Episode 29: Essential Skills to Overcome Burnout in Rehab with TaVona Denise Boggs, PT
What is Burnout? I mean, do we even need to define it? Aren’t we all pretty intimate with what it feels like? Burnout is more than just dissatisfaction with your work - it’s emotional exhaustion, detachment, and feelings of decreased personal achievement. This episode moves beyond describing the effects of burnout to skills and techniques you can implement to increase career engagement and establish work/life boundaries. Turn the table on needless suffering at the hands of burnout and become empowered! TaVona is our guide to learn how we can overcome burnout in this episode of the Speech Uncensored Podcast.
“No circumstance in my life has to change for me to feel better”
“Do not take things personally”
Dig deeper with the following resources:
1. Understanding the burnout experience. by C Maslach World Psychiatry. 2016 Jun; 15(2): 103–111.
2. Medscape National Physician Burnout & Depression Report 2019
3. Physician Burnout: Causes, Consequences, and (?) Cures. Herbert L. Fred and Mark S. Scheid (2018) Texas Heart Institute Journal: August 2018, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 198-202.
4. Systematic Review of Mindfulness Practice for Reducing Job Burnout. Michelle Luken and Amanda Sammons Am J Occup Ther. 2016 Mar-Apr; 70(2): 7002250020p1–7002250020p10.
5. Achieving career satisfaction: personal goal setting and prioritizing for the clinical educator. Elizabeth Sadowski, MD and Sarina Schrager, MD, MS J Grad Med Educ. 2016 Oct; 8(4): 494–497.
6. What does the WHO have to say about burnout?
Big thanks to TaVona for sharing the article links!
More TaVona!
Visit TaVona’s website here. Take TaVona’s Burnout Quiz and get a free Plan of Care!
Curious about the book TaVona mentioned? Check out more info here: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Want to hear more from TaVona? You’re in luck! Here are her guest spots on other podcasts:
Combine physical therapist, life coach and business mentor and you have TaVona Denise Boggs, PT. Her mission? To save as many healthcare professionals as she can from burnout, boredom and glass ceilings.
Over the past 18 years, TaVona has worked as a clinician, assistant clinic director, and contractor in various settings. Her personal experience with burnout led her to become a certified life and wellness coach, developing a unique approach to working with other clinicians experiencing symptoms of burnout.
She uses her background in healthcare and the past 10 years studying and engaging in non-traditional business models to help healthcare professionals leverage their expertise to create wellness businesses. Ask her about karaoke and cycling. They are her favorite past times.
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