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Take heART: Bringing together psychology and art for NHS staff wellbeing
Clinical Psychologist Dr Rachel Chater describes her role in the Take heART project – bringing art to hospitals to foster staff wellbeing.
Workload and burnout in healthcare: What CAN we do?
Workload is a major risk factor for burnout in healthcare, and one of the hardest to change – so what CAN we do?
Help I’m burning out! 6 steps to tackling burnout in healthcare
Understand the causes of burnout and how to deal with them with these 6 steps to tackling burnout in healthcare
Why burnout happens: the threat-drive cycle (and how to stop it)
Burnout happens when we get stuck in a threat-drive cycle. Cultivating our soothing system can break this cycle.
How creativity can protect against burnout
Creativity can help buffer us against burnout in healthcare. Learn more about how it can be helpful and ways of nurturing more creativity in your life.
Burnout in Healthcare: symptoms and causes
Understanding burnout in healthcare – defining burnout, its prevalence in healthcare and the work-related factors that cause burnout.
The Bucket Metaphor
As humans there's only so much we can hold. When demands are too high we get overwhelmed - just as a bucket would overflow if it keeps getting filled up. This doesn't mean the bucket is broken, damaged or not good enough - it's just physics. When we are feeling...
Do no harm but take no shit – Mindful embroidery instructions
Learn how to do mindful embroidery for the “Do no harm but take no shit” project.
Do no harm but take no shit – a mindful embroidery and craftivism project
Do no harm but take no shit! Download this free craftivism and mindful embroidery project for healthcare workers.
Vicarious trauma: what it is and how to prevent it
Those who work in healthcare are at risk of vicarious trauma. Find out more about the symptoms and how to prevent it.
A fresh take on making New Years resolutions – The Choice Point
Instead of making New Years Resolutions the Choice Point offers a way to navigate life every day and take action that aligns with our values.
5 practical ways to incorporate yoga into your working life
Yoga provides many benefits for managing work stress. Here are 5 practical ways to incorporate a yoga practice into your work life.
Can yoga help me to manage work-related stress?
Dr Bethany Stroyde describes the psychology of how yoga helps us cope with work stress through fostering the mind-body connection.
7 ways of coping with moral injury in healthcare
Moral injury is common amongst healthcare professionals. This blog explains what moral injury is and offers 7 ways of coping with it.
3 steps to overcoming overwhelm – get present, open up and do what matters
Learn 3 steps to coping with overwhelm, drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: get present, open up and do what matters.
Should I quit the NHS? A psychoanalytic response
To the NHS worker who called me... You messaged me asking to talk and I agreed. We met online and you told me how fed up you are, how you feel exhausted at work and how you couldn’t bear being there anymore. You said maybe you just needed better supervision and...
3 top self care tips for parents who are also health professionals
If you’re a parent and a health professional it’s all too easy to run our emotional reserves dry. Here are 3 top self-care tips for parents.
How to overcome procrastination now – use your MUSCLE!
Learn how to overcome procrastination using the MUSCLE technique developed by Professor Paul Grantham. Don’t put it off – read it now!
Therapeutic knitting
Dr Mia Hobbs explains how knitting can be a therapeutic process – it can be mindful, teach us about growth and the importance of process over outcome, and help to build connection and community.
Creating a grounding kit
Learn how to create a grounding kit to help you weather emotional storms.