Physicians… Ready to lose weight and manage emotional or binge eating while loving your life more? Hosted by Dr. Siobhan Key, an Obesity Medicine Physician and Certified Coach, this podcast teaches you practical, sustainable tools to lose weight and thrive in your life at the same time. Each episode will show you how to move away from always feeling restricted and frustrated to discovering what really works for lasting weight loss. You deserve to thrive. [Previously the Weight Solutions for ...
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I'm Megan Melo, a Physician and Life Coach. In this podcast we talk about ways in which Physicians get stuck in overwhelm, burnout and analysis-paralysis, and how we can get unstuck. I'm on a mission to help Physicians take steps towards healing from perfectionism, people-pleasing and limiting beliefs so that we can lead healthier, happier lives. To learn more, find me at www.healthierforgood.com.
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Proud Member of Doctor Podcast Network The podcast for Smart Professionals who want a life of freedom and fulfillment. Each episode is created and delivered by a physician coach to help you experience more in life. . .through shifting mindset from one that keeps you stuck, to one that makes you unstoppable.
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Send us a Text Message. Do you get stuck in “right way” energy? Today I'm sharing a little bit of my own anxious internal environment and talking about “right way” energy. IT’s that internal voice that tells you that there is only one right way to do things. We'll talk about where this kind of energy comes from, what it creates for us in our lives,…
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Navigating Tragedy with special guest, Dr. Crystal Nelson
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Send us a Text Message. We do hard things. As physicians, we are trained to diagnose and treat complex medical illness and to be present with patients through illness, loss of function and loss of life. But how many of us are equipped with the skills, grace and compassion to deal with a devastating diagnosis in our own families? Today I’m joined by…
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Send us a Text Message. Let’s really talk about burnout, shall we? Today I’m diving deep into the emotional exhaustion component of burnout, and centering our conversation around the excellent book, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski, a must-read. If emotions are tunnels with a start and a stop and we are …
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Send us a Text Message. “Anxiety is the combination of uncertainty plus our lack of trust in our ability to handle it” Becky Kennedy, PhD Clinical Psychologist aka “Dr Becky” Ah COVID, here we are again. Welcome to a very special, (mild) COVID edition of Ending Physician Overwhelm. But really it’s a perfect background to explore this framework of a…
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Perfectionism Deep Under the Skin with Guest, Dr Mary Alice Mina
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Send us a Text Message. Does perfectionism bleed over into your physical appearance? Today I sit down with Dr Mary Alice Mina, a double-board-certified Dermatologist and Dermatologic Surgeon to talk about…you guessed it, skin. And appearance, and perfectionism, and how to make it all easier. In this conversation, we talk about how complicated thoug…
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Send us a Text Message. “I’m so behind” I thought. Uh oh… Join me today as I dive into a well-worn thought pattern in my mind, and probably one that shows up for you as well. I share a little of how the name of this podcast came to be, my experience of a sensation of chronic overwhelm, and a deeper dive into how to use “The Thought Model,” which is…
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Send us a Text Message. Have you ever found yourself at the bottom of a bag of chips and don’t know how you got there? Blame “The Bliss Point;” a high desirability combination of flavors/crunch/textures that make us want to keep eating, without feeling fully satisfied. Sound familiar? Today we talk about how profitable industries manipulate us to k…
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Medicine, Burnout and Disordered Eating with Dr. Siobhan Key
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Send us a Text Message. Disordered eating, including eating disorders, are more common in physicians than you know. It’s yet another area of silent, shameful struggle for many people. Today I am thrilled to be joined by a leader in this area, Dr Siobhan Key, a fellow Family and Obesity Medicine Physician, as well as a Physician Coach who specialize…
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Enjoy one cookie and move on: The missing weight loss skill
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One bite of a treat always lead to eating the whole bag (and then keeping going?) There’s nothing wrong with you. You can learn how to enjoy a little of the most tempting foods and move on. And it doesn’t have to involve heroic levels of willpower. In this episode, I’ll teach you why the “one bite slide” happens and how to build the skill of enjoyi…
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Send us a Text Message. We’ve all heard of death by a thousand paper cuts; today I’m talking about “papercut” statements from patients. “You weren’t available so I couldn’t get seen” “Why can’t she just order me malaria pills!” “That means I will have been in pain for 16 months” There’s lots of things that patients say/write to us that sting. And, …
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Reclaiming Exercise: Busting Myths and Setting the record straight
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Exercise & weight loss…. so many myths and misconceptions have been handed down to us from the diet industry. Let’s clear them up and reclaim physical movement as something enjoyable that makes your life better. No more doing exercise you don’t like hoping it will make up for the extra snacks you had last night. Listen to this episode to learn how …
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Send us a Text Message. Ah, here's an interesting one for you... Another thing you never knew you needed help with? Getting help! We are so used to doing EVERYTHING for everyone. As physicians, we have a lot of work in helping keep people healthy; women physicians are typically asked to do EVEN MORE by our patients and workplaces. That's a separate…
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Send us a Text Message. What is it like to make the decision to leave your physician job without a plan? Today I'm thrilled to be joined by my friend and fellow Family Medicine Physician, Dr Sara Ionescu. She shares her story of being "on the train" from a young age to go to medical school, doing "all the things," and finding herself unhappy. She w…
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How Restriction Drives Overeating: Interview with Dr. Megan Melo MD
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It’s time to stop depending on restriction to lose weight. Restriction only works in the short term. In the long term it actually makes you eat more and keeps you on the one again/off again train. Hard to believe? Then you need to have a listen to my interview with Dr. Megan Melo on this week’s Thriving As A Physician Podcast episode. We are both O…
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10 Things I Wish I Knew As a New Attending
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Send us a Text Message. As I record this in early July, new Residents and Fellows are starting clinical rotations. And over the next several months, recent graduates, new Attendings, are starting their new roles as "the grown up" in the room. What do I wish I understood when I was in their place? Today I'm sharing 10 things that I wish had understo…
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Ever find yourself trying to eat diet food while wishing you could just eat like a “normal person”? We’ve been taught to accept bland food as a given for managing weight, but it's not fair or effective. But that crappy diet food is part of the reason why it feels so hard to lose weight and keep it off. It’s time for a change. Eating food you love a…
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Send us a Text Message. What is YOUR long term vision for yourself? And are you living a life that is aiming in that direction? Today’s episode is inspired by the book, The Infinite Game, by Simon Sinek, and I challenge you to ask yourself what is your big picture? After getting through medical school, residency (“finite games” with a beginning, mi…
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200 episodes dear friends! Coming home. . .feeling at home. . .welcoming yourself with warmth no matter where you are at. That’s what we’re exploring in this 200th episode. . . to become more unstoppable.By georgemdcoaching
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What you focus on when you are trying to stop binge eating matters. Most weight loss tools will make the binging worse (even though you are working really hard) Learn better places to focus to get started stabilizing your binge eating on this episode. *** Are you ready to go from “trying not to eat” to not being bothered by food after clinic? Even …
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Send us a Text Message. Do you struggle when you feel bored? Does it drive you crazy, because you want to rest, but your brain tells you to DO stuff? Creates chores out of nowhere? Boredom/restlessness is what I am calling an "In-Between" emotion. It sits between the usual feeling of busy-ness/hustle/overwhelm and calm. When our bodies and minds ar…
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Reevaluating your Path with Dr Sarah Stombaugh
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Send us a Text Message. The pandemic changed the lives of all physicians; generally not for the better. For my friend, Dr Sarah Stombaugh, a fellow Family and Obesity Medicine Physician, the pandemic catalyzed a dramatic pivot in her career that she never imagined. Join us to hear more about her journey from employed physician who had to advocate t…
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Send us a Text Message. Ok friends, here's the list: 10 Shifts That Make My Life Easier: Take 2 minutes now to make it easier later Simplify by deciding once Decide on your own internal policies Don’t overload other people (don’t give others constipation) Allow travel (transition) time Known when good enough is good enough Speak up if you care/have…
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Restriction sucks and it doesn’t help you build sustainable change in your eating or weight. Especially when you factor in your busy physician schedule. You don’t have time to be restricted all the time. What works better? Abundance. Learning to create abundance in your weight loss will naturally make it easier to follow through and keep going thro…
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Send us a Text Message. I really had a hard time naming this episode...a more appropriate title might have been "Those Patients Who Annoy You Just By Showing Up on Your Schedule or By Their Chief Complaint" And yet, that wouldn't have captured it quite either. Today we are talking about the experience of have anticipatory emotions (annoyance, anger…
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Is Burnout Really Trauma with Special Guest, Dr Christy Gibson
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Send us a Text Message. I'm weirdly excited to share this episode with you because today I am joined by Dr Christy Gibson, a fellow Family Medicine Physician, Speaker and Change Agent who is on the forefront of advocating for better trauma education for clinicians, and working as a trauma clinician herself. Join us as we dive into how we as physici…
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Send us a Text Message. What gets you activated (not in a good way?) Today, we're diving into reconnecting with our human emotions and mammalian nervous systems to recognized when we feel triggered, activated, dysregulated. Please note this is not a dive into deep trauma responses; we are focusing on times when we have a bigger response to somethin…
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The ‘right way’ to lose weight as a physician
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Wanna know the right way to lose weight? Sorry, but there is no “one right way” and as long as we are trying to find the “right way”, it keeps you stuck in the cycle of feeling like a failure. Instead, let’s talk about finding the right way for YOU. In this episode, I’ll show how this small shift will make a huge difference to your weight and eatin…
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Send us a Text Message. Alright, let's settle this right now. We could jump right to feeling like terrible people for feeling overwhelmed and resentful by the work that we do providing care to other humans. We're going to skip that. It's really NOT about the patients. All humans need medical care at some point, and we have chosen to provide said ca…
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If you are struggling, you need to listen to this episode. I recorded this pep talk so you don’t have to struggle alone. There are reasons why we struggle in our weight journeys as physicians . When you understand them, you can get out of the struggle faster. Save this episode for the next time you feel like you are struggling too. **** Are you rea…
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Send us a Text Message. Continuing on my theme for May of "ugh," stuff that we don't like, slowing us down. It's normal to feel doubt; it's a normal human emotion, designed to keep us safe. But crippling self-doubt? Failing to believe that we are capable to make a next-best-step decision? It paralyzes us, keeps us overworking, adds to our cognitive…
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Send us a Text Message. When it comes to procrastination, we've all been there! It's such a common human behavior, yet it often comes with so much guilt and self-judgement. Why is this? In this week's episode of the Ending Physician Overwhelm Podcast, we're going to be exploring the 5 places where procrastination most frequently shows up so that we…
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Send us a Text Message. One of the things that many of my clients and I have in common is that feedback feels really scary, really dangerous, and generally just really difficult to navigate. I know... it might seem weird to some of you, but it's just how I and many others are wired. As a high achiever who had aspirations of becoming a doctor, becam…
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Send us a Text Message. As physicians, we like to believe that we are fact driven and that we operate based on evidence, science, data, and knowledge. And this is true.... to a certain extent thanks to our training. But as humans, our brains are wired for story. We are meant to connect pieces of factual information with emotional overlay, and use i…
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Giving yourself permission to slow down and take care of yourself and your own well-being is a skill that I work on with Physicians inside the Thriving As A Physician program. This week on the podcast I share the importance of self-compassion and celebrating successes, as I share that I will be taking a break from recording consistent podcast episo…
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Healing Through Sleep with Dr. Funke Afolabi-Brown
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Send us a Text Message. In this week's episode of the Ending Physician Overwhelm Podcast, I had the pleasure of chatting with the always wonderful Dr. Funke Afolabi-Brown. We talked about her journey with burnout, from her rigorous medical training in Nigeria, to becoming a triple board-certified Sleep Medicine Physician in the US, and ultimately f…
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Send us a Text Message. At some point in our lives we've probably all felt like we've settled into a groove where everything is comfortable enough and there's nothing standing in the way of life going on like this for a while. But what if you know deep down that you want to change something about your life? It can be EXTREMELY hard to make that dec…
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Tough times are a part of life. And they also are one of the biggest reasons physicians gain or regain weight. This all hit close to home this week for me with some tough family news. Which is why I recorded this episode. I’m sharing how to manage the tough times in life without feeling completely derailed (and while still being nice to yourself) H…
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Listening to Your Intuition with Dr. Erica Bove
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Send us a Text Message. As physicians, we're trained to prioritize evidence above everything else, and oftentimes this comes at the cost of suppressing our intuition. But what if we allowed evidence and intuition to co-exist? In this episode of the Ending Physician Overwhelm Podcast, I sat down with Dr. Erica Bove, OBGYN and REI, to discuss how red…
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As a physician, you probably think you shouldn’t struggle with eating or weight. I felt that way too (and spent a long time beating myself up about it) The reality is that there are very good reasons why food has such a strong pull for many of us as doctors. In this episode, I am sharing the top 5 reasons and how to start addressing them. If you wa…
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Send us a Text Message. How do you deal with those days when you feel like you're unable to do or learn something? In this episode of the Ending Physician Overwhelm Podcast, we'll talk about the phenomenon of feeling "uncoachable." It's a sentiment that's often expressed by individuals who are hesitant to engage in coaching, therapy, or any form of…
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Mindless Eating: When the food is gone before you realize you’re eating
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You know when you end up eating treats and don’t realize it until after the food is gone? It can be lightning quick between seeing the food and reaching for it. So then how do you feel in control when there isn’t even time to think? I cover that question and more in this episode. Learn why mindless eating happens and what to do about it. **** Are y…
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Binge Freedom Bootcamp 3: Pitfalls to avoid in recovery
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The third and final session of the Binge Freedom Bootcamp is here. I packed these live sessions with support and tools you need to start feeling in control of your eating. Listen to this full podcast episode because you deserve to have this information now so you can start feeling better this week. Having binge eating is not your fault. It makes se…
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The Physician's Journey to Entrepreneurship with Special Guest Nneka Unachukwu aka "Dr Una"
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Send us a Text Message. I am so thrilled to share this week's episode with you all, featuring my business mentor and all-round incredible human, Dr. Una! She's a pediatrician, best-selling author, speaker, and the founder of EntreMD - a business coaching program that helps doctors build profitable businesses so they can live life and practice medic…
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Food guilt hits hard and overstays it’s welcome. Many physicians drag food guilt through their days which adds stress (and is exhausting) It’s time we learn to let go of food guilt. I promise you it’s not helping you stay on track. Have a listen to this episode to learn the true impacts of food guilt and how to start letting it go. **** Are you rea…
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Binge Freedom Bootcamp 2: 3 Important Places to Focus
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Thanks to everyone who joined me last week in the second live session of the Binge Freedom Bootcamp! We dug deep into all the different places you can intervene to create lasting change in your eating. Which means understanding how to binge less while recovering more easily after binges. Listen to this bonus episode of the Thriving As a Physician p…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of the Ending Physician Overwhelm podcast, I want to talk about the experience of being an introvert in medicine. I'll start off by saying that I personally identify as an introvert. Not in the sense that I don't like to be around other people, but rather in the sense that I draw a lot of my energy from havin…
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Stop Letting Your Hidden Standards Slow You Down
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Do you ever crawl into bed feeling like your to-do list won the day? Or maybe you're beating yourself up because you think you're not doing enough for your kids' school events? Well, I've got something special for you. This week's podcast episode is a must-listen! We live these hectic lives of being doctors, moms, partners - and somewhere along the…
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Emerge Stronger 2024 was filled with powerful talks - here's mine on Tender Points & Tenderness. You'll hear new stories, a dissection of tender points, and how to break free and live a life of tenderness. It's worth it my friends. . . a tender life is a strong life.By georgemdcoaching
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Bonus Episode: Binge Freedom Bootcamp
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All month I’m offering free binge eating support inside the Binge Freedom Bootcamp. If you are a physician who identifies with binge eating, you need to join us. In this bonus episode of the Thriving As a Physician podcast, I am sharing the first session with you. In this episode, I talk about the importance of understanding binge eating. Listen to…
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Reclaiming Your Autonomy with Special Guest, Dr. Dike Drummond
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Send us a Text Message. If you've ever experienced burnout before, you can probably relate to an analogy that you'll hear in this episode, comparing burnout to being stuck in a chokehold with no clear escape. However, as you'll also hear, there is a way out, and the other side is often better than even the best times pre-burnout! This episode featu…
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