Self Compassion
Practices or resources to increase self-compassion
22 Resources in Self-compassion

A path through the jungle (book and audiobook)
A path through the jungle is a mental skills book and psychological model by Professor Steve Peters.

Atlas of the Heart (book, audiobook)
Brene Brown's book The Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

Caring for others without losing yourself
A recorded lecture by Kristin Neff PhD - a self-compassion expert who specifically works with healthcare professionals as well as professional athletes and many other high stakes professionals.

Cultivating 'enoughness'
An evening reflection, incorporating gratitude, sufficiency and your metric for success

Developing a growth mindset
Carol Dweck's TED talk on the growth mindset is one of the most watched ever.

Developing self-worth
Humans are like stools - we need at least three legs to be stable, e.g. health, work and relationships.

Dr Kristin Neff x Prof Rangan Chatterjee
A podcast exploring the concept of the inner critic, and what to do about it.

Fancy a takeaway? Impostor Phenomenon
An exercise to try at home, to create space for impostor feelings and thoughts, and do what you want to anyway.

Lilli Cooper coaching
Life coaching provides a professionally facilitated space to explore the gap between where you are, and where you would like to be.

Mindset (book and audiobook)
Mindset, by Carol Dweck, is a book about the difference between a fixed and a growth mindset

Optimising Performance for Surgeons course
A 6 week, remote, coaching course to help surgeons feel happier, be more productive and optimise their performance.

PQ saboteur assessment
A free online assessment of your 'saboteur' behaviours

Self-space
Therapy, not just for the frazzled, but for the self-improvers too (in person or online).

Taming your Gremlin®
A book by Rick Carson to help you get to know your inner critic

The Artist's Way Morning pages Journal
A morning journalling technique and journal

The Chimp Paradox (book and audiobook)
A mind management model, developed by Professor Steve Peters.

The Five Minute Journal
A gratitude journal that takes just 5 minutes per day

The Let Them Theory (Book/audiobook)
A simple and compelling mind management approach from Mel Robbins

The Three Question Journal
A twice-daily journal incorporating habit formation and gratitude

The impostor phenomenon: getting out of your own way (article)
An article about the impostor phenomenon and how it can affect surgeons

What are your strengths?
We often feel like we are only as good as our job, our children, our body, but we are in fact valuable simply because of who we are.

Working out your values
Our values feel intuitive but differ person to person. Consider yours, here