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Epi 48: Challenging Cases, Difficult Clients, & Team Tension: The Hidden Emotion Behind Veterinary Burnout
In this episode of Stop the Burnout, we’re talking about a rarely discussed contributor to burnout in veterinary medicine: anger.
For high-achieving veterinary professionals who deeply care about their patients and...
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Epi 47: The Shame Pattern That Slowed My Burnout Recovery and How to Avoid It
Burnout recovery isn’t always prolonged by a heavy workload, crazy schedules, or a lack of boundaries. Sometimes it is slowed by patterns we do not consciously recognize.
In this episode, I share a personal story...
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Epi 46: Burnout & Boundaries (Part III): Setting Boundaries in Real Life (What to Say, Not Just What to Know)
In the final part (Part III) of this boundaries series, we’re breaking down how veterinary professionals can actually set boundaries without guilt, overexplaining, or burning out.
You’ll hear real-life veterinary and...
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Epi 45: Burnout & Boundaries (Part II): The Hidden Cost of Avoiding Boundaries and How It Fuels Burnout
In Part II of the Burnout & Boundaries mini-series, we go deeper into why boundaries are so hard to hold, including the subconscious patterns that keep many veterinary professionals stuck in cycles of overgiving...
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Epi 44: Burnout & Boundaries (Part I): The Neuroscience of Why Saying No Feels Hard and the Signs You Need a Boundary
If boundaries feel exhausting, uncomfortable, or downright impossible in veterinary medicine (or in life in general!), there’s a reason, and it has nothing to do with willpower or communication skills.
In Part I of...
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Epi 43: Breaking the Burnout Cycle (Part II): What to Expect When You’re Healing Burnout
If you’re trying to heal from burnout but still feel stressed and exhausted, you'll want to listen to this one. Burnout recovery isn’t linear, and feeling better doesn’t happen overnight. In this episode, we talk...
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Epi 42: Breaking the Burnout Cycle (Part I): When Burnout Feels Like a Personal Failure & What Actually Breaks the Cycle
Ever find yourself sitting in the parking lot before a shift, stressed, dreading walking in, and wondering why everyone else looks like they have it together while you’re questioning whether you’re cut out for...
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Epi 41: Why Burnout Doesn’t Go Away, Even in Better Workplaces (Part II)
You love veterinary medicine, but the people, systems, expectations, constant pressure, and challenging cases are slowly draining you.
In Part 2 of this series, we dive into how to actually fix effort–reward imbalance...
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Epi 40: When It’s Not the Medicine, but the People, Systems, and Expectations That Burn You Out in Vet Med (Part I)
Ever feel like you’re pouring everything you have into your work, yet still feeling unappreciated and ending the day exhausted, resentful, or emotionally drained?
Effort–reward imbalance is a research-backed burnout...
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Epi 39: Rough Shift? How to Vent About Vet Med Without Trauma-Dumping at Home
You love the people in your life, but they’re not in veterinary medicine, and sometimes talking about work leaves everyone feeling frustrated, misunderstood, or overwhelmed.
In this episode, I break down why we feel...
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Epi 38: Can’t Stop Overanalyzing Every Decision & Conversation at 2 AM? Here’s What’s Going On (& How to Stop)
Join us in this episode as we dive into the exhausting (and weirdly universal) mental spiral of replaying cases, second-guessing decisions, and waking up at 2 AM thinking about something that wasn’t even a problem...
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Epi 37: Why Are We Still Using “Remember Your Why” as Burnout Advice? It’s Useless, But Here’s What Actually Works
If you’ve ever been told the cure for burnout was “remember your why,” as in remember why you got into this profession despite the disrespect, the short staffing, the underpay, and the ridiculous hours… this one is...
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