The Other Human in the Room

Continuing the annual tradition, I reflect back on what new identities I have come to hold over the past year, and what old identities have gone through a deeper transformation. This episode is Part 3 of 3, and focuses on my work in restorative medical education and coaching.Want to create a summer of rest? Homecoming, my course on rest & embodiment is 50% off for the entire month of June.Enroll here: https://joanchanmd.thinkific.com/courses/homecomingConnect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠

Continuing the annual tradition, I reflect back on what new identities I have come to hold over the past year, and what old identities have gone through a deeper transformation. This episode is Part 2 of 3, and focuses on my clinical medicine lifeWant to create a summer of rest? Homecoming, my course on rest & embodiment is 50% off for the entire month of June.Enroll here: https://joanchanmd.thinkific.com/courses/homecomingConnect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠

Continuing the annual tradition, I reflect back on what new identities I have come to hold over the past year, and what old identities have gone through a deeper transformation. This episode is Part 1 of 3, and focuses on my personal lifeWant to create a summer of rest? Homecoming, my course on rest & embodiment is 50% off for the entire month of June.Enroll here: https://joanchanmd.thinkific.com/courses/homecomingConnect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠

How often do you find yourself saying "I have to", "I need to", "I should" or "I can't" in your work in healthcare? If you find yourself saying these things often - I've got a challenge for you!Want to create a summer of rest? Homecoming, my course on rest & embodiment is 50% off for the entire month of June.Enroll here: https://joanchanmd.thinkific.com/courses/homecomingConnect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠

What could be fuelling a sense of entitlement? Both in our patients, but also in ourselves? Join Joan on the couch as she explores a very mind-expanding framework about entitlement from Hospicing Modernity. Want to create a summer of rest? Homecoming, my course on rest & embodiment is 50% off for the entire month of June.Enroll here: https://joanchanmd.thinkific.com/courses/homecomingConnect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠

This week's podcast episode is for anyone who has ever asked the question "Am I Overreacting"? SPOILER: The answer is no. Check out Joan's new Coaching On the Go offer here: https://www.joanchanmd.com/coachingConnect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠

Sometimes wisdom comes from unexpected places. Today's episode was inspired by a book I've been reading with my children - and my reflections on what comes into your life when you embrace "maybe".Check out Joan's new Coaching On the Go offer here: https://www.joanchanmd.com/coachingConnect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠

This episode is for anyone feeling stuck on their journey to change their life. Growth and change can feel messy ... what if that's a good thing?I would love to support YOU in your messy middle!Check out Joan's new Coaching On the Go offer here: https://www.joanchanmd.com/coachingConnect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠

What is it with money that twists us up into such knots?!? I have really enjoyed getting to know Rachelle and receiving her emotional and practical support around money. I hope you enjoy our conversation where I share all my complicated money feelings, and how they impact my ability to operate spreadsheets and have budget conversations with my husband (gulp!) Website: rachellesiebke.com Instagram: rachellesiebke.moneycoach Facebook: RachelleSiebke.MoneyCoach Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/rachellesiebkemoneycoach Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠

It was such a pleasure to meet Drs Jaclyn Oldham and Natasha Aziz and hear all about the ways in which they are introducing more joy into their own lives as well as their local medical community.If you're a physician in the Durham Region, here's the facebook group (Joy in Medicine Durham Region): https://www.facebook.com/groups/1019869509334820 We're so excited to invite you to our 2nd Body to Body Medicine Workshop! Join us online on TONIGHT Monday April 29, 2024 at 7:30pm EST/6:30pm CST to explore how taking care of bodies get a lot easier and more delicious when we're in deeper connection with our own bodies.Register here: https://jamieleefinch.com/bodytobodyConnect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠

I am still riding the high of the joyous experience that inspired this episode!! My hope is that by sharing what has helped me expand my capacity for joy, you will learn new ways to do the same for yourself. Imagine a healthcare system full of humans regularly offering and receiving joy from one another!! We're so excited to invite you to our 2nd Body to Body Medicine Workshop! Join us online on Monday April 29, 2024 at 7:30pm EST/6:30pm CST to explore how taking care of bodies get a lot easier and more delicious when we're in deeper connection with our own bodies.Register here: https://jamieleefinch.com/bodytobodyConnect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠

A rambling episode as the Only Human in the Van about my favorite obsession!

Are you ironing out your relationship to overwork? So are we. Join another body to body conversation between myself and embodiment facilitator Jamie Lee Finch. We explore her path from verbal embodiment facilitator to hands-on massage therapist, and what she's learned about bodies along the way.We're so excited to invite you to our 2nd Body to Body Medicine Workshop! Join us online on Monday April 29, 2024 at 7:30pm EST/6:30pm CST to explore how taking care of bodies get a lot easier and more delicious when we're in deeper connection with our own bodies.Register here: https://jamieleefinch.com/bodytobodyConnect with Jamie:https://www.instagram.com/jamieleefinchhttps://jamieleefinch.substack.com/jamieleefinch.comEmail: [email protected] with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠

I had such a brain expanding conversation with Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti that the internet demons tried to shut it down! Nevertheless, we persisted and really explored what it could look and feel like to identify what is dying in our current system and society, and how we could approach these changes with a hospicing approach.Hospicing Modernity book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675703/hospicing-modernity-by-vanessa-machado-de-oliveira/Hospicing Modernity intro course: https://scienceandnonduality.com/event/hospicing-modernity/Facing Human Wrongs course: https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/teaching-learning-and-development/courses/facing-human-wrongs-2-0-climate-complexity-and-relational-accountability/Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠

I got to interview one of my favourite podcast hosts! This conversation with pharmacist Dr James McCormack was very fun to record, and hopefully equal parts amusing and thought-provoking to listen to.Best Science Medicine Podcast: https://therapeuticseducation.org/Really helpful decision aid calculators: https://decisionaid.ca/cvd/https://decisionaid.ca/diabetes/Youtube video about the lipid conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1MhrVB2tFEConnect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠

How much of your day feels bound by obligations and responsibilities? I want to help shift your understanding of these two words and offer you a more liberating way to view your work in healthcare.Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠

Last call for Interconnected - a 12 week group coaching course starting March 20! Sign-up here: https://www.joanchanmd.com/interconnectedEverything about this podcast episode is mediocre. YOU'RE WELCOME.Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠

Last call for Interconnected - a 12 week group coaching course starting March 20! Apply here: https://www.joanchanmd.com/interconnectedI loved discussing the intersections between theatre and healthcare with Hartley! I first met him during an improv session he facilitated at a faculty retreat and it was both a powerful and hilarious education experience all at the same time. I hope this conversation offers you a similar experience!Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠

Sign up for THIS week's free Capacity Check-Up workshop here (March 6, 2024): https://www.joanchanmd.com/capacityHow often do you find yourself stressing about which option is the Right Answer? This podcast is my best response to that impossible question.Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠

Sign up for next week's free Capacity Check-Up workshop here: https://www.joanchanmd.com/capacity How is your life reflecting and honouring your body & mind's capacity? In this episode I share an update on my year-long experiment with scheduling my life UNDER my maximum capacity - and the suprising results.Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠

The spring cohort of Interconnected is open for applications now! We start March 20. Apply here: https://www.joanchanmd.com/interconnectedHow often have you thought to yourself "I don't even know what I want"? This is so common, especially for those of us socialized inside the self-abdandoning norms of healthcare culture. In this week's episode I describe what it can look like to not only discover what you really want, but actually start to invite it into your life.Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠

The spring cohort of Interconnected is open for applications now! We start March 20. Apply here: https://www.joanchanmd.com/interconnectedHave you noticed how often the things that feel most painful and anxiety-provoking are threats to your sense of belonging? How can we start to create a more authentic sense of belonging for ourselves and each other?Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠

The spring cohort of Interconnected is open for applications now! We start March 20. Apply here: https://www.joanchanmd.com/interconnected Dr Roxanne Cooper is the kind of funny, creative, and insightful physician that our system needs. In this episode she shares the dehumanizing impact of medical training and culture over her years of practicing family medicine as a solo practitioner in Newfoundland, and how she's been putting in the work to become human again over the past few years. Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠

I am so grateful to know Dr Caroline Bowman! In this episode she shares her journey through diagnosis of multiple sclerosis while working as a family physician, and what this experience has revealed to her about healthcare and humanity along the way. Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠ Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠⁠joanchanmd.com/courses⁠⁠

When was the last time you actually allowed yourself to experience a moment of pleasure at work? For most of us, our lives are too busy and stressful and overwhelming to even notice if something lovely happens in the midst of the chaos. In this week’s episode, I dive further into the practical ways we can practice Pleasure Activism in our work. I give lots of powerful insight’s from adrienne maree brown’s incredible book, as well as practical examples from my own life. Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠ Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠⁠joanchanmd.com/courses⁠⁠

For most of us in healthcare, intentionally doing things for pleasure feels wasteful or even wrong - but what if finding a way to feel good is actually the key to rehumanizing ourselves and our healthcare system as a whole? In this episode, I share some specific pleasure practices I have been enjoying recently, as well as introducing the concept of pleasure activism. Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠ Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠⁠joanchanmd.com/courses⁠⁠

How much time does your brain spending trying to figure out who to blame and how to avoid being in a position of being blamed? We all live and work in a very blame-heavy culture, and it can be a major barrier to us actually facing and learning from our mistakes. In this podcast I explore a simple but powerful reflective exercise that can shift our approach from blame to accountability, and actually improve the experience for providers and patients alike in the process.Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠ Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠⁠joanchanmd.com/courses⁠⁠

When we're feeling really tired, overwhelmed, burned out it can be hard to imagine a way for our lives to feel better. In this New Year's episode I ofter a simple but powerful exercise to connect with our future selves and gain some insight and inspiration for inviting change in this new year. I also share my own future self's vision for myself and for healthcare as a whole. Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠⁠joanchanmd.com/courses⁠⁠

Wishing you happy holidays and a happy new year (plus sharing a poem about trees) Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠ Last call to use the code DEC23 to get 50% off the Restoring Your Time Course: https://joanchanmd.thinkific.com/courses/restore-your-time(offer expired Dec 31, 2023)

Another bonus episode recorded on Joan's commute to work! This one was inspired around the theme of "noncompliance". P.S. It's time to create space for you! Use the code DEC23 to get 50% off the Restoring Your Time Course: https://joanchanmd.thinkific.com/courses/restore-your-time(offer expired Dec 31, 2023)

How do you react when you learn a patient has been harmed under your care? This can be a really challenging experience for most of us who work in healthcare ... and it's an inevitable one. In this week's podcast I share strategies to reduce harm - not only to patients...but to ourselves.Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠P.S. It's time to create space for you! Use the code DEC23 to get 50% off the Restoring Your Time Course: https://joanchanmd.thinkific.com/courses/restore-your-time(offer expired Dec 31, 2023)

How many weeks have you been alive? Does knowing that the average human gets around 4000 weeks to live on this earth change anything about your priorities?This week I am sharing some of my favourite passages from the book Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman and applying them to our work inside of healthcare. Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠ P.S. It's time to create space for you! Use the code DEC23 to get 50% off the Restoring Your Time Course: https://joanchanmd.thinkific.com/courses/restore-your-time(offer expires Dec 31, 2023)

The number of amazing healthcare humans I've met through TikTok (of all places) continues to grow! I really enjoyed this candid conversation with Dr Willough Jenkins about making space for her humanity in her work as a child psychiatrist, and how that space has lead her many interesting places including social media.Willough's contact info:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drwilloughjenkinsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/drwilloughjenkins/Website: https://www.willoughjenkins.com/ Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠ P.S. It's time to create space for you! Use the code DEC23 to get 50% off the Restoring Your Time Course: https://joanchanmd.thinkific.com/courses/restore-your-time (offer expires Dec 31, 2023)

Do you ever feel guilty for having a particular emotion in a room with a patient? Then this episode is for you. Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠P.S. You are invited to Joan's latest upcoming workshop Getting Curious About Chronic Pain on Tuesday November 28 at 8pm EST. Register here: ⁠https://www.joanchanmd.com/workshops⁠

This week's topic is potentially controversial: interrupting our patients. What if interrupting our patients can actually be a good thing? Link to study referenced in the podcast: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9512556/ Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠⁠ P.S. You are invited to Joan's latest upcoming workshop Getting Curious About Chronic Pain on Tuesday November 28 at 8pm EST. Register here: ⁠https://www.joanchanmd.com/workshops⁠

What a nourishing and inspiring conversation with Dr Matt Chellew - ER physician and somatic experiencing practitioner. I love connecting with other humans in healthcare who are sharing what has helped them rehumanize their work - and Matt was no exception. Listen in to his journey from burnout to thriving, and how it helped him navigate emergency medicine during the pandemic, and learn to reconnect with his patients in an authentic & meaningful way. Somatic Experiencing Practitioner directory: https://directory.traumahealing.org/ Learn more about SE here: https://www.somaticexperiencing.com/ Connect with Matt on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matt.chellew/ Matt's website: thrivingbeyondburnout.com Connect with Joan on ⁠Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/ ⁠⁠P.S. You are invited to Joan's latest upcoming workshop Getting Curious About Chronic Pain on Tuesday November 28 at 8pm EST. Register here: ⁠https://www.joanchanmd.com/workshops⁠

It's always a pleasure to talk chronic pain, bodies and nervous systems with chronic pain coach Deb Malkin! This time, we're diving deep on CURIOSITY. What is it? What does it feel like? And how does it help humans living with chronic pain? You are invited to our upcoming workshop Getting Curious About Chronic Pain on Tuesday November 28 at 8pm EST. Register here: https://www.joanchanmd.com/workshops Connect with Deb on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/curiositycure.coach/ Connect with Joan on Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠

When you consider setting boundaries or reducing your workload to honour your capacity, does your brain tell you that you’d have to “care less” in order to follow through? Have you ever asked yourself WHAT you are supposed to care less about? Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠⁠joanchanmd.com/courses⁠⁠ Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/

It's cold, flu & COVID season where I'm working right now - and that's got me thinking about surge capacity. Does your schedule and life have space for times of increased demand? What is your surge capacity? You are invited to the Body to Body Medicine Workshop happening TOMORROW Tuesday October 24 at 8pm EST! Register here: ⁠https://jamieleefinch.com/bodytobody⁠ Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠⁠⁠joanchanmd.com/courses⁠⁠⁠ Connect with me on Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠

What do you love about being on call? What do you hate? What if you have more power than you think to change what you hate, and invite in what you love? You are invited to the Body to Body Medicine Workshop happening Tuesday October 24 at 8pm EST! Register here: https://jamieleefinch.com/bodytobody Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠⁠joanchanmd.com/courses⁠⁠ Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/

For anyone who needs a space to grieve this week

You are invited to the Body to Body Medicine Workshop happening Tuesday October 24 at 8pm EST! Register here: https://jamieleefinch.com/bodytobody Jamie's Info: email: [email protected] website & course: https://jamieleefinch.com/ facilitation application: https://forms.gle/rSWR1j2q1inLrMw9A instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamieleefinch/ Joan's Info: website: joanchanmd.com instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd

What percentage of your day do you spend rushing? How do you feel as when you rush? What do you think might happen if you tried to intentionally slow down? Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠⁠joanchanmd.com/courses⁠⁠ Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/

How often do you feel anticipatory anxiety as you walk through your day in healthcare? Let's talk about the connection between anxiety & shame in this week's episode Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠⁠joanchanmd.com/courses⁠⁠ Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/

Join me as I drive to work and explore the two kinds of confidence, and how cultivating both kinds will help you make any clinical decision with more calm and care. Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠⁠joanchanmd.com/courses⁠⁠ Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/

Such a rich conversation with fellow physician coach Dr Megan Melo! We shared our burnout journeys and what has helped is heal and reclaim our humanity inside of medicine. This episode was cross-posted on her podcast Ending Physician Overwhelm. Her links: Website: https://www.healthierforgood.com/ Instagram: https://www.healthierforgood.com/ Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠⁠joanchanmd.com/courses⁠⁠ Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/

I’m back from my summer sabbatical, and in this episode I share all the juicy experiences and learnings with you. Click here to sign up for the interest list for Operation Enjoy Your Summer: https://forms.gle/oGKaUMScpNsMx99p8 Here is a list of all of the books I mentioned in this podcast: The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson Between Us by Mhairi McFarlane You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (poetry) Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Padraig O Tuama (also has a podcast called Poetry Unbound) Want to take this learning deeper? Sign up for one of Joan’s courses here: ⁠⁠joanchanmd.com/courses⁠⁠ Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/

Surprise! I’m back one week early with a sabbatical-inspired podcast about the end of the world. Links that I reference in this podcast (links are not endorsements, just references!) Your Undivided Attention Podcast: https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/feed-drop-a-i-doomsday-with-kara-swisher 3 Levels of Consciousness: https://www.marcgafni.com/from-pre-tragic-to-post-tragic/

It's been a year(ish) since Joan launched this podcast! Join her as she shares insights and lessons she's learned from starting a restorative medical education and coaching business over that same time. --- Learn more about making your experience in healthcare feel more human through Joan's courses: ⁠https://www.joanchanmd.com/course⁠s Connect with me on Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠

It's been a year(ish) since Joan launched this podcast! Join her as she shares insights and lessons she's learned from her clinical work in family medicine over that same time. --- Learn more about making your experience in healthcare feel more human through Joan's courses: ⁠https://www.joanchanmd.com/course⁠s Connect with me on Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/joanchanmd/⁠