Mindful MD Quotes

“I am good.
I do my best.
I cannot control
all the rest.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“As Mindful MDs, we can be happy today, not with what we wish healthcare was like, but with what is.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“You can truly become the master of your fate, your happiness, and your well-being.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“A fascinating part of physician burnout is that without realizing it we can find ourselves stuck in a Groundhog Day–like pattern.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“Utilizing mindfulness is a powerful antidote to burnout—one that gives Mindful MDs true autonomy over our own minds and the stories that only serve to multiply the difficulties we’re facing in our lives and careers.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“Pain is part of life. None of us get through life without some measure of pain—physical or emotional, minor or intense.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“Mindfulness helps us gain agency over what we think, feel, and do. For those of us struggling with the ways control in healthcare has been wrested from us, this agency (read: autonomy) is critically important.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“With a pause, we’re creating that all-important gap between ourselves and our thoughts and emotions.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“Every time we are kind to someone, we build kindness in them.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“With consistent effort and mindfulness, you can regain the life and career that you’ve worked so hard for.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“By developing a mindful approach, you can recover a sense of true autonomy even when much going on in healthcare is well beyond your individual control.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“Without mindful acceptance we can unknowingly be the ones contributing to the very difficulties we so readily lay blame for on others, and on a highly dysfunctional healthcare system.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“Mindfulness and emotional management can help us overcome burnout and regain our autonomy and power within a broken system.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“Mindfulness is all about having choice and recognizing the ability to change. It helps us have agency over ourselves and actions.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“Each and every day, we have a choice over which seeds we water.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“Our minds can grow many wonderful things... Will we grow love, kindness, and compassion? Alternatively, will we grow anger, vengeance, meanness, and greed?”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“But when we replace these negative patterns with a focus on compassion, purpose, and positive self-talk, we quickly find greater energy, emotion, and fulfillment than we could possibly imagine.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“When we can see our emotions for what they are, we can watch the chemical storm generate and pass through without being as caught in it.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“True power comes from within... Awareness of where our true power lies means that we can mindfully modulate the lens through which we view our experience.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“Mindfulness provides exactly what we need to free ourselves from the trap of never-ending pressure and ever-increasing demands that keep us running, running, running.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“When one lacks control over their circumstances (or believes they lack control), one falls into learned helplessness, thinking that there is no point in trying to escape the painful stimulus.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“With mindfulness, we are cultivating the ability to be present and satisfied here and now, in the moments that are actually occurring in our lives.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“In truth, we can’t ever truly know what the future will bring, and we can’t know whether what our mind is telling us will make us happy will truly do so.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“When we can begin to view those around us as partners on this journey called life and recognize that they are just like us, we can move past a scarcity mentality and zero-sum games.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“When we employ mindful awareness to work with that almost continuous flow of judgment, we very naturally make room for greater kindness and compassion.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“Mindful awareness can help us restore that sense of openness, curiosity, and interest many of us shed long ago.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“With self-compassion, we’re shifting the lens from outward to inward caring. We are including ourselves in the group of people who receive care, love, forgiveness, and attention.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“When we move from fear to compassion, we thrive mentally and physically.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“Our emotions can definitely feel like more than blips. And our emotional responses are often seemingly rational responses to what we experience.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout

“With mindful awareness, we see that the human mind is a master storyteller, spinning stories about who we are, what we do, and the world and people around us.”
― Gail Gazelle, MD, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout