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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Reigniting your humanity and passion for medicine.
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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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Send us a text Yes, yes, you know. You should sleep more. And most of us WANT to sleep more; or at least feel like we have slept more. Today is part of my “4 Pillars” or “Back to Basics” series for September, and today we are talking sleep. But rather than give you a prescription, literally or figuratively, I want to talk about what’s getting in th…
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Send us a text 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, and what…
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Navigating Tragedy with special guest, Dr. Crystal Nelson
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Send us a text 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 Dr Cryst…
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Harnessing Accountability: Dr. Mary Rensel, MD on Transforming Careers, Intentional Living and Personal Growth Insights
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Send us a Text Message. What if you could harness the power of accountability to transform your career and personal life? Join us on this thought-provoking episode of Worldly Physician as we sit down with Dr. Mary Rensel, a renowned neuroimmunologist and entrepreneur. Dr. Rensel takes us through her inspiring journey of creating BrainFresh and the …
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Send us a text 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 supposed …
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Send us a text “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 anxiety, a…
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Perfectionism Deep Under the Skin with Guest, Dr Mary Alice Mina
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Send us a text 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 thoughts and b…
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Becoming Her Own Best Friend: Dr. Olivia Ong's Journey from Injury to Self-Compassion
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Send us a Text Message. What if the intense pressures of medical school and residency could be transformed into a journey of self-compassion and personal growth? Join us for a heartfelt conversation with Dr. Olivia Ong, a remarkable pain and rehabilitation physician from Melbourne, who shares her incredible story of overcoming a spinal cord injury …
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Send us a text “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 a wonder…
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Send us a text 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 keep doing…
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Medicine, Burnout and Disordered Eating with Dr. Siobhan Key
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Send us a text 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 specialized in help…
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The Hidden Struggles of Physicians: Dr. Megan Melo, MD on Perfectionism, Burnout, and Self-Care
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Send us a text What happens when a driven physician realizes that years of hard work and dedication still leave her feeling inadequate? Join us as Dr. Megan Melo shares her journey through medical school, residency, and beyond, shedding light on the hidden struggles of perfectionism and burnout that many in her profession face. Through candid story…
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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 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, many of u…
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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 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 topic. W…
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Send us a text 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 walks us t…
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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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Creating Meaningful Connections Through Daily Life
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Send us a text Have you ever pondered the lasting marks you leave in both your personal and professional life? In this episode of The Worthy Physician, I recount a fascinating summer adventure to New Mexico with my family to see dinosaur footprints. This trip sparked a deep reflection on the footprints we leave through our daily interactions, wheth…
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10 Things I Wish I Knew As a New Attending
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Send us a text 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 understood 14 yea…
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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 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, middle and …
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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 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 are used to…
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Reevaluating your Path with Dr Sarah Stombaugh
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Send us a text 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 to protect…
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Send us a text 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 an opini…
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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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Overcoming Physician Burnout: The Power of Self-Advocacy and Collaboration with Dr. Todd Otten
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Send us a Text Message. Why do so many physicians struggle to prioritize their well-being or even consider leaving the profession despite severe burnout? Dr. Otten shines a light on the cultural and systemic hurdles, from financial worries to family impacts, that keep many healthcare providers trapped in a cycle of self-sacrifice. He shares persona…
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Send us a text 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, dread, …
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Is Burnout Really Trauma with Special Guest, Dr Christy Gibson
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Send us a text 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 physicians exper…
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Send us a text 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 something (words …
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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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The Healing Power of Coaching for Doctors with Dr. Michael Hersh, MD and Dr. Arpita Gupta DePalma, MD
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Send us a Text Message. What happens when two accomplished physicians decide to pivot from traditional medical practice to coaching? Our guests, Dr. Michael Hersch and Dr. Arpita Gupta DePalma, reveal the transformative power of coaching and how it has rekindled their passion for helping others. Dr. DePalma shares her poignant tale of choosing her …
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Send us a text 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 care. And y…
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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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Embracing Authenticity and Rejecting Societal Expectations: A Journey to Self-Worth with Jillian Rigert
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Send us a text Have you ever felt the weight of societal expectations pressing down on you, urging you to chase a version of success that never truly resonates with your core? This is a reality many of us grapple with, including our guest Jillian Rigert, who sheds light on her transformative journey of breaking free from the constraints of titles a…
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Send us a text 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 and emot…
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Embrace Summer: A Time for Self-Reflection and Purposeful Growth
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Send us a Text Message. As the days grow longer and the academic year winds to a close, I invite you to embrace the coming summer not just as a season for leisure, but as a pivotal time for introspection and goal-setting. Picture this: a serendipitous breakdown on a New Mexico highway led me to an epiphany about the necessity of creating intentiona…
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Send us a text 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 can bett…
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Send us a text 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, became a docto…
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Rekindling the Healer's Spirit: Navigating Burnout and Rediscovery in Medicine with Dr. Yolanda Bogaert
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Send us a text As a healer, do you ever feel like the essence of your craft is lost beneath the weight of your white coat? Dr. Yolanda Bogaert joins us to unravel her 26-year medical career, sharing a raw and honest narrative that navigates through the tumultuous waves of burnout to a place of rediscovery. Her story serves as a beacon, illuminating…
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Navigating the Shift from War to Love Consciousness in Leadership and Self-Discovery with Dr. Teri Badydar
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Send us a text Embark on an enlightening exploration with Dr. Teri Baydar and myself, Dr. Sapna Shah-Haque, as we chart the course from a competitive war consciousness to a unifying love consciousness within the spheres of leadership and self-discovery. Throughout our conversation, Dr. Baydar uncovers the transformative power of the "egg model," a …
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Send us a text 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 it to inte…
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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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Embracing Life's Wealth in Health and Relationships
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Send us a text Have you ever found yourself caught in the crossfire between the pursuit of wealth and the necessity of health? As your guide on this journey, I, Dr. Sapna Shah-Haque, invite you to join me in a heartfelt exploration of this tug-of-war that so many of us face. This episode isn't just a theoretical debate; it's an intimate conversatio…
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Healing Through Sleep with Dr. Funke Afolabi-Brown
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Send us a text 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 founding a…
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Send us a text 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 decision to …
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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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Second Act: Charting a New Course Beyond Medicine with Dr. Stephanie Pearson, MD
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Send us a Text Message. When life throws you curveballs, it's the strong and resilient who not only endure but reinvent themselves. This is exactly what Dr. Stephanie Pearson, MD did after a career-ending injury transformed her life, redirecting her path from a skilled OBGYN to a passionate advocate and entrepreneur. Joined by Stephanie, our conver…
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Listening to Your Intuition with Dr. Erica Bove
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Send us a text 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 rediscoverin…
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