“What would your life look like if you lived fully aligned with your ideals?”
As a physician and master of public health facing burnout while trying to balance the demands of professional life, motherhood and family life, and my passion for humanitarianism, I asked myself this question. The answer came shortly after the deaths of my own comatose father during a physician strike and the suicide of a family friend halfway through her intern year of residency. This set me on a unique path to seek a more authentic and wholehearted life.
The answer was simple but profound. “Live Your Ideals. Thrive in Your Calling. Change the World. ”
I am passionate about seeing physicians thrive in the calling they have sacrificed everything for, and I believe that today’s physicians are the new under-served, marginalized and disenfranchised. I believe that unhappy physicians lead to unhappy patients. We have to take care of the needs of physicians.
Coaching Style
My coaching style is honest, insightful, direct, sensitive and nurturing with a strategic, solutions and strengths-based focus. You will dig deep into applying positive psychology and the Daring Way (based on Brene Brown’s work) curriculum on creativity, authenticity, connection, shame resilience. Your newly learned ideas, strategies and tools will equip you for a wholehearted life and will transform how you live, love, parent and lead. You will leave feeling more empathetic, inspired, confident, self-compassionate, and reconnected to your true self.
Type of Consultation
If we decide to move forward with our coaching relationship, I require an initial minimum commitment of three months of weekly sessions. And we will operate on a weekly schedule to allow you time to integrate and implement the work. A three month pledge ensures that you are committed to making a concentrated effort and understand that lasting change takes time.
Pricing
An hour long consultation session is required to assess your current needs and determine how my coaching can best serve you. Once you pay for the consultation session, you will receive a link to schedule the hour long session.
Time Commitment
How long we work together depends on your current needs including your current focus, the pace that works for you, and your personal preferences. The goal of coaching is to create sustainable, self-generating, long-term change, and we will work together to create this in the most effective way possible.
Why I Coach
I believe that unhappy physicians lead to unhappy patients. We have to take care of the needs of physicians. Today, physicians are facing epic levels of disillusionment, compassion fatigue and burnout.
9 in 10 physicians are not likely to recommend medicine as a profession. 1 in 3 physicians are facing burnout at any given time.
I have dedicated the rest of my medical and public health career to serving physicians. Now trained as a professional leadership, executive and personal coach in positive psychology, helping physicians and other clinicians live their ideals has been the foundation of everything I do. I founded Thriving Physicians, because I discovered that I am energized by helping mission-driven physicians and physicians-in-training thrive. I want to help these idealists “Cultivate Your Light”. My calling is to inspire others to live their ideals. I am gifted at seeing others’ superpowers, encouraging them to use their superpowers (gifts, talents, abilities), teaching them to cultivate the ideals that are important to them and empowering them to thrive in lives aligned with their core ideals.
Also trained in the Daring Way™ with Brene Brown , I bring a unique blend of positive psychology and Daring Way experiential exercises to examine the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that are holding clients back and work to identify the new choices and practices that will move them toward more authentic and wholehearted living. In person, or by telephone, I serve as a coach to help physicians and other clinicians transform their personal and professional lives. A coach provides skilled teaching and training to help individuals or groups achieve specific goals, such as maximizing their career, improving relationships, overcoming fear, and achieving personal dreams.
Specialty I only work with current or former idealistic, mission-driven, altruistic, humanitarian or visionary physicians who want to live their ideals and positively change the world such as:
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Eclectic, Creative, Sensitive and Wholehearted Individuals
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Internationals, Immigrants and Third Culture Individuals
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ADD/ADHD Individuals
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Individuals undergoing a career transition
My hero, Dr. Albert Schweitzer says “Grow into your ideals so that life will not rob you of them.”