Each one of our emotions is created by the thoughts we think. We create our own experience. We can even adopt the thoughts of others, and they can make us feel a certain way. Knowing this can be life-changing. How we decide to think about something can determine how we feel about it. Our [...]
I realized I have an internal manual of how everyone around me should behave. My husband, my kids, my boss, my friends, my family, and my patients. I found that when they don’t behave the way that I’m anticipating, I get frustrated, angry, and annoyed. A few examples of these are: Why can’t people [...]
Working as a busy academic physician, I am right in the middle of the burnout epidemic with my colleagues and some of my students. Many of us have lost our way at one point or another. More rules and regulations seem to appear every day. More bureaucratic paperwork, threats to our livelihood and independence [...]
I went to a physician coaching talk a few years ago that changed my life. The speaker told us that the cure to burnout and career dissatisfaction is to change our mindset. I am sure I had heard that many times before and just dismissed it as another “look at the glass as half-full” [...]
