Building resilience with Dr Rachael Hunter | S4E34

Welcome to Living Well with MS. In this episode, Geoff catches up with Overcoming MS facilitator, Dr Rachael Hunter, a clinical psychologist and senior lecturer in clinical and health psychology at Swansea University. Rachael talks to Geoff about the meaning of resilience and looking after your psychological health. 

   

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Topics and Timestamps:   

02:03 Can you tell us a little about your professional background and personal journey with MS and Overcoming MS? 

09:26 What is resilience? 

17:47 How would you relate resilience and having traumatic diagnosis of something like MS? 

21:45 What are the building blocks of resilience? 

25:05 You have a 3Ps framework. Could you explain what that is? 

27:53 You’ve got pleasure, purpose, and practice. How could you get more pleasure in your life? 

31:11 Moving on to purpose, how can people connect to and find their true purpose? 

34:12 And then the final one, practice. What do you mean by practice? 

36:14 So if one is trying to look into more of self-care, what would you say is self-care approach to take? 

  

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• Buy a copy of the latest book, the Overcoming MS Handbook, launched at the end of 2021. 
• Read the 2022 Global Resilience report here. 
• PTSD stats: https://www.ptsduk.org/ptsd-stats/ 
• Follow Rachael on social media: IG @drrachaelhunter, Twitter @drrachhunter 
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/rachael.hunter.908 
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