Physician Well-Being,
& Resilience
Services
Coaching - 1:1 and groups - Reclaiming Your Joy and Wholeness.
Physician and health care provider well-being is receiving increasing recognition as crucial to clinician resilience, to patient safety, patient satisfaction, and cost-effective coping with the complex, changing demands of medicine.
As you look at your life now, at your job, your family, your personal, recreational, social, spiritual priorities, are you on track? Is your time and energy devoted to the people, activities, and things that you value most? Are you where you want to be, doing what you want most to do? On your personal and professional journey, are you energized and heading in the right direction?
I invite clinicians to take an inventory, a self-assessment of your own personal spiritual, and career path; and then facilitate you to take action in alignment with your core values, vision, and strengths, your “true north”. In this context, your “true north” represents the sum and balance of your individual choices, values, strengths, and calling, aligned with your sense of meaning and purpose. You thrive and flourish when you live in alignment with your “true north”.
Through your training, and in today’s medical climate, some clinicians lose sight of their own personal values and calling. Finding your individualized “true north” involves exploring what you care most about, what you are good at, and what life balance is for you.
How do you align your choices, your career/calling, your soul and roles, and your life balance with your “true north”? The pathway and life balance that leads to personal and professional well-being is dynamic and different for each person. I find that it is crucial to listen deeply and seek to understand your inner story, to ask questions, to allow silence, and to be present, as we together seek answers that may be deeply personal and spiritual in nature. I meet personally for an initial comprehensive consultation and discovery process, followed by in-person or telephone conversation weekly to provide a safe place to share, to question, to welcome feelings and fears, and seek meaning and purpose in what you are experiencing. This path of self discovery, leads to clarity, and aligned action in pursuit of your wholehearted dreams, goals and vision.
Skills training
Training empathy and compassionate communication.
Improve patient satisfaction and outcomes
Relationship Centered Care (RCC), not physician or patient centered care)
Grounding and centering
Cultivate Resilience
Self-compassion and empathy
Flexibility
Mindfulness.
Self-care vs. productivity
Mindset
Locus of control
The Healers Art
Mindfulness
Grief and loss.
Reclaiming mystery and awe
Self-remembering
Radical acceptance
Calling and service
Narrative, what is your personal story, personal myth? Does it need modification?
Personal and career transitions
Peer support - Where do you find support?
Balint Groups
Meaning and Medicine groups (Naomi Remen)
Physicians Insurance - Peer support program
Your local clinic or hospital
The Wounded Healer
Personal and professional stressors and losses
Adverse event
Litigation
Loss of autonomy
Recovery from burnout
Compulsivity
Work addiction
Emotional numbing
Powerful questions and reflections
What gives your life meaning?
What does it mean to be a healer? A physician?
Where is your peer support?
How do your relate to family and friends?
How do you cope with change?
Care of soul.
What do you love?
What refreshes you?
Are you doing, and being who and with what you love?
How would you get there?
Work/Life Balance, assess your “wheel of life”
Aligning your Soul and Role
Finding and minding your calling
Remembering your purpose
Are you living the life that is uniquely yours?
Spirituality - assessing your web of relationships
Grounded Presence
Spiritual Pain Assessment- Hope, Meaning, Purpose, Forgiveness, and Relationships
Higher power?
What is sacred to you?
Positive psychology, evidence based interventions
Authentic Happiness and Flourishing.
Gratitude
Living from your strengths
Core Values Inventory
Creativity and imagination.
Play and spontaneity
Vulnerability and receiving
Essence and Flow
Self discovery
Journaling
Drawing/Painting
Music
Chanting/Toning
Sacred dance, movement,
Marshal Arts and Tai Chi.
How do you experience your own grief about the suffering, and loss of your patients? How do you relate to the disappointments, setbacks, losses, and struggles in your personal/professional life?
Are you still filled with awe and wonder at the mystery of life?
What is your relationship to your vulnerability and humanness?