Heal the Healer: A Self-Care Guide for Wellness Workers and Caregivers

Since the peak of the COVID pandemic, burnout in the medical field has been at an all-time high; healthcare workers have been reporting higher and higher levels of exhaustion. In this volume, holistic health and wellness expert Rosenthal (founder of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition; Integrative Nutrition: A Whole-Life Approach to Health and Happiness) highlights his observations of this problem and offers advice on how to remedy it. He argues that there are innate characteristics in certain people that predispose them to overwork, self-neglect, and burnout. He asserts that healthcare workers especially labor so hard at healing others that, in their selfless actions, they don’t often seek the help they need. His book includes strategies to reduce or eliminate burnout in medical workers (most of them to be implemented on an individual level, rather than institutional solutions), such as setting boundaries, realizing one’s needs and prioritizing them, and finding community in mentors or other healers. The book includes actionable items and exercises through which readers can evaluate themselves and gain insight.