Balancing personal life with a busy medical career is especially tough for women. But there is a way to craft a fulfilling career and have a family.

This episode is in partnership with the Physician Mums UK Facebook Group.

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How can we thrive in a healthcare system that’s overstretched and under-resourced? What is within our control to change? Is it the system, or how we operate in it? And what can we do differently, given all the usual advice around “resilience”?

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Rachel digs through her Facebook comments to address some of the challenging feedback she’s received across 230 episodes.

Burnout: 9 mistakes healthcare professionals make and what to do instead

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Is everything OK within your team? Would anyone speak up if it wasn’t? If your team is quietly getting on while important stuff is getting missed, it might be because there isn’t enough healthy conflict.

This quick dip will help you create a safe space for conflict so that issues can be raised without it getting personal.

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The ways we deal with difficult situations at work and tricky relationships in general is massively influenced by our childhood. Discover what role attachment styles play in how we handle stress, and learn what practical steps you can take to avoid burnout.

Burnout: How to Manage Your Nervous System Before it Manages You – Claire’s book

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When something goes wrong in your team, do you immediately leap to the rescue? If so, you might unwittingly be practicing a form of leadership that’s damaging to your team in the long-term.

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Overlooking our physical wellbeing in the pursuit of success can lead to stress, burnout, and health problems. But there’s a key question we can ask that’ll help restore some balance.

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When you start comparing what you have with others, you wrap your identity in what you do for work, or when someone judges you unfairly, there are some simple things you can do to feel better.

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How can we help ourselves and the people we lead to work more closely together, and speak up when there’s a problem, rather than merely just “cope” with it?

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If a situation’s not quite right or it feels like you’re in flux and you don’t know what to do, here are three simple things you can try today.

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