Category Archives: Career-Sustaining Behaviours

Breaking Your Heart At Work

A Conversation About Career-Sustaining Practices with Dr. Brian Miller

Dr. Brian Miller is an author, researcher, and trauma clinician. In this conversation, he shares his lessons learned about secondary traumatic stress, career-sustaining practices, his research into the CE-CERT model.

October 2021

Making Space to Fall Apart

A Conversation on Compassionate Care with Dr. Alana Hirsh

Dr. Alana Hirsh is a family physician and a UBC Clinical Assistant Professor who specializes in addiction medicine and the integration of trauma and substance use disorder treatment. In this conversation, she shares her lessons learned working in in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on the front lines of British Columbia's overdose epidemic.

September 2021

Advocacy Breeds Confidence

A Conversation About Imposter Syndrome with Dr. Matthew Chow

Dr. Matthew Chow is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and President of the Doctors of BE from 2020 - 2022. n this conversation, he shares his lessons learned about imposter syndrome and strategies to find confidence in our work.

May 2021

Faking It

Recognizing Imposter Syndrome

At what point in your career did you move from "faking it" to "making it?" In this discussion, Françoise Mathieu, Diana Tikasz. and Dr. Jennifer Russel discuss the phenomenon of imposter syndrome and how it manifests early in a helping professional's career.

May 2021

Understanding Boundaries and Setting Limits

A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

Have you ever been asked or offered advice to friends and family while being "off-duty?" In this discussion, Françoise Mathieu, Diana Tikasz. and Dr. Jennifer Russel explores the challenges, consequences, and benefits of setting boundaries.

January 2021

Don’t Set Yourself on Fire to Keep Others Warm

Countering the Self-Sabotaging Mindsets of Helping Professionals

Do we need to suffer to do our jobs well? In this CARE4YOU 2020 session, John Borthwick discusses running on fumes and forging a healthy mindset for a lifelong career.

June 2020

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