In this week’s episode of Routes of Healing, Dr. Siri Chand Khalsa sits down with Dr. Diana Londoño, a board-certified urologist, physician coach, and integrative healer whose work bridges surgical excellence with deep attention to dignity, trauma, burnout, and the mind–body–spirit connection.

Together, they explore what happens after the early years of medical training, when clinicians reach mid to late career and begin reckoning with burnout, identity, values, and the quiet realization that the system that trained them may no longer sustain them.

This conversation moves through Dr. Londoño’s journey from growing up in Mexico City to training in Los Angeles, from surgical culture to whole-person care, from repeated burnout to leadership, coaching, and spiritual healing practices. They discuss dignity in clinical encounters, the nervous system’s role in urologic symptoms, the unspoken trauma held in the body, and why curiosity, presence, and love belong at the center of medicine.

Whether you’re a clinician navigating burnout, a physician questioning traditional practice models, a healer exploring integrative approaches, or someone longing for a more humane experience of care, this episode offers grounded wisdom, compassion, and permission to evolve.

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• Mid- to late-career medicine: What happens after the first decade of training and practice.
• Burnout as a wake-up call: Recognizing cynicism, depersonalization, and chronic stress as signals for change.
• Identity & integrity: Staying true to personal values in systems that reward conformity.
• Growing up between cultures: How Dr. Londoño’s upbringing in Mexico shaped her openness to holistic healing.
• Dignity in care: Small clinical choices that profoundly impact patient safety and trust.
• Trauma & the pelvic floor: How stress, grief, and nervous system dysregulation manifest physically.
• Listening as medicine: Why patients often heal simply by being truly heard.
• Integrative urology: Addressing diet, movement, stress, constipation, and emotional health alongside medications and procedures.
• Energy healing practices: Salt baths, Reiki, and pranic healing as tools for nervous system regulation.
• Direct specialty care: Moving away from insurance-driven care toward time, transparency, and prevention.
• Boundaries & burnout recovery: Why learning to say no is essential for physician wellness.
• Morning & evening rituals: Creating parasympathetic safety through routine.
• Scarcity vs. sufficiency: Reframing “I don’t have time” as a mindset, not a fact.
• Curiosity as healing: Staying open, asking “why,” and allowing practices and identities to evolve.
• Love in medicine: Reclaiming compassion, presence, and humanity as foundational clinical skills.

00:00 — Introduction and Welcome

01:09 — Why These Conversations Matter

02:33 — Training, Burnout & the Forgotten Meaning of “Healer”

05:02 — The Myth of “Five Years Out”

07:04 — Growing Up in Mexico City & Medical Training in LA

09:44 — Origin Stories & Cultural Roots of Healing

10:27 — Feeling Different and Staying True to...