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Send us Fan Mail In business, you may have to make different types of decisions than you do in your personal life. You may have different considerations in business than in your personal life. Your activities and stressors are different in business than in your personal life...  No matter what you do or how much you separate and compartmentalize your business, the common thread throughout every ch...

Send us Fan Mail Every couple of years I would get to a point in my career where I would feel completely dissatisfied, complain about being dead tired and on the verge of burnout. I blamed my burnout on working to too many hours, working too hard, too many patients, too many clinic days, etc. So I would solve for those problems by resting, scaling back, tinkering with my hours and schedule, and ra...

Send us Fan Mail We all hear people say “you have to charge your worth” or you may be saying it to yourself. It’s meant to be inspirational and a reminder to never undersell yourself. Odds are if you’re struggling with “charging your worth” then you likely have some messy thoughts about your own self worth. Does this content resonates with you? Pursue 1:1 coaching with Rebecca Ong, CPC! Visit tcm-...

Send us Fan Mail SORRY FOR THE DELAY THE PAST FEW WEEKS BUT WE'RE BACK! Listen in to interviews from participants at the TCM Hub flagship program Harmonize in Charlotte, NC April 28-30, 2023. Our favorite, hilarious neighbor to the north, Taylor "Moose" Novak takes the mic while we were busy teaching and interviewed a few participants to get their thoughts on the event! Enjoy! If yo...

Send us Fan Mail Western Patients have no context for Chinese medicine.  They have no idea what we do.  We’re weird and mysterious.  Patients are looking to you to set the tone of what this experience will be. If you’re confident in yourself, they will be confident in you. If you’re nervous and apprehensive, they will follow suit. If you don’t communicate properly, patients will be confused and th...

Send us Fan Mail Take the win The importance of celebrating.  As humans, we’re wired to think the worst. It’s a survival mechanism that protects us from putting ourselves into dangerous situations.  Unfortunately, this mechanism is what prevents us from doing something that is incredibly important for our mental wellbeing and keeping us motivated to continue to grow and create. And that is celebra...

Send us Fan Mail When A Patient No-Shows Patient no-shows happen. Just about every one of you has some kind of policy in place in your clinic paperwork about no-shows and late cancellations. Usually it’s something along the lines of if you miss your appointment or cancel outside a 24 hour period then you will be charged a fee. Pretty standard and pretty straightforward.  Yet, it’s something many p...

Send us Fan Mail Are you hurting your patients? A very common struggle among many self-employed physicians is the act of charging money. For many of us, CM is not a first career. And for most of us, whatever careers we were in did not involve having to charge for our work. So when you started your practices this was just one more area of uncharted territory that you had to navigate. And with that...

Send us Fan Mail Rule of thumb: Every decision you make, make sure you like your reason.  Desperation is a dignity killer. It causes you to make decisions that put a strain on your ethical boundaries and your sense of agency. Over time this can build resentment, bitterness, and burnout. As long as you continue in this mode, you will always feel like you’re on a hamster wheel. If this content and m...

Send us Fan Mail This episode was inspired by a post one of our colleagues made regarding retirement. And the general worries that goes along with that.  Comments ranged from feelings of fear about not having enough, to working until they die, to “I can’t fucking wait”.  One person even admitted to having a app on her phone counting down the days and hours until she could quit acupuncture and peac...

Send us Fan Mail We stick a needle here, prescribe an herb or two there . We hope that a patient's woes are temporarily abated or perhaps even their life saved-for now. But doctoring is less about preventing the inevitable and more about facilitating the best quality of life.   Things brings me to the crux.   We advocate acupuncture, we advocate herbal medicine,  at times we even advocate dru...

Send us Fan Mail I. Don’t. Know.    "I don't know" is a powerful avoidance tactic.  When you claim ignorance then there are no expectations or accountability expected of you. "I don’t know” is a very powerful shield from the scariness of the unknown. It acts like a warm blanket that gives you the validation to stay where you are.  It’s a limiting belief that keeps you stuck and...

Send us Fan Mail Do you say things like: “I wish I could just treat patients and not run a business.” “I love what I do, but I hate running a business.” “I wish someone else could just do my marketing for me.” These are the thoughts of many people in this field, including myself for many years. I wanted a great practice, but I hated what needed to be done in order to have one. It was like there wa...

Send us Fan Mail Most of us set goals, whether long-term or short. Sometimes they are simply  personal achievement goals, like completing a marathon. Most of the time we set goals to attain something that we think will bring us happiness. Thinking along the lines of “If I just achieve this then my life will be better.” And most of the time we reach those goals and it does provide some temporary sa...