Gratitude: A Lesson I’ve Learned through Cancer 

 

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Gratitude has been very important for me throughout my life but also from a cancer standpoint.

  Gratitude when it relates to BURNOUT:

 

  If you’re in a job that has you in complete burnout, well, you’re now learning everything that will make the next job much better than all the things that are not supportive of you.

            The interesting thing about gratitude is that I think gratitude is very important as a mechanism to treat burnout because it helps turn potentially                negative events or negative things that may be happening to you into a positive. 

           Be Grateful for Support! 

 What I have found the most useful is to be grateful for all the support we have received!
 And to be grateful for the expertise and all the doctors and all the learning and the growing that we’ve had to do.  And that we’ve done over the last year or two really even for us personally, due to some cancer related events, and again, no one ever wants to, I wouldn’t ever wish that on our worst enemy, but cancer is something that happens. 

Be Grateful for the Lessons you’re Learning! 

 

If you can be grateful and mindful of the lessons you’re learning and applying those, then you can grateful for the support that you’re receiving. I think that automatically will put a different spin on yourself, you know, positive mindset, depression, those types of things. 

So I’m thrilled that we’re learning important lessons, not why or not how, but I think it’s very important and impactful! This is something also that I think can be helpful for you in your burnout journey to think about the lessons that you’re learning.

Be grateful for those, and then apply those and move on. 

                             ~Jeff Moody, MD

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