Find out how coaching and the power of vulnerability can help you find more joy in your life, with Dr Caroline Walker - the founder of The Joyful Doctor.
*Trigger Warning*
In this episode we discuss suicidal ideation (minute 22.27) and suicide (minute 3.25, 23.29). This could be triggering if you’re actively experiencing similar experiences. Please avoid listening to this if you think you’re likely to be triggered, and always seek professional mental health help (see below for resources).
Topics we discuss:
- The importance of looking out for peers and colleagues in medicine
- What The Joyful Doctor is and how it came to be
- The power of coaching and how coaching can help doctors
- How coaching is different to therapy
- The benefits of leaders sharing vulnerability and what that looks like
- What it means to identify as a doctor and how this can be challenging
- How doctors can be and often are patients - and how that is OK
- The power of kindness
Resources mentioned in this episode:
The Joyful Doctor - www.joyfuldoctor.com
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