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The Holistic Physician Coaching Podcast
The Holistic Physician Coaching Podcast is dedicated to making physician coaching more accessible for physicians and those who coach them by featuring real coaching engagements.
Each season features one physician being coached by host Jessica Singh, MD, NBC-HWC, ACC, through specific topics, challenges, and life situations. These coaching conversations give listeners insight into the complex, evolving, and deeply personal experiences of physicians. The podcast explores what supports us, what challenges us, and what helps us live and work in greater alignment.
Dr. Singh is a Yale-trained emergency medicine physician who became the first to complete a one-year physician wellness fellowship at Stanford University, before transitioning her career to pursue holistic health and wellness. Through her own healing journey from burnout, she gained experience in yoga, Ayurveda, mind-body medicine, and coaching, bringing that depth to discussions on physician coaching, professional fulfillment, integrative health practices, and advocacy for physician well-being.
This podcast is for physicians, physician coaches, and all who care about the well-being of those in medicine. Just as in medicine, where a single interaction can transform a life, this podcast is grounded in the belief that one conversation can have immense power to inspire, heal, and bring about change.
Subscriber-only episodes include physician coaching sessions, exclusive debrief episodes for each coaching session with Dr. Singh, and coach mentoring sessions where Dr. Singh receives support in her own coaching practice. Free episodes feature physician experts discussing themes and topics related to the coaching journey.
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The Holistic Physician Coaching Podcast
Grief, Loss, and Allowing Emotions to Be Felt: Coaching Session #4 with Dr. Mary
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Support the show & get subscriber-only content.In this episode of The Holistic Physician Coaching Podcast, Dr. Jessica Singh coaches Dr. Mary in their fourth coaching session together. Dr. Mary is a family medicine resident physician in the United States.
In this coaching conversation, she shares that her grandfather recently passed away and reflects on what it has been like to grieve while continuing to work in the hospital.
As the session unfolds, Dr. Mary explores grief, loss, regret, blame, and the emotional complexity of being the person in the family with medical knowledge. She reflects on the experience of wanting to protect her family from painful details, while also needing space to process her own feelings about her grandfather’s death.
Through the coaching conversation, Dr. Mary begins to notice where grief and regret are showing up in her body. She explores the role of breath, grounding, prayer, spiritual connection, and allowing emotions to move through her rather than pushing them aside. The session also touches on the reality of grieving while in residency, including the challenge of experiencing grief at work while caring for patients and the importance of asking trusted colleagues for support.
This episode offers a meaningful look at how coaching can create space for physicians to process grief, loss, and life experiences that do not pause simply because clinical responsibilities continue.
Timestamps:
0:00 — Grieving a Loved One’s Death as a Physician
7:24 — Making Space for Grief
17:57 — Experiencing Grief at Work and Asking for Support
Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
The Pause / The Medical Pause
The Pause, a practice developed by Jonathan Bartels, RN, is a brief moment of silence after a patient’s death that honors the life of the person who died while also acknowledging the humanity, care, and effort of the medical team.
The practice offers a simple, non-denominational way to create space for reflection, grief, and closure in clinical settings after death.
Learn more about The Pause here: www.thepause.me
Additional resource:
VCU Health — “Pausing to honor a life”
This VCU Health article describes The Pause as a moment of silence after the death of a patient that recognizes the humanity of the patient and the health care team. It also shares how VCU Health implemented the practice after connecting with Jonathan Bartels, who originally developed the concept.
Read the VCU Health article here: www.vcuhealth.org/news/pausing-to-honor-a-life/
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