Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Building resilience with Dr Rachael Hunter | S4E34
Welcome to Living Well with MS. In this episode, Geoff catches up with Overcoming MS facilitator, Dr Rachael Hunter, a clinical psychologist and senior lecturer in clinical and health psychology at Swansea University. Rachael talks to Geoff about the meaning of resilience and looking after your psychological health.
Watch this episode on YouTube here. Keep reading for the key episode takeaways.
Topics and Timestamps:
02:03 Can you tell us a little about your professional background and personal journey with MS and Overcoming MS?
09:26 What is resilience?
17:47 How would you relate resilience and having traumatic diagnosis of something like MS?
21:45 What are the building blocks of resilience?
25:05 You have a 3Ps framework. Could you explain what that is?
27:53 You’ve got pleasure, purpose, and practice. How could you get more pleasure in your life?
31:11 Moving on to purpose, how can people connect to and find their true purpose?
34:12 And then the final one, practice. What do you mean by practice?
36:14 So if one is trying to look into more of self-care, what would you say is self-care approach to take?
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More info and links:
- Buy a copy of the latest book, the Overcoming MS Handbook, launched at the end of 2021.
- Read the 2022 Global Resilience report here.
- PTSD stats: https://www.ptsduk.org/ptsd-stats/
- Follow Rachael on social media: IG @drrachaelhunter, Twitter @drrachhunter
- Facebook https://www.facebook.com/rachael.hunter.908
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- Visit the Overcoming MS website
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