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Increasing your adaptive ability, or resilience -- not to just shore you up so you can go back to a toxic work environment, but also to help you create boundaries, build courage to say No, get creative about Yes and maybe even find a new direction altogether -- THIS is the power of coaching.

These three golden tools — which may also be called Mindfulness, Movement and Empathy toward yourself -- are practices that together may be the most powerful medicine you can take . They don’t need a prescription and addiction to them could save your life.

As medicine increasingly relies on performance reports and data benchmarking tools, many physicians feel increasingly stripped of their ability to exercise the profession’s oldest powers: intuition.

When you walk into a room for the first time, what do you see, a patient or a person?

I recently spoke with one of my clients, a neurologist specializing in stroke, about this. For him, this question of patient or person is absolutely and inextricably linked to the fixer-healer question. As a physician in a specialty where events have often already happened, a good deal of his energy is spent providing comfort and information, ultimately empowering the patient with knowledge.

The answer may have everything to do with how happy you are at work.

And beyond.

How you see yourself as a physician — healer or fixer — reflects back to what you see is possible for your own life.

You binge watch 60s television Westerns because you can’t quiet your mind any other way.