Burnout & Resilience Kavitha Chinnaiyan Mindfulness
10: 2/3 Burnout & Resilience With Kavitha Chinnaiyan: How Mindfulness And The Ego Interact

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What does mindfulness have to do with burnout? Is our definition of success driving our stress and anxiety? How can we channel our ego into something positive?

 

In our second episode on burnout and resilience, Kavitah Chinnaiyan, MD, and Ankur take a deeper dive into mindfulness and training the brain to move from Default-Mode to Task-Positive Networks. Kavitah is an award-winning author and, Cardiologist and Director of Cardiac CT Research at Beaumont Health, MI. Send us your thoughts to this episode for Ankur to share in future episodes: podcast@radciffe-group.com. Guest @ChinnaiyanMD.

 

Hosted by @AnkurKalraMD. Produced by @RadcliffeCARDIO.


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