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Self-compassion facilitates psychological strength during difficult times, better preparing us for future challenges.
Jean Whitlock, Trinh Mai, Megan Call, and Jake Van Epps

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3 Ways To Build Mindful Habits

Health care is complicated, emotionally challenging work. Thriving in complexity requires two things: continuous system improvement and building individual resilience. This article focuses on three ways we can build habits that support individual resilience from three experts who do it every day.

Practice: Body Scan

Mindfulness instructors Rob Davies and Heidi O’Donoghue guide us through the body scan, a simple meditation that helps relax the body — and as a bonus, can also help you sleep.

Practice: Awareness of Breath

Mindfulness instructors Heidi O’Donoghue and Trinh Mai guide us through a simple breathing exercise. Practiced regularly, this meditation cultivates awareness, concentration, and calmness.

Peer Review: What I Learned at Utah Advanced Communication Training

In November 2017, hepatologist and liver transplant specialist Juan Gallegos-Orozco completed the inaugural Utah Advanced Communication Training seminar. Accelerate sat down with Gallegos-Orozco to talk about UACT and how it changed his perspective on communication.

How To Master The Art of Communication

From pediatrics to palliative care, a common thread runs through physician Joan Sheetz’s career: effective communication. That explains how she ended up co-directing UACT — Utah Advanced Communication Training that focuses on tools to enhance patient and peer interactions.

Our Community's Best of Utah

We're wrapping up our new faculty welcome with a short list from Accelerate's advisors on where to eat, what to do and a few locals-only insider tips.

Five Ways to Cultivate Empathy

We have learned that wisdom from the community comes in many forms. Sometimes the most interesting perspectives appear in the comments as a footnote to a peer's post. Here are five ways to cultivate empathy—curated wisdom from the comments.