• BURNED OUT FROM THE PRACTICE OF PAIN MEDICINE?

  • OVERWHELMED WITH THE LACK OF RESOURCES FOR YOUR PATIENTS WITH PAIN?

  • FED UP AND FEARFUL OF ALL THE REGULATIONS?

  • AVOIDING OPIOIDS OR EVEN LEAVING YOUR PRACTICE JUST TO AVOID ALL THE HASSLE?

  • It’s time for you to take time for yourself, so you have something left to give to others.

  • (While earning 30 hours of AMA Cat 1 PRA CME credit)

NEW!  Relief Retreat for Health Care Providers with Burnout

WHEN?: TBD

WHERE?: TBD

WITH WHOM?: Dr. Tracy Jackson

  • Founder and CEO of Relief Retreats

  • Trained at the University of North Carolina and Stanford

  • Spent 10 years as Associate Professor and Fellowship Director at Vanderbilt University’s Interventional Pain Clinic and the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

  • Board-certified in anesthesiology, pain medicine, addiction medicine and health and wellness coaching

  • An RYT-200 yoga instructor and reiki level 2 practitioner, with additional training in medical acupuncture

  • Co-author of Tennessee’s original opioid prescribing guidelines, expert legal consultant, clinical researcher, and international speaker on opioid-related issues

  • CMO of OPOS, which equips health care providers with tools for compliant prescribing and effective, pragmatic, and integrative management of patients with chronic pain

  • TEDx speaker, “The Hardest Pill to Swallow”

WHY?:

  • In 2018, she left her successful academic career, frustrated with the limitations of the expensive, inefficient, inaccessible and ineffective tools of our health care system for managing chronic pain.

  • She left to create and lead retreats to help those with chronic pain learn to effectively heal without relying on this broken system. Her first two retreats, in 2017 and 2020 at Gray Bear Lodge in Tennessee, showed how life-changing this strategy could be for her patients. Outcome data can be found here in the blog.

  • But she hadn’t realized just how much SHE would benefit herself from the retreats.

  • Having left her job, in part (and in hindsight) related to classic symptoms of burnout, she found these same tools and techniques were just as effective for the providers treating those with chronic pain. In her case, this led to feelings of greater professional autonomy, agency, effectiveness, and satisfaction, while honing the skills for creating the work-life balance she’d always desired. It rekindled her desire to get back to work, just in a more fulfilling and compassionate way.

WHAT: ALL-INCLUSIVE

  • 4 days, 3 nights lodging in rustic cabins/lodge (All private rooms, some private bathrooms on first-come, first-served basis)

  • 3 organic, healthy meals per day 

  • 150 acres of nature, including walking and running trails, waterfall hike

  • Unlimited use of hot tub, warm water pool, sauna and cold plunge

  • 2 sessions of your choice of massage, reiki, acupressure, or combination

  • 1 session of warm water aquatic therapy

  • Daily yoga and qi gong

  • Morning and  evening guided meditation practices

  • Individualized values-based coaching around burnout and work-life balance 

  • 30 hours of category 1 AMA PRA credit (including mandatory prescribing/opioid guideline education) for relaxing while learning evidence-based tools for relaxation!

    • Includes a variety of topics related to chronic pain management strategies, with an emphasis on evidence-based, non-pharmacologic and non-interventional approaches which can be demonstrated  and practiced in this retreat session.   Emphasis on movement, mindfulness, nutrition, and sleep.  Practical implementation strategies for opioid-related guidelines, including identification of accessible resources for patients and providers.  

    • Approved by the Tennessee Medical Association for ALL burned out health care providers, including physicians, nurses, physicians assistants and physical therapists!

  • This retreat will have much of the same educational and experiential curriculum offered to patients with pain, allowing providers to understand and embody these non-pharmacologic tools for healing - both for their patients and for themselves.

  • Experiencing is believing - and providers will leave with a better idea of the spectrum of free, accessible, and effective resources available to their patients, along with the lived experience to foster greater empathy and empowerment for all involved in dealing with this very challenging area of medicine.