Path to Overcoming Disillusionment in Healthcare with Rebecca Arnold
Nov 14, 2024
Burnout in Nursing
There is such power in naming an experience of what’s true for us. I was reading this book about attachment styles recently, and this quote really speaks to how powerful it can be. The adapted quote goes something like this:
“Finding a name or a label can be so helpful — it can give clarity and definition to the struggles we’ve been facing. We can find ourselves— it’s no longer mysterious or just limited to us, but is actually understood, well articulated, and even shared with others. It puts our experience into context and frees us from the idea that we’re broken or helplessly doomed. It helps us access the tools we need to choose a path forward.”
Sometimes we love our work, and other times it feels like “Is this it?”
It can feel lonely to feel like the only one who is navigating burnout in the nursing profession, and it can be hard to access hope when the healthcare system feels so frustrating.
This week’s podcast feels like a coming home. Rebecca Arnold is a holistic leadership coach and a dear friend of mine. She and I spotlight the experience of feeling disillusioned with healthcare, and what it’s like to be an empathic, ambitious, caring person to feel like a cog in a broken system— and how we can find fulfillment, joy, and a path forward out of those feelings instead of into burnout. It’s easier and more accessible than you think.
This phenomenon is incredibly common, but isn’t unique to healthcare professionals — Rebecca has worked intimately with clients with this experience and helped them through it, going from burnt out and exhausted onto fulfilling careers and impacts in their work.
What I love about Rebecca’s approach is that she’s no fluff, practical, and straight-talking with so much love — such an aligned person to share with out like-minded nurse practitioners in the RWNP community.
In this conversation, we cover:
- What is disillusionment in healthcare and what does it look like— how do you know if it’s “too late” for you
- What are the small, practical steps forward to get out of this place and back to making the difference you want to make (with joy!)
- How to manage our grief and disappointments in our work so that it doesn’t overwhelm us
- What is possible when we have tools to get through to the other side of disillusionment
We hope this episode helps you navigate those feelings of disillusionment, or helps you prevent them from creeping in as you start on your NP journey.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- We also talked about Rebecca’s new book The Rooted Renegade - an incredibly practical, to-the-point resource to help you navigate this process or another variety of burnout if you’re looking for support.
- If you’re feeling stuck personally or professionally, she’s also got a free guide to Banishing Stuckness here.
About Rebecca: REBECCA ARNOLD, JD, CPCC, PCC, is a professional, certified executive & leadership coach. She is the founder of Root Coaching & Consulting, LLC, a holistic leadership coaching firm for ambitious professionals. She is an attorney by training, and through her coaching has worked with 100+ leaders in the fields of academia, medicine, law, K-12 education, and social-impact organizations. She has collaborated with organizations from Google and Harvard to Top 100 law firms, K-12 school districts, and pharmaceutical companies. She’s known as a “straight-talkin’, big-hearted” coach. Her bestselling book, The Rooted Renegade: Transform Within, Disrupt the Status Quo & Unleash Your Legacy, shares the path to holistic success for ambitious professionals to live and lead more joyfully. It has received a 5-star review from Readers' Favorites and Kirkus Reviews called it, "A wide-ranging and impressively holistic approach to achieving personal and professional success."
If you liked this post, also check out:
- Navigating NP Burnout with Cait Donovan
- Caretaker Fatigue: What Is The Root Cause?
- Defining Boundaries vs Requests AKA Why Your Boundaries Aren’t Working
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