The Joy in Family Medicine Blog

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Rooted in years of reflection, medicine, education, and coaching
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Week 6: How Self-Judgment and Procrastination add Stress to Juggling the Demands on You.

This week, we are continuing to focus on common tendencies that hinder our ability to best navigate the demands on our time, ...

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Week 5 People-Pleasing and Reputation Management

This week, we are focusing on a spin-off issue around navigating the demands on your time, energy, and attention. Four common...

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Week 4 - Navigating Demands on your Time, Energy, and Attention

Week 4 Navigating Demands.

 

We each have people or tasks that demand our time, energy, and attention – usually many more t...

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Week 3 Crafting your Own Purpose-in-Career Statement

We are continuing our Purpose-in-Career Series. This week I offer you a working blog. Go ahead and get out something to write...

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Week 2 Benefits of Purpose in Career

We started our Purpose-in-Career series last week by addressing an emerging theme among some early-career physicians - “I’m n...

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Finding and Defining Purpose in Career and Other Perspectives

Getting back in touch with your previous reasons for choosing medicine and/or discovering new motivations can be a powerful t...

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Impostor Phenomenon (aka Impostor Syndrome) in Medicine, Part 4

For the past three weeks, we've been delving into impostor phenomenon – the definition, its effects, and helpful tips to impr...

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Impostor Phenomenon (aka Impostor Syndrome) in Medicine, Part 2

Okay, last week, we looked at the definition, demographics, and some concepts around Impostor Phenomenon (IP), aka Impostor S...

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Impostor Phenomenon (aka Impostor Syndrome) in Medicine, Part 1

Throughout the rest of January, we will tackle the topic of impostor phenomenon, aka impostor syndrome. Today we will mainly ...

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Vlog: An amazing gift

In this video blog, we look at how the benefit of the doubt is an amazing gift. 

You can also gift yourself a coaching cours...

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Vlog: Right-sizing our perspective with gratefulness.

Our brains naturally focus on the negatives and when we are stressed, that is even more true.  Gratefulness practices help us...

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