Spring 2020 news & updates
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In the coming daze … Our entire team is here to help.
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Steve Sartori, MD, ACC
Director, CMDA Center for Well-being
The COVID-19 pandemic has put us in a daze, like a boxer taking a left hook or a patient coming out from anesthesia. Our lives are not what we expected. As Yogi Berra said, “The future ain’t what it used to be.”
We long for certainty, or at least clarity, regarding decisions affecting our future, yearning to find meaning and purpose in our current circumstances, yet as Søren Kirkegaard stated, “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
At the CMDA Center for Well-being, our mission is to help doctors and other healthcare professionals align with God, optimize well-being, and maximize influence. Our mission remains the same during these turbulent times, as does the God we serve.
I am confident that our daze is not His daze, our ways are not His ways, and our story is all part of His story. What life story are you writing during this pandemic? We'd love to hear some of the stories of God's provision and grace in the lives of heathcare professionals like you. Feel free to contact me with the details of your journey, at:
steve.sartori@cmda.org.
And THANK YOU SO MUCH … for your support and financial encouragement. When you give to the Center for Wellbeing, you invest in a ministry that we truly believe can turn the tide in the lives of doctors who have experienced burnout. You can conveniently give online at
CMDA's secure website. Your help will be a tremendous blessing.
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Join our team in The Connection Room ...
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Thursday evenings in April
8:00 – 8:30 PM Eastern
Meeting ID: 569 367 110
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Greetings from the CMDA coaching team. In the past few weeks, the focus of all of our clients has turned toward Covid-19. Every coaching conversation begins with how this pandemic has upended and turned personal and professional lives inside out. They are wondering how to manage it all and keep from getting swept up in the mass hysteria and fear. As we coach together and explore what they’re truly fearing, feeling and desiring, God brings calm, peace and clarity. Themes are emerging, revealing how God is at work in Christian physicians’ lives in this season.
“I don’t know, but God does, and He has me.”
“Keeping my mind focused on God and His Word throughout the day is what brings me peace and allows me to do my job.” (Isaiah 26:3)
“God has prepared me for this. This is what I was trained and called to do.”
“Instead of looking at things through the scarcity mindset, what if I believed God will provide what I need to care for my patients, staff, family and myself, just like Jesus fed the 5000 with five loaves and two fish?”
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I am not alone. ” (Phil 4:13)
The rate of change and transition in our lives has become dizzying. Many clients describe exhaustion over learning new methods and guidelines one day, only to have them completely changed the very next day. How timely is it that our team is currently training 14 healthcare professionals in our intermediate course, 503, Coaching Change, Transition and Transformation. They are getting a crash course in applying what they are learning. If you haven’t yet been trained in the powerful skill of coaching, please join us for our beginning course, 501 Foundations in Christian Coaching September 15-16 in Newport Beach, before the WPC annual conference. Email us for more info.
We would love to hear from you! What are your greatest fears and concerns in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis? What is God teaching you? How are you coming to know Him in new ways? How can the CMDA Center for Well-being and Life and Leadership coaching help equip and strengthen you in this season?
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Ken Jones, PCC
Director of Communications
CMDA Center for Well-being
In just a few days, I’ll be turning 74. Does that seem old? Not to me, really. Probably, some folks who see me on the street might assume I’m retired. But, in all honesty, retirement hasn’t crossed my mind. I’ve never been busier. I don’t think I’ve ever been much
healthier
, either. I feel good (except for age-appropriate aches, pains, stiffness, and forgetfulness.) No. It doesn’t seem as if I’m slowing down, much.
But that doesn’t mean I’m not in a ‘quiet zone’ in my life.
In the last several months, I’ve been involved in writing and producing a little 4-5 minute on-line weekly ‘moment,’ to hopefully encourage listeners to slow down and reflect on life; musings on some ‘word’ that comes into view in our lives on a regular basis.
CMDA’s CEO, Dr. Mike Chupp and our current President, Dr. Gloria Halverson heard one of my segments, and have asked me to make them available on the
CMDA Center for Well-being
website, in something I call
“The Quiet Zone.”
I’ll be adding content every week, in the hope that Christian healthcare professionals will be encouraged, refreshed, or perhaps just slowed down a bit in their hurried, harried lives.
Thanks to all of you who are a part of making what I get to do possible. Your continued support and encouragement means more than you will ever know.
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