Every day, more doctors and therapists are quietly leaving the work that called them. Sixty-three percent of physicians report burnout. The rates of depression, addiction, and suicide among healers are higher than in the population they serve. The people trained to help everyone are being helped by no one.

Dr. Cary Yurkiw has spent decades treating thousands of patients — and walking alongside the doctors, therapists, and chiropractors who treated them. The Wounded Healer is what he has learned about why healers burn out, and how they come home.

This is not another burnout book. It does not prescribe a meditation app, a yoga retreat, or another wellness module. It names the deeper wound — moral injury, not exhaustion — and offers a path forward in three movements:

Recognize — Name the wound. Score your own disillusionment on eight specific signs.

Reconnect — Remember the calling. Reframe yourself as a vessel, not a source.

Rebuild — Design a sustainable practice. Boundaries, mornings, body, and the community every healer needs.

Written with deep Christian faith and universal compassion, The Wounded Healer is a companion for the healer who has helped everyone but themselves. Listen to it slowly. Mark it up. And when something lands — please, do something about it.

We have to take care of each other.