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As a caring professional you are great at caring for others, but it's often a different story when it comes to your own self care.
How often are you left feeling stressed, burnt out and ready to find a new career?
The Queens Nursing Institute Scotland has been supporting community nursing and midwifery since our inception in 1889.
While our work may have changed since then, we continue to support and champion community nursing and midwifery.
This series of podcasts seeks to inform and inspire by introducing you to practices which may be familiar but with a fresh perspective.
You'll hear about the benefits of self care, how to use self care for yourself and stories from real people who are practicing self care and seeing positive changes.
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You can find a whole suite of useful wellbeing resources to help you on your self-care journey at our website.
These resources do not replace professional advice; they are a series of tools that people or groups can use for self-care or self-management. If you’re in need of significant help or support here’s where you can go.
Transcripts
Clare Cable::
The Queens Nursing Institute Scotland has been supporting community nursing and midwifery since our inception in 1889. While our work may have changed since then, we continue to support and champion community nursing and midwifery.
As caring professionals, we often neglect our own self-care. Which when unchecked over time can lead to burnout.
These pressures are exacerbated by the current stress of unprecedented demand on our health and care services, and we're seeing the impact on individuals, family, and colleagues. Sometimes we feel powerless to change any of that, but it means that taking time to check in with ourselves is even more important.
This series of podcasts seeks to inform and inspire by introducing you to practices which may be familiar, perhaps with a fresh perspective, by offering first-hand stories of the benefits for others.
One of the things when we're thinking about boundaries, maybe we need to think about as well as self-care, is self responsibility.
We're not responsible for everything. And that's really important. We're only responsible for the little bit that's our responsibility.
The Tai Chi comes with visualisation, so it's not just the same as what you would get if you went to a regular class on Tai Chi. It comes with some visualisation, which is also very helpful in changing people's mood, I think.
We're choosing to step out of automatic pilot. We're paying attention to the present moment with that anatomy to help to guide our observation. But we're doing it with a set of attitudes that actually I feel are almost the most important bit. So we're training our self through that brain training to pay attention.
It's not what you think about , it's where do you feel it? It's like oh here I am all hunched up or in constricted mode of, curling up fetal like. I'm so stressed, I just want to go under the covers and we move back to sort the baby position. It's how can we open back up to that expanded position of being at one with the world and at one with who we are, who we truly are.
It's an opportunity to pause. And take a few moments to reflect.
