Just As Well, The Women's Health Podcast - Anxious Morning? Try This Psychiatrist-Approved Routine Tweak

Episode Date: October 7, 2020

Hello! Popping up to let you know what’s coming up on Going for Goal this week. Just in time for World Mental Health Day on Saturday, we’ve got NHS consultant psychiatrist Dr Sarah Vohra on the show to discuss the particular challenges this moment presents for our minds - and crucially, what you can do to mitigate their worst effects.  Here’s her easy-to-action tip for getting your day off to as positive-as-possible start. For more practical self-care principles, plus strategies for staying mentally strong in tough times, tune in on Thursday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And the naked gun. That was awesome. Now that's a mountain of entertainment. Hi there. Just popping up to let you know what's coming up on Going for Gold this week. Just in time for World Mental Health Day, we've got NHS consultant psychiatrist Dr. Sarah Vora on the show to discuss the particular challenges this moment presents for our mind.

and, crucially, what you can do to mitigate their worst effects. Here's her easy-to-action tip for getting your day off to as positive as possible start during a pandemic. So if we think about our morning routine, all too often, it's our alarms on our phones that wake us up. And it's not a simple case of just switching off our phone, but actually we are enticed but what else it has to offer. So we check any incoming calls or incoming messages that have come in overnight, any emails that are sat in our inbox, maybe we're scrolling our social media sites and are confronted with people's sweaty post workout selfies or their glorious breakfast bowls. And that fuels feelings of inadequacy that we haven't used our time well. Perhaps we should have got up earlier. And suddenly our pace, our morning pace is dictated by what we have seen on our screens. So rather than, you know, you using a conventional alarm clock where maybe we get up at a time that we wanted, we do all the things that we know make us feel more us. So for me, I know that I love to just jump in the shower or maybe just do a workout, jump in the shower, have my breakfast and then invite the rest

of the world in. Rather than in that really vulnerable position when you've just woken up to be bombarded and suddenly, you know, an email that could possibly wait until 9 a.m., you feel this sense of that you have to action it straight away. Tune in on Thursday to hear more simple strategies for staying mentally strong in tough times, courtesy of a top psychiatrist.