The Joy in Family Medicine Blog

Your Least Favorite Emotion, and What to Do with It... emotions processing

 The Challenge of Emotions in Medicine

As physicians, we encounter a LOT of interesting situations and can experience a LOT ...

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 The Challenge of Staying Engaged in Medicine

There’s no doubt that practicing medicine is rewarding, but it can also be exh...

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Well-being Investment: Nutrition nutrition well-being investment

 We are looking at your investment in your own well-being with the emphasis this go round on physical health. To date, we rev...

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Well-being Investment: Restorative Sleep - Foundation of Self-Care restorative sleep well-being investment

Welcome back to our series on physical well-being investments. Today, we’re diving into perhaps the most critical supporter o...

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Well-being Investment: Movement & Exercise exercise movement well-being

We are looking at your investment in your own well-being with the emphasis this go round on physical health. Last week we rev...

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Well-being Investment: An Expanded Approach to Lasting Change lifestyle change. meaningful change well-being investment

We continue to take a deeper dive into our physical health as one facet for our well-being. 

Background:

It's a new year an...

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Well-being Investment: Your Physical Health investment physical health well-being

 Well-being as an Investment

Whether or not you embrace the practice, the new year often comes with resolutions, with many c...

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Aspirations for an Ideal Future in Medicine: Implementation and Pivoting ideal practice implementing pivoting quality failures

This week, we’re adding the final touches to your action plan for transitioning into your ideal practice of medicine. So far,...

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Aspirations for an Ideal Future in Medicine: Prioritizing, Timelining, and Calendaring calendaring ideal practice priorities

This month, we are continuing to walk through the basics to move toward your ideal practice of medicine. Last month, I walked...

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Aspirations for an Ideal Future in Medicine: Obstacles and Strategies aspiration ideal practice obstacles strategies

We are continuing our series involving your ideal future in medicine. For those of you out there saying, “Enough with the dre...

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Aspirations for an Ideal Future in Medicine: Tackling Limiting Beliefs aspirations ideal practice limiting beliefs

We are rounding out the first portion of how to foster your ideal future in medicine. So far, we have covered the larger stat...

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Aspirations for an Ideal Future in Medicine: Mindset Challenges aspirations fear of failure ideal future inner critic mindset

This week we continue the series on fostering an ideal future in medicine. In the first week, we looked at the larger state o...

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