Lifestyle Coaching for Doctors: Books for Doctors
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Doctors can benefit from coaching, not only for themselves but also as a way of enabling their patients to decide about treatment options. This book explains what coaching is, and how it can encourage doctors to improve their work-life balance. There is information about the benefits of telephone and internet coaching and the skills you can learn from working with a coach. You will also discover the secrets of successful coaching if you want to coach doctors and have a positive outcome from coaching sessions.
Susan Kersley, the author, is a retired doctor who trained as a Life Coach and writes from the perspective of someone who has experienced for herself the stress and overwhelm of a medical life. She believes doctors can have a less stressful life. It is vital to balance medicine with self-care, time with partner, family, friends and community in order to have a happy and successful life in or out of medicine.
Susan Kersley
Susan Kersley has written personal development and self-help books for doctors and others, and books about retirement and novels. She was a doctor for thirty years and then left Medicine to be a Life Coach.. Now retired, she is updating her books and writing more. Please visit her website https://susankersley.co.uk If you enjoyed this book, please take a moment to leave a review. Reviews are so important for independent authors.
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Lifestyle Coaching for Doctors - Susan Kersley
PART ONE - WHAT IS COACHING?
1.What is Coaching?
Coaching is a tool for increasing success and satisfaction in your life.
A coach listens, reflects and encourages you to set and reach your goals by helping you focus on achieving specific actions towards what you want.
Coaching is a forward-looking, active process, whereas counselling deals with and explores emotional issues from the past, and helps you to cope with crises.
Coaching is about improving the quality of life and creating what you want for the future. It closes the gap between how life is and how you would like it to be. It encompasses whatever areas of life or career you want it to.
With coaching, you look after your physical and emotional needs. It encourages you to have balance in all areas of your life.
You learn to say ‘no’ more often and set clearer boundaries, both physical and emotional. By getting rid of whatever drains your energy and increasing the things that give you more get-up-and-go, life as a doctor can improve.
2.What can Coaching do for you?
Coaching helps you to:
Focus on what you want. It’s important to set clear goals. It’s easy to say ‘I don’t want such-and-such anymore.’ That isn’t a goal.
Specify what you want instead of what you don’t want.
Save time and effort. Coaching offers tools and suggestions for making changes quickly so that something you’ve been struggling with for ages can suddenly seem easy.
Think about time scale for desired outcomes, instead of waiting (for example ‘when the children have left home’ or ‘when I’ve lost the weight’). Then you realise the obstacles you thought were there disappear.
Coaching:
Changes the way you think about a situation. When you ‘disassociate’, you see a different perspective on the circumstances. This technique alone can transform your perception of a situation.
Clarifies what can and can’t change. When you challenge yourself, you realise you can change more than you thought.
Motivates you to start. When you set goals and project your thoughts to the future, you do more than you thought possible.
Encourages you to say ‘no’ more often. It’s easier to find time to do things for yourself when you have a choice about what you do.
Improves your time management. If you believe you have too much to do to make the changes you want, you set different boundaries and manage your time more effectively.
Focuses on your needs. As you learn more about personal development, you realise that self-care is vital.
Encourages you to look after yourself. People who care for others, whether in their work or home, are often not addressing their own needs.
Perfects your organisational skills. When you clear your clutter and get more organised, other changes happen more easily
Reduces your stress. You learn ways to communicate more effectively, to relax, and deal with stress.
3.Skills taught by life coaches.
You may wonder what skills you learn by working with a life coach.
Setting goals which are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timed because when you know what you want, you are more likely to achieve.
Achieving goals by removing any obstacles and getting support to do that and moving forward step-by-step.
Gaining confidence and being more assertive, saying no more often, asking for help when you need it and doing what you really want to do.
Enables you to you set good boundaries. Looking at your beliefs and how they affect your life, stop you from doing certain things and realising you can change them.
Aligning life with your values so that what you do is congruent with what’s important for you. When you do that, your life flows more easily. You find it becomes a pleasure to do whatever is necessary to achieve your goals.
Becoming clear about your identity, because of who you are, relates to what’s important in your life.
Finding out what you want from life, and how you can work towards achieving it.
Living a healthy balanced life by treating your body well, keeping it well exercised and nourished with healthy and energising foods. When you do this, you achieve more than you ever believed possible.
Improve your relationships by better communication skills. Become familiar with rapport, and understand a situation from another