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Episode 24

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12th Oct 2020

024: The Anxiety Relief Handbook with Lauren Bell

When anxiety and overwhelm take over, you can feel so powerless and feel like there’s little that you can do to control your mind and body.  Although anxiety does have physical and mental effects on our body and, although you can’t just will it away, there are certain tools and steps that you can take to overcome and handle anxiety. Lauren and I are 2 of the 12 authors who are contributing to the Anxiety Relief Handbook. In this episode, we delve into the tools that we use to handle and deal with anxiety and overwhelm at work.  Anxiety is always present in our lives, to some degree. But the more you face anxiety instead of run from it, the more you grow both as a professional and an individual.  TOPICS WE DISCUSSED INCLUDE: Professional Anxiety (4:58) Living up to standards (5:49) Imposter syndrome (6:42) We all have huge potentials (7:18) Owning our authority and claiming our value (8:17) Life is volatile (9:05) Celebrating each step along the way (9:57) Look at yourself from the lens of others (10:28) Living our life through the lens of another (10:52) Anxiety of speaking up and sharing your truth (13:48) Identify the tipping point of overwhelm (15:35) The survival brain (16:58) Shaking off the stress (19:10) Reframing anxiety and excitement (21:00) Unspoken anxiety that nurses carry around with them (22:41) Hierarchical system of healthcare (23:16) Feel of getting into trouble (24:08) Tools to handle anxiety (27:15) Doing reflective practices to avoid anxiety (31:50) Seeing both sides rather than only the negative side (33:37) CONNECT WITH ELAINA MULLERY HappyNurse.com.au Connect with me on Instagram and Facebook Connect with me on LinkedIn Subscribe to my Youtube channel
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The Happy Nurse
Winner — APAC Insider Australian Enterprise Awards 2024 | Most Empowering Self Care Provider for Nurses. Burnout, compassion fatigue, and stress are rising in healthcare. This podcast exists to change that — one practical, honest conversation at a time.
Nurses are the backbone of the health system — always there to care for a stranger as if they were one of their own, forsaking precious moments with their own families to ensure others' loved ones are in good hands.
Compassion fatigue, stress, and burnout are rising across healthcare. Self care has never been more important — or more overlooked.
Elaina Mullery McDonald RN has 25 years of clinical nursing experience, a Postgraduate Certificate in Psychology, and a Master of Business Psychology in progress. She is a certified NLP Practitioner, hypnotherapist, and mindfulness practitioner — and the founder and host of The Happy Nurse podcast. Having experienced burnout firsthand, she is passionate about equipping nurses with practical, evidence-informed strategies to protect their wellbeing and sustain the career they worked so hard for.

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Elaina Mullery


Elaina Mullery RN has spent 25 years working across some of nursing's most demanding clinical environments — orthopaedic trauma, operating theatre, endoscopy, recovery, and day surgery. She knows firsthand what it feels like to run on empty, and it's that lived experience of burnout that drives everything she does.
Elaina holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Psychology and is completing a Master of Business Psychology at Edith Cowan University. She is a certified NLP Practitioner, hypnotherapist, and mindfulness practitioner, and has developed the 3R Framework — an original evidence-based methodology for building sustainable human performance at individual, team, and organisational level.
Through The Happy Nurse podcast, her online courses, and her white paper No Margin for Error, Elaina is on a mission to change the way healthcare treats its most valuable resource — the people who show up every day to care for others.