Episode 26: You are fabulous AND you need a resilience plan

As clinicians we’re familiar with the concept and importance of resilience but how many of us actually think about resiliency for ourselves?

In this month's episode of Thrivival 101 we spoke with award winning workplace mental health expert and psychologist, Dr. Marie-Helene Pelletier, about her recent book The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health. Marie-Helene explains how a resilience plan differs from traditional self-care and identifies the key elements involved in developing a strategic resilience plan that’s as unique as our DNA.

Importantly, she also shares how value-driven work can place us at increased risk of burnout, the importance of not tipping too far toward optimism, and how being good at what we do actually makes it more necessary to have a strategic plan for staying resilient. As women working in the mental health field, we are likely all doing work that very much matters to us, and counter-intuitively it is this fact that means we really do need to pay attention to our own resilience!