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Many people go into dentistry because they want to help others and be in a caring profession. We can soon allow this need to lead to burnout as we want to do so much for our patients in such a limiting system. Burnout is a result of chronic stress of living with the mismatch between […]

So what is it? What is making you need your glass of wine/pint tonight? With the glass in your hand, what is really going on in your head that you need to escape from? Cos that’s all it is, an escape from… what? What is going on in your life right now that it is […]

Many of us identify as our job first. We may be a mum or dad, brother or sister, an aunt or uncle, but when we are asked who we are, our job role tends to be the first answer. We find it easy to take the issues of our job home with us, going over […]

Many of us identify as a dentist first. We may be a mum or dad, brother or sister, an aunt or uncle, but when we are asked who we are, ‘a dentist’ tends to be the first answer. We find it easy to take dentistry home with us, going over treatment plans, how the treatment […]

Who am I outside of the office? On those days, weeks, or even months, when your job is getting you down, do you ever consider who you are outside of the job? Yes, we do spend the majority of our day at work and spend more time with the people we work with than our […]

On those days, weeks, or even months, when your job is getting you down, do you ever consider who you are outside of the job? Yes, we do spend the majority of our day at work and spend more time with the people we work with than our families, especially when working full time, but […]

Of all the issues that create stress for dentists cited in my survey in March 2020, ‘patient expectation’ was probably the most triggering. Over a third of participants stated that this one thing had been the most significant factor in changing their perception of dentistry. If we explore this below the surface, it’s easy to […]

Do you have those thoughts that are on automatic repeat? Going round and round and driving you around the bend? We have approximately 70 000 thoughts a day and it is said that 95% of them are the same as those you had yesterday. Do you really want to keep having those same thoughts or […]

Do you ever have those days, weeks(??), when you are just angry at everything and everyone? Or maybe, just that one person that pushes your buttons? And you just don’t know why! Anger is a completely normal emotion and is healthy in the right situations. Anger is there to protect you when something is felt […]

Many of us think that we ‘should’ do/be/feel a certain way. These tend have been instilled in us as children. They are reinforced by the behaviour of our parents or important people as we grow up. We use these ‘should’s to gauge how we feel about ourselves, which decision to make, how others see us […]

Do you feel that your successes are all a fluke and you don’t deserve them? It’s not very often that we look at where we are in life and list the successes that we have, but when we do it’s often hard to name them for ourselves. We often put our successes down to luck […]

Life can feel completely out of balance but do you know how it is out balance? There are many different ways of looking at life balance, so much information out there to tell you what you should be doing to gain a work life-balance. But they are all generic and seem to suggest you should […]

The distinction between coach and mentor is frequently blurred, especially when it comes to those within your business or profession. Often this distinction is blurred by the descriptors used by mentors that have chosen to take on the label of coach. A mentor is someone in your profession, often within the company you work, who […]

Whether you’ve been a dentist for 3 months, 3 years or 13 years, I strongly suspect that your reality of dentistry may not be what you signed up for. What’s more, it’s probably not the reality that you present to everyone else around you. Many people, especially our patients, have a perception that we have […]

Of all the issues that create stress for dentists cited in my survey in March 2020, ‘patient expectation’ was probably the one that triggered people the most. Over a third of participants stated that this one thing had been the most significant factor in changing their perception of dentistry. If we begin to explore this, […]