Your Health Your Way
James Ross M.D. shares insights on health, business, and life
Your Health Your Way
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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Hey friends, welcome to your Health your Way. I'm Dr James Ross and before we go anywhere, I wanna tell you what this podcast is really all about. Yes, we're going to be talking about health, but not just from the angle of dietary plans or lab results. We're gonna go deeper than that. This podcast is really about wholeness mind, body and spirit. This podcast is for people who want to live long but also live well, for people who want to wake 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 it costs your peace, and where burnout isn't a badge of honor anymore. Your Health, your Way exists to help you live a meaningful, integrative and purpose-driven life, one where your health reflects your values and your soul is just as strong as your resume. Whether you're a high performer, a parent just trying to keep it together, a young person searching for purpose or someone in the second half of your life wondering if you've missed it, I want you to hear this clearly it's not too late, you're not too far gone, you're not too old and, by the same token, you're not too young to start planning for the rest of your life. This podcast is proof that now is the perfect time to start living more aligned with God, with your health, with your values and with the life that you actually want.
Speaker 1:For me, that journey started out early as a kid. I used to visit the special education classrooms with my mom. She was a teacher with a heart of gold. For me, that journey actually started early. As a kid, I used to visit the special education classrooms with my mom. She was a special ed teacher and counselor and she had a heart of gold, and I would sit in the back of her room and just watch her treat every child with dignity, no matter what their ability was. That was my first exposure to compassion, to deep empathy, and I didn't have a name for it then, but something in me came alive and I knew I really wanted to help people. I really wanted to care for people, to do something that actually mattered. Eventually, that desire turned into a love for science, and medicine gave me a way to combine both. I worked hard and I had the drive and I wanted to achieve and I did. I became a doctor and I have served thousands of patients, built a career, I've grown a practice and from the outside you know, everything looked like winning, but something was missing.
Speaker 1:I remember the exact season when it all came crashing down, when I had the status, the money, the home, the cars, but none of it could really quiet what was happening inside of me. I had success, but I didn't have peace. I had results, but I didn't have rest. And the more I kept moving, the more I was running from my pain, from childhood wounds, from unresolved grief, from the pressure to be everything for everyone. I'd given my life to helping others, but I hadn't slowed down long enough to ask how I was actually doing. See, I know what it's like to feel like you have to keep performing, to keep producing, to keep up the appearance that you're okay, even when you're not. I know what it's like to be the person that everyone depends on and feel like you can't depend on anyone yourself. Eventually, I found myself at the end of myself broken, exhausted, grieving and finally willing to let God meet me where I was. And that's when the real healing started, not just in my body, but in my soul, in my identity, in the places I had ignored for far too long.
Speaker 1:Now that I'm older, my focus has significantly changed. I still work hard, I still serve, but I'm not chasing the same things, I'm not trying to impress anyone or outrun myself anymore. I want to live aligned, I want to 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 getting started or wondering if it's too late to turn things around, I'm here to tell you it's not. You're never too late and you're never too young. Never too young to start building a life that reflects who you really are, and you're never too old to choose healing, alignment and purpose. So, really, this podcast is, I would say, an invitation. An invitation to slow down, to get honest, to care for your body, to ask better questions and to live with intention, because the world doesn't need more perfect people, it needs more present ones, and you don't have to burn out to wake up. So welcome to the journey. I'm Dr James Ross, and this is your Health, your Way. Let's begin.