The Attitude of Gratitude and Burnout: Reframing your Mind with Dr. Rozina Lakhani, MD

11/17/22 • 35 min

“The stronger the roots, the more the tree is going to be able to stand the stormy winds.”

This quote comes directly from today’s episode with Dr. Rozina Lakhani, an integrative psychiatrist who’s sharing her insights on burnout and the importance of keeping yourself grounded in order to get through rough times more easily.

Through her podcast, Happy and Healthy Mind , speaking engagements and new book, Dr. Rozina Lakhani is helping others find awareness and learn tools to manage the inevitable stress of life. After her own intense experience with burnout, she practices daily gratitude and more techniques staying on top of your mental health, such as brain dumping and journaling.

Tune in to learn about the power of gratitude, and how you can change your perspective to live a healthier life for yourself and your patients!

Topics discussed in this episode:

Dr. Rozina Lakhani on burnout and how she avoids it
Learning the power of gratitude
Why is being grounded important?
Burnout caused by the stress of medical school and her career
Dr. Sapna Shah-Haque’s experience of burnout
Dr. Rozina Lakhani’s self-dialogue journal technique
Peace of mind and Dr. Rozina Lakhani’s new book
Practicing a system of awareness and checking in with yourself
The effect of chronic stress on the body

This experience is powered by CMEfy – an AI-powered platform that directs learners along a pathway to capture reflections at point of inspiration, point of care. Clinicians may earn CME/CE credit via ReflectCE, the accredited activity portal. https://earnc.me/N09rlZ

Find out more about Dr. Rozina Lakhani:

You can listen to her podcast, Happy and Healthy Mind with Dr. Rozina, on Apple Podcasts !

Though I am a physician, this is not medical advice. This is only a tool that physicians can use to get ideas on how to deal with burnout and/or know they are not alone. If you are in need of medical assistance talk to your physician.
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“The stronger the roots, the more the tree is going to be able to stand the stormy winds.”

Tune in to learn about the power of gratitude, and how you can change your perspective to live a healthier life for yourself and your patients!

Topics discussed in this episode:

Dr. Rozina Lakhani on burnout and how she avoids it
Learning the power of gratitude
Why is being grounded important?
Burnout caused by the stress of medical school and her career
Dr. Sapna Shah-Haque’s experience of burnout
Dr. Rozina Lakhani’s self-dialogue journal technique
Peace of mind and Dr. Rozina Lakhani’s new book
Practicing a system of awareness and checking in with yourself
The effect of chronic stress on the body

Find out more about Dr. Rozina Lakhani:

You can listen to her podcast, Happy and Healthy Mind with Dr. Rozina, on Apple Podcasts !

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On this episode, it is a recap over lessons learned. Over the last few months, I have sat down and talked to amazing physicians, and non-physicians alike. Burnout has been the topic, but also spirituality, self care, boundaries, finance, using your voice and more.
Spirituality affects our being and how we interact with others.
What we do must come from love.
Use your voice to speak up for yourself.
Understand finance.
Your spirit knows.
Self care is not selfish.
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Self-doubt versus Imposter Syndrome with Dr. Diane Shannon, MD, MPH

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Dr. Diane Shannon, MD, MPH is a trailblazer with regard to physician burnout. When she saw that the system did not allow [due to many pitfalls] her to deliver patient care like she had envisioned, she changed her narrative. She is an author, speaker, and professional coach with a plethora of experience.

Burnout can feel isolating. As physicians, we don’t discuss how we feel may be because it shows vulnerability, which we [as physicians] are taught not to show. We are trained not to ask for help or it is a sign of weakness, failure.

Dr. Shannon had the courage to tell her story, and by doing so, it led her to all the great work she has done!

Topics discussed in this episode:

· The key driver for burnout is the system not the individual

· The difference between self-doubt and imposter syndrome.

· How the above can show up in men versus women.

· Productive time versus enriching and non-enriching non-productive time and the difference between them.

· The history of residency.

· You have to be a full person.

· There is hope.

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Transcript

All right. Well, hey, thank you very much for coming on The Worthy Physician. Please tell our listeners who you are and a little bit about yourself.

Dr. Lakhani

00:12 - 01:20

Well, thank you for inviting. it's a pleasure. When people ask me that question, one of the best titles I received was Boss of All Smiles, And, the, the story behind it is that I published a guided gratitude journal, stress teacher, guided gratitude journal, and my office manager took i