Dr. Darria Long Gillespie is a Harvard and Yale-trained emergency physician and a regular health expert on CNN, NBC, and Netflix. She is also a nationally best-selling author and a widely viewed TEDx speaker. She joins Adam Markel to share how to escape the grip of burnout that kills us bit by bit in form of self-comparison, stress, and anxiety. She opens up how her experience as a patient made her realize how to leapfrog out of uncertainty and develop coherence. Dr. Darria also discusses how the mind-body connection can help address pain and the importance of disconnecting in letting yourself recharge and recover.

Show Notes: -

0:00 - Introduction

2:42 - Patient experience

9:22 - TEDx Talk

16:10 - Mind-body connection

21:29 - Suppressing negative feelings

26:36 - Study of women in burnout

33:51 - Getting out of the grind

36:31 - Takeaways from the study

42:57 - Pause, ask, and choose

48:26 - Little movement habit

55:34 - Conclusion