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Healthcare Provider Happy Hour: The Path to Self-Discovery: Building Meaningful Connections and Preventing Burnout, with Rachel Awes

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Jennifer George opens the show by framing it as a safe place for healthcare providers to be themselves after the working day. Rachel Awes joins as a psychiatrist, health care provider, psychologist, author, and art playgroundist who loves listening to, connecting with, and highlighting the beauty in people. The conversation moves quickly toward the question of how to stay grounded when life gets noisy. Rachel says the year has been hard and that being a healthcare provider does not make her immune to strain. She describes a thyroiditis diagnosis that left her wiped out for months. She notes that the body tends to repair itself on its own, but the fatigue was still very real. She speaks honestly about not being picture perfect while going through it, and that honesty becomes part of the point. The experience pushed her to slow down and listen more carefully to what she needed. She treats the illness as a wake-up call to care for herself further. She explains that self-care had to become more intentional, not more theoretical. One example is how she now prioritizes her calendar differently. Before, she would schedule clients first and fit the rest of life around them. Now she is more deliberate about protecting her own rhythms. The discussion lingers on stillness and play as things that matter, not as luxuries, and it connects personal care to the realities of healthcare work, where emotional and physical depletion can build quietly. The show does not rush to easy answers. Instead, it stays with the ongoing process of caring for a body, a heart, and a career at the same time. Rachel’s reflections land as a peer-to-peer reminder that taking care of yourself has to be part of the work, not an afterthought. The conversation stays warm, practical, and rooted in real life.

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A plainspoken reset on pacing, self-care, and staying human.

Healthcare Provider Happy Hour starts from a familiar clinical truth: when health gets shaky, slowing down is not optional anymore. Jennifer George and Rachel Oz talk through self-care, stillness, play, and the harder work of listening to what the body and mind actually need.

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When you need a calmer way to think about hard seasons in healthcare.

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