Veterinary Mental Health

Time and resources are finite and precious. To ensure maximal return on the investment of each, it is important to craft realistic goals that specifically impact your wellbeing. This episode will guide you through the process of creating thoughtful goals that align with your value system and have the best chance of success given your current circumstances and access to resources.
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Our personal and professional values guide our decision making and greatly influence the degree to which value based situations affect us. As we improve our understanding of our own guiding principles, we gain valuable insight as well as an opportunity to check in with our decisions and goals to ensure they align with our core values.
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Wanting to change is often not enough. For change to occur we need to be authentically convinced of its importance, we must believe that change is possible, and we must prioritize that change.
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This podcast serves as an outline for the wellness topics to follow. It reviews the components of wellbeing that we must address if we are to live our best possible life. Read Blog Post: Pending
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The second of a two part series that explores the power and necessity of willpower in our lives, particularly as it pertains to reaching the goals that make life meaningful. The information presented is primarily drawn from the fantastic book The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal PhD. 

The first of a two part series that explores the power and necessity of willpower in our lives, particularly as it pertains to reaching the goals that make life meaningful. The information presented is primarily drawn from the fantastic book: The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal Ph.D.
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Mindfulness is awareness of the present experience with acceptance. Just as an exercise routine is designed to improve your body, a mindfulness practice improves your mind. As it develops, a habit of mindfulness yields a myriad of downstream benefits that extend well beyond the period of focused practice.
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Understanding how habits are formed, sustained, and changed within the brain offers us a powerful tool for examining the daily habits that impact our wellbeing. "You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine." ~ John C. Maxwel
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When will it be OK again? What will OK feel like? What am I putting off while I wait for OK?Planning for the future is always complicated by the unknown, but COVID-19 has made planning feel virtually impossible. As a result, we are suspended in a kind of limbo. The longer this limbo persists, the more our mental health suffers. 
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Negative emotions are just as common if not more common than positive emotions. Despite this fact, they are often deemed socially unacceptable. This means we spend a considerable amount of energy internalizing negative emotions or masking them. Before we can express our negative emotions authentically, we often need to relearn how to recognize and differentiate between separate emotional states.
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