Dr Robyn Charlton helps individuals and health professionals to heal
their minds, body and soul.
Through courses, coaching and online programmes, she creates a safe space where you can come together and be guided through simple and effective holistic stress management tools for managing everyday stress, avoiding burnout and helping with mental health.
Health Professionals, you are so busy taking care of everyone else
But who is taking care of you?
Some days it feels like everyone wants a piece of you.
Your patients or clients, your staff, your board, your kids, your partner, your parents, your community.
You move from consult to consult with barely time to breathe, let alone eat your lunch, work out, read that growing pile of medical journals or follow up on your patients. You’re constantly worried you’ll drop the ball on something important - with devastating consequences for someone you care for, or someone you love.
And where are you in all of this?
You’re stressed out, exhausted and some days you feel like chucking it in.
But then what would you do? You’ve worked too damn hard - and you care too damn much - to throw it all away. And thankfully, there is another way...
After 25 years in clinical practice, with the relentless demands of my career in the frontline of New Zealands Health crisis, the ongoing emotional cost.
I burned out!
The relentless demands of my career in medicine, the ongoing emotional cost of supporting vulnerable patients in extreme distress, and the pressure of trying to be a great mum and partner, while supporting extended family and navigating personal loss, all added up to my perfect storm.
Two decades earlier, my wonderful boyfriend, a smart and caring first-year house surgeon, took his own life. It was a devastating loss that caused me to re-evaluate everything...
I began to question, who cares for the carers?
What continued to break my heart over the next two decades, was that nothing much changed to ensure we take care of our carers.
When my perfect storm unleashed in 2018 and I felt myself pushed way beyond my limits and burning out, I knew I had to make some drastic changes. I resigned from my job and stepped back from medical practice altogether, embarking on an intense period of healing as I rebuilt my life from the ground up.
The Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) course changed my life
I studied for two years with the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion founded by Dr. Kristin Neff and Chris Germer, and became a Mindful Self-Compassion Meditation teacher.
As I learned to be kind to myself, I found the courage to embark on a new direction. Yin Yoga had helped me reset my nervous system and recover from burnout, so I trained as a Mindful Yin Yoga Teacher. Together with my clinical knowledge of neuroscience and psychiatry, I developed The Mind Fitness Method to Manage Stress and Prevent Burnout, with my unique seven-step SOARING system of micro-practices.
I’m Dr. Robyn Charlton,
AKA the Mind Fitness Dr.
My simple, evidence-based programs will transform your experience of work and life, in just a few minutes a day.
Whichever option you choose, The SOARING STRATEGY doesn’t just help you manage stress and sustain your career for the long term. When you integrate these tools into your daily life, you’ll elevate your everyday sense of joy, contentment, and well-being, with a profound impact on you and those you love.
By recharging our stress management batteries we can continue to care for others. You can even pass on these tools to your loved ones and patients, helping them to improve their quality of life too.
"I was on the edge of burnout..."
"I was on the edge of burnout, but I didn't know where to start or how to find out which Youtube/internet resource was the most evidence-based. Seeing the post on the NZWIM Facebook page was encouraging as I had the reassurance of the quality and expertise of the facilitator.
As a medical student, it's so hard to find time for mindfulness, so I was appealed to by the short 4-day course and the short podcasts I could listen to on my commute."
Are You Ready to Go SOARING?
The Mind Fit Dr Retreat
A restorative two-day retreat in a gorgeous location with like-minded women in medicine.
The Official Bio
With more than 20 years of clinical experience and as a mother of three, Dr Robyn has intimate knowledge of the stress and pressure of juggling a high stakes career alongside multiple caregiving roles.
Through her Mind Fitness online courses, coaching, retreats and The Mind Fitness Gym membership, Dr Robyn teaches busy health professionals how to train your mind the way you train your body: with quality nourishment, daily strengthening and restorative exercises, and an individual Mind Fitness Plan to manage stress and prevent burnout.
Her SOARING system of micro practices is designed to help you manage everyday stress well, so that you can avoid burnout, sustain the career you love and live a more joyful, contented and connected life.
Dr Robyn’s teachings bring together the latest in neuroscience, psychiatry, positive neuroplasticity, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She is also a Yin Yoga and Mindful Self-Compassion meditation teacher.
Dr Robyn Charlton is a Perinatal psychiatrist, Mindful Self-Compassion meditation teacher, Yin Yoga teacher and an expert in how to rewire your brain for wellbeing, resilience and satisfaction in life.
It’s true medicine for the body, mind and soul.
Overwhelmed by everyday stress?
Download my free STRESS RESET TOOLBOX and discover my SOARING system, specifically designed to help you manage stress and prevent burnout on the go.
Just enter your name and email address and I’ll send you my free Stress Reset TOOLBOX, with 7 simple stress management practices to get you through even the toughest days in the clinic.
