Patient care is where I have always shined. It’s where I have done some of my best work. I have an innate ability to meet every patient where they are at. In my 30 years of work, many of which were spent working in remote locations with vulnerable populations, I have learned that there are no luxuries in this industry. You have to be time-efficient, people-efficient, and most importantly, you have to utilize every resource you have available to you in order to provide the best possible care. So if I was able to assess and execute plans of care seamlessly at the bedside for my patients, where was the disconnect coming from in providing that same care to myself. This required a tremendous amount of self-analysis. It was the kind of inner work that can feel brutal at times.

Just like in healthcare, you can’t just treat the symptoms, you have to find the cause. You have to get to the root of what’s holding you back. I couldn’t just sleep more to address my insomnia, I needed to figure out what was keeping me awake. I couldn’t load up on caffeine-laden products to get me through each shift - I had to find out what exactly was draining my energy. I had to go deep to get a true diagnosis on what was going on with me.