Burnout Recovery Doctor

Burnout Recovery Doctor 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.

14/06/2026

There's a version of good leadership that can quietly tip into paralysis.

Being open to information, bringing people along, listening to all sides. Genuinely valuable. Until it becomes the reason nothing gets decided.

If you're sitting on a decision right now: do you actually need more information, or do you already know enough?

Pick one. Set a deadline. Decide by then.

I drop these reels every Sunday afternoon, so make sure you follow along 😊

I've just come back from a leadership program in Italy, and one moment has stayed with me.We were a room full of women i...
11/06/2026

I've just come back from a leadership program in Italy, and one moment has stayed with me.

We were a room full of women in healthcare leadership. Experienced, senior, accomplished.

And within the first session, people were sharing things that would never have come up in a typical professional setting.

The difference was psychological safety. The facilitators created it deliberately, and it changed everything about how we connected and what we were able to learn.

It got me thinking about how much energy we spend in environments where that safety doesn't exist. Where you have to manage your words carefully. Where admitting you're struggling feels too risky.

Burnout thrives in those environments. It doesn't thrive in ones where people can actually tell the truth.

You can't always control the culture around you. But knowing what psychological safety feels like helps you recognise when it's missing and start asking for something better.

Something I keep coming back to after a leadership course I attended in Italy recently.Every strength has a shadow. And ...
10/06/2026

Something I keep coming back to after a leadership course I attended in Italy recently.

Every strength has a shadow. And most of us have never been taught to look for it.

Reliability can become rigidity. Empathy can tip into avoidance. The analytical thinking that makes you exceptional at your job can quietly pull you out of the room when the people around you need you most.

Dr. Ryan Niemiec's research on character strengths identifies what he calls the golden mean - the optimal zone where a strength is actually working for you. His finding? High performers almost always drift toward overuse.

So the question isn't whether your strengths are serving you. It's whether they're still serving you right now, in this moment, under this pressure.

That's the work I explore in episode 186 of The Burnout Recovery Podcast. Link in bio 🎧

Something shifted for me at a leadership course in Italy recently.The concept? Your greatest strength also has a shadow....
09/06/2026

Something shifted for me at a leadership course in Italy recently.

The concept? Your greatest strength also has a shadow. And the more pressure you're under, the more likely you are to be operating in it.

For me, reliability can tip into rigidity. Analytical thinking can become emotional absence. The very qualities I'm most proud of, most relied on for, can quietly work against me and the people I'm caring for.

Episode 186 is the first in a new four-part series called The High Performer's Paradox, and I think it's going to land for a lot of you.

Head to the link in bio to subscribe and listen.

Produced by . Supported by MIGA.

There's a version of productivity in healthcare that's measured almost entirely by how much you took on and how little y...
07/06/2026

There's a version of productivity in healthcare that's measured almost entirely by how much you took on and how little you complained about it. Busy became a badge. Exhausted became normal.

But busyness and effectiveness aren't the same thing. Neither are exhaustion and effort. You can be genuinely hardworking and still protect your energy. Those two things aren't in conflict.

This week, take a look at where your time and energy are going. Is it where you'd choose to put them, or just where the day takes them by default?

Even small adjustments toward intentional rather than reactive can make a difference over time.

Have a great week 😊

07/06/2026

The strength that makes you good at your job might also be the thing quietly draining you.

This week, get curious : am I smoothing something over right now? Is there a conversation I've been sidestepping?

For a deeper dive on difficult conversations at work, head to episode 178 of my podcast. Link in bio.

Maybe it's the way the light shifts. Maybe it's a vague sense of restlessness you can't quite shake. Maybe it's the mome...
04/06/2026

Maybe it's the way the light shifts. Maybe it's a vague sense of restlessness you can't quite shake. Maybe it's the moment you pick up your phone and realise you're already checking your schedule for tomorrow.

Whatever triggers it, the result is the same. The weekend closes in. The week looms. And the rest you were supposed to be getting suddenly feels out of reach.

This is Sunday dread. And for a lot of healthcare workers, it's become so familiar that we've stopped questioning whether it has to feel this way.

It doesn't.

The Sunday Long Game is my ongoing series exploring the neuroscience of Sunday dread and how to actually interrupt it. Because rest isn't something that happens to you - it's something you can learn to protect.

Head to my profile to catch up on the series, and if you want to go deeper, my Sunday Long Game newsletter lands in your inbox weekly. Link in bio.

A humanity break isn't meditation. It's not a wellness initiative. It doesn't require a yoga mat or a therapy appointmen...
03/06/2026

A humanity break isn't meditation. It's not a wellness initiative. It doesn't require a yoga mat or a therapy appointment.

It's a deliberate moment during your workday where you step out of your professional role and remember you're a person.

Looking out a window and noticing the sky. Texting someone you love. Sitting quietly for two minutes and remembering that you exist beyond your job title.

These micro-moments of self-connection matter far more than we give them credit for. Research shows that healthcare workers who check in with themselves, even briefly, even imperfectly, report significantly better job satisfaction and emotional wellbeing within weeks.

Not because they fixed anything. Because they stopped long enough to notice what was true.

If you're running on empty right now, I'm not going to tell you to add another productivity system to your day. I'm going to ask when you last took two minutes that were just yours.

Start there.

This concept is explored in depth in Episode 185 of my podcast, out now. Link in my bio.

Molly is an intensive care nurse. And when she came to me, the first thing she said was: "I don't even know who I am any...
02/06/2026

Molly is an intensive care nurse. And when she came to me, the first thing she said was: "I don't even know who I am anymore. I'm just this thing that shows up to work, takes care of everyone else, goes home exhausted, and repeats. I feel like I'm watching my life from the outside."

Molly wasn't lacking skills. She wasn't short on resilience or dedication. She had those in abundance. What Molly had lost was herself.

I don't think Molly's story is unusual. I think it's incredibly common in healthcare, and I think most people quietly recognise it when they hear it.

We've become so focused on being better providers, better colleagues, better leaders, that somewhere along the way we stopped being people. We got very good at functioning. We forgot how to feel.

Episode 185 Of The Burnout Recovery Podcast is about what happens when the pursuit of growth quietly disconnects us from ourselves, and what it actually looks like to find your way back.

Being human first is easy to say. It's a lot harder to live when the system you work in doesn't make space for it.

Ep 185 is out now. Subscribe via the link in my bio.

Produced by . Supported by and MIGA.

I’m delighted to be speaking at the Creative Careers in Medicine Conference 2026. This year’s theme is Metamorphosis - ...
02/06/2026

I’m delighted to be speaking at the Creative Careers in Medicine Conference 2026.

This year’s theme is Metamorphosis - exploring the transformative possibilities of a medical career and what emerges when you push beyond the expected path.

See you there!

📍 QT Hotel, Gold Coast
🗓️ 4 & 5 September 2026
🎟️ Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/ccim2026
🌐 More info: https://creativecareersinmedicine.com/conference/

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