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Jeff Thoren

Jeff Thoren

DVM, BCC, PCC

About the Author

Go With the Flow co-columnist Dr. Jeff Thoren is the founder of Gifted Leaders and an expert coach specializing in leadership and team development. He is one of only five veterinarians in the world to hold a credential from the International Coaching Federation.

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Personal Wellness

The Power of a Pause

In our quest to boost and reward productivity, have we lost sight of something equally or perhaps more important?

Personal Wellness

Putting Intention to the Test

How we think and feel seems to have far more significance than most of us ever realized.

Personal Wellness

Balancing Sacrifice and Renewal

Are you paying the price for too little recovery time?

Personal Wellness

One Subject We Were Never Taught

Self-mastery is within reach if we have a clear vision of what we wish to experience and are committed to the endeavor.

Personal Wellness

Discover Your Secret Sauce

When your inner genius lines up with what you’re doing, you’ll feel more joyful and energetic

Personal Wellness

When Clients Become Flow Stoppers

We take on needless suffering if we take personally anything another person says or does.

Personal Wellness

What’s Missing in Your Workplace?

In the absence of psychological safety, fear can become the enemy of flourishing and flow.

Personal Wellness

Following Your Bliss

Find what tickles your heart and use it as a pathway to a calm, clear focus.

Personal Wellness

Play to Your Strengths

Capitalize on learning opportunities and choose activities with the right amount of challenge relative to your current skill level.

Personal Wellness

Paying Attention to Intention

How we feel is dictated at least in part by where we choose to put our attention, or perhaps more helpfully, our intention.

Personal Wellness

How to Cultivate a Happier Workplace

The psychological health and safety of all employees should be as important as productivity.

Personal/Professional Development

Minding Our Thoughts

If we are thinking thoughts of love, the body produces dopamine and oxytocin. If we are trapped in a cycle of fearful thoughts or anxiety, cortisol can flood the body.

Personal Wellness

A Few Antidotes to COVID Stress

When stressed, we ruminate on things, repeatedly thinking about past or potential events and attaching negative emotions to them.

Personal Wellness

It’s Time for Renewal

Letting go is the first important step in any renewal process.

Personal Wellness

How Do You Handle Busyness?

Build a healthy relationship with busyness in your work and life.

Personal Wellness

Find What Moves You

Whether it’s sports, painting or something else, engaging in an expansive activity will lead you to a more balanced, centered and sane life.

Personal/Professional Development

Your Unique Path to Mindfulness and Flow

Identify an appealing activity that you can consistently incorporate into your regular routine.

Personal/Professional Development

Flow in Uncertain Times

Rather than being overwhelmed by a unique and daunting situation, practices and their owners seemed to tap into their inner reserves and resources and then meet the challenges with agility.

Practice Management

‘Yes, and’

Most people and teams default to some variation of “no” or “yes, but.” The alternative is your ticket to resilience and peace.

Personal/Professional Development

The Slippery Slope of Judgment

Some of our richest and most helpful learning comes after our failures or someone else’s. A little humor can help.

Personal/Professional Development

Are You a Human Being or a Human Doing?

The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar can rob us of our sense of curiosity, joy and wonder.

Personal Wellness

Minimize maxing out

If you’ve reached your mental limitations as a veterinary professional, get centered, exercise self-compassion and remember to do something fun every day.

Personal/Professional Development

Realize your potential

If you’re ready to elevate your leadership game, hire a coach to help you tap into your natural strengths and make better decisions.

Personal Wellness

Douse the flames of early burnout

Recognizing signs of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion in veterinary medicine is the first step in returning to your natural flow state.

Personal Wellness

Feel Good-ology

Self-esteem can leave you when you need it most, so try building more self-compassion into your daily experiences.

Personal/Professional Development

Courage: the strength behind it all

Compassion, curiosity and courage are a potent antidote to the common fears that can paralyze us as human beings.

Personal/Professional Development

Activate your latent superpower

When we are sincerely curious, we unlock new fields of possibilities.

Personal Wellness

Wholeness and Self-Compassion

Finding peace in the present means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Personal Wellness

The art of centering

We can all benefit from taking a moment to see our situations a little less seriously and treat ourselves and each other with a little more care and compassion.

Personal/Professional Development

Surrender to the present

Presence is an internal state. It’s being fully here and being fully present with reality as it is, not as we would like it to be.

Personal Wellness

Learn to trust the process

A number of meditation apps, such as Headspace and Calm, are available to help demystify the meditation process and get you started.

Personal/Professional Development

Choosing wisely

By being aware of our mindset in the moment as an open-minded observer of ourselves, we have the possibility of choosing.

Personal/Professional Development

Flow in the face of adversity

While hardship will never be avoidable, the avoidance of suffering is, perhaps surprisingly, within our control.

Personal/Professional Development

When in doubt, improvise

In today’s unpredictable world, the simple principles of improv might just be your ticket to a greater ability to rebound from setbacks, cope with stress and disappointment, and thrive in times of disruption.

Personal Wellness

The Surfer’s Guide to Life

Every once in a while, we come across a reminder that there is another way — a middle path — that resonates with us.

Personal Wellness

Get Back to the Present

A wandering mind might lead to less contentment.

Personal Wellness

What About Now?

When in ‘flow,’ or fully present, goals are clear. Concentration deepens when someone is in a state of ‘flow.’

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