Winter Stress Reset: A Recharge Retreat for Women in Medicine

💛 A Safe Space That Gets It

This isn’t just about stress — it’s about the invisible cost of caring in systems that rarely care for you.

If you’re holding space for others’ suffering day after day, you’re not just tired—you may be experiencing empathetic distress or vicarious traumatisation. These are in-between drains on your self-care battery: the emotional toll of empathetically resonating and co-regulating with others in the face of pain you can’t always fix.

We name these realities, without blame.

And then we talk to the external drains—the systems that create moral injury, asking you to compromise your values, your boundaries, or your well-being just to keep showing up. These conditions are not personal failings. They are nervous system injuries.

Finally, we tend to the internal drains—the self-criticism, perfectionism, and high-functioning survival mode that have become second nature after years of perseverance.