Living your best life as a mental health professional

Living your best life as a mental health professional will most definitely help you weather the storm both now and when you are qualified too. Here's how I did it and my top tips for how you can strive for it too. The Highlights: 00:29: Welcome & I’m on tour! 01:00: Living your best life 01:42: The view from my window 03:57: Where time is pleasant 05:33: The value of awe 07:00: Living great life along the way 07:37: Tip 1 08:51: Small pleasures add up 10:14: Life as a qualified isn’t vastly different 11:05: Tip 2 11:58: Tip 3 15:11: Clin Psych Collective 17:39: Burned out in the first term 18:00: What I did in the summer before training 20:00: “The best moment of your life!” 21:50: Nourishing your soul helps with the tricky days 23:14: Looking forward to stuff matters 23:43: Tip 6 24:50: Sound errors in the original recording 25:33: Come and join me on socials to discuss today’s episode 26:04: Compassionate Q&A 26:35: Competition to win a 1:1 session with me 27:12: Summary and close 30:00: Close Links:  Enter competition to win 1:1 coaching session here: www.goodthinkingpsychology.co.uk/my-books  The best moment of your life book: https://amzn.to/3DnXzzQ  Grab your copy of the new book: The Aspiring Psychologist Collective: https://amzn.to/3CP2N97  Get your Supervision Shaping Tool now: https://www.goodthinkingpsychology.co.uk/supervision  Connect socially with Marianne and check out ways to work with her, including the upcoming Aspiring Psychologist Book and The Aspiring Psychologist Membership on her Link tree: https://linktr.ee/drmariannetrent To check out The Clinical Psychologist Collective Book: https://amzn.to/3jOplx0 To join my free Facebook group and discuss your thoughts on this episode and more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/aspiringpsychologistcommunity Like, Comment, Subscribe & get involved: If you enjoy the podcast, please do subscribe and rate and review episodes. If you'd like to learn how to record and submit your own audio testimonial to be included in future shows head to: https://www.goodthinkingpsychology.co.uk/podcast and click the blue request info button at the top of the page. Hashtags: #aspiringpsychologist #dclinpsy #psychology #assistantpsychologist #psychologycareers #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #BPS #traineeclinicalpsychologist #clinicalpsychology #drmariannetrent #newbook #britishpsychologicalsociety #mentalhealthprofessional #gettingqualified #mentalhealthprofessionals #liveyourlife #livingyourbestlife #loveyourlife #windsurfing Mentioned in this episode: Sponsored by WriteUpp Tap to Pay This episode is sponsored by WriteUpp. Their Tap to Pay app turns your smartphone into a card reader, helping private practitioners take secure payments without additional hardware. Use code MARIANNE30 for a free 30-day trial and 30% off your first 6 months at this link: https://writeupp.com/?refid=142336