Practices or resources to increase self-compassion
A path through the jungle is a mental skills book and psychological model by Professor Steve Peters.
Brene Brown's book The Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
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.
An evening reflection, incorporating gratitude, sufficiency and your metric for success
Carol Dweck's TED talk on the growth mindset is one of the most watched ever.
Humans are like stools - we need at least three legs to be stable, e.g. health, work and relationships.
A podcast exploring the concept of the inner critic, and what to do about it.
An exercise to try at home, to create space for impostor feelings and thoughts, and do what you want to anyway.
Life coaching provides a professionally facilitated space to explore the gap between where you are, and where you would like to be.
Mindset, by Carol Dweck, is a book about the difference between a fixed and a growth mindset
A 6 week, remote, coaching course to help surgeons feel happier, be more productive and optimise their performance.
A free online assessment of your 'saboteur' behaviours
Therapy, not just for the frazzled, but for the self-improvers too (in person or online).
A book by Rick Carson to help you get to know your inner critic
A morning journalling technique and journal
A mind management model, developed by Professor Steve Peters.
A gratitude journal that takes just 5 minutes per day
An article about the impostor phenomenon and how it can affect surgeons
A simple and compelling mind management approach from Mel Robbins
A twice-daily journal incorporating habit formation and gratitude
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.
Our values feel intuitive but differ person to person. Consider yours, here
