Tag Archive: Doctor Self-Care

Footprints leading away for you in the sand on a beach near the waters edge. Some of the prints are made by bare feet but one set has been made by a jogger wearing sneakers
May 21, 2024 2:07 pm

Self improvement creates wellbeing

by Sharee Johnson

There is a tension between accepting yourself as you are and the notion of self improvement. As high achievers, doctors often describe themselves as life long learners. Some even seem addicted to academic achievement, but is this the same as self improvement, or something else? The language of self improvement is out of vogue. Now […]

Dirt road in a state forest
February 27, 2023 11:37 am

An Integrated Life

by Sharee Johnson

Finding the right balance. An integrated life is one that finds the right balance, that includes the right amounts of all the things that are important to you.  Even better if all of those parts nourish and feed each other.  I have been working since I was 12 years old. First in my parent’s orchard sorting and packing fruit […]

February 1, 2023 9:48 am

Being your best selves

by Sharee Johnson

Do you have the right people around you to help be your definition of fulfilled? We hope 2023 has been good to you so far. We are really excited about 2023 here at Coaching for Doctors, as we lean into working with more healthcare organisations in more systemic ways.  As you know our primary work […]

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December 7, 2022 6:16 pm

Where are all the men?

by Sharee Johnson

How do male doctors develop their human skills? How do men develop their human skills in relationship, communication and self care? In 2022 we really got excited with 7 men and 8 women completing our Recalibrate program!! It was the first time male and female participants had neared parity in our immersion doctor care program […]

Coaching helps you see yourself more clearly
November 4, 2022 12:50 pm

Coaching helps doctors see themselves

by Sharee Johnson

Q: What is it that you do in coaching with a doctor?

 A: Mostly I help them see themselves.
The person I am working with knows what is best for them.

Doctors are Humans
October 3, 2022 9:00 am

Doctors are humans.

by Sharee Johnson

Next time you meet a doctor
Remember you are meeting a human being
With all the human needs and frailties that you have
With a life that can get messy like yours outside the hospital walls, beyond the clinic

Sharee Presenting
September 6, 2022 9:00 am

Interpreter, facilitator, coach

by Sharee Johnson

Learning the skills of wellbeing takes more than a one hour workshop. For healthcare to find a way to take better care of the workers, we need radical change not tweaks at the edges.

Sharee holding her book The Thriving Dcotor
November 25, 2021 2:08 pm

How to be more balanced and fulfilled, working in medicine.

by Sharee Johnson

The Thriving Doctor – How to be more balanced and fulfilled, working in medicine. It’s no secret that doctors are under pressure. COVID-19 has amplified their workplace stress, threatened their own wellbeing and demanded they work in conditions few others have to consider. When doctors are well, patient health outcomes and experience improve according to […]

water ripples after stone dropped
July 26, 2021 11:37 am

Let the first stone you drop in the water be for yourself

by Sharee Johnson

Doctor Self-Care The experienced psychiatrist sitting opposite me in coaching said “You were the first person to ever ask me: What do you want?” He went on to describe the profound impact this simple question had had on him. These four words had permitted him to discover, to imagine, to believe that he could actually […]