send her oldest daughter off to college with grace and equanimity.

In this episode, April shares how patience, curiosity, and kindness steadied her while she made big changes.

She shares the tools she found most helpful to allow her to let go of her previously narrow and inflexible medical mindset, gift herself permission to pause, and ultimately to live an aligned life.

Giving herself permission to take a pause was hard. April has previously never taken any time off except for maternity leave. She went straight through from high school to college to residency to fellowship to being an attending for twenty years.

If you are worried that it’s too dangerous or too hard to take a break and/or leave clinical medicine, you are not alone.

Our tendencies towards a scarcity mindset, catastrophizing, and focusing on the negative, make this change even harder even when we know our journey with our current role is complete.

With regular coaching and a regular mindfulness practice, Dr. Wazeka is now on the other side.

She is living a life she wants to be living rather than moving through her life like she thought she should be living. She now enjoys a more expansive identity as a connected and available mom and wife, a new mindfulness teacher, and a happier and healthier human.

April was also a guest on the Mindful Healers Podcast in 2022. In Episode 91, she shares how mindfulness and coaching helped her move through the pandemic as a physician, mom, wife, and daughter with more grace and equanimity.

Listen to that episode here:

https://themindfulhealerspodcast.libsyn.com/91-bettertogether-finding-alignment-with-mindfulness-and-coaching

If you want to start living the life you WANT to be living, reach out for mindful coaching. You will be so glad you did. www.jessiemahoneymd.com

If you want to support yourself well through a big change, move beyond consuming this podcast and dreaming.

April is a steadfast podcast listener. In this episode, she points out, true change only happened for her when she committed to doing the work and invested in herself, her happiness, and the life she wanted. April has been supporting herself with virtual coaching for three years. It is currently preventive care that helps continue to grow, evolve, and live in alignment ongoing.

You can also join us in person for a retreat www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreats. Or hire one or both of us to speak or lead a wellness workshop. We also can create team wellness retreats, teach yoga, and/or 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.

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Do you feel under-appreciated for your efforts on behalf of your family, your patients, and/or your institutions?

Have your expectations of others in expressing their love, thanks, and appreciation been mismatched with what you perceive is "right" or deserved?

Listen for tools, strategies, and a framework of understanding to help you move forward with mindfulness and compassion.

Feeling not appreciated enough is usually a case of mismatched expectations and beliefs.

We have an idea of what others should do to appreciate us.

We also believe that they should know what will make us feel appreciated.

We expect others to read our minds and be fair.

Your expectations may or may not be reasonable- even if they feel 100 percent reasonable to you. Even if they are reasonable they may or not be feasible or possible.

Could you drop your expectations and decide to enjoy the day (and your life) moment by moment exactly as they are?

If you are not happy then, choose to stay, choose to keep doing what you are doing - or not.

If you decide to stay for now, notice how others show you appreciation, even if it doesn’t look like you think it should.

Need help with this?

Small group coaching and retreats are the answer.

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

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

Have you said “I’m sorry” even though the circumstance wasn’t your fault?

Have you started off a conversation or a presentation with “I’m sorry?”

Do you say "Sorry I’m running behind", "Sorry for taking up space or time in a group session", "Sorry for crying", "Sorry for not understanding", or "Sorry I am not available"?

Listen to understand why you over-apologize and the impact it can have on your life, health, and happiness.

Learn about common situations where you don’t need to apologize and mindful and strategic tips to help you stop overapologizing.

What if, instead of apologizing you said:

• "Thank you for waiting"

• "I appreciate your patience"

• "Hope you enjoyed a pause while helped someone else."

• "I’m curious about.."

• "I would love to know more about ..."

• "I wish you felt better."

• "I wish it was different ."

Listen to learn more tips.

When have you apologized where you didn’t need to?

Why did you apologize?

What were the thoughts, emotions, and body sensations that led to the apology?

Mindful coaching is super helpful to let go of habits such as over-apologizing. Intentional language is a game changer in improving your health, happiness, and the way you feel and move through the world.

We encourage you to enjoy this episode’s mindful moment: Gratitude as an Antidote.

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. Jessie's superpwoer is creating team retreats, teaching yoga, and offering experiential mindfulness for teams, groups, grand rounds, and at 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