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

Описание: When fear narrows your thinking, you can come back to the body first.
When we are activated, our wise brain is harder to access. Regulate first. Respond second.
In this episode of the Healing Medicine Podcast, When the World Feels Unsteady, Choose Intention Not Panic: Nervous System Tools for Physicians, Dr.Ni-Cheng and Dr. Jessie Mahoney name the collective fear, grief, exhaustion, and moral distress in our country right now.

This episode offers practical micro-tools that work in real life such as box breathing, 4-7-8, pranayama, STOP (Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed), orienting to safety by feeling the ground under your feet, and hand to heart as a physiological downshift. Yoga is also a form of regulation.

PEARLS OF WISDOM
• A dysregulated nervous system makes urgency feel like truth. Regulation gives us back clarity, choice, and values-based action.
• Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn are adaptive responses. We can name our default without judging it, then choose the next step.
• Moral distress, grief, anger, numbness, and exhaustion are normal human responses to instability. Nothing is wrong with you.
• Trauma and minority stress live in the body. When safety feels threatened, hypervigilance and shutdown make sense.
• We do not have to do everything. We choose a lane of helping that matches our capacity and sustains us over time.

Reflection Questions
When you feel activated, what is your default—urgency, over-functioning, numbness, shutdown, or fawn?
What helps you return to the green zone —long exhale, feet on the ground, hand to heart, movement, nature?
Which lane of helping feels like desire and alignment, and which lane feels like guilt or over-responsibility?
If your future self looks back five years from now, what do you hope you feel proud of in how you showed up?

This video is part of the work of pediatrician, physician coach, and keynote speaker Jessie Mahoney, founder of Pause & Presence Coaching & Retreats.

Jessie helps physicians, healthcare leaders, and high-achieving professionals move from burnout and overextension to clarity, purpose, and sustainable success. Her work blends mindfulness, neuroscience, lifestyle medicine, and evidence-based coaching to support better decision-making, emotional regulation, leadership, and meaningful change.

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• Physician burnout and recovery
• Mindful leadership and communication
• Nervous system regulation and resilience
• Values-based decision-making
• Coaching tools for challenging conversations
• Women in medicine and sustainable careers
• The question “What would love do?” as a practical framework for clarity and courage

Jessie speaks nationally and leads retreats, coaching programs, and workshops for individuals and healthcare organizations seeking healthier cultures and more sustainable ways of working.

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