Ruminations on a veterinary theme: chewing the cud

Category Wellness in Practice

Burnout in the Veterinary Profession – A Personal Perspective

Reading Time: 9 minutes This article looks at burnout from a personal perspective and follows on from Mark Turner’s article in the July 2020 edition of Companion. Unlike other articles I have read on this topic which tend to be fairly high-level overviews, this… Continue Reading →

My Year Reconnecting With Nature

Reading Time: 3 minutes Why I am taking a break to study plants on an ethnobotany course.

How (not) to use the Internet

Reading Time: 16 minutes How to recognise and avoid or manage the mental health risks of online clickbait and doomscrolling.

Introverts don’t like people – the myth we need to bust in the veterinary profession

Reading Time: 13 minutes Introverts don’t like people. Or so goes the common belief, anyway, which gets propagated by those that don’t fully understand introverted personality traits. Having talked with someone that performs behavioural analysis in the veterinary profession, they estimated that at least… Continue Reading →

The Power of Stories

Reading Time: 12 minutes This article was written by my husband following many discussions between us about the power of story telling. You might wonder what this has to do with the veterinary profession? It has an awful lot to do with empathy and… Continue Reading →

How to deal with redundancy

Reading Time: 7 minutes I had hoped I’d never need to share my experiences and lessons about redundancy with the vet profession, but it’s now clear that this has become other people’s reality recently too. Let me share my story and what I learnt about my personal process in the hope that it can help some of you going through it now.

Mindful Crafting

Reading Time: 8 minutes This article was written to accompany WellVet Virtual 2020 at which I had been invited to present on mindful crafting. Here are the videos of the prerecorded presentations for those that haven’t seen them

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