GutGirl MD

Indeed….

Gearing up to apply to fellowship?

Want to work with a former PD and someone who has been interviewing potential fellows for 20+ years?

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Want to stop your women physicians from quitting?

Want to stop spending money on "wellbeing modules" and Pizza parties that do not seem to move morale or burnout?

14 months ago I birthed this baby...It started its gestation in 2017- just as hashtag was becoming a thing.

We EVENTUALLY published our 2 yearlong data collection of what happens when Women Physicians gather every 6 months to share, learn together, cry, hear each other and heal together....(mind you, all these gatherings were PRE-covid).

Our very large study (with robust controls of non-participant women and with men within the system and compared to TMA matched women physicians) showed improvements in retention, engagement and burnout!

This program was funded by The Physicians Foundation and part of the grant was that I would distribute the results freely. This is open access journal AND I will happily share my roadmap for you to Re-Create this program in your institution!
(insider hint: it's on my company website for free download: free 20 pages with sample scheduled, timelines, budgets, leadership talking points and funding suggestions)

Every hospital system deserves this!

Reach out if you would like help implementing it!
If you don't have anything like this- then build it yourself- I did, you can to- and I'm here to help!

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0319895

Love this!

I recommend this strategy to EVERY one of my coaching clients as well as anyone who is suffering from insomnia!

Thank you for sharing the data and studies to support this!

Two minutes. One notebook. Three things. That's the entire practice.

And the research behind it is astonishing.

A 2024 study published in JAMA Psychiatry followed nearly 50,000 women from Harvard's Nurses' Health Study. Those with the highest gratitude scores had a 9 percent lower risk of death from any cause over the study period. The effect was strongest for cardiovascular death.

A separate study in the Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics used MRI scans on 478 older adults and found that people with higher gratitude had measurably larger brain volumes in regions related to emotion, memory, and social processing.

Gratitude is not just a nice feeling. It's a measurable intervention.

Here's the practice: every night, before bed, write down three things you're grateful for. Be specific. Not "my family" but "the way my husband laughed at dinner tonight." Not "my health" but "the fact that my knees let me walk up those stairs today."

Specificity is what activates the neural pathways. Vague gratitude is like vague gym work. You need to target it.

In my practice, I've watched patients transform their sleep, mood, and resilience just from this one habit. Two minutes a day. For a lifetime.

You're not manufacturing gratitude. You're noticing what was already there.

And noticing changes your brain.

What are three specific things you're grateful for right now?

Prepping for my favorite Gastroenterology conference of the year!

Scrubs & Heels Summit is run by women gastroenterologists for women gastroenterologists!😏😊

For many of us this is our happy and safe space! It is a great time of being present in a rare room where we don’t need to explain ourselves.

I’m ready for some great conversations, big hugs, wonderful learning and sharing! 👢 👠 👩🏻‍⚕️🧑🏽‍⚕️💃🏻💃🏻. (Welcome to Texas Yall!)

Drop by the GutGirl booth for some mints, chapstick or a 🦄!

Thank you to Dr Aline Charabaty and Dr Dr Anita Afzali for founding this group and thank you Dr Latifat Akintade for being our keynote this year!

I got a sweet question from a hospital chaplain after a wellness talk last week: "So many of our clinicians feel absolutely stuck. How can I help them?".

I love this desire to help us- we are NOT alone!

"Did they brush their teeth today?" (they had a choice)
"Did they confirm there was gas in the tank before driving to work?" (They would have paid the price for in action)

We ALWAYS have a choice- it's often something hard vs. something harder....staying is hard, leaving is hard, disappointing family is hard, disappointing patients is hard, saving money is hard, eating healthy is hard, asking for help is hard, starting a new boundary is hard.

My son noted yesterday "everything worth having is hard sometimes" Beautiful truth my son.

Choose your hard and remind others they ALWAYS have a choice- not an easy choice- but a choice non the less. I learned this very important lesson from Edith Eger.