Latest / The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Unclenching the Wheel: White Knuckling and Practical Mindfulness
Have you ever been told that you are moving through your career like you are holding onto a steering wheel during a severe rainstorm? In this solo episode of The Hidden Load, Dr. Santina Wheat reflects on a vivid piece of feedback from her early clinical training and explores how high-achieving physicians, educators, and leaders walk through life with "white knuckles"—operating in a state of constant, bracing defense.
Dr. Wheat breaks down why hypervigilance is an adaptive survival skill in acute clinical spaces (ICUs, trauma calls, labor floors) that becomes a destructive, biological threat…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.