The Joy in Family Medicine Blog

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Psychological Fitness Foundations, SDT Part 3 - Autonomy of Time

We are in a series exploring the three foundational needs for physicians to optimize their psychological fitness – autonomy, ...

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Psychological Fitness Foundations, SDT Part 2 - Autonomy

This month, we focus on the three basics of psychological well-being that improve vitality, motivation, and performance – Aut...

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Psychological Fitness , SDT Part 1, Autonomy in Medicine

In the past, we have talked about getting back to the self-care basics. Specifically, we focused on three foundational physic...

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Cultivating Joy in the Journey of Medicine - Well-being Investment and Language Matter.

We conclude the Finding Joy in the Journey of Medicine series this week by looking at your well-being investment and why lang...

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Cultivating Joy in the Journey in Medicine - Perspective

We are in a series on finding and cultivating joy in the journey of medicine and avoiding the arrival fallacy. This week are ...

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Cultivating Joy in the Journey of Medicine - Intentionality

We are continuing to unpack ways in which to begin enjoying the joy in the journey of medicine as we work toward our goals. W...

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Cultivating Joy in the Journey of Medicine - Expectations and Acceptance

We are on the quest to uncover your personalized way to best enjoy the journey of medicine. Last week, I introduced the conce...

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Cultivating Joy in the Journey of Medicine - Awareness

We are on a blog journey about finding and creating joy along our paths in medicine. Last week, we defined joy for the purpos...

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Cultivating Joy in the Journey of Medicine - Overview

For my new blog series, I am tackling how to enjoy the journey of medicine. Many greater philosophers, leaders, and authors t...

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Physician Success Tool: Confidence, Part 4, A Look Forward to Growing in Confidence

Confidence is a beautiful thing. Over the past few weeks, we reviewed the typical way one gains confidence - growing competen...

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Physician Success Tool: Confidence, Part 3 - A Look at Three More Barriers.

We are in week 3 of a 4-week series on confidence. The first week we reviewed the normal development of confidence and last w...

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