Ego, rigidity, professional boundaries, cynicism, fear - a whole host of barriers mitigate against health-care professionals being human with each other. So our colleagues who suffer, tend to do so alone, isolated - the worst case scenario - as any of us advise our patients!
It's essential to face the fact that most of us completely lack the ability to examine, never mind share, what is deeply meaningful to us. Our entire lives we've focused attention outwards - towards solving others' problems. Such an exclusively outward orientation is terribly unhealthy - incompatible with normal maturation and a rich, meaningful life.
We all must learn to bravely look deeply within - to rest in awareness of our inner world and learn to integrate our inner and outer lives. This is absolutely basic maturation - growing up as an evolved human being.
Cynical cracks about "navel gazing" carry the same gravitas as schoolyard bullies' pejoratives regarding "book-learnin'".
See: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2012/03/approach-avoidance-dichotomy.html
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