Ending Physician Overwhelm

Send us Fan Mail Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Master-Certified Life Coach Dr Kristi Angevine. Kristi works with self-identified "High Achievers," including many Physicians who are wanting to better understand their patterns and habits, in order to build lives that they love. On this episode, Kristi shares her story of burnout, and her journey to discovering a different purp...

Send us Fan Mail Ooh, today's episode hits a sore spot. I am talking, in depth, about what happens when we make a request, when we build up the courage to admit that we are struggling and need help, and our request is met with an unemotional "no." If you know, you know. Maybe you asked to drop your FTE, or to change your template or for them to replace the MA who left 6 months ago....

Send us Fan Mail Ooh, tender spots here. But this is such a common theme that pops up for my clients and my friends, and 100% yes in myself that we have to talk about it. Not valuing yourself hurts you. And if you are struggling with perfectionism, procrastinating, people-pleasing, and it's causing difficulty closing notes, getting through your inbox, running behind, always being late, despit...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are talking about self-confidence, and how it is suffered along the rocky-road of the high achiever. We may experience confidence in particular skills that we have, because we have perfected those skills and obtained mastery. Self-confidence, which could also be called self-trust, is different; self-confidence doesn't require that you have done something before; it r...

Send us Fan Mail Phew, we made it to the last episode in the March 2023 series on habits, and today we're digging in on committing to the process. For me, goals that are centered on improving my health and wellbeing can be the hardest to follow through on, and I know that I am not alone. In today's episode we'll talk about how we use the goal to decide on a behavior or action step,...

Send us Fan Mail You can do hard things. But, you don't always have to do things the hard way.... In today's episode, I share a tool from BJ Fogg's "Tiny Habits" book (which is an excellent read), and I invite you to give yourself permission to choose easy. It's literally baked in to the tool, and it can be a gamechanger. If you would prefer to watch this as a video,...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever make a decision to change a habit, and struggle to follow through on it every single time? Um, me neither... Today I am sharing some insight from BJ Fogg's book, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything, and we are talking about the fundamental principle that our emotions create and reinforce our habits.  If you want different habits, either to build...

Send us Fan Mail I think patients would be surprised by how many Physicians label themselves as procrastinators, too lazy to get stuff done; but this is a common concern that I hear, that we can't stop procrastinating. On today's episode, we talk about why we procrastinate. It's not that Netflix is so entertaining, it's about preventing discomfort and emotions that we don'...

Send us Fan Mail What to do when your well is running dry. So thrilled to be talking with this week's guest, my friend, Dr Delia Chiaramonte of The Integrative Palliative Institute and the host of The Integrative Palliative Podcast. Dr Chiaramonte is a board-certified Palliative Care Physician, who combines Integrative Medicine with Palliative Care, and is eager to share her knowledge with ot...

Send us Fan Mail What goes through your mind when you bring your kids or your parents to their medical appointments? Do you worry that you'll be "that family member" who is trying to run the visit? Or do you worry that they won't get the right care? Do you feel guilty because you "should" have known better and prevented the injury or illness from happening in the firs...

Send us Fan Mail Most of us have habit change all wrong. We think we change the habits, and then claim the identity, that we can easily "stay on track," despite having no proof that we can create (or break) the habit. And if we fail, we add more evidence that we're stuck, that change is too hard. In this episode, I will talk about what happens when we instead choose to change our se...

Send us Fan Mail One of the key ways that we learn as humans is to borrow and adopt the thoughts of others. We do this as children, and we do it as we learn. What we often don't consciously do is to go back and reexamine how these thoughts affects us later in life. Today we are digging into this idea, and learning how to get rid of thoughts that are no longer serving us, as a way of reducing...

Send us Fan Mail Physicians love a path. An Algorithm. A Decision Tree. We are used to thinking in patterns, in sorting through data to see what fits and what doesn't fit. The path into medicine was also fairly prescribed. So when we are struggling with a decision, one where there isn't a clear path, we can easily get stuck. We might dig into research mode. Or consult with a mentor. But...

Send us Fan Mail Today I am so excited to welcome back Dr Lara Hochman of Happy Day Health, who is now a published author! She and 46 other brave physicians have written a book, Made for More, available today, to share their stories of stepping out of their comfort zones ("I'm just a doctor, that's all I know how to do!") to become clinic owners, coaches, speakers and so much m...

Send us Fan Mail Just say no. If you are a child of the 1980s and 90s, you may think I am talking about something else, but here we are talking about saying no to things that we want to say no too. How often do you wish you could say no, or regret not saying no, but find yourself stuck with extra work? I'm going to share 3 different tools that you can start using today to learn the skill of s...

Send us Fan Mail How often have you gone on vacation, and somehow felt LESS rested than before you left? Learning how to rest is a skill, and sometimes that most of us need to practice. Today I share how to re-learn rest, and create a real shift in your experience of your "off" time. Support the show To learn more about my coaching practice and group offerings, head over to www.healthier...

Send us Fan Mail Physicians are dealing with difficult problems. Overloaded hospitals, overloaded clinics, severe staffing shortages, delayed care, and frustrated patients. And since we live in this world, and we are fixers, it's easy to feel like these burdens are ours to bear, and ours alone. But you didn't create this mess. And although you may not choose to leave it, you can choose t...

Send us Fan Mail New Year, New You, right? Hold up. Before we move on into 2023, and celebrate the shiny new year, let's reflect back on what we got done this year. It's so easy to look forward, anticipating that we will be better, smarter, faster and stronger; the typical magical thinking that comes along with newness. But what about slowing down to celebrate our wins now? Let's no...

Send us Fan Mail Do you find yourself dragging your feet on decisions? Convincing yourself that you need more time, you need more information, but really just being paralyzed? Today I talk about what to do if you find yourself here, and how to get unstuck from analysis-paralysis. Support the show To learn more about my coaching practice and group offerings, head over to www.healthierforgood.com ....

Send us Fan Mail "Says WHO?" Today's special guest, Dr Sherita Gaskins-Tillett shares her story of finding herself in a life after residency that was unrecognizable. Within a span of 2 years, she got married, had a baby, lost her grandmother and moved. Twice. All while working as a full-spectrum OB/GYN. When she realized that she didn't recognize herself within this life, she t...

Send us Fan Mail I hate negative feedback. Always have. But I fully recognize that I was never given tools to process feedback, understand my emotional responses, and turn it into something useful. So here I am, a full-blown adult, who has only recently learned how to do this gracefully. And today, I am sharing with you some tools that will help you learn to the same. During the episode, I referen...

Send us Fan Mail Many Physicians find that they feel out of place in medicine. They might try several different jobs within their field, trying to fit in, but never develop a sense of belonging. For today's guest, Dr Rebecca Berens, this created a rocky road in her early career, until she decided that she was done trying to fit in. Instead, she decided to create her own Direct Primary Care Pr...

Send us Fan Mail Ok, I am taking a detour here from standard stuff, and talking about the holidays. For me, people-pleasing started before medical school, and the holidays were definitely a part of it, and remain an area of my life where I am forging a new way of doing things for myself, and here I share 3 simple steps to help you do the same. If you consider yourself a disorganized mess, who is a...

Send us Fan Mail Residency is a time of intense growth and learning, coupled with great sacrifice and pressure to perform. It is in this pressure cooker that many perfectionist and people-pleasing habits are, well, perfected. Today I am speaking with Dr Tonya Caylor, a Family Medicine Physician and Certified Life Coach who coaches Residents and Faculty Physicians with an eye to preventing burnout....

Send us Fan Mail "Give 110%"  "Give it everything you got!" These mantras are ubiquitous. And maybe there are moments where we want to do this. But for perfectionist high-achievers, especially highly empathic Women Physicians, this message is harmful. In "Everything is Negotiable," Professor Meg Myers Morgan lays out a powerful argument why women need to let go of thi...