A Doctor Comes Back from Burnout

Transforming Burnout: A Simple Guide to Self-renewal
by Alan Shelton, M.D.

Paperback * 83 pages
$12.95

Vibrant Press
ISBN 978-0978795207

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Having worked on a number of personal growth books as an editor, I welcomed the opportunity to work on Dr. Shelton’s Transforming Burnout. As we went deeper into the project, it became clear just how passionately and personally this author cared about his subject. He had been burned out, and he had come back! To say that Dr. Shelton is a joyful and exuberant man is like saying an apple is sweet — you just don’t know how sweet it really is until you try it for yourself. This guy is a good apple, and he has written an inspiring and very useful book.

The reason Dr. Alan Shelton took to writing about burnout is as interesting as his method is effective. Known to those he worked with at the medical clinic where he had been seeing Native American patients at a tribal clinic for nearly 20 years, this normally sweet-natured, energetic doctor inexplicably became irritable and sullen. Out of her deep concern, a co-worker of native descent made an appointment with a native medicine man for the medical doctor. Not wishing to offend her or hurt her feelings, he kept the appointment. I won’t spoil it for you, but the end result? The author rediscovered that the foundation of his life, energy, and joy was in spirituality.

This story of a physician healed through balance and compassion is not to be missed. Dr. Shelton’s story offers, above all, a means to reconnect with the transcendent power of spirituality that can restore one’s body and mind to the exuberance that is our natural way of being. Sadly, these days just about everyone knows somebody who is burned out at work. Readers who give away a copy of Dr. Shelton’s brief-but-important book, or the audiobook on CD.

Ceci Miller owns CeciBooks, an editorial and book publishing consultancy that empowers authors to write, publish, and market irresistible books that uplift and inspire. Ceci has written, co-authored, and edited books with bestselling authors and experts since 1988. See book projects here.

A graduate of the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Ceci Miller is also the author of two published children’s picture books, and former contributing editor for Darshan, an international magazine dedicated to fostering sacred awareness in daily life. A student of yoga and meditation since 1976, Ceci leads seminars that explore language as a vehicle for personal transformation. Based on her book (and audiobook) Sacred Visitations, and the popular book she co-authored with John Lee, Writing from the Body: For Writers, Artists & Dreamers, Ceci’s work (both with CeciBooks authors and in public programs) blends writing and intuitive guidance with contemplative practices that connect your right brain creativity with your true intention.