OCCUPIED OR OVERWHELMED?
It’s been my observation the difference between being occupied and being overwhelmed is often impacted by one's ability to outsource. On this matter, I have observed an interesting dichotomy among successful women. There are those who do all the things by themselves...
FROM MYTH TO MANTRA
During this season of the year, people like to revisit scary narratives in movies, TV shows and books. When I think of the stories that have frightened me most in life, they were the ones where I was missing a crucial element to make a troubling myth comforting and...
MESSAGE TO 2010 ME
September marks another year since I left clinical medicine. Even now that I’m over a decade removed from the decision to retire clinically, I’m still learning from the choice I made back then. Mainly, I realize how much I didn’t know at the time about what really...
THE END OF PERFORMATIVE WELLNESS
I love that this summer is highlighting an end to performative wellness occurring in the culture. For centuries, many disempowered people have put up the false front of being OK. That default setting of presenting as happy and healthy made for a very comfortable...
FINANCIAL WELL-BEING
My passion in life is helping healers be well. For some reason when I speak to many physicians, they seem to associate genuine physical and emotional well-being with some version of being broke. The unspoken narrative is doing good work requires some level of either...
DOCTORING DIFFERENTLY
Maybe you are doing it wrong for you. You sometimes dig your heels in on tradition more because it’s what you are used to seeing than because it actually works well for anyone involved. This is a concept many physicians struggle to accept when you find yourselves...
Dr Jattu Senesie is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, certified success coach, physician satisfaction specialist and speaker. She blogs about issues of self care and well-being in an effort to help her fellow altruistic high achievers find satisfaction in their success as early in their careers as possible.