A couple of years ago, at the BE Conference in Scottsdale, speaker and drama researcher, Cy Wakeman demonstrated a tool she called "Edit Your Story" to a room of hundreds of women physicians. She asked for show of hands of who worked with a difficult person on a regular basis. (I snapped the phot...

This past week, I listened to a webinar featuring Dr. Paul Chelminski from UNC - Chapel Hill (and my former faculty advisor in the CHARM GME Wellbeing Course). He stated that much of our discontent in medicine comes from taking too much refuge in the idealized version of medicine. (My interpretat...

Michael Bungay Stanier reframes mindfulness as a better sense of reality - more situationally aware. He explains it as the ability to sort through data and separate it from our judgments. Currently, in whatever situation you're in - ask yourself the key question he poses: What do I know to be tru...