Dentists

I’m Ange Day, and I’m a Dentist and a coach working with dentists.

I’ve got a question for you. Is dentistry still for you?

Could you actually enjoy it or do you need a new direction?

• If you’ve got some difficult decisions to make and you’re feeling stuck, perhaps I can help?
• How does your reality of Dentistry match your vision?
• Do you feel frustrated on a daily basis?
• And feel like you have to ‘just get on with it’?
• Feel like you are putting a front on every day?
• Exhausted from the effort of hiding behind that veneer?

So much of the experience of our reality of Dentistry is determined by how we think about it – the fear of complaints, the stress of patient expectations, the restrictions of the system, the comparison to others, being trampled on by colleagues.

But it doesn’t have to be like this.

If you’re ready to choose a new reality, perhaps I can help.

When you work with me, I will help you explore what you want for your life, giving yourself permission to choose a career in Dentistry or not. I will support you through questioning your reality, making a choice of how you want this to be and how you can follow this through so you can let go of the fear and frustration to finally show up in your work and life as yourself.

So why me?

I am a dentist so I know exactly what it’s like to be stressed out by the job, have no-one to tell, and even if there is, have no-one who understands the unique dynamic of dentistry. 

I know the patient demands; the threats to complain that may risk your livelihood; and the sheer loneliness and isolation of being stuck in your room, in your head, as the stress builds inside of you.

People outside can’t see it, and you don’t want them to. You make such a good job of hiding it that they can’t tell. And that’s the problem. We’re all scared of owning up to our ‘demons’, our perceived weaknesses, our fears, doubts and insecurities that we’d rather suffer in silence than do something about it. We’re so scared that people will see us as the ‘mere mortals’ that we are, that we continue to hide and remain trapped in a prison of our own making. It’s something I know very well.

The truth of this is that I was so deeply distressed by my experience in the profession that I felt compelled to retrain. Counselling was going to be my exit strategy; my escape route from dentistry. But instead, I stayed. 

I stayed, not because I’d got my act together and I was fantastic, but because while I was training, I realised more and more that I could do something about the way I had been feeling. I could change the way I felt, and I did. The things that used to stress me out in the beginning, began to have less and less of an effect on me. Then I realised two important things. Not only was I starting to enjoy dentistry again, but I could also help others do the same.

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