Episode 047: It's that time of year! Like many people, you are probably thinking about your goals and resolutions for 2023. But here's where most people go wrong: they focus ONLY on the action steps they need to take to achieve a goal and rely SOLELY on willpower. But willpower is a finite resource that isn't the best fuel for taking action to achieve goals. In this episode you'll learn:
I help women physicians stop gaslighting themselves so they can permanently recover from burnout. Visit www.theembodiedmd.com to learn more.
Episode 046: Have you ever wondered why the data typically shows that women physicians are more burned out than men? It's probably multifactorial, but I believe there's a deeper, more insidious driving force contributing to burnout in women physicians--our female social conditioning. As women, we've been conditioned to think about ourselves in ways that drive us to over-work, over-perform and over-function. In today's episode, we'll explore the 3 most common mindsets that contribute to burnout and why simply being aware that these mindsets are at play can create a massive shift.
To learn more about how I help women physicians stop gaslighting themselves and permanently recover from burnout, visit my website www.theembodiedmd.com to learn more.
Episode 045: At the 2022 Lifestyle Medicine conference, Dr. Jerome Adams, 20th Surgeon General of the United States, said "It’s where we live, learn, work, play and pray that makes us healthy.” What is lifestyle medicine? What does lifestyle have to do with burnout? What can lifestyle medicine teach us about burnout recovery? Listen to today's episode to find out!
Episode 044: Moral injury is something that women in medicine experience every day. It's that inner conflict between how you desire to practice medicine and serve your patients that may not be aligned with bottom lines. 
Moral injury is a trauma response--and it's important to know the signs.
In today's episode we'll talk about:
To learn more about how women in medicine can shift chronic stress, burnout and overwhelm from the inside out, click HERE to download my free Burnout Recovery Guide: https://resources.theembodiedmd.com/burnout-recovery-guide
Episode 043: What if I told you there's a way to immediately shift whatever you're experiencing in any given moment? There is. The way to do this by asking yourself better questions. There's a famous quote in the personal development world that "the quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself." During our inner dialogue, all of us ask ourselves questions all the time. But when we ask lower quality questions, we get lower quality answers that keep us stuck in states of confusion or helplessness. When we ask higher quality questions, it opens us up to higher levels of information.
Here's what you'll learn in today's episode:
To learn more about how women in medicine can shift chronic stress, burnout and overwhelm from the inside out, click HERE to download my free Burnout Recovery Guide: https://resources.theembodiedmd.com/burnout-recovery-guide
Episode 042: In today's episode, we'll discuss the importance of embracing the full spectrum of our thoughts, feelings and sensations--not just the comfortable ones. As one of my mentors Brooke Castillo of the Life Coach School says often, life is 50:50. When we put pressure on ourselves to feel positive or happy all the time, then we're not embracing reality. That just leads to more pain and suffering in the long term. It takes approximately 90 seconds to allow an uncomfortable emotions to pass through you like a wave. When we embrace all facets of ourselves, then we can model this level of embodiment for our patients which will in turn help them to do the same.
To download the burnout recovery guide I mentioned in the episode, click HERE for more information: https://resources.theembodiedmd.com/burnout-recovery-guide
Episode 041: Humans hate change. That's partly a survival instinct because anything new and different could be dangerous. So we're naturally wired to be cautious and resist change. However, our ability to achieve our goals and dreams is directly proportional to our capacity to change. So it's important to understand that 95% of our behavior comes from the unconscious part of our mind. It's the part of our mind that we're NOT consciously aware of yet it has a huge impact.
But if you don't understand this, you might think you just lack motivation or you don't have the right information. You might judge yourself and try to push even harder. So to change your behavior and move forward, you have to update the old programming.
The way to do this is:
1) Excavate the programs that your system is currently operating from.
2) Determine if the current programs are giving you the result you want.
3) Create change on the mind + body + environment levels to create the results you want.
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Episode 040: Resistance is something that we all experience, ESPECIALLY when we're on a personal development journey. Since our nervous system is wired for safety and survival, it will often get activated when we're trying to do something new--even if it's the best thing for us. Achieving the next level of success requires you to step beyond your comfort zone which will naturally bring up resistance. How you rise to the challenge and handle resistance is huge.
In today's episode, we'll discuss:
If you're a woman in medicine who is ready to take the next step in overcoming chronic workplace stress, burnout and overwhelm, sign up for my FREE 5-Day Burnout Bootcamp Challenge. You'll learn my 360-degree approach to permanent burnout recovery! Click >>> HERE to learn more.
Episode 039: Most people think resilience is about being tough and rigid but it's actually about being flexible and adaptable. According the American Psychological Association, "Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands."
When you are experiencing chronic workplace stress, your nervous system spends a lot of time in hyperarousal (fight or flight) or hypoarousal (freeze). Resilience is not so much about being tough and hard on the outside. It’s not about resisting the ups and downs of life and career. It's actually about leaning into it--being flexible and flowing with whatever is happening.
To learn more about how resilience in an important part of burnout recovery, sign up for my FREE 5-day mini-course. It will show you how to get out of the burnout-overwhelm-stress cycle for good. Click >>> HERE to join!
Episode 038: In today's episode, we're discussing the importance of seeing your own progress while you're on a healing or transformational journey. I love hearing when my clients track their successes and share their wins with me. While it's great that I can see their progress, it gives me goosebumps when they can recognize it for themselves.
This is the soil in which transformation grows--with you watering and nurturing the seeds that you're planting along the way.
To learn more about my 360-degree approach to releasing chronic workplace stress and overwhelm, visit my website to learn more about 1:1 coaching or sign up for my free mini-course!
Episode 037: In today's episode I'm sharing 3 truths about why women in medicine are chronically overwhelmed and burned out--and it's not what you think! After speaking with lots of women over the past year and a half, I noticed some patterns. I wanted to use my training as a certified life coach and certified feminine embodiment coach to approach the problem of burnout in a totally different way.
Enter the 5-day Burnout Bootcamp. In this FREE mini-course, you'll learn:
You'll also receive a workbook when you sign up and free CME upon completing of the Bootcamp! Click >>> HERE to register and be sure to share with a colleague!
Episode 036: If you're having trouble achieving a goal, it's probably NOT because you're lacking information. More likely than not, the issue is you're not implementing the information that you likely already have access to. Acquiring more information does not equal transformation. Only implementation can do that. What's the difference in the level of success between two people who have access to the same information? How the information is utilized and acted upon. Period.
In today's episode we'll discuss:
I also share about my upcoming Burnout Bootcamp for Women in Medicine. This FREE 5-day mini-course is all about helping you to learn and implement concepts that will help you finally overcome chronic burnout and stress. Click >>> HERE to sign up!
Episode 035: Today's episode is a short, sweet, "motivational Monday" type of episode. If you're ever felt broken or like there's something wrong with you, I just want you to know those are thought errors. There's always a GOOD reason for everything you do--even if it doesn't make sense to you now...The actions you take (or don't take) are rooted in your physiology (i.e. autonomic survival processes) and your social conditioning. Before you can create effective and lasting change, you have to accept the person you are today from a place of grace and compassion--not disgust and shame If you choose to work with a coach or other professional, it's important to work with someone who sees you are empowered, healthy and whole, not someone who needs to be "fixed" by someone outside of you..
To learn more about a 360 degree approach to burnout recovery, visit www.theembodiedmd.com to learn more.
Episode 034: Is Work-Life Balance a Myth? Some people think so...Even the phrase suggests there is this optimal fixed, 50-50 ratio between your work life and your personal life that we should strive for. But is that even possible--or appropriate?
In today's episode, we'll explore:
Also this Wednesday, Aug 10 at 8 pm ET, I'm doing a live training on how women in medicine can achieve Work-Flow Balance™. You'll learn the top 5 reasons women in medicine are burning out at an alarming rate, how your social conditioning plays a HUGE role in this and how to release these old patterns to create more balance in your life. You’ll get free CME for attending so you don’t want to miss it! Click HERE to register for the training. I hope to see you there!
Episode 033: In this episode, I'm sharing my philosophy about transformational coaching and why it's important to address both the mind and the body. Typically women who are raised in a Western culture are disconnected from their bodies and take on a more analytical approach to problem-solving. And while you can create incredible results from simply understanding your thought patterns and beliefs, there are often deeper roots traveling from the brain into the body that have to be unraveled. This is where the embodiment or somatic work comes in. You learn to experience and tolerate feelings and sensations in your body in a safe and gentle way. Over time, this allows you to peel back all the layers that you've built up over the years, release energetic blocks, and ultimately get unstuck.
The integration of mind-body work is essential for thriving in life (instead of merely surviving). On August 10, I'll be doing a free live training on the concept of internal integration to eliminate burnout for good. Click HERE to sign up for the training and also get free CME for attending!
Episode 032: Today we're taking a deep dive into procrastination. It's something that many people struggle with and often there's a feeling of shame that goes along with it. If you identify as a procrastinator, perhaps you were labeled as lazy, a slacker, or unmotivated in the past. The truth is, that's not the real reason you procrastinate.
In this episode, we'll explore:
I've identified 6 reasons that people commonly procrastinate and developed a process to shift it in real time. This week I'm offering 1:1 Overcome Procrastination sessions to help you identify the main reason so you can release it and move forward. During the session, we'll focus on one task that you're struggling to complete. We'll figure out how the situation is triggering your nervous system so you can create more internal safety and create an action plan. There are limited slots available so click HERE to schedule yours today.
Episode 031: This week, we're chatting about the power of constraining when it comes to time management. As women, we've been conditioned to think we have to do #allthethings because we've been taught that our value comes from how productive we are. So if we're not taking "massive action" in our career or in our lives in general, we feel guilty or even ashamed for not doing enough. This line of thinking keeps so many women in medicine burned out and feeling perpetually overwhelmed.
In today's episode you'll learn:
Click HERE to download the FREE time management planner I mentioned in the episode.
Episode 29: Burnout can have such a profound impact on your system that it can trigger your survival instincts (also known as trauma responses or stress responses). Your nervous system developed these coping mechanisms to help you deal with a real or perceived threat so you can get to a place of safety. Although the trauma responses--fight, flight, freeze and fawn--may be necessary and healthy at times, these responses may also show up as a maladaptive strategy in times of stress and create more problems long-term.
In this episode, you'll learn:
To learn more about how coaching can help you understand the thoughts that may be triggering these trauma responses and do the body work to release it on a deeper level, visit my website www.theembodiedmd.com.
Episode 028: Everything in nature has seasons--including you. But the way we work and think about productivity isn't consistent with our nature.
I love this quote from Kate Northrup's book Do Less: "The way we work in our culture is as though we're in a perpetual harvest. But anyone who's grown anything in the earth knows that this is impossible." Expecting the same level of energy, intensity and output from month to month, week to week, or day to day is unrealistic and harmful--and yet we do it anyway because that's what we have been taught.
In today's episode, we'll discuss:
In my Practice with Passion Planner, you can learn more about how to uplevel your to do list and "create" more time each with with the principles of seasonal living and feminine embodiment work. Click HERE to grab your FREE copy!