What happens when a work event leaves you unsure how to carry on? Liz Crowe and Iain Beardsell discuss preparing for a crisis, seeking support, coping with its aftermath and rebuilding a sense of identity beyond the event and the job.
Podcast – Wellbeing for the Broken with Liz Crowe Read More
Liz Crowe reflects on recovery in the months after a deeply distressing work event. The second part of her personal account explores routine, sleep, support and the effort of returning to everyday life, while distinguishing her experience from treatment for a diagnosed mental illness.
Wellbeing for the broken – Part 2 Read More
Liz Crowe describes the emotional aftermath of a distressing event at work, including fear, vulnerability and uncertainty about continuing in her role. This candid first-person account introduces a two-part reflection, with the second article turning towards recovery and support.
Wellbeing for the broken – Part 1 Read More
Good workplace relationships need deliberate attention. Stevan Bruijns reflects on how gratitude, generous interpretations of colleagues’ actions, celebrating successes and shared experiences can support emergency care teams, while recognising that no single team can meet every professional and personal need.
About that I in team (and workplace relationships) Read More
Rusty Carroll reflects on the eighteen months after completing therapy for PTSD. In this personal account, he describes returning to clinical work, rebuilding physical wellbeing and reconsidering professional identity, showing how recovery continued through everyday choices and a different relationship with work.
PTSD and me part 4: post therapy Read More
Must a new year begin with a plan to reinvent yourself? Liz Crowe reflects on resolutions, motivation and wellbeing, exploring small achievable changes, self-compassion and gratitude. Her account challenges all-or-nothing thinking and asks whether our goals reflect what we actually value.
New year resolutions and wellbeing Read More
Simon Carley shares highlights from the 2018 BASICS North West conference, spanning prehospital care, sepsis, stroke research and support for clinicians. The report ends with his torso trauma discussion, covering changing interventions, paediatric injuries, assessment of shock and the challenges of care across the patient journey.
Torso Trauma tips and the BASICS North West conference 2018. St Emlyn’s Read More
This introduction to St Emlyn’s 2018 wellbeing e-book brings together reflections on working in emergency and acute care. Edited by Simon Carley and Laura Howard, the collection draws on the team’s experiences of pressure, fatigue and balancing professional and personal lives, with self-care at its centre.
The Resuscitationist’s Guide to Health and Wellbeing. A St Emlyn’s e-book. Read More
