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Sarah Putt is an occupational therapist in California. She currently practices in Early Intervention, working with young children and their families within their home environment. Her passions within the field of occupational therapy include: being a fieldwork educator, pediatrics, hippotherapy, leadership, advocacy, private practice, and learning & promoting the profession across the globe. She is the founder and clinical director of her own private practice, and received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University Read more…

Stephanie Essenfeld has been dedicated to the study and practice of family psychology and therapy for the past eight years. She loves working in collaboration with her clients and helps them take advantage of their strengths to solve their problems. She focuses in effective communication, empathy, rebuilding self-esteem, boundaries, decision making, overcoming traumas, and mindfulness, in order to be able to form and maintain healthy relationships with others and most importantly, with themselves. She uses Read more…

In this episode of the Burnt Out to Lit Up Podcast, Brandy talks about seven energy levels that have a core thought, feeling and emotion that goes with it. These energy levels impact how we show up at work, in our personal lives, in our relationships- everywhere. THE SEVEN ENERGY LEVELS The first energy level is victimhood, which is something we can feel where we’re at the mercy of a situation- for example, when you Read more…

In this Burnt Out to Lit Up Podcast interview, I chat with Alyssa Mancao, LCSW all about trauma.  Trauma is anything that overwhelms our capacity to cope. Big T’s are the wars, violence, the things you see on TV. The Little T’s are things that can happen everyday- i.e. the shame you get when your teacher gives you an odd look when you ask a question. We’ve all experienced trauma to some degree- whether or Read more…

We know that burnout is a deeply-rooted problem within our healthcare system. Yet, the term ‘burnout’ has received some backlash from different healthcare professionals online. Burnout has been a well-defined construct for over 30 years- it consists of emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and decreased self-efficacy. What has happened is that the term ‘burnout’ has been frequently misused to deflect the causes and responsibility of burnout from the organization/system to the individual. Burnout is a byproduct of Read more…

What would you do if you knew you were going to fail? Did you just do a double-take? Because the typical question is “What would you do if you knew you knew you couldn’t fail?” This is a tough question to answer because we don’t want to fail. We are taught that failure is bad. If you fail, you’re a loser. When we experience failure, it hurts. At one point or another in our lives Read more…