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Thank you Jo and Louise for understanding there are veterinary surgeons out there who are struggling and providing a resource to help.

In creating this community and course you have made me realise I am not alone and not a failure.

I wish a resource like this had been standard 10 years ago as I feel my whole career and professional life (and likely personal life) could have looked very different in a positive way.

This course has been fab. It's really engaging and not like any other CPD I have done before. I have been using all the techniques daily and it has really helped me grow my confidence.

Before I wasn't sure if I wanted to stay in the profession long term as I found surgery so stressful. Now I'm much more relaxed and taking on more difficult procedures. My partner has noticed I'm more relaxed at home and also more confident about non work stuff.

A big thank you to Louise & Jo. I'll be telling my friends about the course.

This course was so different and so much more helpful than all the things I have tried in the past. I have a much better understanding and awareness of my values and my emotions so I can deal with it much better and feel I can move forward.

I have made changes to my work life recently and I now have a job in a supportive team, and I am now starting to enjoy my work again more and more.

I am operating again regularly and my confidence (generally and at work) is continuing to get better.

I honestly cannot thank you enough, as this course has saved my career. Now I can certainly see myself continuing in clinical practice for a good few more years until retirement looms.

I completed the course after an extended period away from clinical practice and not sure if really wanted to return.

Just having someone talking about the normality of all the emotions about returning and actually figuring out what I value and whether returning was the right thing or how returning may look was invaluable.

I found dipping in and out of the different modules useful especially as completed over several months in between returning as a locum for odd shifts so putting into practice what I’d learnt.

Thank you so much for this course. I have struggled for quite some time with anxiety and lead to time off work due to burnout. This course has given me some useful tips on how to process and deal with negative thoughts and my emotions.

I have been able to start feeling more confident and taking small steps to getting back on track. I have learnt I don’t need to get back to the old me as this person was not in a good place, but I feel I have some skills to get myself through this difficult time.

 It has also currently stopped me from thinking about leaving the profession as I know now this is much more common that I realised in a very demanding role.

Would recommend to anyone who has lost their confidence or worried about returning to practice and puts emotions feelings and values into perspective to work on what works for you.

As an experienced vet and surgeon it was very frustrating to me that after 20 years of practice I was still having issues around self doubt and fear of difficult surgeries. I thought these feelings would go away.

This course has really helped me appreciate that this is normal and that they may never go away but its ok to feel these things as long as you just observe the thoughts and don't let them take you into a downwards spiral.

I am already feeling much happier and more confident. Thank you so much for your help. I'm ready to fly again now and move towards one of my values to challenge myself.

I really enjoyed this course! It has made me feel much more confident but also the realisation that my thoughts are not facts and are not me.

The values exercises were really interesting and made me think deeper into why I had negative emotions when certain situations arose.

 I am excited to keep using these techniques to improve and prevent myself from hindering my progress. Thank you Both!

I enjoyed this course, and the short videos made it easy to fit in a lesson here or there at work during down time. I especially appreciated the practical applications and exercises.

I have greatly enjoyed this course - the material is extremely well delivered, clear and easy to access.

The exercises made me think during and between modules! Downloading the mindfulness audio files onto my phone has meant that I can carry them with me and use them in quiet times and this has helped me get into the habit of meditating and reshaping my anxious brain, in the knowledge I always have a safe quiet "place" to go to.

I’m so grateful that I signed up for this course as it’s introduced me to many new techniques that I will use not only at work but in my home/personal life too.

I know it’s going to take practice and It's great I can go over the course several times to get familiar with it. It’s made me learn a lot about myself - in particular my values - and I think just understanding why I may be thinking or feeling a certain way is helpful.

I have really enjoyed this course and found it to be super helpful to be able to reflect back on times when I have faced difficulties at work in the past and work past these.

The other day I put myself forward to do a c-section when I could have very easily stepped back, which is something I would never normally do!

I plan to keep revisiting the lessons on this course whenever I need a reminder and I hope that with time the techniques I have been taught to help manage anxiety will become second nature.

I feel better equipped to attempt surgical procedures I would previously tried to delegate to colleagues and able to support other veterinary surgeons within our team.

There are fewer surgeries now when I feel "I wish I hadn't started this!"; I have a calmer, positive problem-solving approach and more self-compassion when procedures are challenging.