I’m here to help you rediscover the joy in your veterinary career.
A veterinary career is rewarding and meaningful, but it’s also uniquely challenging and can be pretty hard on your brain and your heart at times. I’m here to share how, after feeling disillusioned and burnt out a few years into practice, I rediscovered the joy in my veterinary career and, the rest of my life too.
You worked so hard to get here, but it’s not what you thought it would be, and you’re not sure you can do it for the long haul. I’ve been there. I know the disappointment of not loving your work now that you’ve achieved your dream job. It doesn’t have to be this way.
I’m putting together some evidence-based (because vets love science), practical, realistic tips, tricks and tools that you can implement NOW to help ease the mental and emotional strain of the job and ultimately help you find the joy in being a veterinarian again. I’m creating free resources, online courses, and a supportive community to reignite your fire for this amazing profession. I’ve broken it down into 4 pieces to get you back to feeling like the Inspired DVM that I know you are.
Find your happy again
It starts with you.
Give yourself grace, compassion, and a little love. Remember who you are and what you like to do in and outside of work. Connect with people who feed your soul, in a way that feels comfortable and right for you.
Take charge of what you can control.
Once you figure out what you like and what you don’t, it’s time to take action. This stage is all about establishing rhythms, simplifying your life and setting boundaries. It’s time to let go of what isn’t serving you to make room for what does. In order to be content, you need to make some space for the good stuff in your life.
Let go of what you can’t control.
There are factual circumstances we can’t control; case outcomes, our clients’ resources, other people’s behaviour. We need to know we gave our best, and then we need to let it go. I know it’s not as simple as telling yourself to leave work at work, you do this job because you have a massive capacity for caring and, you’re always thinking about what you could have done better. So, this is where we dig in and show you how to internalize the truth: you are an amazing and talented person and your patients, clients and colleagues are so lucky to have you! You did your best, and that is enough.
Look to the future.
This is the really fun part, it’s time to dream big! Now that you’ve explored what makes you happy, have made space for the things that light you up and, let go of what you can’t control, it’s time to look to the future. Here, we set goals and then reverse engineer the steps to get to your desired outcomes. We conquer limiting beliefs so that you’re relying on your inherent drive instead of discipline (which is a finite resource) to get you where you want to go. It becomes easy, and fun and exciting again to think about what’s to come.