a collection of thoughts.
On navigating burnout, exhaustion and chronic stress as a healthcare provider.
On rest, recovery and resilience practices.
On navigating what it means to live a healthy, wholehearted and meaningful life.
On creating a life and career that lights you up and makes you come alive.
Why changing our behaviour feels so hard
If you’re frustrated with your own - or your patients’ - behaviour, here’s how to make sense of it.
What identity are you running from?
A lot of our behaviour is driven by an identity that we don’t want to have. What is yours?
Do you consider yourself an asset?
Here’s why you really are the asset in your career, and why it’s important to treat yourself accordingly.
Why I cried on date night (yes in public)
I was moved to tears - here’s why and what it meant to me.
Are you leaving room for growth?
Why - in order to actually make a change - we need to believe that we CAN change it in the first place
Are you living in the crap zone?
Increasing our physiological variability by alternating between adequate stress & deep recovery can be the key to getting out of The Crap Zone and feeling & functioning better
How flexible are you (cognitively speaking)?
The ability to see a situation from various perspectives can have a huge effect on our health & happiness.
Oversimplifying change
There’s a sneaky word that we often use when it comes to making a change, and it isn’t helping us.
You are an emotional athlete
As a healthcare provider, you expend a lot of resources on emotional labour. This emotional athleticism also requires adequate rest and recovery.
A gentler philosophy on health
If being ‘healthy’ creates a life you don’t actually want to be living, isn’t that missing the whole damn point?
What movement can be about
Movement can be such a rich part of our lives. How does it show up in yours?
Frustrated by your behaviour?
Do you find yourself confused and frustrated by your own behaviour? Do you wonder why you can’t just do (or stop doing) the damn thing?? Here are some questions you can ask yourself.
Making health decisions
Do you find yourself adopting every behaviour or habit you learn is healthy? Are you struggling with maintaining these habits in the long term? This way of filtering your decisions may help.
Your health base-camp
Are you feeling overwhelmed or stressed out about everything you should be doing for your health? Here is a framework that may help.
The wagon & the dial
Do you often find yourself “falling off the wagon” when it comes to your health? This shift in perspective might help.