In this episode I interview Nima Rahmany.  He is both a Chiropractor and an educator, specializing in helping individuals and professionals get to the ROOT CAUSE of their physical and emotional challenges, from stressed, depressed, and anxious to living Powerfully Aligned and on Purpose. After building a successful Chiropractic practice in Maple Ridge, BC, Dr. Nima sold his clinic in June 2016 to pursue his passion for teaching and coaching professionals who are stressed, depressed, and anxious to transform and have their best year ever— in both a private and corporate setting.

   He discusses when you become aligned with you who you are, you are able to set boundaries and start to overcome burnout  He calls himself an "edutainer" which means he includes dance and music to help people relax and they learn.  Dr. Rahmany discusses his journey through anxiety and disassociative state he experienced and how it helped him set foundation to what he teaches.

  He shares how he helps clients use somatic awareness to overcome trauma, attachment wounds, burnout and other issues.  He discusses how the brain is impacted from stress and trauma.  He shares how sympathetic nervous system is triggered and the thoughts and emotions that follow.  He discusses how much we need to show our bodies how to overcome where we are.  He discusses impact of nervous system dysregulation on the body and mind. He shares his Overview method which helps heal attachment wounds and clearing stress/emotions/trauma that block us. His method teaches somatic skills (breathwork, sound) to help clients regulate their nervous system.

  In this episode I interview Ronen Divon. He's been walking spiritual and holistic paths for well over three decades. Ronen is a Reiki Master, a channeling healer working in mediumship, and a Yoga and Tai Chi instructor. He is also an ordained minister with the Sanctuary of the Beloved, a non-denominational church in the Order of Melcheizedek. In his Plant Medicine work he is a Medicine Carrier affiliated with the CA-based Church of the Celestial Heart.

    Ronen discusses his spiritual journey and importance of guides and teachers. He shares differences between being spiritual and religion.  He shares if you are feeling burned out or unhappy in your job to reflect on these questions:  are you still doing what you are meant to be doing? Are you on the right path? He emphasizes importance of taking a leap of faith to go in the path you are meant to go.  He discusses belief that everything that happens in your life you invite into your life based on a divine plan you created. "There's no good or bad there's only learning."  He discusses helping others as a way to help depression and how to call on spiritual beings to help with difficult times.

  Ronen shares tools to use to protect your energy before you start your workday and tools to use after.  He discusses what a Reiki session is like and how it can help with identifying blockages and emotional issues that end up in physical problems.  

He discusses ways to alter your path into a better direction to find your way out of burnout.

In this episode I interview Keri Nola, she is a retired Trauma Psychotherapist and is Best Selling Author, Podcaster, and Founder of the Sacred Soul Circle for Healing Entrepreneurs. Today she has a global practice helping healers through her products, programs, events and mentorship as they activate the confidence, clarity and skills needed to build wildly abundant and fulfilling practices serving humanity well.

  Keri shares her journey through burnout and how she came through to the other side.  She discusses importance of deeper holistic self-care and knowing your signs can help. She also shares importance of building a supportive community of colleagues.  She shares how she shifted her career to helping healers share their gifts with the world.

  She shares what is abundance and how it can impact every part of our lives. Keri discusses how she helps healers build abundance and overcome scarcity.  She shares information on energetic marketing and how that can hinder or help us. She shares how abundance mindset can help prevent burnout.

  In this episode I interview Dr. Thomas Skovholt. He is a Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus, at the University of Minnesota and a consultant, lecturer and practitioner.  He is author of the Skovholt Practitioner Professional Resiliency and Self-Care Inventory (2014) and a co-author with Michelle Trotter-Mathison of The Resilient Practitioner and An Open Letter of Love and Care to Health care Providers with Resilience Strategies for the COVID 19 war.

  He discusses the "Toxic stew" that lead to burnout in Healthcare providers including vicarious traumatization, secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, emotional depletion and loss/grief.  He discusses fear of being infected from COVID 19 that is impacting providers. He discusses ambiguous endings and how do we keep making new attachments and these disappear and how this can negatively effect providers. Dr. Skovholt goes into details all the endings that are part of the job and how difficult that can be.  He shares info on the cycle of caring (empathic attachment, active involvement, Felt separation and Recreation) and how supervision can make a big difference in building resilience. He encouragers providers to find ways to reinvigorate themselves. 

He discusses 5 strategies providers can use to boost resilience. 

1. Cultivate your resilience: Hope, optimism, self-compassion and gratitude are elements of resilience to grab onto
2. Be connected to others:  Build a strong web of connections personally and professionally
3. Use your own tried and true methods: Remember to use ones that worked for you in the past and ones you may have gotten away from
4. Self-care: Deep breathing, eating healthy, staying active
5. Relish the small victories

  In this episode I interview Cynthia Schwartzberg, LCSW,  President of the Southeast Brainspotting Institute and has a private practice called "Cynthasis" in Atlanta, GA. Cynthia shares her journey through burnout and how she overcame. She shares the definition of the effective treatment modality brainspotting and how it can help people overcome many issues.  She discusses limbic countertransference and how the Therapist is also impacted by what is brought up by information presented by the client in the session.  She discusses what a Brainspotting session would look like and how it could help you overcome burnout. She gives some examples of what are some things that can come up with focused mindfulness. She discusses how its like Physical therapy for your brain.

 She discusses the issues that can be treated including chronic pain, anxiety, depression, trauma, sleep, enhancement of performance (sports, actors/actresses), hoarders and procrastinators.  She discusses her daily self-care routine and how it helps her stay balanced. She discusses differences between empathy and compassion.

2020 has been a challenging year for Healthcare Providers. The pandemic has placed many Healthcare workers at and past their capacity to manage.  With no known treatment, cases and deaths continuing to rise, so many providers are struggling. 

   In this episode I interview a past guest Dr. Clark Gaither.  He is known as "Dr. Burnout" and is so knowledgeable on this topic.   He discusses impact of the covid pandemic on providers.

   Dr. Gaither defines wellness and what that looks like including resilience, hardiness, engagement, taking care of yourself and not putting others needs before your own.  He discusses working on balance physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

   He discusses what having a spiritual life means and how its different for everyone and the positive impact it can have. He reviews core values and living your life according to your values is a sign of wellness. 

In this episode I interview Elizabeth Grady, LCMHCS.. Liz has been counseling adolescents and adults for more than fifteen years in the Triangle region of North Carolina. Liz has several years of experience providing distance counseling and supervision. Liz earned her master's and doctorate degrees in Counseling from North Carolina State University (NCSU) and loves to share her passion for people with counseling students and professionals. In addition to counseling, Liz owns and operates a virtual counseling practice and offers EMDR, CBT and DBT informed treatment.

   She shared her burnout journey and how she overcame.  Liz defines resilience and how it is an action process. She discusses how important it is to adapt ourselves to overcome.  She discusses ways to overcome resilience including looking at our attitude.

Some questions to ask yourself:  what area do you feel unsatisfied with? are you hopeful or hopeless? Are you optimistic or pessimistic and why?  How can you see world through a more positive light? Look for optimistic people in your life and how do they keep in the positive.   What are the obstacles getting in my way and how can I take action? What do you have control over?

• Think about where to start
• Finding support with other providers, remind each other past successes
• Reach out when you need help
• Adapt attitude of hope, challenge negative thoughts and reframe
• Set goals for change, short term steps
• Take action by taking control of your life
• Don't feel like it ? Do it anyway and the feelings will follow

In this episode I interview Melissa Reilly. She is a LCSW and got her undergraduate degree is in Business Administration – Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin. After volunteering at two agencies, she returned to graduate school and obtained her  MSSW at UT. Since 2003, her experience has focused on working with children, teens and adults who experienced trauma. She is starting a solo private practice this year.

Melissa shares her journey through burnout, what lead up to it and how she overcame through increasing self-care. She shares her journey from being a Clinician to becoming a patient.  She discusses how she was in an induced coma and her experience at an outpatient rehab center. She provides 5 lessons learned from her experience that renewed her interest in her career and helped her overcome burnout.

Lesson 1: Know your client and limitations, importance of using trauma informed language

Lesson 2: Before you do something, explain it to the client and reasons why

Lesson 3: Know what your clients enjoys & their strengths and change it up to keep you both interested

Lesson 4: Know your clients support system

Lesson 5: Provide tools to clients to continue work at home

  She discusses importance for providers to care for themselves if they want to care for others and it has to be a consistent practice. 

   Katie discusses her journey through burnout and discusses her podcast, "The Modern Therapist Survival Guide" and upcoming Modern Therapist conference. She shares what lead to her burnout, her symptoms and how she has navigated through it. Katie discusses the differences between employee vs. entrepreneurial burnout, as well as causes of Entreprenueral burnout.

Entrepreneurs have more decision fatigue, the responsibility and having to sell yourself constantly and not having distinction between home and work can lead to burnout. Many Helping professionals will often sacrifice themselves to the point of illness or not be able to sustain a business. She discusses more about decision fatigue and how you can't make decisions anymore. She recommends doing a time and energy study to figure out what works best for you to work at optimal levels. Katie discusses the importance of creating a sustainable business.  We also discuss when looking at new ideas to consider is it the right time, do you have the resources, aligns with your objective and be strategic & selective.  She discusses importance of using a mantra like 'I'm safe, I am strong" to help keep going forward.

  The pandemic has created an increase in burnout with Healthcare professionals. In this episode I interview Dr. Michael Leiter. He is an expert on the psychology of work, is an Honorary Professor of Organizational Psychology at Deakin University in Melbourne Australia. His research on job burnout and work engagement has been widely published. In a commitment to improving work-life quality, he consults with organizations and researchers around the world.

He discusses how he is researching burnout in healthcare through the Pandemic Experiences and Perception Survey.  This assesses impact on employees in Healthcare on working through the pandemic, the supports they have, supports they don't have, how they perceive risk and how they perceive capacity to manage risk and ties it to six areas of work life. 

  He discusses how difficult it is for healthcare providers in the front lines and how it just saps their energy. Dr Leiter discusses his definition of burnout as exhaustion, cynicism, discouraged and not feeling effective.  He sees it as a problem with the relationship with the person and the workplace.       

 He describes six areas of work life that impact burnout with COVID 19 include increased workload, less time for recovery, lack of control, less intrinsic satisfaction with work, more strain on relationships in the workplace, do you feel you are treated fairly and patients, and difficulty with not agreeing with the values and decisions in the healthcare system. Dr. Leiter discusses potential solutions for Healthcare burnout through organizational strategies.