Why I Work With Doctors

I am passionate about helping physicians become pain-free and attain fulfillment — without sacrificing reputation, status or income — so you can realize new levels of success, energy and motivation. To help even one physician become pain-free and achieve clarity, is to help countless others with whom you cross paths as patients, colleagues and friends. You are the influencers, the healers. You fix others, but somehow can’t quite fix yourselves. You’ve got everything it takes, but you’re postponing travel, partnership, hobbies, health — you fill in the blank.

But what if the answers were just a matter of asking the right questions? That’s where coaching comes in. This is the water I swim in.

How did I get to that passion? Why doctors? For starters, I was once married to one — and still great friends with him to this day. Having lived with a doctor for 24 years, I learned a thing or two about the waters you swim in: the waters of sacrifice, loss, triumph, exhaustion, drive, self-neglect, standards of excellence, never-ending notes and dictation, discipline, postponed happiness, isolation, disappointment and hope. As much as I’ve been right there with you, I resisted this coaching path at first.

Sometimes what’s closest to you is the least obvious. Sometimes the “fix”-- or at least the path to it -- is right there. But we get so focused on the well-worn groove, the linear direction, that we forget to look slightly to the periphery, or change the focus just a bit to actually see and feel the waters in which we’ve been swimming in a whole new way. You have worked so hard to get to where you are that the idea of the solution for your own struggles are right here might seem preposterous. This is how it was for me. Coaching doctors? Isn’t that a little too familiar?

Sometimes the most radical solutions are right here, and not really so radical. Like scientific inquiry itself, it starts with curiosity, with questions: What do I know? What do I need to know? Freeing yourself of pain, finding balance and peace begins with exploration, sparked by imagination. As stuck as you may feel right now, as much as you may have convinced yourself that this is it, there may be a line of questions that could lead you to a level of freedom and peace you never thought possible. Just like that, a whole different perspective unfolds. What if you no longer had to wait to feel better? What if you could find real peace? Right now.