For many of us, agency ownership means that most of our time and energy goes into our work. Even when trying to sleep, we’re replaying a frustrating conversation we had earlier that day, doomscrolling, or even dreaming about everything on our to-do lists. When we can’t turn off our minds at the end of a long day, we set ourselves up for occupational burnout. As some of you know, I learned the hard way that staying overly connected to our work can have severe consequences. I brought Dr. Gerry Farris on the podcast today to talk about how we can take care of ourselves to feel better daily, stay mentally strong and healthy, and why taking breaks is so important. With many years as a physician and working with patients who have experienced occupational burnout, Dr. Farris is the perfect person to educate us on how to be smarter about living our overly-connected lives.

Dr. Gerry Farris has been an Emergency physician for 30 years and a Functional Medicine physician for 10 years. His current practice focuses on healthy living and age management and he is a former triathlete who competed for 31 years. His goal is to help patients and persons be healthy, mitigate disease and aging, and live well for a long time. He is a double Board Certified physician with a wealth of experience and knowledge. He is practicing the “Medicine of Tomorrow, Today!”

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What You Will Learn in This Episode:

• How to know if you’re experiencing occupational burnout or heading in that direction
• How information overload leads to hypervigilance and why it happens
• The effects that elevated cortisol levels have on our brains and bodies
• How to build resilience against neuroinflammation and bodily dysregulation
• What does burnout recovery look like?
• Why sleep is one of the most essential things for recovery and burnout prevention
• What 37 minutes a day can do to improve your overall health
• How to make healthy lifestyle changes that you can stick to