Balancing the practice of medicine with your personal life.
I know how hard it is to keep your home and work life balanced. I have practiced medicine as both a clinic-based internist and hospitalist for 24 years, 10 of which I was a single parent to three boisterous kids.
Keeping everything balanced felt impossible at times, so much so that chaos had become the expected norm. It was easy to blame the hours at work and the increasing lack of autonomy in the work place for the distress. It was easy to blame the house full of growing children for why I couldn’t be more fully present at work. It was easy to blame the demand of work and home life on why I couldn’t consistently stick with the habits necessary for my own physical and emotional wellbeing. It became a repetitive cycle of looking for excuses, rather than building for sustainable solutions.
Then, I discovered the power of coaching. My circumstances were not going to change, but my thinking about them could. Being coached taught me how to manage my mind. It put all the control in my hands. I quickly figured out why I was stuck, how to manage my time, how to practice self-care, set goals with clarity, and create a life more balanced and less chaotic.
The timing was perfect because… Then, I remarried and became a mom to three more children. Let me tell you… knowing how to manage my thoughts made this life change far smoother and joyful.