Do you like donuts? I do! Before you salivate on the screen at the thought, I’d like to introduce a different sort of donut to your plate. This one adds—not calories…just perspective and a bit of uplift—to your life as a healthcare clinician. Sometimes patient care gets hard and we need a renewed reflection of the good we bring.

Burnout. Compassion fatigue. Stress and anxiety. Feeling overwhelmed. Regardless of words used to describe the feeling, the expression holds similar meaning: the light once held for the excitement and passion of the work is being snuffed out. Whether short-term or lasting in duration, it can be a dark and lonely place to exist. If you’ve ever been in total darkness, you know how amazing the light of one candle can be. I’d like to suggest that when you feel as though you’re facing dark ...