Finding Heart In Art: A Surgeon's Renaissance Approach To Healing Modern Medical Burnout

by Shawn C. Jones

START ON THE PATH TO BURNOUT RECOVERY WITH BEAUTY It’s been said that art has the ability to heal wounds. By exposing our inner selves to true beauty we can treat emotional scars and promote wellness. But can art actually help alleviate feelings of burnout? Dr. Shawn C. Jones thinks it can, and with Finding Heart in Art, he uses Renaissance paintings as a framework to explain how medical professionals can manage fatigue. Through an appreciation of the beautiful world around us, we can reconnect with our feelings and experience gladness, anger, fear, sadness, hurt, and all the feelings that call you to full living. Your emotions are a reflection of your heart’s desire―don’t lose touch with them. “As an emergency physician reflecting upon my own experience, Shawn’s story strikes painfully close to home. In this time of growing clinician disillusionment and burnout, this timely work is valuable both to healers seeking their own journeys of redemption and their family, friends, and patients who love and rely upon them.” ― STEVEN J. STACK, MD, ER PHYSICIAN, LEXINGTON, KY “Finding Heart in Art is more than a book; it is a channel of grace that may save your life. For those experiencing burnout or a numbness to life, rediscover what it means to connect with yourself, to be human made in the image of God, and to embrace beauty, creativity, and imagination all over again. Come and be transformed.” ― ZACH FAY, CEO AND CREATOR OF LIGHTGLIDERS, ST. LOUIS, MO

190 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 8, 2018