Keri Brenner
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398 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2020
last heard Feb 2023
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So there are a few things that stand out.
One is process partner.
So who is my inner circle of support?
One of my mentors in this space uses the analogy about mountain climbing and being on belay.
She says, if you're climbing a mountain into uncharted territory, it would be utterly absurd to climb a mountain without being on belay.
without having somebody supporting you on a rope where if you started to stumble, you wouldn't go and fall too far.
And so I often ask myself, who is my belay, professionally and personally?
Who can I rely on to vent, to laugh, to worry, to hope, to fear with, so I can climb into this uncharted territory when I'm doing my work with patients?
The second thing that I do is I find it very, very helpful to focus on my immediate spheres of influence.
I think that for all of us, we have a lot of altruism that brought us into this work.
And using that, though, to harness our energy to focus on what are the immediate needs before us right now.
So for me, I was on my inpatient consult service at Stanford this past week, and my immediate sphere of influence was that list of 20 patients and families and the bedside nurses and the referring clinicians and trying to provide a therapeutic presence for them in those moments this week.
And then when I'm at home, when I walk through the door every day, I have this quote from Mother Teresa that says, if you want to bring happiness to the world, go home and love your family.
And they become my immediate sphere of influence.
And being able to stay focused in that way can be enormously helpful.
And we can talk, yeah, and Danny, I know you talk a lot about spheres of influence too in your work.
The third thing that is about sort of how do we keep ourselves grounded?
Joan Halifax calls it having a balanced diet, a balanced emotional diet in our life.
So our work is very emotionally intense.
we have moments that are fulfilling and moments that are exhausting.
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