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If you like reading thought-provoking articles describing important research and veterinary wellness topics, then this blog is for you. We discuss cutting edge content pertinent to veterinary mental health and wellbeing, including the latest published research studies and relevant information for inspiring positive change in the veterinary profession.
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Building a healthy professional identity in veterinary medicine
Over the years, I’ve come to know many veterinarians and veterinary students who struggle to define themselves outside of their professional roles. This is a common sentiment among veterinarians who…
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Navigating Burnout: Insights from Two Decades in Veterinary Emergency Practice
For two decades, I’ve stood on the frontline of veterinary emergency rooms, navigating a landscape filled with both triumphs and tribulations. From the exhilaration of saving a life to the…
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Diffusing Difficult Situations with Veterinary Clients
In the fast-paced and stressful world of veterinary medicine, conflicts are inevitable. Very often these disagreements involve upset or angry clients who make statements like “you’re only in it for…
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Five Strategies to Stop Being a People-Pleaser
Do you apologize often, pretend to agree with everyone, or feel uneasy when someone is angry with you? Do you go to great lengths to avoid conflict and resist saying…
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Euthanasia Conversations Impact Veterinary Team Wellbeing
If you are a veterinarian like me, you have probably lost count of the number of times a client has said “I could never do what you do”. Of course,…
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Five Tools to Help Veterinary Caregivers Stay Resilient During the Coronavirus Pandemic
These are truly unprecedented times. Even the most seasoned of veterinary professionals have not experienced our “new normal”. From streamlining services to only what is considered urgent, emergent, or essential…
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Are you using coping strategies as self-care?
At a time when burnout, moral stress, compassion fatigue, and suicide are dominating conversations regarding wellbeing in the veterinary industry, self-care has been broadly advocated as a necessary practice for…
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Why we need to be careful how we talk about suicides among veterinary professionals
Hardly a week goes by when I don’t receive a Google alert or see some glaring headline about suicides in the veterinary profession. Even Time Magazine has weighed in on…
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How to fix five things stopping veterinary professionals from practicing self-care
It seems that whenever I present a keynote on self-care or mention self-care in a webinar, someone in the audience asks, “but what if you can’t practice self-care”? In the…
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Ten Tips for Staying Well This Holiday Season
The holidays are here and while this time of year is exciting and energizing for many people, it can be exhausting and illness-provoking for others. While most people feel happiness,…
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Stop Being a Martyr and Start Modeling Healthy Behavior
Rather than competing over who has it worse in the veterinary profession, veterinary team members are urged to model healthy behaviors that promote wellbeing.
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10 Tips for Improving Your Sleep Hygiene
Approximately 1 in 3 people struggle with insomnia, which is the inability to fall asleep or stay asleep at least three nights per week during which adequate sleep is possible….
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