This new blog is provided as part of my stress management consultancy (see http://www.jobowenhypnotherapy.co.uk for appointments on skype or phone for stress management help).
It aims to cover lots of thinking about how doctors experience stress and pragmatic solutions to enable them to find good stress in their working and personal lives- what a famous stress researcher Hans Selye has called ‘eustress’. It hopes to provide insight into the world of stress in medicine, and it seeks to provide a range of creative and stimulating ways in which doctors can destress- all in one place- this blog.
It will, over time, extend its reach to cover the world of the medical student, the wannabe doctor, and also the world of doctors who leave medicine for career breaks or retirement.
It may also help those who are close to doctors, as well as any who manage doctors or who are their patients.That, I suppose has the potential to cover everyone. However my primary intention is that it may help doctors themselves- a chance to dip into the practical areas of stress management, to self help, to get help and to gain a perspective on moving towards a more productive, healthy and happy life.
Being a doctor involves normal stress since doctors are, as we are so often reminded now, ‘only people’, yet it is surely important to recognise other stress too- the stress of being a doctor. This is a specific stress since the role of the doctor is unlike another. These two types of stress- the normal and the special- will be the subject of my blog – doctorgoodstress. I hope you find it useful and encouraging. I hope you will contribute your ideas and your feedback too.
For starters, if you are currently feeling a bit tense- you might like to look at a relaxation exercise on my therapy website called ‘relax now’- see http://www.jobowenhypnotherapy.co.uk where it offered free near the bottom of the menu.
Until next time, …better be! Jo
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