Your brain is like a puppy. An untrained puppy! It is more interested in survival than your happiness so if you want to grow, be happy and have a semblance of wellbeing, you need to train it. Yes it takes effort and yes it takes practice but so does learning how to spay a cat or running a CBC in your lab or training a dog! What you focus on becomes your reality, your brain likes to focus on the negative. Time to train it! Sit. Stay. Listen.

Dr. Pope has been in veterinary medicine for over 20 years, practicing in both the large and small animal sectors. She developed a movement called 1 Life Connected which provides wellbeing support for the profession. Listen as we discuss all things related to veterinary medicine, wellness and filling our balloons!

So many of us are wanting our job to make us happy. It's not our job's job to make us happy. Our emotions don't come from our circumstance, remember? They come from within us, they come from what we think about our job or our boss or our co-workers. Looking outside of yourself to feel the way you want to feel is a dead end. What you're looking for.....is already inside YOU! You just need to learn how to access it. This episode will teach you how.

To define mental health as the absence of mental illness is subpar yet that's what you'll likely find as a definition. In veterinary medicine we have an alarming suicide rate and yet not much in the way of how to create mental health for oneself. Where do we learn how to be mentally healthy? This podcast is one such place. In this episode I will share with you the components I believe make up a large portion of mental health.

Emotional whiplash, it's what happens when we go from one extreme emotional state to another. Like going from a euthanasia to a puppy wellness visit. But just because we can, doesn't always mean we should. This episode will raise awareness of whether we are experiencing this, what to do if we want to prevent it and how to better care for ourselves when it does happen.

We can't escape being on the receiving end of other's judgement. In the age of social media and endless surveys, we all have a place to voice our opinions about anything and everything. Veterinary clients may or may not've been happy with the service they received at your practice. So what do you do when someone voices their opinion about you? When they judge you? Listen and find out!

Humans are judgmental by nature and while that serves us in some ways (keeping us safe from harm) it's unhelpful as it pertains to judging pet owners. When we judge others we can no longer help them because it limits our ability to connect. And connection is essential to helping animals and people. In this episode you'll learn how to avoid judgment and find more compassion for even the most challenging humans!

When you don't like the way that you feel, how do you change it? If you think the answer is outside of yourself, you're wrong. The cause of your feeling isn't outside of you, nor is the solution. Tune in to learn how to change the way you feel without having to use food, Netflix or booze!