The Fully Well Doc Pod

Ep. 8 - How Doctors can Harness Stress and Avoid Burnout

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Learn invaluable skills to help you take control of your stress in this insightful discussion with Stress Coach Bernadette Dancy.

 

Topics we discuss:

 

  • Bernie’s personal experience with burnout and how it led her to becoming a stress coach.
  • Bernie’s invaluable experience working with athletes and how it relates to helping medics manage stress.
  • Defining stress, burnout and overwhelm and the science of how these experiences affect us. 
  • The science of stress and behaviour change and how we can apply it to managing our daily challenges.
  • How do we know when to seek help to prevent becoming unwell from chronic stress
  • Doctors as patients. How medicine cultivates the belief that doctors should be at lower risk than their patients for susceptibility to disease.
  • The balance of personal responsibility and workplace duties of care.
  • Practical ways medics can prevent burnout and manage their stress right away - using a visual tool.



    • Resources mentioned in this episode:

     

    Instagram: @bernadettedancy_stresscoach

     

    www.bernadettedancy.co.uk

     

    Wellness wonder:

     

    Just B Counselling and trauma phone helpline, created by Hospice UK and staffed by Just B

     

    Need help?

    Helpline is 0300 303 4434.

     

    Want to help?

    Donate to Just B

     

    Other resources:

     

    Samaritans UK

     

    Samaritans USA

     

    Doctors in Distress

     

    NHS Practitioner Health

     

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    Looking for coaching? Reach out for a free call with one of us:

     

    Emily - www.fullybecoaching.com or Natasha - www.thewelldoctor.org

     

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