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.

Sunday dread is not really about Sunday.For most healthcare professionals, Monday means a return to a version of yoursel...
10/09/2026

Sunday dread is not really about Sunday.

For most healthcare professionals, Monday means a return to a version of yourself with less autonomy, less say over your own time, and a roster that runs your life instead of the other way around. Your nervous system picks up on that shift ahead of time, which is why the dread shows up before the day itself does.

This is anticipation doing what anticipation does. Your body is bracing for a loss of control before the loss has happened.

Naming that early will not change the roster, but it does mean you can stop mistaking a normal stress response for something wrong with you.

More on the neuroscience of this in the Sunday Long Game newsletter, link in bio.

Practicing at the top of your registration means every task outside your specific scope of skill is better handled by so...
09/09/2026

Practicing at the top of your registration means every task outside your specific scope of skill is better handled by someone else, so the time and focus you do have goes toward the work only you're trained for.

This is the piece so many new consultants miss in the shift from registrar to consultant. The registrar years train you to do everything yourself, hands-on, task after task. Many new consultants keep working that same way long after the role has shifted to needing oversight and judgment instead.

The harder part isn't spotting what to hand off. It's the guilt that says doing it yourself is what makes you good at your job, and that guilt is often self-worth fused with personal effort, the belief that needing help means you're not capable enough.

Try this on any recurring task : is this something only I can do, or has it just always defaulted to me?

From episode 199 of The Burnout Recovery Podcast. Listen via your favourite podcast app 😊

A great weekend in the Gold Coast attending and speaking at Creative Careers in Medicine Conference 2026. Love this spac...
09/09/2026

A great weekend in the Gold Coast attending and speaking at Creative Careers in Medicine Conference 2026. Love this space where everyone is welcome, we’re all curious about what you’re doing outside of medicine, and there is a sense of acceptance and belonging.

I met wonderful new humans in healthcare and reconnected with old friends. The setting at QT Gold Coast was awesome and the theme of metamorphosis was fun.

Highly recommend you get to this annual conference. It’s a different kind of CPD….and so worth it.

With Cheryl Martin Ashe Coxon Amandeep Hansra Georgina Tiller Lexi Frydenberg Jackie Rabec themotherminddoctor Dinesh Palipana Tricia ⎮ Master Certified Coach Carlo Bellini Dr Jill Gamberg, Laurie Gamberg Susie Muir

There's a task in your day that's never been questioned. It's just always defaulted to you.In episode 199 of The Burnout...
08/09/2026

There's a task in your day that's never been questioned. It's just always defaulted to you.

In episode 199 of The Burnout Recovery Podcast, third in the boundaries series, I'm talking about delegation and why most of us don't even clock it as a boundary in the first place.

I walk through a coaching story about a client stuck in a loop of retrieving scans, clinic after clinic, and the small structural shift that changed it. We get into the guilt that shows up when you hand something off, the idea of practicing at the top of your registration, and a simple audit you can run this week to find the one task ready to leave your plate.

Subscribe to The Burnout Recovery Podcast - link in bio.

Produced by . Supported by MIGA.

It's easy to find yourself locked into commitments that no longer work - extra responsibilities, informal roles, expecta...
06/09/2026

It's easy to find yourself locked into commitments that no longer work - extra responsibilities, informal roles, expectations that built up over time and never got revisited.

Changing the terms of what you've agreed to can feel disloyal or difficult. But circumstances change, and what made sense at one point in your career doesn't have to define what you take on indefinitely.

This week, is there something you're still doing out of obligation rather than genuine willingness? And is there a conversation worth having about renegotiating it?

Have a great week 😊

06/09/2026

Reflections on Creative Careers in Medicine Conference 2026 from QT Gold Coast

A total blast. Meeting new people. Reconnecting with old friends. Feeling a wide range of emotions from skilled story telling. It’s an expansive setting. Seeing the potential in each other and ourselves.

It was a pleasure to contribute to the weekend as a speaker on the not so small topic of Boundaries - why they matter, why we don’t set them and how to get started.

This is a community you want to be a part of. Look out for details for CCIM conference 2027!

A colleague thinks you're not a team player. A patient's care feels compromised because you didn't pick up the extra shi...
03/09/2026

A colleague thinks you're not a team player. A patient's care feels compromised because you didn't pick up the extra shift. Your manager remembers who said no when the roster's being written. None of that is said out loud, but you've felt it, and it's why yes keeps coming out of your mouth before you've decided anything.

No is a Full Sentence is twelve scripts for the moments that fear kicks in hardest. The overfull list. The after-hours message. The favour you agree to before you've thought it through. Word for word, so the language is ready before the moment is.

The bundle adds five short videos where I talk you through what a boundary actually is, why your brain treats it as a threat, and how to deliver these scripts so they land instead of starting a fight.

Get the guide on its own, or the full bundle with the video masterclass via link in bio, or at drjobraid.com/store

Being on leave and being uncontactable are not the same thing.Most of us only ever practice the first one. We stop showi...
02/09/2026

Being on leave and being uncontactable are not the same thing.

Most of us only ever practice the first one. We stop showing up at the desk or office, but we're still checking our phones, still half tuned into work, still mentally available if something comes through. That isn't rest. That's just work happening from a different postcode.

Genuine detachment, the kind that restores you, is fragile. Research in occupational psychology shows how little it takes to break it. One email innocently checked while you're on leave can pull your brain straight back into problem solving mode, and once that happens you're not just losing the ten minutes it took to reply. You're resetting the whole recovery process and starting again from scratch.

A 2024 study of US physicians found something I keep coming back to : doctors with real coverage while they were away rarely ended up working through their leave days. Having a genuine delegate in place made the difference between disconnecting and not.

If you've got leave coming up, try asking yourself who the one person is who could hold the fort while you're away, and whether you've asked them yet.

This week's episode of The Burnout Recovery Podcast gets into this in more depth, plus the structure I'd recommend for building a real boundary around it.

If you're still checking your phone, still contactable, still half at work in your head, what exactly are you calling th...
01/09/2026

If you're still checking your phone, still contactable, still half at work in your head, what exactly are you calling this : leave, or just a change of scenery?

Episode 198 of The Burnout Recovery Podcast continues our ten part series on boundaries, and this week we're looking at what happens when leave gets treated as optional.

I talk about a moment I witnessed on a family holiday, when a work email pulled someone straight out of rest mode and into problem solving mode within minutes. There's real physiology behind why that shift matters : allostatic load, psychological detachment, attention restoration theory. Different angles, same conclusion. Accessibility during leave carries a measurable cost.

We get into what that looks like in practice, from naming a delegate before you go to building a physical barrier that doesn't rely on self control alone.

Listen now, link in bio 🎧

Produced by . Supported by MIGA.

Healthcare professionals are often very good at over-explaining their limits. Lengthy justifications for leaving on time...
30/08/2026

Healthcare professionals are often very good at over-explaining their limits. Lengthy justifications for leaving on time. Elaborate reasons for not taking on extra work. As though a boundary without a good enough reason doesn't count.

But a limit is a limit. You're allowed to have one without constructing a case for it.

This week, notice how much energy you spend justifying limits to others - or to yourself. And consider whether that energy is actually necessary, or just a habit you've picked up along the way.

Have a great week 😊

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