I believe I can have it all. But do I WANT it all? This is a question that I’ve been wrestling with lately. As of 2020, I will have been in business as a life coach and entrepreneur for 5 years! Insane. When I left my practice in 2017, I was fully all in to…
I am the face of early career female physician burnout. And I fought it so hard. Until I realized that in order to overcome this foe, it wasn’t me that was broken. It wasn’t me that need to be fixed. It wasn’t something inherently wrong with me. I was working from a place of exhaustion…
Peak years of fertility and childbearing happen right smack dab in the middle of medical training. Perfect storm. I personally wrestled with the question of “should I get pregnant now or risk waiting?” I got many, “Well, there’s never a good time.” And even being part of a mostly supportive family medicine residency, pregnancy and…
When was the last time you opened up about how your job was making you feel? I mean honestly got in touch with the emotions you were experiencing not just bitching about this or that and how nothing/everything changes? I see this as one area of improvement in the physician world. How many times do…
WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT? I work and coach with physicians colleagues who do great, amazing feats. They help babies, children, teens, adults, pregnant women, trauma victims, critically ill, mentally ill, and those who have cancer or are dying. They give medicines, perform procedures or surgeries, identity pathology, develop plans that if they didn’t, patients…
In my experience, looking at job descriptions can be super depressing. You feel like you need more training, you need to move, you need to travel. But before you get on LinkedIn and start panicking that your perfect job is nowhere to be seen, I want you to take a GIANT step back and envision…
“Even on the struggle bus, you can smile. It’s all about perspective.” I truly believe that our thoughts contribute to making our situations worse. By narrowing in on the misery, annoyances and pain points, we block out any potential positives. For example: I use to develop an anxiety tornado in my head at the beginning…
Do you find yourself anxious, upset, irritable on Sunday nights or the night before going into work? My friend, you are experiencing Sunday dreads. It is a symptom of a large problem. So, let’s just acknowledge that this IS NOT NORMAL even though it is common (In a 2013 poll from the career site Monster.com,…
“Give me your description of that feeling you get the night before you work or go in for a shift.” I recently put this statement out to a few Physician Only Facebook groups I participate in as I want to help others with the Sunday Dreads (or another name is Sunday scaries). Here’s a few:…
I just read and want to share a great article from Health Affairs entitled Physicians’ Well-Being Linked To In-Basket Messages Generated By Algorithms In Electronic Health Records. (I appreciate free open access education so 2 thumbs up to Health Affairs for offering this article FREE. Get the article here in PDF form)As federal meaningful use…