Ruminating and Overanalyzing is an Expensive Physician Leadership Approach

Almost every medical leader is familiar with the feeling of depletion. We show up for everyone else while running on very little ourselves.

We lie awake at night thinking about the conversation you didn’t have time to finish.

We overanalyze decisions—replaying what we said (or didn’t say) and wondering if it was enough, or if it will be misinterpreted.

The work doesn’t end at the end of the workday.

Leadership, for many physicians, becomes 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 learn to lead from the heart—not just the checklist or the calendar—we start 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 when we live with integration, we stop treating life and work like they’re supposed to stay in separate containers.

Leading from the Heart is coaching for women physician leaders who are ready to make this shift. In it, I share what I learned over 18 years as a physician leader—what works, what doesn’t, and what I know now that I wish I had known then.