The podcast for GPs, hospital doctors and other professionals in high-stakes, high-stress jobs who want to thrive rather than just survive. You studied for years, you’re really good at what you do but you’ve noticed that you’re starting to feel overwhelmed, overworked and under-resourced. You may be comparing yourself to a frog in boiling water - the heat has built up so slowly that you haven’t noticed the extra-long days becoming the norm. You may feel on the edge and trapped in the very job that you’ve spent years working towards. Here’s the problem, frogs only have two choices; stay and be boiled alive, or jump out of the pan. The good news is that you are not a frog. You have many more choices than you think you do. You don’t have to quit, and nor should stress and burnout be inevitable. It is possible to be master of your own destiny, to craft your work life and career so that you can thrive even in the most difficult of situations. There are simple changes you can make which will make a huge difference to your stress levels and help you enjoy life again...
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episode 27: COVID-19 Supporting Doctors: How to Manage Our Stress and Anxiety Through the Crisis with Dr Caroline Walker and Dr Rachel Morris
In this special episode of the podcast, Rachel is joined by Dr Caroline Walker – The Joyful Doctor. Caroline is a Psychiatrist, therapist, specialist in the wellbeing of doctors and host of The Joyful Doctor Podcast. This is the first in a new series of podcast episodes and videos – COVID-19 Supporting Doctors: How to manage our stress and anxiety through the crisis.
In these very difficult times, Caroline and Rachel are working together to bring you as much support as they can. We’ll be tackling various different topics as they emerge in order to help doctors keep their head in the game and stay focussed and resilient.
In this episode, we talk about the huge amount of anxiety that doctors are experiencing right now and recognise that this is normal. We chat about the different sorts of threat that we are all experiencing and how we can make things worse for ourselves if we get into particular patterns of thinking.
We discuss some of the ways in which we can proactively manage our anxiety and stress, and suggest tips and techniques which will make a practical difference wherever we work.
Finally we share some books, resources and website which we think will be useful. This is an ongoing project so we’d love to hear what would be helpful to you. Please contact us if you have any comments or suggestions or have any useful resources to share, or just want to say hello!
Doctors – we need you more than ever. Keep up the good work. Keep your heads. Keep caring.
Contact Rachel – rachel@wildmonday.co.uk Twitter - @DrRachel Morris
Contact Caroline – caroline@joyfuldoctor.com Twitter @@joyful_doctor
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Podcast links
Watch the video on YouTube https://youtu.be/j2LQEpJPfcM
The Joyful Doctor Website www.joyfuldoctor.com
Shapes for Doctors Website www.shapesfordoctors.com
You Are Not A Frog website www.youarenotafrog.co.uk
The Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling, Start Living by Russ Harris
The Power of Vulnerability TED Talk by Brenee Brown
BMA Wellbeing Service
The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Programme for Confidence, Success and Happiness by Prof Steve Peters
Calm app
Headspace app
Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams and Danny Penman
The NHS Practitioner Health Programme
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