Being a leader doesn’t have to cost your well-being

Almost every leader knows what depletion feels like.

Leaders in medicine are expected to be there for everyone else while running on very little themselves. They lie awake at night, thinking about the conversation you didn’t have time to finish.

They overanalyze every decision, replaying what we said—or didn’t say—and wondering if it was enough or it will be misinterpreted.

The work never ends at the end of the workday..

Leadership, for many physicians, including me, was yet another source of over-responsibility, over-functioning, and overwhelm.

It’s possible to lead in a way that steadies and sustains you.

It's possible to lead with a lens to wellness, your own and that of those you lead.

When we lead from the heart, rather than the checklist or the calendar, we begin to reclaim the energy we’ve been losing to spinning, ruminating, and trying to control what can’t be controlled.

We begin to lead with presence instead of pressure, and we start to live with integration.