To feel--including to feel pain, discomfort, fear, shame, and grief--was, for some poemees, a conscious choice. These healthcare professionals and educators may have previously had a greater comfort level with sectioning off some emotions in or

Episode 13 Now: Gratitude

Nov 7th, 2021 8m 26s

In this episode the poems and stories we share address Gratitude.Often poemees spoke to us about what they were grateful for. Even in the midst of a year filled with hardship and struggle, they told us of experiencing moments of clarity about w

Episode 8: Racism - The Older Pandemic

Nov 7th, 2021 8m 53s

The time of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed not only fractures in our public health system, but the fault lines in our larger social system. Some members of the academic medicine community recognized that fault lines caused by racism, racial bia

Episode 3: Work/Family (In)Balance

Nov 7th, 2021 7m 54s

“Conflicted” is a word to characterize some poemees’ feelings towards the tension between their work lives and their personal lives. Many poemees were partners, spouses, parents, and other caregivers in addition to being healthcare and medical

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Introduction to The Good Listening Podcast

Nov 6th, 2021 3m 58s

Welcome to The Good Listening Podcast where we share the healing power of listening and poetry through the stories of healthcare leaders, heroes, and healers, as told to our Listener Poets. This is a creation of The Good Listening Project, a no

Episode 1: The Challenges of Burnout (beta)

Nov 4th, 2021 8m 2s

Episode 12: Healing in the Time of COVID

Nov 2nd, 2021 9m 1s

COVID-19 took center stage in many conversations with Poemees. From struggling to make a human connection with patients while wrapped in layers of protective equipment, to dealing with the uncertainties of outcomes in the early days of the pand

Episode 10: On Being a Doctor

Nov 2nd, 2021 8m 44s

Poemees who were physicians, or students on the path to becoming physicians, often spoke about what this professional identity meant to them. Through moments both big and small, they reflected on their initial motivations for a career in medici

Episode 11: The Art of Healing

Nov 2nd, 2021 9m 5s

Healing, as expressed by many poemees, is as much an art as it is a science. Some of these healthcare and medical education professionals took the “art” of healing quite literally. They made use of visual arts, storytelling, music, and poetry i

Episode 9: Knowing What to Do

Nov 2nd, 2021 10m 5s

For healthcare professionals who are so often looked to for answers, not having answers can be difficult. Some poemees in this situation found little things to do when the big things seemed less effective. Others had to accept that sometimes th

Episode 14 Sacrifice…and Regret

Nov 2nd, 2021 8m 37s

In this episode the poems and stories we share address Sacrifice and Regret.Some poemees used their listening sessions with us to explore their emotional states. Often, these emotions were joy or gratitude. Other times, the emotions they explor

Episode 4: Self in Transition

Nov 2nd, 2021 9m 58s

Whether poemees were medical and other health professions students, residents fresh from med school graduation, or physicians and other healthcare providers with decades of experience, many were working through what it meant for their own ident

Episode 5: COVID: Everything We Lost

Nov 2nd, 2021 10m 7s

A common theme of many conversations we had in 2020 was COVID-19 and loss. For poemees, some of these losses were hospitalizations and deaths of friends and family members from the virus. Others suffered losses stemming from not being able to i

Episode 6: Inside the Hidden Struggles

Nov 2nd, 2021 9m 2s

What happens when the healers are the ones who need healing? This is a question that some poemees asked themselves as they reflected on their own suffering even as they remained committed to helping alleviate the suffering of those in their car

Episode 2: Finding Meaning

Nov 2nd, 2021 10m 20s

Many of the poemees we listened to were actively engaged in the creative process of making meaning during the stressful and often chaotic world of COVID-19. Physicians spoke of finding ways to keep treating patients whose prognosis was not good

Episode 15 Resilience in the Human Condition

Nov 2nd, 2021 7m 31s

In this episode the poems and stories we share address Resilience in the Human Condition.Bending...stretching...transforming--but not breaking... Such was the resilience that poemees experienced or that they observed in others. As they sometime

Episode 1: The Challenges of Burnout

Nov 2nd, 2021 8m 2s

This first episode of The Good Listening Podcast focuses on burnout. A frequent topic in our conversations was the emotional, spiritual, and physical exhaustion resulting from stress and burnout. Even though these poemees acknowledged burnout a

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