As a physical therapist of 21 years, 19 of those years have been dedicated to home health. My wife and I had the great privilege of doing traveling PT for 5 years prior to settling down to start our family.

During those 5 years, I did home health in Alaska, Washington State, California, Maine, and now Connecticut. What I learned very quickly along the way was that home health operates so similarly no matter where in the country we are.

We have our challenges and curveballs and scheduling conflicts no matter what, and when I decided to start making social media comedic and educational content revolving around the home health clinician, it became even more evidently clear that these things resonate with everyone.

With every job comes its ups and its downs, but about 15 years in, I began to experience burnout, a feeling I don't wish upon anyone. If I was going to survive in the field, it was going to take a mindset shift, and some adjustments towards how I navigated the job.

One major strategy I used to combat burnout was trying new things within the healthcare realm. I went to Florida and Atlanta to get Vestibular-certified, became an adjunct professor at my alma mater, and took on the responsibility as lead educator for hundreds of incoming clinicians to my organization in our balance, fall prevention and vestibular program.

Whenever I visit healthcare groups on social media, I see that healthcare burnout is rampant. Which is why I made it my mission to make people laugh online. I sincerely have a heart to encourage, motivate and educate others to avoid getting stuck in the ruts, but most importantly, learn strategies to get out of them.

Educationally, I love advocating for the fellow clinician, teaching strategies to become more efficient, making every minute count in the home, with a goal of being able to get home with charting completed. And motivationally, I love cheering on the fellow clinician, to use their best strategies to find that work-life balance that they desperately yearn for.