The journey to embracing imperfection isn't about lowering standards – it's about expanding possibilities. In coaching, we call this "creating and increasing capacity for joy."

A trauma-responsive approach to physician leadership and wellbeing.

In a groundbreaking 2021 study published in Anesthesiology, researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center revealed that nearly 60% of U.S. anesthesiologists were at high risk for burnout.

As Winter Solstice and the longest night approaches, here is a bit hopeful prose to serve as reminder that the light does come.

But the fun and screams and laughter and joy that surround deliberately created scary moments during the Month Of Halloween are different from the swamp of Fear and uncertainty we've collectively endured.

Wilderness makes you work – planning, packing, paddling, portaging – for the rewards. Wild places aren’t easy comfort, and that is exactly what makes the experience so powerful.

What stands out most, though, is the importance of time spent deep in imagination before a masterpiece can be created.

What do we need to ReLearn, and how can we support one another in the relearning?

Not everything is a Face-Eating Bear.

Most of us appreciate the importance of Joy – and of sharing it with others. It simply has become habit to overlook or ignore in the chaos, the stress, and the trauma of these times.

At this moment in time, our threat detection systems have been so activated for so long it is becoming difficult to distinguish between a Face-Eating Bear and a Cute Little Chipmunk.

The dance between the thoughtful and reflective parts of our brain and the parts wired for our very survival is an enduring one.

Never tie your growth to things you cannot control.

What can we do to keep ourselves strong and resilient, to enjoy and be grateful for life when everything feels precarious?

I’m tired. You’re tired. Everyone is tired. And not the kind we can mitigate with extra sleep or self-care. It requires something more.

We all have them, those well-intentioned co-workers, bosses, or others who radically cheer on our herculean efforts and outcomes while willfully ignoring the toll it exacts.

Strong advice in how to self-manage and how to avoid flinging your glitter (harm) onto everyone else.

What can we do to notice when we are heads down and busy DOING? Sometimes we have to turn to others in our lives who have a better vantage point than we do.

Passion rarely leads; it is birthed from our pain.

Whatever “hard” things you are challenged by today: What would make it easy?

We are going to have to lean into the reality that truth is rarely found in the binary. Humans are wonderfully, brilliantly complex creatures.