The Mojo Sessions

EP 205: Dr Jenny Brockis - Intersecting Mental Well-being & High Performance


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Dr. Jenny Brockis is a medical practitioner and board-certified lifestyle medicine physician, specialising in brain health and mental performance. With 30 years experience Jenny has practical, science-based strategies to overcome many of life's challenges like loneliness, stress, relationship breakdowns, loss of social connection and mental health issues and the means to create well habits to help avoid these sorts of issues.
  • When people ask Jenny what she does, how does she like to reply?
  • When Jenny left medical practice to write and speak, how did her identity change and why did she feel guilt?
  • When Jenny burnt out, what did that feel like? How did Jenny know she was burnt out and not just really tired?
  • Was there a period where burnout became her norm?
  • Jenny explains chronic stress and what the long term effect is that having on us, particularly our brain?
  • Overweight, chronic stress, poor sleep, no rest, no recovery, always on… Is all this having an effect on the heart?
  • Workaholics feel compelled to keep on working, and why it can be an unhealthy obsession.
  • How do I know my brain is fit?
  • Was there a time in Jenny's career when she personally found she was not aligned with her own mission with the work she was doing?
  • What's the chemistry that alters when you going from doing into being.
  • How has Jenny's identity changed in the 4 years between our conversations?
  • What's the most natural way for us to boost the neuropeptide oxytocin.
  • There was a point when Jenny believed she was not a good doctor, an imposter. What was the moment that changed her thinking?
  • What's Jenny trying to to say in this new book?
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