Better Than Balanced Through Holiday Chaos
A free neuroscience-backed webinar for physicians (yes, residents too) who want to stay regulated, energized, and effective when life accelerates.
Who: Practicing Physicians, Fellows, & Residents(all specialties) When: December 15, 2025 Time: 7pm CST Where: Live on Zoom (free to attend)
If December drains you every year… this is for you.
If you’re a physician or resident, the holidays don’t feel like “time off.” They feel like more work, more expectations, more family dynamics, more emotional whiplash. Your brain is in constant triage mode at work and then expected to “be festive” at home… with a nervous system that’s already fried.
You’re more “reactive” with patients, staff, and the people you love.
Your sleep, food choices, and mood “fall apart” when your schedule ramps up.
You can’t turn your brain off after shifts, replaying cases, conversations, and “what ifs.”
You worry, “If I feel this depleted now, what is this going to look like in five years?”
Medicine trained you to function in chaos , not to recover from it.
The good news is that your stress response is not a personality flaw; it’s a brain and nervous system pattern that can be retrained. With the right tools, you can feel better than balanced, even in holiday chaos without quitting medicine or disappointing everyone around you.
There’s nothing wrong with your work ethic.Your nervous system is just overloaded.
In this 60-minute webinar, you’ll learn how to:
Understand your “doctor brain” under stress – how your amygdala, prefrontal cortex, and autonomic nervous system actually behave esp during December overload… and why you snap, numb, or shut down even when you “know better.”
Rewrite your December story – shift from “I always miss everything” to a more truthful, regulated narrative that lets you honor your career and your life outside the hospital.
Work with, not against, your brain’s natural rhythms – how to protect your highest-focus windows and support your predictable crash windows so you don’t need a perfect schedule to feel human.
Use 60–90 second regulation tools on demand – simple, evidence-informed nervous system resets you can use between patients, before family events, or in the car so you stop bringing a level-10 body into level-3 situations.
You’ll walk away with physician-level explanations and realworld tools you can use on your next shift, not vague “self-care” advice that ignores how medicine actually works.
Stop the mental replay after hard shifts or complicated cases – a practical neuro-based way to interrupt rumination loops so you can actually rest.
Show up live, get a 3-Step reset tool 🎁
Live attendance matters not just for me, but for your brain. When you’re there in real time, you actually practice the tools.
As a thank you for showing up live, you’ll receive:
Post-Shift Holiday Reset Tool
A 3-step, neuroscience-backed debrief you can use in your car or call room so you don’t bring the whole hospital home with you.
(This Bonus will be revealed at the end of the live webinar)
You’re a resident or attending who looks “fine” on paper but feels exhausted and wired on the inside.
You’re tired of generic wellness talks and want concrete, brain-based tools that fit a physician’s schedule.
You don’t want to abandon medicine, you want a sustainable way to stay in it without losing yourself.
You’re curious how neuroscience, emotional regulation, and high performance actually come together for doctors.
You know you don’t want to go through another December feeling like this.
This webinar is for you if…
I’m Dr. Chrissy Guidry , a trauma and acute care surgeon, life coach, founder of Whole Body Optimism, and mom. I spent years in a culture of perfectionism, performance, and “just push through,” especially around the holidays. On the outside I was the reliable surgeon; on the inside my nervous system was in a constant code.
After walking through infertility, pregnancy at 42, trauma call, and my own version of burnout, I went deep into neuroscience, nervous system regulation, and mindset work to find a different way to practice and live.
Now I help physicians retrain their brains and bodies so they can perform at a high level and feel like whole humans again without quitting medicine.
You’ll feel both seen as a clinician and coached as a person inside this webinar.
Meet Your Host: Dr. Chrissy Guidry
You’ll leave this hour with:
A clear, simple mental model of what’s actually happening in your brain and nervous system during holiday overload.
A short script to transition out of “doctor mode” before walking into your home or your next social event.
At least two regulation tools you can start using the same day (no apps, no hour-long routines).
A new, more honest story about who you are in medicine that doesn’t require you to be superhuman to deserve rest.
A way to map your own energy windows so you stop scheduling your most demanding tasks in your worst brain time.
And if you decide you want deeper, 1:1 support implementing this in your real life, I’ll share how we can work together at the end of the webinar.
Questions You Might Be Asking
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A: Come to whatever portion you can. Even 15–20 minutes of live regulation practice can shift how your brain handles the rest of your day. If I’m able to send a replay, I’ll share details on that in the follow-up email.
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A: Nope. This is designed for physicians and residents in any specialty who live in high-intensity clinical environments.
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A: No. This is neuroscience + real-world physician life. You’ll hear about prefrontal cortex, amygdala, autonomic nervous system, and rumination and you’ll get tools you can actually use on a consult, between cases, and at home.
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A: It’s completely free. You just need to register with your name and email so I can send you the link and reminders.
The rest of December can feel different.
You can’t control census, call schedules, or every family expectation. But you can change how your brain and nervous system move through it all.
If you’re ready to feel better than balanced through holiday chaos , instead of bracing yourself and hoping to survive it. I’d love to have you in this masterclass.
⏰ It’s free, physician-focused, and designed to fit a busy schedule.
Reserve your spot now and I’ll send your access link straight to your inbox.