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Self Care In The Field Of Medicine
By the demands of our life, we lose in touch with our emotions – feel our inner selves drifting away to the point of alienation. We are unable to craft out the time to untangle the muddled mess we’ve become without stressors looming over our minds.
Our to-do lists start getting longer; higher amounts of cortisol start rushing
through our system while we gulp down another mug of coffee in an effort to buy
more time or merely give our self a sense that we’re coping.
We give in to the enormous stress the profession we choose entails and find less
time to care for our mental and physical health thereby deteriorating in various
aspects – especially mentally.
As medical students, the acts we integrate into our daily lives become stepping
stone habits to a healthier lifestyle or merely a better way to cope with the
demands in our journey from medical students to medical professionals.
We learn how cultivating a sense of self-awareness can prove beneficial in
recognizing what infuses our life with joy and what drains our energy, but also
practice discipline in an attempt to be consistent in what serves us and have the
grace to let go of what doesn’t.
We learn to delegate and prioritize as we become selective of our energy and
time. We learn to turn down the volume of our environment and focus on our
inner voice. We realize a hiatus is as necessary as moving forward. We realize we
deserve to experience joy and peace – in our own ways. We learn we all have
different circumstances, motivations, reasons, pace and how effort looks different
on all of us.
We realize that to adopt a multitude of self-care behaviors & practices at this
phase of our lives can build greater resilience to cope later in the future and
become better health professionals.
We realize there are days when self-nurture seem to be an added point onto the
exhaustive list, when we are unable to find time to fit in our time-consuming craft
of peace.
These are the days we realize that merely mindful, self-supporting mental
attitude can go a long way. How the intention of self-care etched to a simple act
can prove to make all the difference