Dr. Melinda Thacker a coach for surgeons

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Meet Mel-https://www.melthackercoaching.com The Power of Belief When I was 13 years old, I decided I was going to become a surgeon. I knew it with such conviction that there was no other option for me but to take action to realize that dream. Despite having no exposure to the medical field, despite growing up in poverty reliant on food stamps and government assistance, despite finding myself temporarily homeless at age sixteen--despite all these seemingly insurmountable obstacles--I made it happen. Because the only things that mattered were my DESIRE and my BELIEF. I desired to become a surgeon, and I believed I could achieve that goal. Everything else was just drama and obstacles. For the first 7 years of my career I thought I was okay, but I wasn't. Burnout is an insidious thing, and surgeons are trained to tolerate prolonged discomfort. Part of the problem was that I hadn't defined “success” for myself. My automatic brain told me I should be satisfied with performing surgeries, taking care of patients, making money, and just getting through the grind until retirement, but my essential self completely disagreed. There had to be more to life as a working surgeon. It felt like I was trapped in a career I didn't sign up for. So I distracted myself with overworking and false pleasures. I people pleased and overachieved and sought external validation, but at the end of the day I just felt deeply and profoundly EMPTY. It was exhausting. Eventually something had to give. I couldn’t be everything to everyone and nothing to myself. Who was my true self anyway? I had been trained to ignore my mind and body for so long that my real identity was a mystery to me.