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10 Ways to Deal with Stress

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This article from the Cleveland Clinic: “Your Definitive Guide to Work Stress and Burnout” highlights ten ways to more effectively deal with what might be creating stress and contributing to burnout in your life. While there will always be factors outside your control, we have more control than we think in minimizing our everyday stressors. The authors cite managing efficiency; dispelling self-doubt (imposter syndrome); and addressing your tendency to overwork, amongst others.

We’d love to hear what resonated for you. Feel free to respond with your one, easy, accessible habit to minimize your daily stress! Feel free to offer a comment at: https://sixseedpartners.com/contact/

National Women Physicians Day

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In honor of National Women Physicians Day, SixSEED Partners wanted to remind our readers on those attributes which are important to retain female physicians, including flexibility, respect and equitable advancement opportunities and pay.

Women physicians were found to be at increased risk of burnout due to their lessened ability to decompress when they returned home after work:

“A gender gap was particularly apparent when physicians were surveyed on their ability to decompress when they returned home from work. Female physicians had lower scores than male physicians on all four areas of decompression, including enjoying personal time without worrying about work (females: 3.39; males: 3.61), freeing their mind from work while away (females: 3.22; males: 3.43), disconnecting from work communications (females: 3.20; males: 3.41), and rarely losing sleep over work issues (females: 3.31; males: 3.51).”

Read more here: https://hbr.org/2022/01/why-so-many-women-physicians-are-quitting

We’d love to hear how this might apply to you. Feel free to offer a comment at: https://sixseedpartners.com/contact/

Conscious Leaders Step Up & Take Responsibility

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Most of the leaders we work with possess an Uber-sense of responsibility– they take on much more than is theirs to do. Yet in their “get it done” spirit, they are quick to act which can also mean quick to direct others without realizing they may be omitting essential data in communicating the conditions of “done” for their direct reports. Our colleagues at the Conscious Leadership Group offer this simple and powerful algorithm for assessing your own actions in contributing to an unsatisfactory outcome, regardless what that outcome might be. Ben and Rosamund Zander, in the “Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life” (buy here: https://tinyurl.com/2jzbd4ky) talk about “looking in the mirror” before blaming others. The Conscious Leadership Group aligns with this thinking in this framework.

We’d love to hear how this might apply to you. Feel free to offer a comment at: https://sixseedpartners.com/contact/

Putting the Care back in Health-Care

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Lessons from an Osteopath

By: Joy Goldman RN, MS, PCC:  CEO SixSEED Partners, BSN, ACC

Background:

At SixSEED Partners, as we coach leaders and teams to see common organizational stressors as interdependent challenges (like activity AND rest, mission AND margin), we invite our leaders and teams to better leverage the science AND the compassion in healthcare.  This personal story from Portugal is a wonderful illustration from which we can all learn.

“Alternative/Complementary Health” in Portugal:

As someone with four decades of experience working in healthcare, I know enough to know that my best strategy for staying healthy is to take an active role in my own health through exercise, nutrition, mindfulness and using complementary methods for their health-promoting influences.  Since moving to Portugal, I take yoga classes; go for morning meditation walks and have been using an osteopath who also practices acupuncture.  Toward the end of one session, as I was waiting for the osteopath to come to do his manual adjustments, I began to get teary recalling a recent loss.  Working with the body can do that- evoke emotions that the body has stored when the mind pushes the pain or grief away.

Kindness in Action:

After caring for his other patients at this busy clinic, Luis came to see me and paused.  He did what might be unusual in modern healthcare, which was to pause, notice a tear on my face, suspend his agenda, get a tissue to wipe away my tear, and provide Reiki where he placed his hand above my heart.  His actions only took moments, yet in those moments he cared for my mind, heart, and spirit. He was not concerned about doing real-time documenting in the EMR; he was concerned about me as a whole person.

Application for Busy Clinicians:

I recently coached a GYN-Oncologist who was describing his packed clinic days.  Our work focused on how she might show up with her patients in a more authentic way, and how centering might help her feel less stressed.  We decided that she could invite her patients for a moment of prayer, gratitude, and breathing at the start of their visit so that both physician and patient were in a more peaceful state, allowing for a more healing visit.

How are you impacting science and compassion in your interactions?  We’d love to hear from you! Let us know at SixSEED Partners.

Thank you to our Clients, Partners, Teammates, and Families

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Joy Goldman RN, MS, PCC: CEO SixSEED Partners

As a way to express our gratitude to our clients, partners, teammates, and our families, we wanted to provide an experience that might warm your hearts. If you work in healthcare, your minds and bodies might be weary. We culled our favorite youtube videos and wanted to share some with you so that you might take a few moments to breathe in the spirit of this holiday season. Please pause and invite those you love to share in this heart space with you. Know that you have touched our hearts and we are grateful.

https://youtu.be/cEavsIoMxn8: one link: Yo Yo Ma: Birdsong…. playing in harmony with nature.

NOVA Conference Opening Video

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On December 1st, Brian Berman, President of the Nova Institute for Health and Founding Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, presented “Integrated whole-systems approaches at all scales: for health, healing, and flourishing.” The conference opening video is worth two minutes of your time.

The Nova Institute’s Goal is: The ultimate aim of planetary health is flourishing along every level of the person, place, and planet continuum. In an era of so many interconnected challenges, there could not be a more important time for ambitious, integrative approaches.” Dr. Berman is quoted: “In challenging times there are also great opportunities to reach beyond boundaries and fundamentally shift how we think about well-being at all scales.”

At SixSEED Partners, our mission is to provide integrated solutions to heal healthcare. Supporting and implementing the tools from the IDG are critical to our mission for sustainable change.