From Burnout to Breakthrough: One Doctor's Journey

Dr. James Ross introduces Your Health Your Way, a podcast focused on wholeness of mind, body, and spirit rather than just dietary plans or lab results. This is a space for people who want to live long and well, who are tired of burnout culture, and who seek to align their health with their deeper values.

• Health as wholeness - integrating physical, mental, and spiritual well-being
• Dr. Ross shares his personal journey from achievement-focused medicine to burnout
• Finding success but missing peace - the turning point that led to true healing
• Moving from performance to presence and alignment with deeper values
• It's never too late to choose healing and purpose, regardless of your age
• An invitation to slow down, get honest, and live with intention

Join me on this journey to live aligned with your health, your values, and the life you actually want - because you don't have to burn out to wake up.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey friends, welcome to your Health your Way.
I'm Dr James Ross and before wego anywhere, I wanna tell you
what this podcast is really allabout.
Yes, we're going to be talkingabout health, but not just from
the angle of dietary plans orlab results.
We're gonna go deeper than that.
This podcast is really aboutwholeness mind, body and spirit.

(00:25):
This podcast is for people whowant to live long but also live
well, for people who want towake up to their lives, not just
push through them.
For people maybe, like you,you've reached a point where
success just isn't enough if itcosts your peace, and where

(00:47):
burnout isn't a badge of honoranymore.
Your Health, your Way exists tohelp you live a meaningful,
integrative and purpose-drivenlife, one where your health
reflects your values and yoursoul is just as strong as your
resume.
Whether you're a high performer, a parent just trying to keep

(01:09):
it together, a young personsearching for purpose or someone
in the second half of your lifewondering if you've missed it,
I want you to hear this clearlyit's not too late, you're not
too far gone, you're not too oldand, by the same token, you're

(01:30):
not too young to start planningfor the rest of your life.
This podcast is proof that nowis the perfect time to start
living more aligned with God,with your health, with your
values and with the life thatyou actually want.

(01:52):
For me, that journey started outearly as a kid.
I used to visit the specialeducation classrooms with my mom
.
She was a teacher with a heartof gold.
For me, that journey actuallystarted early.
As a kid, I used to visit thespecial education classrooms

(02:16):
with my mom.
She was a special ed teacherand counselor and she had a
heart of gold, and I would sitin the back of her room and just
watch her treat every childwith dignity, no matter what
their ability was.
That was my first exposure tocompassion, to deep empathy, and
I didn't have a name for itthen, but something in me came

(02:41):
alive and I knew I really wantedto help people.
I really wanted to care forpeople, to do something that
actually mattered.
Eventually, that desire turnedinto a love for science, and
medicine gave me a way tocombine both.
I worked hard and I had thedrive and I wanted to achieve
and I did.
I became a doctor and I haveserved thousands of patients,

(03:04):
built a career, I've grown apractice and from the outside
you know, everything looked likewinning, but something was
missing.
I remember the exact season whenit all came crashing down, when
I had the status, the money,the home, the cars, but none of

(03:31):
it could really quiet what washappening inside of me.
I had success, but I didn'thave peace.
I had results, but I didn'thave rest.
And the more I kept moving, themore I was running from my pain
, from childhood wounds, fromunresolved grief, from the

(03:51):
pressure to be everything foreveryone.
I'd given my life to helpingothers, but I hadn't slowed down
long enough to ask how I wasactually doing.
See, I know what it's like tofeel like you have to keep
performing, to keep producing,to keep up the appearance that
you're okay, even when you'renot.

(04:13):
I know what it's like to be theperson that everyone depends on
and feel like you can't dependon anyone yourself.
Eventually, I found myself atthe end of myself broken,
exhausted, grieving and finallywilling to let God meet me where

(04:36):
I was.
And that's when the realhealing started, not just in my
body, but in my soul, in myidentity, in the places I had
ignored for far too long.
Now that I'm older, my focus hassignificantly changed.
I still work hard, I stillserve, but I'm not chasing the

(04:59):
same things, I'm not trying toimpress anyone or outrun myself
anymore.
I want to live aligned, I wantto live whole, I want to finish
my race with joy, Not just years, but meaning.
And I want that for you too.
So, whether you're just gettingstarted or wondering if it's

(05:24):
too late to turn things around,I'm here to tell you it's not.
You're never too late andyou're never too young.
Never too young to startbuilding a life that reflects
who you really are, and you'renever too old to choose healing,
alignment and purpose.
So, really, this podcast is, Iwould say, an invitation.

(05:47):
An invitation to slow down, toget honest, to care for your
body, to ask better questionsand to live with intention,
because the world doesn't needmore perfect people, it needs
more present ones, and you don'thave to burn out to wake up.

(06:08):
So welcome to the journey.
I'm Dr James Ross, and this isyour Health, your Way.
Let's begin.