Barbara Loeb, M.D.

For over 40 years, Dr. Barbara Loeb dedicated her life to caring for others, but often lost sight of her own need for self-care. During her healthcare career she worked as a primary care physician, a consultant, and an organizational leader. No matter what her role was, she observed the same challenges among her physician and non-physician colleagues. These included fatigue, lack of self-care, and burnout. To provide herself with a greater measure of healing, she developed her own restorative ritual, which combines mindfulness, writing, and building deeper connections with both her patients and colleagues. In her first book “How to Save a Life:  Healing Power of Poetry,” Dr. Loeb utilizes the principles of presence, reflection, self-awareness, and compassion to create poetry which takes us along on her healer’s journey. Her ultimate aim is to inspire her readers to reflect on their own path to well-being through self-expression. Dr. Loeb now focuses on writing, mindfulness and promoting the humanities in medicine.