21: DOCTORS, how do we ACTUALLY feel better?

Last week we talked about the PROBLEM. This week, let's talk about the SOLUTION.    Last week's episode, episode 20, was an episode that resonated with a lot of you - we started to dissect why clinical work seems to be especially exhausting cognitively and emotionally… And because of that, also physiologically and physically.   Paradoxically, an important part of finding solutions for ourselves is getting closer to the reality of the problem. When we can see the problem clearly, we are better positioned to choose impactful solutions. So if you haven't listened to our last episode, we'd highly encourage you to start there in favour of 'shortcutting to a solution'.    In this episode, we introduce the concept of DEPOSITS and WITHDRAWALS on your energy. NOTE: thinking about energy in terms of deposits and withdrawals is not an original concept but it is widely spread and we are unaware of the original creator to give credit to.     In this episode, we first talk about what it really means when we say we want to rest or we need rest. For most of us, what most of us mean is that we want to feel less tired and we think that being idle and not exerting ourselves is the way to achieve that. Like us, many of you may have found the 'just rest' and 'just do less' advice… essentially useless. It seems that with this model we can never seem to rest enough.    Luckily, there's a more sophisticated way to think about rest. In this episode, we detangle the result of feeling rested or more energise with being idle or creating ease in the body.    And, as always, we share our own personal examples of unexpected ways that we create more energy for ourselves so that you can try it on and see if it fits in your life.    We hope this one deposits some more energy into your life! We'd love it if you'd share some examples of deposits in the comments so that we can invest in them too.