Fighting Burnout & Finding Fulfillment, by Jack Rigert

By Jack Rigert, Catholic Exchange, September 4, 2024

Jack Rigert is a co-founder of the John Paul II Renewal Center, the host of the “Become Who You Are” podcast, a writer, and speaker. Jack was a professional chef and entrepreneur who owned restaurants, real estate, and a financial service company. Dramatic “encounters” with Jesus Christ at his dying brother’s bedside and again in the Eucharist at his brother’s funeral, brought him back into the Church after a twenty-year absence. …

A young man, seeking, approaches Jesus, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus looking upon the young man loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing; go and sell what you have, and give it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” (Mark 10:21)

A young woman was hopeful that her latest endeavor as a life-coach for physicians and nurses, burnt out and disillusioned with modern medicine, would prove to be fruitful and rewarding for both her and her clients.

Though only in her mid-thirties, this young woman—a respected and accomplished doctor herself—was stepping away from the occupation that had been her life-long dream. Somehow, somewhere along the way, modern medicine had evolved along with its cousin, big pharma, into big medicine. It had become more about money, procedure, and protocol than serving and caring for the health and healing of people. This reality struck her—and those driven by the desire to serve—hard. Fighting the system and advocating for the patients had caused burnout and frustration. Perhaps she could serve them, and indirectly their patients, by being their life-coach. …

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