A real-time invitation to pause, reflect, and integrate.

In this special mid-year episode, we offer you the spaciousness and tools to reconnect with your intentions, acknowledge your growth, and mindfully marinate in what matters most.

We reflect openly on our guiding words for the year—how they’ve supported us, challenged us, and shaped our journeys so far.

With humor, honesty, and heart, we invite you to slow down and notice what’s working, what’s shifted, and what your future self will thank you for.

This is an imperfect, spontaneous practice of self-kindness—and a gentle reminder that true healing happens not just through action but through thoughtful integration.

Pearls of Wisdom:

• Reflecting mid-year is a powerful way to integrate growth and move forward with clarity and intention.

• Questions like “What have I done well?” and “What’s bringing me joy?” help retrain our brains toward positive attention and away from perfectionism.

• Your words of the year—whether you remember all of them or just one—can serve as wise, compassionate guides when revisited with openness.

• Resting, in all its forms, is not a pause from progress—it is progress.

• You don’t have to answer every question, or reflect perfectly; this is about practicing awareness with kindness.
  
  

Reflection Questions:

• What have I done well?

• What has gone well?

• What is working well?

• What’s bringing you joy, delight, or fun?

• What have you loved so far this year?

• What will your future self thank you for spending more time on in the next six months?
  
  

Allow yourself to answer only what resonates and let the rest marinate. Let this be a moment to reset with kindness.

Stay until the end for a grounding mindful moment of reflection—an opportunity to fully pause, breathe, and let the insights of this episode settle gently into your heart.

If this episode resonated with you and you're longing to explore your own healing, reflection, or transformation journey, I would love to support you.

Join me for a retreat in 2025 while there are still a few spots left: www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreats.

To explore mindful coaching that creates space for growth and integration, visit https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/coaching.

If you’d like to bring this type of reflection, rest, and reintegration into your organization or conference, reach out to invite Dr. Mahoney or Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang to speak or lead a transformative workshop:
Jessie: www.jessiemahoneymd.com/speaking
Ni-Cheng: www.awakenbreath.org

Let’s keep creating space for healing—one pause, one breath, one moment at a time.

Nothing shared in the Healing Medicine Podcast is medical advice.

How many conversations in medicine today focus on how hard and how broken things are?

This episode is a hopeful and grounded counterpoint.

Enjoy a rich and thoughtful conversation with Dr. Jed Wolpaw, an anesthesiologist, critical care physician, educator, and host of the beloved medical education podcast ACRAC (Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary)

Jed and I first connected at a speaker's dinner at the Holiday Seminars Anesthesia Conference in Aspen this winter.

We bonded over our shared experiences as physician educators, parents, and advocates for cultivating wellness in medicine.

Dr. Wolpaw is the residency program director for anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins.

His grounded optimism and lived wisdom offer a refreshing and insightful look at what true wellness can look like during medical training. He also shares wise words about cultivating meaningful and sustainable careers in academic medicine and beyond.

We dive deep into how training can be fulfilling, why leadership matters, and what it takes to build teams and systems that support thriving, not just surviving.

Pearls of Wisdom:

• Wellness in medicine doesn't require perfection, but it does require intention, connection, and focusing on what truly matters.

• Meaning and fulfillment are protective. Doing something hard (like residency) can be energizing if we’re supported, connected, and focused on the purpose behind the work.

• Training systems can and must evolve. Offering flexibility, encouraging open dialogue, and creating a culture where people feel safe and seen matters deeply.

• Judging less and building more—especially in leadership roles—is how we create teams people want to be a part of.

• Mindset, expectations, and energy management matter more than time management. Focusing on what energizes you is often the most resilient path forward.
  
  

Reflection Questions:

• What gives you energy during your day, and how might you shift more attention toward that?

• What kind of team member are you, and how are you contributing to the culture you want to be a part of?

• If you're in a leadership role, how are you creating safe spaces for people to be honest, grow, and feel supported?
  
  

If you're ready to create your own sustainable path in medicine, I invite you to work with me. Whether 1:1 or as part of a small group, you will learn tools to bring intention, compassion, and creativity to leadership, doctoring, and life. Learn more at: https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/coaching

You’re also warmly invited to one of my signature restorative retreats, designed specifically for physicians seeking to reconnect, recalibrate, and realign. Find upcoming retreats at: www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreats

If you’re a medical leader or educator and would like to bring me to speak or lead a workshop for your institution, team, or conference, reach out via www.jessiemahoneymd.com/speaking .

Connect with Dr. Wolpaw through his podcast at www.acrac.com.

Nothing shared in the Healing Medicine Podcast is medical advice.

This episode is an invitation to allow joy, play, and fun to take their rightful place in your life—without guilt, resistance, or apology.

Beni Seballos, a family physician, mom, wife, daughter, and radiant soul shares how she went from overwhelmed and over-responsible to energized, creative, and genuinely happy. Beni transformed her from a life of self‑sacrifice and exhaustion to one of trust, fun, healing, and inspired leadership.

Pearls of Wisdom:

• Joy isn’t frivolous—it’s foundational. Reconnecting with play isn’t about doing more; it’s about living more.

• Joy, play, and creativity can flourish alongside medicine.

• Defining “what’s my job” helps free up energy for what truly matters and allows others to step up.

• Fun is a compass, not a reward: when you lean into it without guilt or apology, you invite vitality and connection.

• True change often starts quietly, within you—but it inevitably ripples outward, positively shifting family dynamics, workplace culture, and your sense of what’s possible.

• Letting go of over-responsibility, people-pleasing, and perfectionism is uncomfortable—but it clears the way for clarity, connection, and creativity.

• Coaching and retreat experiences are not for “broken” people—they serve those ready to learn, unlearn, and rediscover vibrancy.

Reflection Questions:

• What brings you joy or fun? What do you do purely for your own delight?

• How might your life shift if joy, creativity, or play became valid priorities on their own?

• What routines or roles are simply no longer fun for you—and may be ready to be released?

If you’d love to explore what this kind of joyful evolution might look like for you, I invite you to consider joining me for a transformational retreat at www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreats or working with me one-on-one through coaching at www.jessiemahoneymd.com/coaching.

And if you’re looking to bring a fresh, mindful approach to your team or institution, I offer speaking engagements and workshops at www.jessiemahoneymd.com/speaking. You can also connect with Dr. Nichang Liang and explore her beautiful offerings at www.awakenbreath.org.

Nothing shared in the Healing Medicine Podcast is medical advice.