You know the feeling. You and overwhelmed. You are stressed. You are beginning to hate even the things you used to love. Everyone is pushing your buttons. Cynical. Exhausted.
In today’s episode, our guest Dr. Susan Landers shares with us her personal experience with burnout and how to recover from burnout once you are already in the thick of it.
Dr. Landers practiced in the NICU for 32 years and practiced academic neonatology for 14 years serving on the faculty of two medical schools – Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, in Little Rock. Together with her husband, Dr. Phillip Berry, she raised three children, one son and two daughters, each to young adulthood. Since retiring from medicine, Dr. Landers wrote the book So Many Babies and shares her experience with burnout with other driven, high-performing moms. She serves to educate others about this condition, risk factors for and causes of burnout, and effective methods to treat and prevent burnout.
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Alright, mama, you know the feeling. You and overwhelmed. You are stressed. You are beginning to hate even the things you used to love. Everyone is pushing your buttons. Cynical. Exhausted.
In today’s episode, our guest Dr. Susan Landers shares with us her personal experience with burnout and how to recover from burnout once you are already in the thick of it.
Dr. Landers practiced academic neonatology for fourteen years and served on the faculty of two medical schools – Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, in Little Rock. Together with her husband, Dr. Phillip Berry, she raised three children, one son and two daughters, each to young adulthood. Since retiring from medicine, Dr. Landers wrote the book So Many Babies and shares her experience with burnout with other driven, high-performing moms. She serves to educate others about this condition, risk factors for and causes of burnout, and effective methods to treat and prevent burnout.
I am thrilled to introduce you to Dr. Susan Landers.
How to Recover from Burnout with Dr. Susan Landers
Today we discuss…
- The stresses, overwhelm, and burnout that can plague ambitious high-performing moms
- Why it is important to ask the question when something is not working for you in your career
- The impact of a good mentor in your career growth (Love the idea of getting a mentor? Check out Episode #56!)
- How to use the 4 D’s (Delete, Delegate, Do it, or Decide) to know when something is urgent, important, neither or both
- The danger of expecting your husband or partner to read your mind
- The “sign on your back” that you tend to walk around with that actually prevents you from getting help
- A message to moms…”You don’t have to do it all.”
- The personal experience of burnout and how to recover from burnout
- Why the very first thing you should do when you realize you are inside of burnout is to take a break, in whatever way you can
- “Burnout is a symptom of too much”
- Learning to take care of yourself and be compassionate with yourself
- Dr. Landers shares a number of ways you can release the stress of burnout like exercise, meditation, friends, journaling, and music
- Red flags like yelling at your kids and your partner, unloading your stress on them instead of in healthy ways
- The power of an emotional and trusting conversation
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From Dr. Landers…
Dr. Landers graduated from Auburn University, in Auburn, Alabama, with BS degrees in Biology and Chemistry. At Auburn, she was elected to Mortar Board, the National Women’s Honorary. In 1977, she received her MD degree from the Medical University of South Carolina, in Charleston, South Carolina. There she was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), the National Medical Honorary. After graduation from medical school, she completed a pediatrics residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School hospitals in Dallas, Texas, in 1980. She completed her neonatology fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine hospitals, in Houston, Texas, in 1983.
Dr. Landers practiced academic neonatology for fourteen years and served on the faculty of two medical schools – Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, in Little Rock. In this role, she conducted clinical research, published twenty-three peer-reviewed papers, and taught medical students, residents, and fellows. While caring for patients in private practice, she served as a speaker for the Texas Department of State Health Services from 1997 to 1998. She was Medical Director of the Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin, from 2000 to 2004, and served on the milk bank’s board of directors from 2006 to 2009.
Even though she practiced full-time, Dr. Landers continued to publish papers and work for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). She was an expert in breastfeeding medicine and became a Fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (FABM) in 2002. She served as a physician educator at AAP and ABM national meetings for a decade. She served on the Executive Committee of the Section on Breastfeeding in the AAP from 2008 until 2014. In that capacity, she contributed to AAP policy statements and clinical guidelines, and wrote four more peer-reviewed publications and a book chapter. In 2008, she was recognized by Pediatrix Medical Group with a national award for “Outstanding Accomplishments in Quality Improvement.”
Together with her husband, Dr. Phillip Berry, she raised three children, one son and two daughters, each to young adulthood. David, thirty-six, is a cinematographer, living and working in Los Angeles, CA; he is married to Alissa. Anne, thirty-four, is a pediatric intensive care unit nurse at Dell Children’s Medical Center, in Austin, TX; she is married to Joe. Laura, thirty, lives and works in Austin, Tx.
