You Are Not A Frog
331 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe podcast for GPs, hospital doctors and other professionals in high-stakes, high-stress jobs who want to thrive rather than just survive.
You studied for years, you’re really good at what you do but you’ve noticed that you’re starting to feel overwhelmed, overworked and under-resourced. You may be comparing yourself to a frog in boiling water - the heat has built up so slowly that you haven’t noticed the extra-long days becoming the norm. You may feel on the edge and trapped in the very job that you’ve spent years working towards.
Here’s the problem, frogs only have two choices; stay and be boiled alive, or jump out of the pan. The good news is that you are not a frog. You have many more choices than you think you do. You don’t have to quit, and nor should stress and burnout be inevitable.
It is possible to be master of your own destiny, to craft your work life and career so that you can thrive even in the most difficult of situations. There are simple changes you can make which will make a huge difference to your stress levels and help you enjoy life again.
Your host is Dr Rachel Morris, GP turned Executive Coach and Specialist in Resilience at Work who knows what it’s like to feel like an exhausted frog. In the podcast, she’ll be talking to friends, colleagues and experts all who have an interesting take on resilience for clever people in high-stakes, high-stress jobs so that together you can take back control to beat stress and burnout, survive and thrive.
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How to find your voice
April 22, 2024 23:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBLots of us struggle to express ourselves in the way we want to at work. But finding our voice is just the beginning – the next step is using it effectively. Download the episode’s podsheet. You can use it for reflection and to submit for your appraisal as part of your CPD. Join the You Are Not a Frog Facebook group More episodes of You Are Not a Frog: How to Increase Your Confidence and Impact – Episode 198, with Dr Claire Kaye What to Do When Your Strengths Have Side Effects – Episode ...
Only You Can Choose Your Next Move
April 15, 2024 23:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBComparing ourselves to others can be toxic, and lead us to ignore our own needs, and forget our unique limits. It’s time to follow our own path, to note when we're "shoulding" on ourselves, to stop feeling guilty about our differences, and to ditch the idea that we're somehow wrong for having different constraints. Download the Thrive Week Planner Download the episode’s podsheet. You can use it for reflection and to submit for your appraisal as part of your CPD. Join the You Are Not a Fro...
How to Make a Difficult Decision
April 08, 2024 23:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBMaking the right decision can feel tricky, especially when they involve important life transitions. But there's a way out, and it starts with asking ourselves some fundamental questions around why we want what we want, and what we truly hope to gain when we get it. Download the episode’s podsheet. You can use it for reflection and to submit for your appraisal as part of your CPD. Download your free Overwhelm SOS guide Join the You Are Not a Frog Facebook group The Mole and the Mountain: ...
What Happens When You Stay Too Long
April 01, 2024 23:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBIf you're questioning whether a job or a relationship is right for you, it's worth exploring further, and taking those thoughts seriously. Remember that change is often a sign of growth, not failure. So focus on the potential positives that can arise from change, rather than asking “what if it doesn’t work?” Download your free Overwhelm SOS guide How to Ditch the Saviour Complex and Feel More Alive – Episode 88, with Rob Bell How to Decide if You Need to Stay or Leave a Difficult Situatio...
How Money Holds Us Back
March 25, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBIt’s easy to to find ourselves thinking that money holds the key to our happiness, security, and freedom. We can project our desires and aversions onto money, believing that once we have “enough”, we can finally get the life we want. But thinking like this often keeps us from truly living our lives; instead we're stuck constantly chasing the next thing. ⭐️ Work Well Webinars Money is a story we create, not something with inherent power. It's a piece of paper; a digit in a computer we assi...
Beware Your Kindest Colleagues
March 18, 2024 23:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBWhat happens when we're not feeling well, or when we're feeling overwhelmed at work? Often, we turn to our colleagues for support. But what happens when that support doesn't come, or it's not as helpful as we’d hoped? 🛟 Download your free Overwhelm SOS guide When we're all in the same boat, it's tricky to get a different perspective. Even well-meaning advice from a colleague can feel misplaced or missing the mark, as it’s shaped by their own experiences and limitations. This can leave us f...
Smashing the Gender Pay Gap for Women in Medicine
March 14, 2024 23:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBWomen in medicine are often undervalued and taken less seriously than their male counterparts. They’re also made to feel less safe at work, and encounter pushback when they make a complaint. This week’s guest is Professor Dame Jane Dacre, and the episode is recorded in partnership with the Physician Mums Facebook Group (PMGUK). In her discussion with Rachel, Dame Jane lays out what needs to change at structural and interpersonal levels. She invites members of the industry to shine a light ...
How to Tell People What You REALLY Think
March 11, 2024 23:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBSaying what you really feel – especially in a high-stress job – is no easy task. Crucial conversations are often avoided for fear of damaging relationships. These unaired grievances get bottled up and over time can increase our level of stress. ⭐️ Work Well Webinars But there are three core conditions for effective conversation that can help here: empathy (stepping into someone else’s shoes), unconditional respect (accepting the other’s right to be as they are), and congruence (expressing...
Why Setting Goals Alone Won’t Help
March 04, 2024 23:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBWe often set goals in the belief they’ll make us happier. But setting goals alone might not be enough to truly help us thrive.In this quick dip, Rachel discusses why that’s the case, and offers a different approach to finding satisfaction and success. ⭐️ Work Well Webinars It all begins with a shift in focus from goals to desires. Instead of starting with specific goals, we should first identify what we truly desire and what our basic needs are. This helps us align our actions and routine...
Life’s Too Short NOT to Love What You Do
February 26, 2024 23:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBThere are times working in medicine or other high-stress jobs, when you feel trapped and unhappy. And maybe you’ve told yourself you have no other option but to stay put. These “shoulds” can come from societal expectations or the idea that you’ve put so much into your job already that it would be silly – or even irresponsible – to quit now. ⭐️ Work Well Webinars These myths and pressures keep us feeling stuck, and prevent us from exploring alternative possibilities within or outside of ou...
Finding Your North Star
February 19, 2024 23:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBWe’re all seeking the perfect job or career path that will bring us happiness and fulfilment. But while we’re focused on achieving success, we can overlook the bigger stuff – and it’s possible that our current career trajectory might not take us there. That’s why we need to find and then follow our North Star. Finding it starts with prioritising four fundamental needs: feeling fully human, deep connections, meaning and purpose, and growth and learning. By aligning our goals with these needs...
How to get moving again when you feel stuck
February 12, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBWe all experience moments of feeling stuck. Sometimes we have the motivation, but something’s in our way. On other days the simplest things can feel like pushing a boulder up a hill. Now matter how competent we know we are, that feeling of inertia can wreak havoc on our self-confidence. If we’re going to get unstuck and move forwards, we first need to find out what’s blocking us. ⭐️ Book Your FrogFest Ticket Now The solution is to take a conscious leadership approach. This means shifting ...
The Most Powerful Question You Can Ask Yourself About Your Work
February 05, 2024 23:00 - 11 minutes - 8.17 MBIf you were in a life-or-death scenario and the only path out was over hot coals, would you take it? Of course. But when it comes to situations that are making us uncomfortable or even miserable, we seldom want to experience that discomfort to get to what we know will be better for us. ⭐️ Book Your FrogFest Ticket Now In this quick dip episode, Rachel explores the importance of considering the long-term impact of our work, and offers a single question you can ask yourself right now, to di...
How to Feel Confident in Any Situation
January 29, 2024 23:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MBIf you’re in a job where you use your brain a lot, it can be easy to feel disconnected from your body and emotions. This in turn can lead to a lack of self-awareness and even difficulty in expressing yourself. That lack of awareness changes how we outwardly express ourselves, even in ways we’re not aware of. But by becoming consciously connected with our body, we can get a bit more control over our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, and over how others see us. ⭐️ Book Your FrogFest Ticket...
How to Get Out of a Toxic Shame Spiral
January 22, 2024 23:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBWe all experience shame from time to time, but when it becomes toxic, we can end up in a shame spiral from which it's difficult to escape. When we’re called out on something about which we feel shameful, it can make us defensive. And so often, no-one can punish us as harshly as we punish ourselves. In this quick dip episode, Rachel shares her strategy to break free from shame spirals and cultivate a healthier mindset; by sharing our shame, taking some perspective, and seeking support from o...
Getting a Breakthrough by Using Your Right Brain
January 15, 2024 23:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBWhen we’re presented with a difficult problem, naturally we use logic and reasoning to solve it. But some problems – like stress and burnout – can’t be solved with logic alone. The left hemisphere is the area of the brain focused on tasks, logic, and problem-solving. But the right hemisphere deals with relationships, connections, and new perspectives. It’s also visual and metaphorical, so it can help us see problems in a different way. So our right brain can help us live more easily with pr...
The Three-Step Plan for Getting Your Sh*t Together
January 08, 2024 23:00 - 13 minutes - 9.34 MBSo you’ve got a problem, maybe a relationship issue at work or difficulties managing your workload. You’ve talked it with friends, but the solution won’t present itself. Often the problem isn't that we lack solutions, but rather that we haven't fully understood what the problem is in the first place. In this quick dip episode, Rachel shares her three-step model to help you identify and address the real problem you’re facing. It involves recognising we have choices, embracing our human needs...
How to Decide if You Need to Stay or Leave a Difficult Situation
January 01, 2024 23:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBFaced with a difficult situation, we often ask the question “should I stay or should I go?” It could be about work, a relationship, or something more personal. We all face this question at various times in our life, and it can be overwhelming to make a choice when we’re scared of the unknown. This week, we’re revisiting a discussion with Corrina Gordon-Barnes, about how to tackle the decision-making process. Instead of relying on traditional methods like pros and cons lists or seeking advic...
What Shame Made Me Do
December 25, 2023 23:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBIf you have a high-stakes job like medicine, shame can show up in unexpected and unwelcome places. Doctors have incredibly high societal expectations, with constant pressure to be invulnerable. It’s time to challenge these unrealistic expectations and foster an environment that supports doctors in their vulnerability. This week, we’re featuring one of our most popular and impactful episodes from 2023 to help you identify and combat shame. In this episode, Dr Sandy Miles discusses the impact...
How to Survive the Holiday Season
December 18, 2023 23:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBThe Christmas season can be a time of stress and disappointment, especially when our expectations don't match up with reality. We can find ourselves dealing with difficult family members, feeling overwhelmed with work and family obligations, or experiencing a general sense of dissatisfaction.But there’s plenty we can do to make the festive period more enjoyable and less overwhelming. This week, we’re revisiting a previous conversation on the podcast, with Corrina Gordon-Barnes. In her chat ...
How to Increase Your Confidence and Impact
December 11, 2023 23:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBIf you're like most people, you'll have experienced moments when your confidence wavers, leaving you unsure of yourself and holding back from reaching your full potential. But what if there was a way to increase your confidence and make a greater impact in your personal and professional life? This week, Dr Claire Kaye joins Rachel to explore the power of confidence and how it influences our lives. They dive into the common challenges we face when it comes to confidence, whether it's feeling...
How to Deal With Your Inner Critic
December 04, 2023 23:00 - 13 minutes - 9.18 MBWe can learn how to say no to other people, but often don’t say no to ourselves or to our inner critic who’s always telling us we can do more or be better. We become our own worst enemy when it comes to setting boundaries and prioritising our own needs. This is why we need self-compassion, and to overcome the toxic self-talk that often fuels our negative self-talk. In this quick dip, Rachel will help you name the critical voice and acknowledge its presence, explore the underlying triggers a...
How to Escape the Tyranny of the ‘Shoulds’
November 27, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBDo you find yourself trapped by the expectations and pressures of what you think you “should” be doing? Is there a voice in your head, berating you for not living up to their standards? If so, you might be experiencing the tyranny of the shoulds. You’re not alone in feeling overwhelmed or uncertain. But it turns out that hearing others' stories can help you realise that your struggles are common. Also, if you rely on others for feedback it’s important to know whom to ask and when, so you do...
Am I Burning Out?
November 20, 2023 23:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBIf your job is demanding, jou've probably wondered at some point if you're burning out. The constant stress and pressure in health and social care especially can leave us feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. But ignoring the signs of burnout can have serious consequences, affecting not only our performance but our wellbeing and our relationships too. In this quick dip episode, Rachel introduces the Stress Curve and how it can help you recognise if you're nearing burnout. She explains the diff...
How to Manage Your Energy if You're a Highly Sensitive Person
November 13, 2023 23:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBManaging your energy can be a challenge at the best of times. But if you’re a highly sensitive person, you might be more prone to burning out due to your unique traits and the demands of your work. Being highly sensitive doesn’t mean being touchy, but having a high degree of empathy and a particular way of processing sensory input. That means it might take longer to recover from a tricky situation like a conflict with a colleague, or witnessing something traumatic at work. The key to manag...
How Do You Say No When Someone Might Die?
November 06, 2023 23:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBSaying no and setting boundaries are core to avoiding burnout. But if saying no might put a patient at harm – or worse – what can you do? In this quick dip episode, Rachel explains the concept of core and flex boundaries along with core and flex consequences. Core boundaries are non-negotiables that we always enforce, rather than preferences we’d like to enforce but can be flexible around.Key to this approach is also recognising the short- and long-term consequences of saying no. By not se...
How to Challenge Upsetting Behaviour
October 30, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBInteractions between team members can have a big impact on performance and outcomes. Disrespect and hostility can create a threatening environment and hinder collaboration and productivity. In a medical setting, it could literally be a life-or-death situation. The Civility Saves Lives movement aims to raise awareness about the importance of behaviour and promote a culture of civility. By showing respect and support towards each-other, teams can enhance their performance, deliver better outc...
The Real Reason Other People's Boundaries Make Us Cross
October 23, 2023 23:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBWhen someone else sets boundaries, do you feel able to do the same, or do you resent their ability to say no? Often, our anger towards others' boundaries comes from our own unmet needs and desires, and what presents itself as resentment is actually envy. Guilt, shame, and fear often prevent us from expressing our own needs, which just compounds those negative emotions. Without shifting our mindset, we can end up adopting a victim mindset and feeling even more trapped. In this quick dip epi...
How to Be REALLY Productive... Without Losing the Plot
October 16, 2023 23:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBProductivity and time management are difficult at the best of times. But when your job directly affects people’s lives, it can be tricky to make time to get organised, so that we have control over our days, and our inbox isn’t overflowing. What we need is to manage our attention and make space for what matters. In this episode, Rachel is joined by productivity expert Graham Allcott. Graham shares ways we can prioritise and delegate tasks, make dedicated time for deep work, and get on top of...
What Will Your Future Self Thank You For?
October 09, 2023 23:00 - 14 minutes - 9.67 MBWe’ve all had weeks where our schedules are packed tightly and there’s no time for ourselves, leaving us exhausted and overwhelmed. The problem is we often make commitments for our future selves without thinking about what might be on their plate in the future. In this quick dip episode, Rachel uncovers ways we can make space for the the big and important things in our lives, set rules and boundaries to prevent over-committing, and creating space to cope with challenging times ahead. Not e...
Surprising Ways to Avoid Burnout
October 02, 2023 23:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBDo you give yourself permission to rest? If you’re like many people in caring professions, you worry that taking time out to look after yourself means not spending that time helping others. That thinking may have got you to your position now, but is it serving you, or is it time to update your operating system? The problem with rest is that we often confuse it with inaction. But rest from work doesn’t have to mean rest from activity. As this week’s guest, Nick Petrie discovered, for high ac...
Stress vs Overwhelm – And Why You Should Know the Difference
September 25, 2023 23:00 - 10 minutes - 6.86 MBWe all get stressed or overwhelmed with our daily responsibilities from time to time. But we’re not always good at telling them apart. And this is important, because the way out of overwhelm is different form the way out of stress. Stress is caused when the demands on us outweigh the resources we feel we have to cope. Overwhelm happens when high amounts of stress make us feel like we can't cope with our lives' demands. The way out of overwhelm is non-doing, resting, and letting our nervous ...
How to Cope With Your Kids’ Anxiety, Your Colleagues’, and Your Own
September 18, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 44 MBConfronting anxiety is easier said than done. It’s hard enough with adults, but with children it’s even more tough. Anxiety keeps us safe, but often we over-predict that something bad will happen and under-predict our ability to cope. The key is to learn how to manage anxiety before it becomes a problem. This week’s guest is educational psychologist Nicky Odgers. She specialises in working with kids who are feeling anxious about attending school. A lot of what she helps kids with applies to...
Don't Wait for Tomorrow to Improve – Take Control Now
September 11, 2023 23:00 - 17 minutes - 11.7 MBDo you find yourself thinking "it will be better tomorrow", or believing things will improve in a few months' time “when x happens”? In this quick dip episode, Rachel reveals how waiting for outside events to occur leads to more problems – because even when tomorrow comes, we’re still the same person facing the same challenges as we were yesterday. This mindset can lead us to looking for partial solutions which ultimately keep us from solving our bigger problems. But by focusing on our zon...
Is it You - or is it Menopause?
September 04, 2023 23:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBOne way or another, menopause affects everyone at some point. If you’re not experiencing symptoms yourself, you almost certainly know or work with someone who is. That’s why understanding its effects and being able to offer support and compassion is so important. Women going through menopause can experience a wide range of physical, psychological, and hormonal symptoms. These symptoms often go unnoticed or ignored, which can impact confidence and increase anxiety. Lack of confidence or temp...
Why You Don’t Need to Earn Your Rest
August 28, 2023 23:00 - 13 minutes - 9.36 MBSo many of us are caught up in a vortex of busyness. We end up working harder and harder without doing anything that re-energises us, all because we feel like we have no other choice. As healthcare professionals, we feel like rest is a reward for good behaviour, but it's a basic human need, and a professional responsibility. Why? Because rest makes us better at our job, and – frankly – we deserve it. In this quick dip episode, Rachel explores ways we can give ourselves permission to rest a...
Are Your Tiny Traumas Building Up to Burnout?
August 21, 2023 23:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBFor people in caring professions, trauma can be something we experience on a regular basis. an event doesn’t have to be earth-shattering to be traumatic, and if we let those “little T” traumas build up over time without addressing them, we can find ourselves in a constant sate of fight, flight, or freeze. When stress and trauma accumulate over time, we can minimise what triggers us and downplay our experience. Each time we do, we deplete our battery, pushing it from the green zone of calm a...
Get Some Air Cover to Help You Set Boundaries
August 14, 2023 23:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBWe’re not just service providers – we’re carers and helpers. This can make it hard to set boundaries and prioritise our workload. What we need is air cover. By working together with your colleagues, you can create agreements about what to say yes and no to, and hold each-other accountable. And you can also seek out peers outside of work, so you can share your dilemmas and feel less alone. If we keep silently struggling with saying no or setting boundaries, we can start feeling burnout, whi...
What Happens When We’re Really Listened to
August 07, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBDo you ever feel like you're just not being heard? Or like you’re under pressure and no one understands how much you’re juggling? Especially in high-stress careers, few of us have the chance to truly be listened to – and coaching can help with that. Coaching isn’t therapy or listening to someone else’s advice. It's about exploring solutions yourself, with guidance. Coaching gives you permission to take a tricky situation and ask "If this were different, what would I notice?". Coaching allo...
How to Use Power Language to Keep Your Boundaries Strong
July 31, 2023 23:00 - 10 minutes - 9.48 MBHave you ever had to do something you didn't want to do? Maybe it was a task at work, a favour for a friend, or a chore at home. It can be frustrating and draining when it seems we have no say in our actions. It can make us feel powerless and stressed out. And that's not good for our work quality or our well-being. But is that true? Do we really have no choice at all? In this Quick Dip, we share how to use power language to set boundaries and take back control of your life. Keeping your wo...
How to Thrive in a High-Stress Job When You’re Neurodivergent
July 24, 2023 23:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBIn the words of today’s podcast guest, “Everyone can benefit from neurodiversity”. But how much do you understand about the way it impacts you and your colleagues? Neurodiversity can be a real strength in high-stress roles like medicine. Different ways of thinking can allow us to cope with high pressure situations, handle complex information, and perform brilliantly in ways that others couldn’t. But it also offers us challenges, both when it comes to managing our own needs but also in supp...
Why You Should Expect Pushback and What To Do About It
July 18, 2023 07:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBIt's a fact of life that we can't please everyone. That's why one of the hardest things to do is say no and try to keep everyone happy with our decisions. Even if it's against our will, we try to give a piece of ourselves to everyone. The thing is, that takes a toll on us until resentment builds up in our hearts. So, how do you expect pushback while staying firm with your decisions? In this Quick Dip, we explore the topic of pushback, how it affects our emotions, and why we should expect it...
Embrace Your Capacity, Not Your Limits
July 11, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes - 48.5 MBHigh-stress and high-performance professions like healthcare often push people beyond their limits. When this happens, stress and burnout are often the unfortunate consequences. In this episode, Dr Sarah Coope joins us to discuss how to avoid burnout by embracing your capacity. She delves into finding your optimal stretching point for each of your limited resources. Sarah also examines the nature of our fear of saying no. And we explore the consequences and benefits of managing and maintain...
How To Influence Without Getting Frustrated
July 04, 2023 07:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBYou have brilliant ideas and solutions that can make a difference in your work. But how do you get others on board with them? It can be hard to convince others when they have different views and opinions. The thing is, you can’t change someone’s mind without knowing where they are coming from and what matters to them. You have to face it with confidence, grace, patience, and, sometimes, acceptance. In this quick dip episode, we talk about how you can influence anyone by understanding yourse...
What to Do When You Can Never Do Enough as a Working Mum with Corrina Gordon-Barnes
June 27, 2023 07:00 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBOn this episode of You Are Not a Frog, our guest, Corrina Gordon-Barnes, joins us to discuss the challenges working mothers face in traditional family units. The conversation sheds light on the value of self-compassion, learning to navigate negative emotions, and striking a balance between work and family life. This episode is for everyone involved in parenting, not just mothers. It’s not just women who experience mum guilt! For a new perspective on mum guilt and actionable advice for a hea...
Do I Disappoint Myself Or Others?
June 20, 2023 07:00 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBDisappointing ourselves and others is an awful feeling highlighted by guilt and shame. It can often lead us to act out regretfully as we attempt to mask it. Out of fear of its consequences, we resort to tiptoeing around others. This is most common in the medical field, where people tend to prioritise the needs of other people before their own. It could be why you may have difficulties saying no to people. In this quick dip episode, I will dive into how you can deal with disappointment. Lea...
How to Survive a Toxic System - on Both Sides of the Pond
June 13, 2023 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBDoes it feel like you're in a toxic work environment and can't get out? Too many doctors — both in the UK and elsewhere — find themselves in a whirlwind of work. There's always more to do, and you don't want to imagine the consequences of what happens if you fail. There seems like there's no way out, but the truth is, you always have a choice. In this episode of You Are Not a Frog, Dr Dike Drummond and I dive into a topic that affects many industries but is particularly prevalent in healthc...
How to Avoid Amygdala Hijack Part 2
June 06, 2023 07:00 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBLife can seem full of threats and stresses we face daily. As high-stress professionals, these types of situations are a part of daily life. All of this can place a great mental load on our brains and trigger our amygdala to not always respond in the best way. That's why it's important to learn how we can reduce these threats and manage our stress. The question now is how can we do this? Picking up where we left off, this quick dip episode dives into the last four factors of the SCARF Mode...
How to Feel Happy, Calm, and Connected
May 30, 2023 07:00 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBOur conditioning has trained us to rely on the egocentric left brain. We often overthink things, even when we have no control over them. But what if we didn't have to accept that this is simply how our brains work? This week, Dr Giles P Croft joins us to discuss his experience of having a TIA that caused his left brain to stop functioning properly. Giles shares what it’s like to access his right brain freely without any worry in mind. We discuss how our thinking left brain often gets in the...
How to Avoid Amygdala Hijack Part 1
May 23, 2023 07:00 - 13 minutes - 11.9 MBCriticism and feedback are fundamental to growing as an individual and professional. However, often, our brain perceives such conflicts as a threat. The amygdala acts upon this and kicks in our survival instincts. As a result, we check out and shut down to protect ourselves. How do we avoid acting from this place of fear and focus on working toward developing ourselves? In this quick dip episode, we uncover the overarching principle of the amygdala. We discuss how to avoid an amygdala hij...