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Podcast: Light Body Radio
Episode: Breaking the Silence: Addiction, Recovery & Physician Burnout with Dr. Brett Cordes
Description: In this powerful and deeply personal conversation, Dr. Lara May sits down with Dr. Brett Cordes, a physician who has walked the difficult road of addiction, recovery, and burnout. Once the picture of success as an overachieving medical student, surgical resident, and thriving practitioner, Brett shares how the pressures of perfection, people-pleasing, and tying self-worth to achievements led him into the grip of opioid addiction.
Through honesty and vulnerability, Brett opens up about his journey of self-discovery, healing, and what it truly means to recover—not only from addiction, but from the burnout that silently affects so ma...