The Wrap-Up: What We’ve Learned, What Comes Next Christopher J. Colombo MD, CEC, CMC, CPP The Rant Wasn’t Just a Rant Let’s face it—resilience needed a rebrand. Too many conversations about it either go Full Metal Jacket (“suck it up and drive on”), collapse into mushy platitudes (“just bounce back!”), or—on the flip side—dismiss resilience...
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“Curses don’t end…they’re broken.”
https://youtube.com/shorts/Adz_Myjr7kY?si=mmBLe7B9Oa_Xgv7x “Face your pain now or pass it along (even unwittingly) to those you love… just as it was passed on to you.” ~ Terrence Real, I Don’t Want To Talk About It. “The way you treat yourself is ultimately the way you will treat those you love most.” ~Paul Conti, MD “Curses don’t end…they’re...
On self-abandonment…
“We often abandon ourselves in an attempt to prevent other people from abandoning us.” “If you are trying to manage other people’s feelings, you are abandoning your own.” ~Joe Hudson Some problem’s are solution’s to deeper problems… For more on this topic consider the book The Drama of the Gifted Child
The Resilience Rant: Reclaiming and Reframing Part 3
Resilience Isn’t Pre-Determined Christopher J. Colombo MD, CEC, CMC, CPP Introduction One of the more seductive critiques of resilience goes like this: “It’s all predetermined. You either have it or you don’t. It’s baked into your DNA, your childhood, your trauma history, your bank account, or your ZIP code.” Now, is there some truth in...
When you see anger… train yourself to look for pain.
https://youtube.com/shorts/R8oqlgWizG8?si=DYXv8hG6PLmI5pUH “Anger is often what pain looks like when it shows itself in public.” – Krista Tippett – Book: I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression by Terrence Real
Remembering and forgetting
Paul M. Michaud MD, CPE It is not true that you remember everything… But too often we remember the things we should forget and forget the things we should remember. Categories
Mastering the art of error…
Paul M. Michaud MD, CPE Here is a mindset shift I learned in my radiology residency… We tend to remember the things that go wrong more than we remember the things that go right. Think back to when you took a test, and immediately after the test, you began looking up the answers to the...
You are the biggest risk to your future is…
Paul M. Michaud MD, CPE “The biggest risk to your future is not your competition. It’s the distractions you insist on keeping in your life rather than doing the things you know you should be doing… but aren’t. People delay doing what they don’t like for longer than it takes to do them.” Here a...
If it is important… it is today.
Paul M. Michaud MD, CPE Your problem is you think you have time. You can always wait until tomorrow… until you can’t. It is unlikely that tomorrow will be better than today, and often, that thing you are putting off does not get better with time… but worse. It is also possible that tomorrow may...
When a deep injury is done to us…
Paul M. Michaud MD, CPE Remember… sometimes the person you most need to forgive for inflicting that injury is yourself. Categories