Tools for Preventing Burnout Archives - Diane W. Shannon | Physician Coach, Burnout Consultant, Speaker, Author, & Health Care Writer

Fixing the Foundation of Your Life

by Diane W. Shannon | Mar 6, 2025 | Burnout, Coaching, Identity, Tools for Preventing Burnout

Until very recently, I suffered from a weird sort of constant muscle pain, all on the left side of my body. My neck, thigh, and calf developed these knots, rock hard and painful, that disrupted my sleep and limited my ability to exercise. For years, I chased...

The Future We Change by Seeing the Obvious

by Diane W. Shannon | Jan 30, 2025 | Burnout, Coaching, Identity, Tools for Preventing Burnout

“I could have had a V8!” Remember this commercial? The whole point was that we sometimes we only recognize opportunities in retrospect. In May, we moved to a new home in another part of Boston. It’s an older home, built in 1920, with scant insulation in the...

The journey back to yourself starts with one small step

by Diane W. Shannon | Jan 9, 2025 | Burnout, Coaching, Identity, Tools for Preventing Burnout

“You are the fuel for the fire that is your life.” Oprah Winfrey Recently, I was fortunate enough to hear these words spoken by Oprah Winfrey, live, in-person at the Massachusetts Conference for Women. Despite the fact that there were 11,000 other people in the...

Addressing Work Dread and Burnout with Micro Changes

by Diane W. Shannon | Dec 5, 2024 | Burnout, Coaching, Identity, Tools for Preventing Burnout

I’ve always been impressed by the majesty and capacity for emotions of elephants, ever since I learned that they mourn their dead. Maybe that’s why these animals are showing up in yet another of my analogies. A previous blog focused on their tendency to stay stuck due...

How Positive Deviance Could Stem Burnout

by Diane W. Shannon | May 19, 2018 | Tools for Preventing Burnout

In March 2018, The Collaborative for Healing and Renewal in Medicine (CHARM) published an article titled “Charter on Physician Well-being” in JAMA. The piece describes guiding principles and lists recommendations for promoting well-being among physicians. The charter...

Disclosure Coaching: A Key Tool for Preventing Burnout

by Diane W. Shannon | Apr 19, 2018 | Tools for Preventing Burnout, Understanding Burnout

This post was co-authored with David Brendel, a psychiatrist and executive coach who blogs at Leading Minds Executive Coaching. It appeared on KevinMD on April 9, 2018. Physician burnout rates hover around 50 percent and the adverse consequences are serious. Burnout...

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