Wow, an illness of immoderation? How so? According to an article on the history of burnout by Arianna Huffington, Chabot, an early researcher on burnout, wrote, “Like substance abuse, burnout is an illness of immoderation.” Since then, with further research we learned more. Burnout is way more than immoderation, it is identified by 3 hallmark signs.…
Grow Your Resilience
Being a physician or nurse is often physically and mentally challenging. To stay fit you need to grow your resilience and go beyond physical fitness. Focusing on your own well-being in an intentional way is essential for building resilience. When you demonstrate alignment with the healthy behaviors you encourage your patients too. Without refueling with…
It’s Time to Replenish, before it’s too late
One image of burnout is a bank account that is overdrawn. You make deposits into your energy bank account with eating well, exercise, loving relationships, connecting to purpose and more. Withdrawals are made as you expend energy, caring for others, documentation, rushing to complete tasks, worrying, and other energy burners. Sometimes your energy account runs low.…
Fantasies of an Alternative Job
When burnt out at work, feeling exhausted, disconnected and having little impact, it’s not uncommon to think about alternatives. When I speak with people who are working with serious life issues like personal and family health matters, poverty, suicide threats and addiction, they often have fantasies of an alternative job. Some of the work…
Emotions are Cues, What are Yours Signaling?
We know intuitively that we often respond in life based on emotions, information from our limbic system. Those uncomfortable emotions you’re feeling about work and your situation are providing you with information. Get curious and look more deeply at the emotion. Emotions are cues, what are they signaling? What you find out about yourself can…
Physician Burnout and How to Avert Burnout
The Medscape National Physician Burnout & Depression Report 2018 was recently published. It looked at individuals’ responses to a variety of questions and helped to identify both the reasons for physician burnout and what physicians who don’t experience burnout are doing to avert burnout. Below are a few highlights of the results from over 15,500…
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