Mindful Medicine
For accompanying audio practices and downloadable questionnaires, visit our Mindful Medicine Resources page.
Healers need healing too.
At times, healthcare work can be demanding, exhausting, and underappreciated. Those working in the field are passionate about relieving the suffering of others but often neglect their own health. They’re too tired at the end of the day to go to the evening burnout workshop that is offered by their hospital or clinic. They may even ponder leaving the profession that they love and have worked so hard and long to learn and perfect.
Mindful Medicine shares simple mindfulness practices and brief meditations that fit easily into the demanding schedule of a healthcare worker’s day, creating an experience of less stress and more presence, connection, ease, and flow. Addressing important topics such as connecting with yourself, connecting with your patients, the challenge of the Inner Critic in medicine, rescue remedies for times of stress, and meditations, this book offers evidence-based support for the many challenges that healthcare workers face. These short practices are an invitation to replenish the passion of healthcare work and douse the flickering flames of burnout.
For accompanying audio practices and downloadable questionnaires, visit our Mindful Medicine Resources page.
"This important book will be a powerful resource for healthcare workers for years to come. It addresses the truth of suffering that people in healthcare experience and offers a path out of that suffering through deep practices that resource those who have hit the wall of medicine in our era." —Roshi Joan Halifax, author of Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet
"A guide to being mindful during the busyness and chaos of clinical practice, this book is a must-read for clinicians wanting to experience greater joy, connection, and fulfillment in their work. A seasoned and wise pediatrician who has worked with some of the most challenging situations imaginable, Dr. Bays weaves her Zen teachings seamlessly into simple exercises that clinicians can incorporate into the workday—to connect us with our growing edge and inspire us to discover the unrealized potential that we all have. She shows how, in every moment, we can expand our capacity and courage to be curious, responsive, and present to the needs of our patients, our colleagues, and, perhaps most importantly, ourselves." —Ronald Epstein, MD, family and palliative care physician, writer, researcher, and teacher of Mindful Practice in Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center
"I have four frontline healthcare professionals in my household. I intend to get each their own copy." —Dhananjay Joshi, Quest
"Healing the burnout epidemic in health care will require systemic change, along with pragmatic, research-backed tools for self-care that can meet healthcare workers where they are now. To that end, physician and meditation teacher Jan Chozen Bays offers a wise, timely, and compassionate book’s worth of simple exercises that healthcare professionals (and all frontline workers) can use to mitigate stress and to restore their sense of presence, purpose, and flow in their chosen career." —Mindful Magazine