About The Birth of Joy
What happens when everything you know comes crashing down?
Upon returning home from golf on a rare afternoon free of responsibilities, Dr. Beverly Joyce, a busy and beloved OB-GYN, listened to a phone message that would shake her identity and send her on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. That call would instantly help free her from the hidden doubt, guilt, and shame that had plagued her throughout her life.
In ‘The Birth of Joy,’ Dr. Joyce offers a candid glimpse into her personal and professional life, revealing how she navigated childhood traumas, the demands of being a physician, mother, daughter, and more. Her journey from burnout to self-discovery unveils her path to becoming her true self and finding a deeper calling.
Throughout this deeply revealing and engaging memoir, Joyce attempts to answer the questions so many women physicians have struggled with: Who am I? What do I believe about myself? How do I find meaning and satisfaction in life as a physician and outside? What excites me and keeps me focused on the path ahead?
With honesty and grace in describing her journey, Joyce inspires readers to reflect on their own experiences and to search for and find their most authentic selves.
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Author Bio:
Beverly Joyce, MD is a Johns Hopkins-trained physician specializing in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Throughout her thirty-year career, she has helped thousands of patients through their most joyful and difficult life experiences, delivering babies, managing miscarriage and infertility, and surgically treating myriad gynecologic problems. Most recently, and coinciding with her own menopause experience, she became a certified menopause practitioner to help fill the gap in the care of the midlife women that she was seeing in her practice.
After suffering mid-career burnout, Dr. Joyce became inspired to focus on physician wellness, including her own. To that end, she stopped delivering babies and obtained a physician coaching certification. She now coaches mid-career women physicians in her “DrJoyCoaching” program on topics such as burnout, work/life balance, time management, perfectionism, and imposter syndrome—topics with which she has had personal experience. She also teaches her clients stress management techniques and mental fitness tools to help them understand and change distorted thinking. Her goal is for every one of her clients to find joy in their lives.
When not seeing patients or coaching clients, she can be found on the golf course, where she puts her self-talk and stress management tools to good use. She is a five-time women’s club champion at her golf club and enjoys the zen of the golf course as well as the spirit of competition. She is married to her husband of twenty-six years, also a golfer, and has two young-adult children.
Her book, "The Birth of Joy: A Female Physician's Healing Journey through Childhood Trauma, Midlife Burnout, and the Rediscovery of Passion and Purpose" is her memoir and transformational story, with reflection questions for readers who may find themselves relating to her story or experiences.