I asked friends to share stories that made them sob, yell, or afraid, and though some wouldn’t, being honest with ourselves about how we truly feel is the only way to move on.
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“This happens every single time she gets a runny nose. It gets really bad, and doesn’t go away for weeks and she needs antibiotics. It happens every time, no matter what.” I sigh and bite my tongue. Because of the way this mom is talking I know exactly how this appointment will end- with her yelling at me that she’s…
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When life gets hard, and it will, it’s hard to remember the good things. But it’s very hard to dig through a firm foundation.
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“Don’t you think we’re being hard on King David? He did a lot of incredible things, being a little bit disappointed in himself for messing up is no big deal. We all do that!” “We definitely do. But I think David’s biggest failure is not that he messed up. His biggest failure is decades later he was still expecting repercussions…
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I looked back at the page and realized it was wrong. My name was spelled wrong. I had spelled my name wrong. “Can I- umm, my handwriting is so bad… can I do it again?” I made up an excuse on the spot and hoped the tech didn’t notice the spelling. It wasn’t even like it was a small mistake-…
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“So, it all began as wide-eyed pure science. And then the ego steps in. Obsession. You look up, and you’re a long way from the shore.” One of the things that can make people fear success is the ego on the other side of it. From a Christians perspective, we neither want to be lazy, nor work obsessed. We neither…
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The problem with residency is not necessarily the work hours. The hours are grueling for sure. However, the hours are necessary. My second year, the work hour limits were changed- no one was allowed to work more than 24hr shifts anymore. What we found was not that we were more refreshed and rested, but that it made life more complicated.…
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I am the Queen of planning. I just need a vision or a big picture idea and I can’t seem to help it. For instance, if writing a book is the goal, we need to start with a blog, then some webinars, writing obviously, and research others’ ideas… If I have the plan, I can always reduce it to the…
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Initially, burnout was reserved for those in high stress careers. What I’ve noticed recently is that burnout isn’t just for the Type-A overachieving doctors we assume will suffer from it. The more I’ve interacted and worked with friends in ministry the more I realize it’s not just burnout in medicine– burnout affects the artist, the dreamers, and the servants too.…
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So everyone has bad days or even bad months at work, how do you know when it’s actually burnout? One author posed it as a continuum of stress– a dichotomy between stress and eventual burnout. You look for signs indicating struggle now, and make changes to head in a different direction in the future. The symptoms of burnout have been defined as exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficiency…
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