I am so grateful to know Dr Caroline Bowman! In this episode she shares her journey through diagnosis of multiple sclerosis while working as a family physician, and what this experience has revealed to her about healthcare and humanity along the way.

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When was the last time you actually allowed yourself to experience a moment of pleasure at work? For most of us, our lives are too busy and stressful and overwhelming to even notice if something lovely happens in the midst of the chaos.

In this week’s episode, I dive further into the practical ways we can practice Pleasure Activism in our work. I give lots of powerful insight’s from adrienne maree brown’s incredible book, as well as practical examples from my own life.

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For most of us in healthcare, intentionally doing things for pleasure feels wasteful or even wrong - but what if finding a way to feel good is actually the key to rehumanizing ourselves and our healthcare system as a whole? In this episode, I share some specific pleasure practices I have been enjoying recently, as well as introducing the concept of pleasure activism.

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How much time does your brain spending trying to figure out who to blame and how to avoid being in a position of being blamed? We all live and work in a very blame-heavy culture, and it can be a major barrier to us actually facing and learning from our mistakes. In this podcast I explore a simple but powerful reflective exercise that can shift our approach from blame to accountability, and actually improve the experience for providers and patients alike in the process.
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When we're feeling really tired, overwhelmed, burned out it can be hard to imagine a way for our lives to feel better. In this New Year's episode I ofter a simple but powerful exercise to connect with our future selves and gain some insight and inspiration for inviting change in this new year. I also share my own future self's vision for myself and for healthcare as a whole.

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Wishing you happy holidays and a happy new year (plus sharing a poem about trees)

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Another bonus episode recorded on Joan's commute to work! This one was inspired around the theme of "noncompliance".

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How do you react when you learn a patient has been harmed under your care? This can be a really challenging experience for most of us who work in healthcare ... and it's an inevitable one. In this week's podcast I share strategies to reduce harm - not only to patients...but to ourselves.
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How many weeks have you been alive? Does knowing that the average human gets around 4000 weeks to live on this earth change anything about your priorities?
This week I am sharing some of my favourite passages from the book Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman and applying them to our work inside of healthcare.

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The number of amazing healthcare humans I've met through TikTok (of all places) continues to grow! I really enjoyed this candid conversation with Dr Willough Jenkins about making space for her humanity in her work as a child psychiatrist, and how that space has lead her many interesting places including social media.
Willough's contact info:
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drwilloughjenkins
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drwilloughjenkins/
Website: https://www.willoughjenkins.com/

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