The Mindfulness Unfiltered Podcast

Loving-kindness meditation: A model to increase clinicians well-being, build resilience, and avoid empathic distress fatigue in the face of suffering


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Research:Health care professionals (HCP) are vulnerable to stress and empathy fatigue. HCP face exposure to suffering patients and an emotionally exhausting work environment.

Dr. Werner presents evidence that loving-kindness meditation, may be an essential pathway to effective emotion regulation. Contemplative practice may be a necessary tool for a humanistic, effective, and satisfying practice of medicine.

In an era in which many HCP suffer from professional burnout, engaging in regular contemplative practice may be a way in which HCP not only heal themselves but heal their patients as well.

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The Mindfulness Unfiltered PodcastBy Dr. Werner Absenger