Mind Your Own Revisions

Day 7 of the #30days30tips on Productivity. Here's why you should not give up on your hobbies even during a busy period at work. #productivity #ProductivityTips #WorkLifeBalance #rest #resting #MindYourOwnRevisions Interested in getting coached for burnout prevention/recovery and a deeper wellbeing? Check out my website: https://www.mindyourownrevisions.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Day 6 of the #30days30tips on Productivity. Here's why you should not give up on your hobbies even during a busy period at work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day 5 of the #30days30tips on Productivity. Here's my take on "work-life balance" and how to have it... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day 4 of the #30days30tips on Productivity. Here's my favorite method of time management: Time blocking. (Best to watch the video for this one: https://youtu.be/BC1QfggB3zI Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day 3 of the #30days30tips on Productivity. A proven technique to get to the other side of "I don't feel like it"... Here's how to get inspiration from action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day 2 of the #30days30tips on Productivity. How do you eat an elephant? Piece by piece. But how do you make those little pieces that can be eaten easily? Here's how. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day 1 of the #30days30tips on Productivity. Productivity is a result of good Time, Energy, and Attention management. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Go to mindyourownrevisions.com to learn more about how I help fellow academics to prevent and overcome burnout as well as maintain mental and emotional wellbeing, and sign up for my newsletter to receive more resources. ********************************************************** Kumsal Tekirdag-Kosar is a scientist, parent, migrant, and a social worker based in Toronto, Canada. She has lived experi...

Go to mindyourownrevisions.com to learn more about how I help fellow academics to prevent and overcome burnout as well as maintain mental and emotional wellbeing, and sign up for my newsletter to receive more resources. ********************************************************** According to the publication from 2018 by Evans et al. in Nature Biotechnology, 41% of graduate students meet the criteri...

Go to mindyourownrevisions.com to learn more about how I help fellow academics to prevent and overcome burnout as well as maintain mental and emotional wellbeing, and sign up for my newsletter to receive more resources. ********************************************************** Els Deboutte is a career coach based in Leuven, Belgium. She is the co-founder of "Make Me Fly!", which offers solution-f...

Go to mindyourownrevisions.com to learn more about how I help fellow academics to prevent and overcome burnout as well as maintain mental and emotional wellbeing, and sign up for my newsletter to receive more resources. ********************************************************** Stephan Marchant is a wellbeing advisor at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium as well as a dance and movemen...

Go to mindyourownrevisions.com to learn more about how I help fellow academics to prevent and overcome burnout as well as maintain mental and emotional wellbeing, and sign up for my newsletter to receive more resources. ********************************************************** This episode of Mind Your Own Revisions podcast has a special guest: Danielle De La Mare, Ph. D. (aka. the Self-Compassio...

Go to mindyourownrevisions.com to learn more about how I help fellow academics to prevent and overcome burnout as well as maintain mental and emotional wellbeing, and sign up for my newsletter to receive more resources. ********************************************************** This episode introduces my four-week online course Bounce Back from Burnout (BBfB). More information and application here...

Go to mindyourownrevisions.com to learn more about how I help fellow academics to prevent and overcome burnout as well as maintain mental and emotional wellbeing, and sign up for my newsletter to receive more resources. ********************************************************** This episode of Mind Your Own Revisions podcast has a special guest: Sally Clarke. Sally is a wellbeing & burnout exp...

Go to mindyourownrevisions.com to learn more about how I help fellow academics to prevent and overcome burnout as well as maintain mental and emotional wellbeing, and sign up for my newsletter to receive more resources. ************************************************************************** This episode is all about living with the "black dog" called depression. I share my my personal experienc...

Go to mindyourownrevisions.com to learn more about how I help fellow academics to maintain mental and emotional wellbeing, and sign up for my newsletter to receive more resources. This episode is all about the (occupational) burnout syndrome. We hear the term burnout everywhere - so much so that it has become a sort of a buzzword... Though many of us don’t even know what “burnout” means. In this e...

Go to mindyourownrevisions.com to learn more about how I help fellow academics to maintain mental and emotional wellbeing, and sign up for my fortnightly newsletter to receive more resources. This episode tackles the question "to PhD or not to PhD". On the one hand, I share my own experience as a former PhD student in Belgium. On the other hand, I review the book "The Realities of Completing a PhD...

Do you have a "just-in-case" plan for a possible future mental health-related rough patch? If not, listen on! This episode is about the importance of "asking for help" and offers practical ways to do so. We also dive deeper into what vulnerabiltiy means, and how to be vulnerable. Cited in this episode: * Brené Brown. 2019. “Rumbling with Vulnerability: The Myths of Vulnerability”. Dare to Lead Dar...

This episode is about how we can support someone who is going through a hard time mental health-wise - something we all need to learn, considering the increase in the number of people struggling with mental health issues both in general and in academia, and especially during this pandemic period; because: We all have mental health. All of us are capable. It is our business to offer help/support to...

In this episode, I talk about "rejection" - a concept that we are all too familiar with. I share two personal rejection stories and my key takeaway from being rejected -- that rejection would result in one (or both) of two things. Listen to find out more :) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, I share some insights from the members of the Facebook group "Academic Wellbeing beyond Coping": https://www.facebook.com/groups/211371107161673 Feel free to answer the membership questions and join us inside! Reminder: Whatever the circumstances are, you always have a choice: You have the choice to stand up for yourself, put boundaries, and practice self-care. Note that the guilt...

Perfectionism means striving for flawlessness and perfection - accompanied by self-criticism and concern about criticism from others. Many people say that perfectionism is toxic. Yet, many academics are perfectionists - and this was also proven by science. The academic environment may be the perfect breeding ground for perfectionism. However, there are two types of perfectionism: adaptive and...

Today’s topic is the impostor syndrome: a self-perceived intellectual fraud - coined by Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes, back in 1978. Despite being such a common phenomenon for high-achievers, there are even therapists who had not heard of this "syndrome".  There are three core elements of the impostor phenomenon: A belief that he/she has fooled others. A fear of being exposed as an impostor...

The last episode was about our individual thoughts, feelings and beliefs that prevent us from talking openly about our mental health problems and keep us silent being mostly fear-based. I believe that the feedback we receive from others is more related to the empathy and/or knowledge of that person. Many of us get some subtle reactions when we disclose our struggles with mental health. The person...

It is 2020 and mental health is still a big taboo in the western societies. We increasingly talk about "mental health awareness" and wellbeing at the workplace; but these mostly stay at the discourse level. We are still very scared of talking about mental health, especially from a personal standpoint. We talk about it in a depersonalised manner, even though, globally, at least 1 in 10 people have...