The Joy in Family Medicine Blog

Insights and practical ways forward:
Rooted in years of reflection, medicine, education, and coaching
Curated to support your well-being, growth, and fulfillment as a physician.

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Video: Transitions in Life and Career as a Physician

This month's vlog is about knowing the anatomy of typical change and transition so you can normalize the difficult parts.  Mo...

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Video: Separating out Fact from Story

Begin recognizing your automatic stories that include fact and assumptions. This creates room for you to break common thought...

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Video: Cultivating Friendships

Friendships are important in life. It's natural that the nature of our work sets some obstacles in place to those friendships...

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Video: Setting Boundaries for Your Health

Last month we talked about dropping the manuals for others. In this month's vlog, we cover a coaching perspective on setting ...

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Video: Holding too Many Manuals

This month's vlog is about how keeping manuals for how things "should be" and how people "should act" causes some unnecessary...

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Video: Quieting the Inner Critic

Developing awareness that the repeated negative things you think of yourself are not actual facts is the first step in of qui...

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Video: Self-Care is not selfish

Self-care isn't going to remove all the various external difficulties in the system, but it will bolster your natural resilie...

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Video: Receiving Feedback as Physicians For Growth

Join me in this month's vlog where my ever-patient instructor, Dr. Julie Hood Wilson, helps me learn to skate ski as an adult...

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Video: Cultivate What Matters

This month's vlog focuses on important relationships. Learning to be intentional in cultivating creative time now is key to m...

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Video: Exploring Limiting Beliefs

In this month's Vlog I discuss limiting beliefs and how you can start to uncover them and decide if you want to change them o...

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Video: Easy veggie recipe

When you have many raw veggies, but not enough of any one type - this is a delicious, no thinking plan.

Dice them all up, mi...

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Video: Committing to your health as you serve others regarding their health.

My latest Vlog on exercise and movement as busy physicians.

Pro tip: Don't add it to your "should do" list - add it to your ...

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