Jessie Mahoney is a pediatrician and can be reached at Pause & Presence Coaching.
To be the best healers possible for others, we have to show compassion for and take care of ourselves.
I wrote a previous article published in KevinMD titled, “Self-care is not selfish: It’s imperative to save the practice of medicine.”
Self-care includes doing no harm to yourself.
During our medical training, many habits and thought patterns were deeply ingrained. These thought patterns, while they may have been helpful in …
The necessity of putting on our own oxygen mask first has never been more clear.
Bringing wellness into the mainstream culture of medicine and empowering and healing the healers so they can heal others has been the focus of my leadership work my entire career in medicine.
It took a pandemic to bring widespread national focus to this issue. The cultural shift is finally beginning. For the sustainability of the practice of …
Being a parent in the middle of a pandemic is not easy. Sheltering in place with canceled daycare, school, and college, while also being a doctor or other healthcare worker, working in high-risk, high-intensity situations, presents many challenges. It also presents many opportunities.
It is possible to choose thoughts about being a physician and a parent during the COVID-19 situation that can help it feel more like an opportunity and less …
As health care providers, we are facing unprecedented challenges right now. Thank you to every one of my medical colleagues for your valuable contributions at this moment.
Wellness and self-care have never been more important than they are at this moment. We must care for patients to the best of our abilities, but we must also care for ourselves. If you sacrifice your own physical and emotional health, who will be …
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