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I empower healthcare professionals to enjoy their work and life again. Do you get overwhelmed by all the things to do? Do you feel unclear on your priorities?

Is it a struggle to put yourself first and include self-care on your calendar? I help people who have stress in their lives feel better. Through 1:1 coaching you will get clear on your priorities at work and at home...and make it happen on the regular. You will set yourself up for success by realising the obstacles your crafty brain sets up. Through gaining a reliable mindset you will be inspired and courageous to take on your next challenge. I am a doctor, life coach and health coach and have helped clients from a range of industries. They have had wide ranging life changing results including:
- better relationships with themselves and others
- career upgrades
- weight loss
- better time management
- self care on the regular
- getting started and completing important projects

Keen to see if this is what you're looking for? I offer a free Discovery Call to get clear on your goals, plan your strategy, and make a decision on investing in yourself. All coaching calls are completely confidential, with no opinion nor judgement brought into the session. You will leave each session with clarity in what has been holding you back, and what you need to do to move forward.

11/10/2026

The last stretch of the year has a way of wearing things down. Rosters get tighter, leave requests pile up, everyone around you is tired too, and the line you drew back in February starts to blur. A shift swap here, a late finish there, one more yes because the team is stretched.

Boundaries take energy to hold, and by now most of us are running on whatever's left in the tank. If yours have slipped a little, that makes sense.

This week, choose one boundary to come back to. Keep it small and specific, like leaving on time one day, taking your full lunch break, or pausing before you agree to an extra shift. Notice how it feels to hold that one line, even when you're tired.

Which boundary will you choose to protect this week?

Have a great week 😊

11/10/2026

So many work friendships live in the gaps. A quick chat at the nurses' station, a debrief in the corridor, half a sandwich between patients.

Those moments count, but there's rarely time to finish the conversation.

When shifts get heavy, the people who understand what you're carrying are often the ones standing right beside you. Seeing each other as people, away from the pressure, builds the kind of connection that holds up on the hard days.

It doesn't need to be organised or fancy. Pick a time, send the message and see who turns up.

Who have you been meaning to catch up with outside of work? Send this to them.

Take good care of yourself,

Dr Jo

08/10/2026

The extra shift. The meeting you didn't have room for. The favour you agreed to before you'd thought it through.

When we're running on empty, the part of the brain that weighs up consequences and plans ahead has less fuel to work with. So we lean towards whatever ends the uncomfortable moment fastest. In a corridor conversation with a colleague who needs a hand, that's almost always yes.

That's a depleted brain doing what depleted brains do.

A few things that help when you're tired :

🍃 Buy yourself time. "Let me check and get back to you" gives the rested version of you a say.

🍃 Decide your non-negotiables at the start of the week, so you aren't deciding in the moment.

🍃 Have one sentence ready. A script you've practised is much easier to reach for than one you have to invent on the spot.

We're heading into the busiest stretch of the year. Which boundary do you want to protect between now and Christmas?

If you'd like scripts ready to go, I created No is a Full Sentence : Boundary Scripts for Clinicians. You can grab it via the link in bio.

07/10/2026

Ever picked up your phone without even consciously deciding to?

Poker machines keep people playing because you never know what the next spin will bring. Nothing, nothing, nothing, then something. Your phone runs on the same mechanism. The next notification could be nothing, something urgent or something lovely, and that unpredictability is what drives the urge to check.

So if you find yourself reaching for it constantly, that's your brain doing exactly what it's wired to do around unpredictable reward. Which is why more discipline rarely fixes it. Better design does.

And the cost adds up. Research from Dr Gloria Mark at UC Irvine found it takes an average of 23 minutes to fully return to a task after an interruption. In a complex assessment, a difficult conversation or your own reflection time, that's a lot to lose to a quick glance.

I talk through more of this in episode 203 of The Burnout Recovery Podcast, along with some practical changes you can try this week, including small settings tweaks that make a big difference whether you're on call, in clinic or protecting time at home. Listen via the link in bio 🎧

06/10/2026

Near the end of a recent coaching session, a senior colleague rang. I'd forgotten to switch on Do Not Disturb, so I saw the screen light up. I didn't take the call, but I spent the rest of the hour half there, wondering what they wanted and whether I should call straight back.

In episode 203 of The Burnout Recovery Podcast, we're talking about your phone and why willpower was never going to fix the pull of it.

In this episode :

> Workplace telepressure, and why feeling the urge to reply can raise your stress load even when you don't act on it
> The research showing it takes an average of 23 minutes to fully return to a task after an interruption
> Why checking your phone works on the same mechanism as a poker machine
> Australia's right to disconnect laws and what they mean for the expectations around you
> Do Not Disturb vs work focus mode, and which one suits on call or clinic
> A two-line after-hours auto-reply that holds the boundary for you

Another episode in our boundaries series - you can listen via the link in bio. Share it with the colleague who always has one eye on their phone in meetings 🫣

Produced by . Supported by MIGA.

04/10/2026

It's easy to spend a whole morning finding a costume for the school play and ringing to sort out your mum's appointments, while your own to-do list from yesterday is still sitting there waiting.

Being the one both generations lean on tends to sneak up on you. It starts with one phone call and one favour, and before long it just feels like your job. Feeling worn out by it can bring guilt, especially when you love the people you're caring for. Being tired doesn't cancel out the love, and it doesn't mean you're managing it badly.

This week, is there one small piece of the caring load that someone else could take, even if they do it differently to how you would? And who could you ask?

Have a great week 😊

04/10/2026

When I'm speaking, I only ever see part of how the message lands. You can read a room to a point, but most of what happens stays inside people's heads.

So when someone came up after my boundaries talk at and told me they rang their mum straight after, that stayed with me.

Boundaries can feel like something everyone else has figured out while you're still saying yes to everything and running on empty. Hearing your own experience described out loud, in a room full of colleagues, can shift something. It gives the struggle a name, and it makes it easier to talk about with the people who matter most.

To this beautiful human who was brave enough to say it on camera, thank you. It meant more than you know. And thank you to the team for having me.

If you'd like me to speak at your next conference, team day or workshop, you'll find the details via the link in bio.

01/10/2026

Always great fun catching up with the Doctors Who Coach Doctors humans!!

We have catch up calls over zoom every 2 months. It’s a “make it if you can” approach which brings a sense of flexibility, freedom, non-judgement and acceptance to the space. Good vibes for a very organic collective who meet up because we have things in common and support each other in our businesses.

We’ve only met once in person since the group started over 3y ago. I’ve started the ball rolling for a 2027 catch up and the excitement for an IRL event is palpable!!

For more details on Doctors Who Coach Doctors head to the instagram page Doctors Who Coach Doctors

Whole Hearted Medicine
Dr Anthony Llewellyn

01/10/2026

No app is going to give you those unpaid hours back.

You've probably tried the tricks already. The template, the shortcuts, the batching, the dictation app. They save a few minutes here and there, but the amount of work stays the same, so the time still has to come from somewhere.

It makes sense that this wears you down. Giving away unpaid hours week after week, often without anyone noticing, adds up.

Here's something you can do tonight. When you finish your last note, stop and say out loud, "That's the end of my working day." Close the laptop, change out of your work clothes or make a cuppa, and do one small thing that belongs only to you before you do anything else.

It won't shorten the notes. It does give your brain a clear signal that work is over, so the evening stops being an extension of the shift.

30/09/2026

Have you noticed that your self-esteem shifts depending on who's in front of you?

You might hold a firm line with a difficult colleague, then agree to everything the moment family gets involved. Or guard your days off fiercely, yet struggle every single time to end a consult on time.

Psychologist Nathaniel Branden described self-esteem as resting on two things : competence and worthiness. Healthcare training builds competence relentlessly. Worthiness, the belief that you're allowed to have needs regardless of output, gets far less airtime.

So the gaps tend to show up in specific places. Usually one or two of these four :

> Family
> Patients
> Colleagues
> Yourself

A small experiment for this week : pick the one that feels hardest and practise one small boundary there. Afterwards, write down what you said and what you noticed in yourself once you'd said it. Each time you hold a line and the world keeps turning, your brain files that away as evidence for next time.

Which of the four is your hardest zone?

More on this in episode 202 of The Burnout Recovery Podcast. Subscribe via the link in bio.

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