Self Compassion For Women In Medicine

Service Description

🩺 Mindful Self-Compassion for Women in Medicine A six-week course to quiet the inner critic, honour your limits, and reconnect with what matters most. Women in medicine often carry invisible expectations — to care more, do more, and never let anything slip. Many live with constant self-judgment, people-pleasing, and the emotional weight of caregiving, all while navigating systems that rarely make space for their humanity. This evidence-based course offers a trauma-informed, polyvagal-aware space to shift those patterns and learn a more sustainable, empowering way to care — for others and for yourself. 💠 What we’ll explore each week: 🔹 Week 1 – What is Self-Compassion? Unpack why so many women in medicine struggle to turn care inward — and how self-compassion can be a strong, motivating force for change. 🔹 Week 2 – The Science & Nervous System Learn how polyvagal theory, empathetic resonance, and vicarious trauma affect your system — and how self-compassion helps you regulate from within. 🔹 Week 3 – Taming the Inner Critic Shift from perfectionism and self-doubt to a more supportive, empowering internal voice that encourages without pushing you past your limits. 🔹 Week 4 – Meeting Emotions with Care Develop skills to stay present with difficult emotions without suppressing or being overwhelmed by them. 🔹 Week 5 – Boundaries, Burnout & Overgiving Explore how gendered expectations, invisible labour, and moral pressure drive burnout — and learn to say yes and no from a place of integrity. 🔹 Week 6 – Living Aligned with What Matters Reclaim clarity and connection to your values — not the ones expected of you, but the ones that truly sustain you. This is for women who are ready to include themselves in the circle of care — with clarity, courage, and compassion. Participants will receive a certicate of completion for Continuing Professional Development.