by Dr. Susan Biali | Apr 17, 2019 | Mental Health, Your Inner Life
Stress brings out the worst. Not just the worst behavior (such as being more irritable with others), but also the worst choices. If I’m stressed, my first response is to reach for comfort food. Cookies, cake or chocolate, and the more, the better. This soothes in the...
by Dr. Susan Biali | Dec 19, 2018 | Blog, Examine your life, Mental Health, Your Inner Life
Do you frequently feel resentment about your life or your circumstances? Perhaps there is someone who frequently takes advantage of you. It leaves you seething each time, but you feel helpless to do anything about it. Or maybe, like me, you’re not very good at...
by Dr. Susan Biali | Sep 19, 2018 | Burnout / Workplace, Examine your life, Reflections for Your Journey
I’ve spoken to corporations about the importance of self-care and burnout prevention for years, and have followed leadership expert Michael Hyatt for years. The two worlds collided recently when I listened to his podcast version of Self-Care as a Leadership...
by Dr. Susan Biali | Sep 12, 2018 | Burnout / Workplace, Examine your life, Reflections for Your Journey
People toss around the word “burnout” a lot these days. Every time I speak about burnout to a group or at a conference, people come up to me wide-eyed afterward, saying, “This is what’s wrong with me! I just thought I was exhausted and stressed.”...
by Dr. Susan Biali | Feb 11, 2015 | Examine your life
I used to be very focused. And even though I really love what my life has become, I was even happier then than I am now. I believe now that it was because I lived with so much clarity and focus. At the time I had realized that full time medicine just wasn’t for...
