They Let You Go. Now What? Part 1

Raise your hand if you or someone you know has been laid off. Not fired. Laid off. It's happening more and more, and if you've been watching what's going on in healthcare right now, it probably doesn't surprise you. What might surprise you is how complicated it feels, even when part of you is relieved.

In this episode, we dig into something that doesn't get talked about enough: the emotional experience of being let go when you had no say in the matter. Because being laid off is fundamentally different from choosing to leave, and pretending otherwise doesn't serve you. When you resign, you write the first line of the next chapter. When you're laid off, someone else does. And even when you know it had nothing to do with your competence, even when you can see the financial writing on the wall, something in your physician brain starts asking: was it me?

It wasn't. But we have to do some work to actually believe that.

We talk about why the instinct to jump straight into job search mode can actually backfire, why the feelings underneath the anger deserve more airtime than we usually give them, and what complicated grief looks like when the thing you lost was something you were already half-ready to leave anyway. This is Part 1, and it's the part that most of us skip. We're not skipping it today.

Part 2 is coming next week, and that's where we get into the practical next steps. But you can't build a good next chapter on top of unprocessed feelings. So we start here.

If you're in this place right now, or you can feel it coming, let's talk. Book a free discovery call at https://calendly.com/healthierforgood/coaching-discovery-call and we'll figure out what you actually need and where you want to go.

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