Stress and Burnout

It’s easy to think stress is a normal part of life, especially if you work in healthcare. This way of thinking puts us at risk of burnout, because we end up tolerating long-term distress and ignoring the early warning signs. Recognising stress early on is key to preventing burnout. We can break the cycle by

In a high-stakes, public-facing job, balancing empathy with maintaining professional boundaries is not an easy task. The emotional demands of our job and the need to be empathetic can weigh on us over time, and contribute to burnout. This is where stories come in. Be they fiction, poetry, or memoire, engaging with stories can enhance

Are you feeling overwhelmed? Maybe on the verge of burnout? The non-stop demands of work and life can make it hard to keep up, but the conventional advice seems to suggest we can just “organise” our way out of it. Not so. When we’re feeling overwhelmed, todo lists and PostIt notes aren’t the answer. What

When work takes up so much space in our days and our minds, that’s when burnout can start to creep up on us. We become so engrossed in our jobs that it’s hard to switch off, which makes us tired and less effective both in and outside of work. In this remix of episode 188,

How you deal with burnout – and even how susceptible you are to it – is, in large part, encoded in you at an early developmental stage. Coping mechanisms and ways of handling stress are set firmly in childhood. But that doesn’t mean they’re set in stone. This week, Dr Claire Plumbly returns to discuss

We often underestimate severity of burnout, downplay its impact on our bodies, and push it aside as non-urgent. It’s easy to feel like burnout is our own fault, but it’s not. The key to addressing burnout lies in recognising it, accepting it, and taking proactive steps towards self-care. Stress is not a normal physiological state,

If your job is demanding, you’ve probably wondered at some point if you’re burning out. The constant stress and pressure in health and social care especially can leave us feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. But ignoring the signs of burnout can have serious consequences, affecting not only our performance but our wellbeing and our relationships too.

Saying no and setting boundaries are core to avoiding burnout. But if saying no might put a patient at harm – or worse – what can you do? In this quick dip episode, Rachel explains the concept of core and flex boundaries along with core and flex consequences. Core boundaries are non-negotiables that we always

Do you give yourself permission to rest? If you’re like many people in caring professions, you worry that taking time out to look after yourself means not spending that time helping others. That thinking may have got you to your position now, but is it serving you, or is it time to update your operating

We all get stressed or overwhelmed with our daily responsibilities from time to time. But we’re not always good at telling them apart. And this is important, because the way out of overwhelm is different form the way out of stress. Stress is caused when the demands on us outweigh the resources we feel we

Confronting anxiety is easier said than done. It’s hard enough with adults, but with children it’s even more tough. Anxiety keeps us safe, but often we over-predict that something bad will happen and under-predict our ability to cope. The key is to learn how to manage anxiety before it becomes a problem. This week’s guest

For people in caring professions, trauma can be something we experience on a regular basis. an event doesn’t have to be earth-shattering to be traumatic, and if we let those “little T” traumas build up over time without addressing them, we can find ourselves in a constant sate of fight, flight, or freeze. When stress