Welcome to The Mended Cup!  

 

We are a virtual, year-round support community–founded by physicians, for physicians. 

 

We are here to co-cultivate a safe space for physicians who are looking for creative pathways back to meaningful wellness connection and purpose.  

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Many of us would consider ourselves wounded healers.  Perhaps we have struggled with the trauma of medical education, training and practice.  

 

Maybe we are navigating burnout, cynicism, sleep deprivation, work-life imbalance, or grieving personal or professional losses.  

 

Each of these wounds create little cracks along the way, and, fracture by fracture, our shiny veneer, our perfect offerings, begin to come apart at the seams.  Sometimes this may make us feel like we are failing, or just not good enough.  

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But what if those cracks, each of those unique imperfections, is actually what makes us exactly who we are meant to be as physicians?  

 

The light that comes through the cracks, and the light that we shine outwards through those same spaces, are the very human qualities that make us compassionate, empathic clinicians and colleagues.  

 

As we continue to practice with our wholehearted imperfection, we start to mend those cracks.  Like the Japanese art of Kintzugi, we are stronger, more beautiful, because of the brokenness, and because of the repair.  

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If you are a physician looking for non-judgment, exploration, and safety, then join us here at The Mended Cup.

 

While we wait for the wheels of systemic change to turn, we still need to save ourselves, and each other.  

 

We are an easily accessible community, free of red tape, independent of any institution, and a true vehicle for re-imagining wellness in medicine.