Health-FULL
Delivering ALL topics that are health-FULL. From diet, exercise, mental health, physical therapies, to many other broader topics in the health industry.
Forrest and Monica are both top industry mentors and educators in the field of health. On this show, you get inside access to expert health tips from over 40 years of mistakes, successes, and experiences from their personal clinical practices. The Health-FULL podcast aim to host cutting edge guests, who are at the top of their industries, to offer new and fresh perspectives for our listeners. The Health-FULL podcast holds nothing back when it comes to educating our valued listeners!
About your hosts:
Monica Ander is a Registered Acupuncturist, Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioner, Manual Osteopath, and Traditional Thai Massage Practitioner. She has a background in fitness training and has been in the health industry for well over 20 years. She has taught Chinese Medicine at a college level, treated professional athletes, and worked at a cutting edge pain clinic - before opening her own private-practice with a holistic pain management focus.
Health-FULL
Empathy, Sympathy & Compassion Defined
In this Health-FULL episode, we discuss the differences between Sympathy, Empathy & Compassion. What is a healthy state to deliver care in? Is it good for mental health to be in a constant state of empathy?
Being in a position of balanced mental health and wellness is extremely important to avoid the jaws of stress and anxiety. Taking on emotional patterns of others by unknowingly being too empathetic, can be damaging in the long-term.
We discuss real life scenarios with our patients that have shaped us into the practitioners we are today. This is a vulnerable episode. We discuss patient mortality, and the first time we had a patient pass away - while they were under our care umbrella. We elaborate on our grief and chat about the amazing relationships that are formed with patients over the course of many years,
We love this Health-FULL topic and hope you enjoy the show.
Yours in health, Monica & Forrest
Episode Summary
- Intros
- Where should we sit in the Empathy, Sympathy, and Compassion scale as therapists?
- How being empathetic is a blessing and a curse
- Monica delivers a story about the death of her first patient
- Forrest shares about the death of his first patient
- Being triggered by our patient's emotions and how to approach that in a healthy compassionate way
- We can choose compassion and to protect ourselves
- 4 pillars of compassion and how to achieve compassion toward others
- personal ethics vs. professional ethics
- "Do no harm" through compassion
- Sharing personal experiences with patients - is it ok? If so, in what context?
- Redirecting conversation back to our patients always
- The "You're not alone, I've been there too" approach
- Authenticity and being genuine, in the face of compassion
- Patient autonomy and being respectful of that
- Creating boundaries around our emotions
- Using hand signals :) Helping patients feel safe and like they have an "out" if a topic is not safe for them
- "I statements" vs. "You statements"
- Having a heart and caring is a GOOD thing
- Conclusion