Thrivival 101: A Fresh Take on Self-Care for Female Mental Health Clinicians
As mental health clinicians we all know that self-care is important. We talk with our clients about it ALL.THE.TIME and yet, ironically, we often struggle with it ourselves! Even worse, we tend to do this in silence, because, who wants to let any of our colleagues know that we might be struggling with our own self-care? After all, aren’t we supposed to be the experts in this?!
Here’s the thing: There are unique factors (about our training, our work, and our gender socialization) that contribute to the very real and normal struggle that we, especially as female mental health clinicians, have when it comes to our own self-care. The good news is that together we can lessen the struggle but only if we’re willing to break the silence.
Join us, Dr. Karen Dyck and Dr. Melissa Tiessen of Intentional Therapist, to learn how to re-think what challenges our self-care efforts as females in this profession. And get on board with a whole new concept of what self-care can look like, using our 4 C’s model: Connection, Compassion, Courage, and Creativity. We hope that through our down-to-earth discussions with other like-minded mental health clinicians you will be inspired to elevate your own self-care, and move from simply surviving to truly thriving.
Because, in the end, taking care of ourselves is not only how we best take care of our clients, but it’s also how we create the kind of life from which we don’t need to escape. (We know, intriguing concept!)
To learn more about Intentional Therapist and our 4 C’s model of self-care, visit us at: www.intentionaltherapist.ca
Thrivival 101: A Fresh Take on Self-Care for Female Mental Health Clinicians
Replay: Fitting Finances Into Your Self-Care: A Conversation with Linzy Bonham
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As we shared last month, we are busily working on a new format for our podcast which we’re planning on unveiling in the next few months. Until then, we’re continuing to go into our podcast archives and resharing episodes on topics we thought warrant a repeat performance.
So with that in mind, this month we are resharing our podcast interview with Linzy Bonham on the important topic of finances. We hope you’ll join us in revisiting this important and highly relevant topic to self-care. As we often say, self-care isn’t one and done and the reality is we often need reminders to keep us on track.
Whether you are in private practice or in a salaried position, this episode has great information that will help you reflect on your own finances and provide some potential steps you can take to start making this part of your self-care plan. Because as Linzy points out finances are foundational to self-care!
Episode highlights:
- What led Linzy to create her signature course, Money Skills for Therapists
- How money skills fit into self-care
- Factors that contribute to unique money related issues for female therapists
- Steps you can take today to start feeling more on top of your finances
- Linzy’s best “non-conventional” self-care practice
Linzy Bonham is a therapist in private practice, a consultant who helps therapists feel calm and in control of their finances, and the creator of the Money Skills for Therapists course. As the daughter of an accountant, Linzy inherited a good dose of bookkeeping brain. She's like half therapist, half bookkeeper. So when she went into private practice, she dug right into all the ways to build a healthy business that pays for her life and always has extra money in the bank.
Now Linzy helps therapists develop peace of mind about their money. Since so many of us were never taught about money, she focuses on the 'how' of making the financial side of private practice doable, and even super satisfying - feeling competent and calm about your money is pretty swell!
Resources:
Free Mini-Training: The Secret to Getting Unstuck in Your Business Finances (this and other resources are available on this page):
https://moneynutsandbolts.com/resources
Connect with Linzy:
https://www.moneynutsandbolts.com
hello@moneynutsandbolts.com
Connect with Melissa & Karen at Intentional Therapist:
intentional@intentionaltherapist.ca
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmelissatiessen/
Sign up for our newsletter to receive access to our FREE '4 C's' mini-course:
https://www.intentionaltherapist.ca
Join us for the next cohort of Thrivival Skills for Therapists, starting in October, and earn 6 CE credits: https://intentionaltherapist.thinkific.com/courses/thrivival-skills-for-therapists-fall-2024
Disclaimer: Thrivival 101 is a podcast that seeks to be educational in purpose and is not to be used as clinical advice. Please connect with a therapist one-on-one for personalized support.