We become experts at putting on a happy face and acting like everything is normal, whether it is or not. We hide our emotions in closets assuming they are going to somehow fix themselves.
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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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But honestly, serving God is not about being famous. It’s about the tiny steps and small decisions that we make each day that hopefully take us closer and closer to God. Recognition can become a drug that wedges in between our relationship with him and makes our entire life about working hard enough to force note-worthy awesomeness.
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A few years ago I watched a variety of random new movie releases and sequels that sounded fun and that I would be heartbroken to miss. The four movies I made it to- Jumanji, Star Wars, Pitch Perfect 3, and The Greatest Showman didn’t sound on the surface like they would have that much in common. But I was astounded…
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Genesis 39:20-21- “But while Joseph was there in the prison, the Lord was with him.” I find the story of Joseph a beautiful, yet heartbreakingly puzzling one. Such a crazy series of ups and downs- loved by his father, yet despised by his brothers. Appreciated and uplifted by his boss, then unfairly thrown in jail by him. Serving and helping those…
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I remember one patient livid at me- exclaiming in spite of the awful pain she was having in her knee, there was no way she could take a break from running 25 miles every day! I just looked back at her in exasperation, not knowing what else to say. If our bodies are experts at breaking down the old, resting, and then rebuilding, why aren’t we?
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We burnout often because we filter everything in our lives nowadays- painting over and touching up things that we should have just thrown out and given up on long ago.
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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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