Mind Surfer MD: Recent Episodes
Liz Treynor, MD
My mission is to normalize discussions about mental health and provide non-traditional resources and actionable tips for women physicians to help rediscover joy. Please also join my Facebook community, Mind Surfer MD, to continue discussions and sign up for a buddy. Reach me at drliz@mindsurfermd.com with any comments or suggestions, and please post your 5-star feedback so we can reach more listeners and save more lives. Love to all my fellow surfers!
Ever struggled to make a decision and felt pulled by multiple selves, each with its own desires, beliefs, and temperaments?
Terry Baranski is my Internal Family Systems (IFS) coach, and together we explore the benefits of parts work and some of the insights that can be gained from this meditative and unique form of therapy.
https://www.healingtheself.net/
We also touch on Interfusion Festival (IF), an annual event in DC over MLK weekend, where he will be speaking in January 2024. IF is five days of learning, healing, dance, acroyoga, Thai massage, breath work, play and connection.
https://interfusionfestival.com/
January 11 – 15, 2024
Arlington, VA
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Join us on a captivating journey with the multi-faceted Dr. Judith Hong, who embodies not just one, but several roles; she is a UCSF-trained dermatologist who is also an artist, gymnast, hockey player, dancer, and Reiki master.
Dr. Hong brings forth how her world transformed after moving to Sonoma County, when the universe introduced her to the energy healing practice of Reiki-- and soon afterwards, when her life changed overnight due to the destructive Tubbs Fire.
We move beyond the usual medical discussions when Dr. Hong recounts memorable experiences from her practice where Reiki helped her patients heal. One moving story highlights a patient with a lifelong fear of needles undergoing a melanoma excision. This patient's journey underlines the core philosophy of Reiki - it isn't about the healer, but about allowing patients to access their innate ability to heal themselves.
In this episode, we also touch on placebo-controlled trials, but Reiki is more than just a healing practice—it is a meditative, compassionate, and mindful practice. The healing that happens through Reiki is a natural outcome, not a forced process.
Dr. Hong encourages all listeners to explore what resonates with them, urging everyone to consider Reiki for self-healing, healing others, and even for the planet.
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Dr. Gigi is an ER doc, speaker, author and transformational coach with an MBA, as well as the creator of Medical School for the Soul. This innovative curriculum restores joy and prevents burn out while increasing revenue and patient satisfaction. Her legacy is to return the heart to healthcare, one medical school class at a time, one physician at a time, and stop physician burnout and suicide.
https://www.drgigisamed.com/medicalschoolforthesoul
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Please join a lively, candid discussion with Dr. Rashmi Schramm, Family Doc, certified life coach and certified yoga instructor.
We talk about neurologic and epigenetic benefits of meditation, and her experience uniquely coaching docs with yoga nidra.
Learn how to lengthen your telomeres, Ladies!
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Dr. Masood founded Physician Support Line, an anonymous psychiatrist-staffed hotline available to any physician in need -- no stressor is too small or too large. The COVID crisis brought physician mental health issues to the forefront and was the critical event leading to the founding of this hotline in March of 2020.
Physician Support Line is 1-888-409-0141 and staffed 8am-midnight EST weekdays.
Check out Dr. Masood's Instagram handle , Shrink.Rapping (great pearls on there!)
https://www.instagram.com/shrink.rapping/?hl=en
https://www.amwa-doc.org/our-work/initiatives/physician-mental-health/?fbclid=IwAR3grH48OK7LOJQg2k6JfpvbBS98x_Jpw9CkVoa-ruFflWYPxs32s-GQnDA#:~:text=Humans%20Before%20Heroes%20is%20an%20initiative%20of%20the,with%20the%203rd%20National%20Physician%20Suicide%20Awareness%20Day
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Trina Dorrah, MD, MPH is an internal medicine physician and an emotional eating life coach. She helps women who know they eat too much but don’t know how to stop. Dr. Dorrah was inspired to become an emotional eating coach after recovering from an eating disorder, and after learning that almost everything she had been taught about diets, health, and wellness was wrong. Ultimately, she learned that the key to ending emotional eating starts with our thoughts, and it involves practicing the concepts of self-compassion, intuitive eating, questioning traditional diet rules, and engaging in healthy behaviors regardless of our size. Dr. Dorrah is passionate about using her experience to help others find the same freedom around food that she has found. Dr. Trina Dorrah Life CoachingWebsite: https://foodfreedommd.com
Lara Hochman, MD is a Family Medicine physician, and advocate for fellow doctors' wellbeing amidst rising burnout and dissatisfaction. Her own experiences led her to discover the ways physicians lost autonomy, and how to reclaim their focus on helping patients. She founded Happy Day Health, a boutique physician matchmaking agency to match doctors with well run, physician-owned practices where they can have a voice and enjoy practicing medicine again.
www.happydayhealth.co (not .com)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/larahochman/
https://www.instagram.com/happydaymd/
https://www.tiktok.com/@happydaymd
Academia can be a pressure cooker. Prioritizing sleep and choosing an identity/mindshift shift can be the release valve.
Dr. Jia Ng is a nephrologist and researcher at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/ Northwell who suffered from exhaustion and imposter syndrome during training, and is now the founder of PublishedMD, where she coaches docs on how to publish research and achieve academic goals without the overwhelm.
https://www.publishedmd.com/
Dr. Hankins is a Harvard-trained Psychiatrist, Mindset Coach, and Emotional Freedom Technique (aka EFT or tapping) practitioner, who survived suicidal depression and now shares these powerful techniques with both individuals and in group settings.
Please connect with her at the links below on Instagram and LinkedIn, or reach her by email at hello@MelissaHankinsCoaching.com.
ehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/MelissaHankinsMD
https://www.instagram.com/MelissaHankinsMD
Denise Billen-Mejia worked for two decades as a clinician in Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine when catastrophic illness derailed her life. Now recovered but retired from clinical medicine, she shares the powerful gift of hypnosis with individual and group clients online all over the world.
Although most commonly thought of as entertainment, hypnosis is a powerful tool to empower patients in their therapy. Dr.Billen-Mejia actively seeks to educate physicians about hypnosis and encourage them to incorporate this in treatment plans. The techniques to relieve anxiety and improve sleep alone, can dramatically improve well-being and there is evidence for hypnosis use across a broad spectrum of disease.
She can be reached through her website www.aahypnosis.com and is happy to discuss hypnosis for yourself or incorporating it in medical practice.