Burnout Survivor - Consulting & Professional Development

03/02/2025

I've been providing leadership consulting, professional development, and career counseling alongside my work as a mental health counselor at Life Work Counseling since 2021, but this year I am publicly launching Burnout Survivor as my brand identity for the career consulting and professional development services that I provide.

This year I've been building a website that is capable of hosting webinars and facilitating online learning management for seminars and workshops. It's pretty bare bones right now, but I'm proudly featuring online enrollment for my first public-facing workshop, Enhancing Executive Functions, beginning March 31st, hosted at the Columbia Area Career Center (light fare, snacks, and beverages provided).

If you have a moment, I would really appreciate anyone who visits the site and can offer any feedback. This has been the culmination of many years of independent study since completing my master's degree, and I am eternally grateful to Stacy and Ada for their patience and support.

- Caleb

burnoutsurvivor.com

11/14/2024

My write-up in Career Convergence this month explores one of the experiences of being gifted that doesn't feel like a gift.

Though the label of gifted suggests privilege, the experience of giftedness often includes unique challenges affecting...

04/24/2024

Yesterday's ruling by the FTC effectively bans the use of non-compete agreements that have historically limited the autonomy of specially trained medical and healthcare workers. This is a big win for workers and potentially benefits patients by allowing providers to go where they're needed.

The Proposed Rule

08/04/2023

From the article: When I asked a close colleague ... about her thoughts on moral distress, at first, she didn't know what I was talking about. But as I shared some examples, she recognized the sentiment.

A few days later, she sent me an email. "I'm feeling the relief of decades of suffering from it [moral distress] and it not having a name," she wrote.

A term coined to evoke the torment felt by soldiers as they process the cruelty of war, it's now used by doctors to describe the guilt and helplessness we feel when patients can't access needed care.

05/25/2023

Today I'm reflecting on how easily a "for now" job becomes a "forever job" when we lose track of our values. Keeping your mission rooted in your values requires ongoing effort and reflection.

09/12/2022

Today is day 1 of the largest nursing strike in history. 15,000 nurses in Minnesota are striking after months of negotiations. You will see this portrayed in the media WITHOUT disclosing CEO pay from the hospital system. Do yourself a favor and read this article from June 1st that contains some CEO pay data.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2022/06/01/minnesota-nurses-attack-hospital-executive-pay-amid-union-negotiations/

Photo via reddit /u/burinsan

05/02/2022

Meeting the challenge isn't always about controlling & eliminating discomfort. Learning to function alongside your challenges can be transformative.

04/27/2022

Participating in processes that are coercive and conflict with your personal sense of moral duty inflicts a type of traumatic stress called moral injury.
https://www.facebook.com/1428703920782620/posts/3171833613136300/?app=fbl

Former travel nurse Leah Helmbrecht shares her journey to becoming a sexual assault nurse examiner and the importance of advocating for her patients.

01/27/2022

Nurses are subjected to moral distress for the sake of profit, and gaslighted by administrators who would let us believe our suffering is driven by necessity.

We’re entering our third year of Covid, and America’s nurses — who we celebrated as heroes during the early days of lockdown — are now leaving the bedside. T...

01/14/2022

I'm unusually optimistic about this $6M research grant because they will be focusing on the "organizational, policy-level drivers" of burnout. If anything good comes from the moment that healthcare is within presently, I hope that it is this: Healthcare leaders need to stop telling HCWs that they are burning out due to lack of self-care.

A $6 million grant will support research aimed at strengthening the nation’s health care workforce, which has been strained by the pandemic and other factors.

11/13/2021

Nobody goes into the healthcare field with the intent to strike, nor does anyone good into the field to be exploited and burnt out. This news is a win for nurses and patients.

Breaking: We did it! 🎉 After months of hard work and solidarity we won a new tentative agreement (TA) with Kaiser Permanente that includes staffing improvements, good annual wage increases, racial justice, good contracts for newly organized members, and NO two-tier! Alliance unions have withdrawn strike notices. Now we will vote on the TA.