Something We All Deserve

In honor of National Physicians Week

A less hard path through medicine, and life, requires attention to your health, strength, and wellness.

It requires setting yourself up to be strong, stable, and healthy.

It requires purposeful choices, strategic support, and decision-making.

Being a whole and healthy human and healer requires a healthy mindset, healthy habits, taking care of yourself as well as you take care of everyone else.

All of this is what coaching and mindfulness (and mindful yoga) help you do.

Physicians are currently asked to live their lives and practice medicine in ways that aren’t healthy or sustainable.

Our healthcare system is in crisis and it is hard to be a well human healer practicing within it.

The system should be different. And we, as both individuals and communities of healers, can also still improve our own lives and take control of our experience practicing medicine and living our lives.

When we do, change happens.

Not because we are the problem but because we are smart amazing humans with tremendous brains creativity and determination.

We ultimately want to be healthy humans who are showing up as the best most healthy versions of ourselves, living our best lives, and helping others do the same.

Attending to our mindsets and healing and nourishing ourselves fully allows us to become the healthiest and highest functioning humans we can be.

This is also when we make the best and most impactful healers.

Thought patterns that are ingrained into us during medical training get in the way of a healthy practice of medicine.

Until we notice them and unlearn them, we can’t show up empowered, clear, and energized.

When we step out of victimhood, depletion, and exhaustion, we advocate more effectively. When we are calm, grounded, nourished, and present, we can contribute to creating systemic solutions that work.

In medicine and beyond.

“We can make ourselves miserable or we can make ourselves strong the amount of effort is the same.” - Pema Chodron.

It’s possible to become healthy, whole, inspired, hopeful, and alive again. Even without the medical system or the world-changing. We have to choose to attend to it.