Mary Wilde is an integrative pediatrician and founder of Imagine Pediatrics Behavioral Health and Wellness in St. George, Utah. She takes a strength-based, whole-child approach to supporting children and teens with emotional and behavioral challenges. Dr. Wilde has developed several online programs, including Resilience School for youth with anxiety and Compassion Parenting, a membership community for parents.
She serves as an assistant professor of medical humanities at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine and is affiliated with St. George Regional Medical Center. A Harvard Macy Scholar, her scholarly work focuses on resilience, empathy, and humanistic medical education. Dr. Wilde is also an author, podcaster, TEDx speaker, and frequent online contributor.
She hosts the annual REVITALIZE Physician Retreat in Southern Utah, integrating nature, mindfulness, and creative arts into physician well-being. More information about her work and the retreat is available at REVITALIZE Physician Retreat.
As physicians, most of us do not need another Zoom webinar on burnout; we need open space.
Even at the earliest stages of training, we are made to feel that we cannot take a break. In a med school course I teach, I assigned a renewal activity with a short reflection. Some protested, but most expressed gratitude for an assigned pause.
Many admitted how afraid they felt to step away, to take …
The pause medicine never taught us to take
Despite four years of medical school, three years of residency, and over a decade in practice, I was never taught the profound connection between high childhood stress and increased risk of chronic disease.
It was at a community event sponsored by our local school district that I first learned it, as I watched the documentary entitled Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope. Suddenly, the medical education I …
Even as a pediatrician, I didn’t realize stress started so young
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