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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 more of what makes them money; for the food industry, it’s eating (and buying) more foods that tempt us without satisfying us. For the medical-industrial complex? It’s just enough validation to give a bit of dopamine (for people-pleasers like us anyway), but not enough that we’ll feel content in our innate worth, or certainly in our value as professionals.

Also, be sure to check out Episode 34 from July 15, 2024 of my friend, Dr Rashmi Schramm’s excellent podcast, “Inner Peace and Power;” in the episode, she and I spoke about this concept of a “Bliss Point” in medicine, and how this leaves us hustling to prove our value. Find the show “Inner Peace and Power” on your favorite podcast app.

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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 helping physicians end their weight loss struggles. Siobhan’s podcast, Thriving As a Physician, was one of my first exposures to coaching in the physician space (as in physicians coaching physicians), and in this episode you’ll hear her wisdom and experience in working with so many who have struggled with weight and eating along their journeys into medicine, their experiences of burnout.

This is a DO NOT MISS episode. Whether or not you identify with problems with your eating behaviors or weight, there are so many parallels with other ways that we cope with stress, that we internalize messages that we are broken, that we aren’t good enough, etc.

To hear more of our conversation, I also encourage you to listen to Episode 293 of the “Thriving As a Physician” podcast, “How Restriction Drives Overeating: Interview with Dr. Megan Melo MD”

Siobhan Key, MD is a Weight Loss Coach for Physicians and an expert in emotional and binge eating. She is also a practicing Obesity and Family Physician, mother of three amazing kids and an avid runner. Through her coaching and weekly podcast,Thriving As A Physician, she helps physicians go from feeling overwhelmed and out of control with their eating to finding relief from stress and binge eating without relying on willpower. Siobhan can be found at www.weightsolutionsforphysicians.ca. Check out the weekly Weight Solutions for Physicians podcast on all podcast platforms.

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Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weight-solutions-for-physicians/id1449336543

Instagram: www.instagram.com/drsiobhankey

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drsiobhankey

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To learn more about my coaching practice and group offerings, head over to www.healthierforgood.com. I help Physicians and Allied Health Professional women to let go of toxic perfectionist and people-pleasing habits that leave them frustrated and exhausted. If you are ready to learn skills that help you set boundaries and prioritize yourself, without becoming a cynical a-hole, come work with me.

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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 us internalize these in such a way that we carry them as deep pains and scars. Let’s give that up.

Join me as I walk through some recent experiences, and I how I am choosing to change my experience. It’s not about blithely accepting all the hurt, but it’s the start we need to be able to understand what’s going on inside us, inside them, and then decide what boundaries we want to set, what behaviors we will reinforce (for them and for ourselves).

Papercuts and paintballs my friends!

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To learn more about my coaching practice and group offerings, head over to www.healthierforgood.com. I help Physicians and Allied Health Professional women to let go of toxic perfectionist and people-pleasing habits that leave them frustrated and exhausted. If you are ready to learn skills that help you set boundaries and prioritize yourself, without becoming a cynical a-hole, come work with me.