222. Have Your Roots Outgrown Your Pot? Lean into Curiosity with Dr. Holly MacKenna

The Mindful Healers Podcast with Dr. Jessie Mahoney and Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang

Do you feel like you are growing faster than your organization has space for?

Are your roots trying to grow out the bottom of your pot?

Dr. Holly MacKenna is the Founder of Dara Wellness an Integrative Psychiatry practice in New Orleans. She is Board Certified in Integrative Medicine and Psychiatry. She also has additional certifications in Helms auricular acupuncture and non-touch and distance Reiki.

Dr. MacKenna shares the story of starting her integrative practice right before the Covid pandemic. She embraced the journey because she felt like she had grown beyond what her organization had space for. Her roots were trying to grow out the bottom of a pot.

She shares the importance of coaching and leaning into a community of support when building something new. She recommends if you don’t have a community, find one or create one. Coaching helped Dr. MacKenna give herself permission to let go of the unspoken rules in her head and make her own rules for the practice and life she was building.

Holly attended the Connect in Nature Mindful Healers Retreat six weeks ago. She recently shared in a Facebook group that she had learned so much at the retreat “without realizing it.”

In today’s podcast, we discuss why and how this happened and the power of nature, especially trees and experiential learning.

Holly’s two most powerful learnings at the retreat:

1. Lean into curiosity

2. Being is where the magic and healing happen.

Dr. MacKenna also shares her thoughts as a psychiatrist on the controversies and benefits of coaching and the importance of choosing a qualified coach.

You can find Dr. MacKenna @ www.darawellnessnola.com or www.hollymackennamd.com

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The date of next year's Connect in Nature Retreat will be released soon. We are leaning into curiosity and will be holding it in a new location and at a new time of year.

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