You Are Not A Frog

By Dr Rachel Morris | Burnout Podcast

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The podcast for GPs, hospital doctors and other professionals in high-stakes, high-stress jobs who want to thrive rather than just survive. You studied for years, you’re really good at what you do but you’ve noticed that you’re starting to feel overwhelmed, overworked and under-resourced. You may be comparing yourself to a frog in boiling water - the heat has built up so slowly that you haven’t noticed the extra-long days becoming the norm. You may feel on the edge and trapped in the very job that you’ve spent years working towards. Here’s the problem, frogs only have two choices; stay and be boiled alive, or jump out of the pan. The good news is that you are not a frog. You have many more choices than you think you do. You don’t have to quit, and nor should stress and burnout be inevitable. It is possible to be master of your own destiny, to craft your work life and career so that you can thrive even in the most difficult of situations. There are simple changes you can make which will make a huge difference to your stress levels and help you enjoy life again. Your host is Dr Rachel Morris, GP turned Executive Coach and Specialist in Resilience at Work who knows what it’s like to feel like an exhausted frog. In the podcast, she’ll be talking to friends, colleagues and experts all who have an interesting take on resilience for clever people in high-stakes, high-stress jobs so that together you can take back control to beat stress and burnout, survive and thrive.

Episode Date
Why Your Workload Keeps Growing Without You Agreeing To It
May 18, 2026
What to Do When Your Career Map No Longer Fits
May 11, 2026
How to Break the People-Pleasing Cycle That's Burning You Out
May 04, 2026
How to Stop Doing Everything
Apr 27, 2026
5 Reasons Your Ideas Keep Getting Overlooked (And How to Fix It)
Apr 20, 2026
How to Stop Feeling Guilty When It's Impossible to Do Your Job.
Apr 13, 2026
Why ‘I Have To’ Is Keeping You Stuck (And What To Say Instead)
Apr 06, 2026
When 'Can You Help' Doesn't Feel Like a Question (Part 2 of The Over-Responsibility Trap)
Mar 30, 2026
Freelance vs Employed - On Which Side is the Grass Greener?
Mar 23, 2026
Why Responsibility Keeps Landing on You (Part 1 of The Over-Responsibility Trap)
Mar 16, 2026
How to Use Clean Language to Stop Rescuing and Really Feel Your Feelings
Mar 09, 2026
You Can’t Meditate Yourself Out of a 60-Hour Work Week
Mar 02, 2026
When Speaking Up is Stressful – A Psychology Researcher Tells Us What to Do Instead
Feb 23, 2026
You Do Not Have to Be Good
Feb 16, 2026
How to Tell if Your Workplace is Toxic or Just Misaligned to You
Feb 09, 2026
How to Stop Overthinking at Work (Without Ignoring the Real Problems)
Feb 02, 2026
The Dangerous Programming That Influences Over-responsible Doctors
Jan 26, 2026
Why “You Always Have a Choice” Makes Doctors Feel Worse (And What to Say Instead)
Jan 19, 2026
How to Confront Someone Without Creating Conflict (According to a Conflict Expert)
Jan 12, 2026
Why You Keep Missing the Stress That’s Draining You
Jan 05, 2026
The Hidden Shame Spiral That Keeps Us Stuck (Our Most-Watched Episode Ever)
Dec 29, 2025
The Midlife Career Trap: Why So Many Doctors Feel Stuck After 20 Years — According to a Consultant Surgeon & Decision-Making Scientist
Dec 22, 2025
Why Women in Healthcare are Exhausted (According to a Burnout Specialist)
Dec 15, 2025
300 Episodes In… Here’s the Hardest Truth About Burnout No One Says Out Loud
Dec 08, 2025
Why You Won’t Feel Better Until You Give Yourself These 3 Permissions
Dec 01, 2025
The Real (Toxic) Reason You’re a People Pleaser
Nov 24, 2025
How to FINALLY Get on Top of Your Emails
Nov 17, 2025
“It’s OK Not to Be OK” – And Other Thought Limiting Clichés
Nov 10, 2025
The Sources of Power That Create Real Change
Nov 03, 2025
How to Stop Conflict from Turning Ugly
Oct 27, 2025
The Hidden Tax on Neurodivergent Professionals
Oct 20, 2025
How to Stay Calm When You Don’t Know What Will Happen Next
Oct 13, 2025
If I don’t do it, who else will?
Oct 06, 2025
Clear and Direct is Better than Hinting and Hoping
Sep 29, 2025
How to Stop Toxic People Pushing All Your Buttons
Sep 22, 2025
How Bad Does it Have to Get Before You Act?
Sep 15, 2025
Why “Keep Calm and Carry On” Fuels Burnout
Sep 08, 2025
Why Doctors Don’t Ask for Help – And How to Do it Right
Sep 01, 2025
What Do You Want from Work in the Second Half of Life?
Aug 25, 2025
Why You’re Stressed When Everyone Else is Calm
Aug 18, 2025
How to Get Better Sleep
Aug 11, 2025
How to Eat Better and Keep Your Energy Up
Aug 04, 2025
The 4 Books to Read This Summer to Set Up Your Next 6 Months for Success
Jul 28, 2025
How to Boost Your Leadership Skills (Even if You Don’t Think You’re a Leader)
Jul 21, 2025
The Personal Cost of Working in Burnout
Jul 14, 2025
How to Survive a Complaint from Another Clinician
Jul 07, 2025
What to Do When You Can’t Fix the System
Jun 30, 2025
5 Things Holding You Back from Getting the Career You Love
Jun 23, 2025
Why Wearing the Busy Badge is Burning You Out (And What to Do Instead)
Jun 16, 2025
How to Stop Money from Being Stressful
Jun 09, 2025
How to Say Yes When No isn’t an Option
Jun 02, 2025
What to Do if Someone Challenges YOUR Behaviour
May 26, 2025
Is All-or-Nothing Thinking Pushing You to Burnout?
May 19, 2025
The 5 Different Types of Burnout – And How to Prevent Them
May 12, 2025
What if Your Job Was Just a Job? (And 4 Other Thought Experiments)
May 05, 2025
Is the Grass Greener on the Other Side of Medicine?
Apr 28, 2025
How to Beat Inbox Overwhelm
Apr 21, 2025
What to Do BEFORE You Get a Neurodivergence Diagnosis
Apr 14, 2025
How to Protect Yourself from the Guilt of Saying No
Apr 07, 2025
How to Listen to Your Intuition
Mar 31, 2025
11 Ways to Back Your Wise Self
Mar 24, 2025
Doctors with ADHD
Mar 17, 2025
The Trouble with Wellbeing
Mar 10, 2025
How to Be Kind Instead of Nice (and Why it Matters)
Mar 03, 2025
How to Make Long-term Behaviour Change Stick
Feb 24, 2025
How to Leave Work on Time
Feb 17, 2025
How to Choose What Kind of Problem You Want
Feb 10, 2025
How to Plan Your Year for Peak Performance
Feb 03, 2025
Are You Amplifying Your Overwhelm? Here’s How to Stop
Jan 27, 2025
How to Manage Your Energy Instead of Your Time
Jan 20, 2025
How to Stop a Difficult Conversation Going Bad
Jan 13, 2025
How to Overcome the Toxic Effects of Shame on Your Team
Jan 06, 2025
How to be Ridiculously Relaxed
Dec 30, 2024
How to Survive in a High Stress Job When You’re Neurodivergent
Dec 23, 2024
How to Stop Turning “You” Problems into “Me” Problems
Dec 16, 2024
How to Take a Good Long Look at Your Career
Dec 09, 2024
How to Catch Stress Early Before You Spiral into Burnout
Dec 02, 2024
How to Change Your Life One Tiny Step at a Time
Nov 25, 2024
How to avoid guilt on repeat
Nov 19, 2024
How to Think Past “Right and Wrong” and Find Choices That Work for You
Nov 18, 2024
How Stories Can Help You Beat Burnout
Nov 11, 2024
You Can’t Organise Your Way Out of Overwhelm
Nov 04, 2024
How to Make the Right Choice When You Aren’t Certain
Oct 28, 2024
The Magic Question to Unlock Your Deep Intuition
Oct 21, 2024
How to Promote Good Mental Health for You and Your Kids
Oct 14, 2024
Does the Usual Productivity Advice Work for People Seeing Patients?
Oct 07, 2024
What’s So Important About Purpose?
Sep 30, 2024
How to Get What You Need When Even YOU Don’t Know
Sep 23, 2024
Crafting a Career That Works
Sep 16, 2024
What to Do With That Nagging Feeling That Something’s Not Right
Sep 09, 2024
Finding Your Opposite World to Beat Burnout
Sep 02, 2024
How to Stop Your Inner Critic Hijacking Your Day
Aug 26, 2024
The Exact Script to Use When a Colleague’s Being Rude
Aug 19, 2024
"Having it All" as a Woman in Medicine
Aug 12, 2024
How to Keep Going in a Struggling System
Aug 05, 2024
What I Learned From My Facebook Haters
Jul 29, 2024
Why We Need MORE Conflict in Our Teams
Jul 22, 2024
Is My Attachment Style Causing My Burnout?
Jul 15, 2024
Are You an Accidental Toxic Leader?
Jul 08, 2024
What Does High-Performance Look Like?
Jul 01, 2024
The 3 Lies Which Hold Us Back
Jun 24, 2024
How to Put Your Team Back Together
Jun 17, 2024
What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
Jun 10, 2024
What Forgiveness Can Do for You
Jun 03, 2024
The Biggest Mistakes People Make When They are Heading for Burnout
May 27, 2024
Why Loneliness Can Kill, and What to Do About it
May 20, 2024
How to Set a Boundary No-one Can Break
May 13, 2024
What to Do When a Colleague isn’t Pulling Their Weight
May 06, 2024
Too Busy NOT to Pause
Apr 29, 2024
How to find your voice
Apr 22, 2024
Only You Can Choose Your Next Move
Apr 15, 2024
How to Make a Difficult Decision
Apr 08, 2024
What Happens When You Stay Too Long
Apr 01, 2024
How Money Holds Us Back
Mar 25, 2024
Beware Your Kindest Colleagues
Mar 18, 2024
Smashing the Gender Pay Gap for Women in Medicine
Mar 14, 2024
How to Tell People What You REALLY Think
Mar 11, 2024
Why Setting Goals Alone Won’t Help
Mar 04, 2024
Life’s Too Short NOT to Love What You Do
Feb 26, 2024
Finding Your North Star
Feb 19, 2024
How to get moving again when you feel stuck
Feb 12, 2024
The Most Powerful Question You Can Ask Yourself About Your Work
Feb 05, 2024
How to Feel Confident in Any Situation
Jan 29, 2024
How to Get Out of a Toxic Shame Spiral
Jan 22, 2024
Getting a Breakthrough by Using Your Right Brain
Jan 15, 2024
The Three-Step Plan for Getting Your Sh*t Together
Jan 08, 2024
How to Decide if You Need to Stay or Leave a Difficult Situation
Jan 01, 2024
What Shame Made Me Do
Dec 25, 2023
How to Survive the Holiday Season
Dec 18, 2023
How to Increase Your Confidence and Impact
Dec 11, 2023
How to Deal With Your Inner Critic
Dec 04, 2023
How to Escape the Tyranny of the ‘Shoulds’
Nov 27, 2023
Am I Burning Out?
Nov 20, 2023
How to Manage Your Energy if You're a Highly Sensitive Person
Nov 13, 2023
How Do You Say No When Someone Might Die?
Nov 06, 2023
How to Challenge Upsetting Behaviour
Oct 30, 2023
The Real Reason Other People's Boundaries Make Us Cross
Oct 23, 2023
How to Be REALLY Productive... Without Losing the Plot
Oct 16, 2023
What Will Your Future Self Thank You For?
Oct 09, 2023
Surprising Ways to Avoid Burnout
Oct 02, 2023
Stress vs Overwhelm – And Why You Should Know the Difference
Sep 25, 2023
How to Cope With Your Kids’ Anxiety, Your Colleagues’, and Your Own
Sep 18, 2023
Don't Wait for Tomorrow to Improve – Take Control Now
Sep 11, 2023
Is it You - or is it Menopause?
Sep 04, 2023
Why You Don’t Need to Earn Your Rest
Aug 28, 2023
Are Your Tiny Traumas Building Up to Burnout?
Aug 21, 2023
Get Some Air Cover to Help You Set Boundaries
Aug 14, 2023
What Happens When We’re Really Listened to
Aug 07, 2023
How to Use Power Language to Keep Your Boundaries Strong
Jul 31, 2023
How to Thrive in a High-Stress Job When You’re Neurodivergent
Jul 24, 2023
Why You Should Expect Pushback and What To Do About It
Jul 18, 2023
Embrace Your Capacity, Not Your Limits
Jul 11, 2023
How To Influence Without Getting Frustrated
Jul 04, 2023
What to Do When You Can Never Do Enough as a Working Mum with Corrina Gordon-Barnes
Jun 27, 2023
Do I Disappoint Myself Or Others?
Jun 20, 2023
How to Survive a Toxic System - on Both Sides of the Pond
Jun 13, 2023
How to Avoid Amygdala Hijack Part 2
Jun 06, 2023
How to Feel Happy, Calm, and Connected
May 30, 2023
How to Avoid Amygdala Hijack Part 1
May 23, 2023
How to Do Something Different in Your Career
May 16, 2023
Why We Become Terrible in a Crisis
May 09, 2023
Are You OK?
May 02, 2023
What’s Your Flight Plan?
Apr 25, 2023
How to Stay Calm through Complaints (Even When It’s Personal)
Apr 18, 2023
Why Can’t I Say No
Apr 11, 2023
How to Stop Making Decisions Based on Fear
Apr 04, 2023
The Problem with Boundaries
Mar 28, 2023
How to Avoid Burnout on Repeat
Mar 21, 2023
How to Have More Impact with Less Effort
Mar 14, 2023
The Glass Slipper and Other Challenges for Women in Medicine
Mar 07, 2023
The Power of Pressing Pause
Feb 27, 2023
How to Change Your Life in 12 Minutes Per Week
Feb 21, 2023
The One Thing You Can Do For Your Well-being
Feb 14, 2023
How to Fix Your Broken Meetings
Feb 07, 2023
Think Differently About Your To-Do List
Jan 31, 2023
How Perfectionism and Shame Lead to Stress and Burnout
Jan 24, 2023
Embracing Your Limits in a Limitless System
Jan 16, 2023
How to Get People to LOVE your Ideas
Jan 09, 2023
When Working Harder Doesn't Work
Jan 03, 2023
Best Bits of 2022: Stress and Worry
Dec 27, 2022
Best Bits of 2022: How to Build Confidence
Dec 20, 2022
How to Deal with Xmas Disasters and Other Disappointments in Life with Corrina Gordon-Barnes
Dec 13, 2022
How to Know if You're Being 'Resilience Victim Blamed'
Dec 06, 2022
Job Crafting for Happiness
Nov 29, 2022
Is it ‘Normal’ Not to Cope?
Nov 22, 2022
How to Stop Your Finances Controlling Your Career with Dr Tommy Perkins
Nov 15, 2022
You Choose
Nov 08, 2022
How to Stop Emotional Eating, Eat Better and Feel Better with Dr Matthea Rentea and Keri Williams
Nov 01, 2022
If it Didn’t Hurt, There’d Be Something Wrong
Oct 25, 2022
How to Balance Life and Work
Oct 18, 2022
Shark Music
Oct 11, 2022
How to Choose Joy, Even When Life Sucks
Oct 04, 2022
How to Escape the Urgency Trap
Sep 27, 2022
How to Tell People What They Don’t Want to Hear
Sep 20, 2022
But is it a Tiger?
Sep 13, 2022
What to Do When You are Overwhelmed with Gerrie Hawes
Sep 06, 2022
Summer Replay 2022 Episode 5
Aug 30, 2022
Summer Replay 2022 Episode 4
Aug 23, 2022
Summer Replay 2022 Episode 3
Aug 16, 2022
Summer Replay 2022 Episode 2
Aug 09, 2022
Summer Replay 2022 Episode 1
Aug 02, 2022
What to Do if You're Stressed AND Bored
Jul 26, 2022
How to Say F**k it and Become Ridiculously Relaxed (even about stuff that REALLY matters) with John C Parkin
Jul 19, 2022
How to Cope With Trauma on the Frontline
Jul 12, 2022
After Burnout: Planning a Working Life You Want with Dr. Katya Miles
Jul 05, 2022
After Burnout: Going Back to Work with Dr Katya Miles
Jun 28, 2022
Using Nature to Answer Your Big Questions With Henri Stevenson
Jun 21, 2022
How to Say No and Deal with Pushback
Jun 14, 2022
How to Change When Change is Scary
Jun 07, 2022
How to Live With No Regrets with Georgina Scull
May 31, 2022
How to Be Happy at Work with Sarah Metcalfe
May 24, 2022
How to Be a (Happy) Working Parent with Corrina Gordon Barnes
May 17, 2022
Making Online Meetings Work with John Monks
May 10, 2022
How to Improve Your Mental Health in 10 Minutes with Dr Lee David
May 03, 2022
How to Manage Upwards (and Sideways)
Apr 26, 2022
The Surprising Power of Self Coaching (and How to Do it Well)
Apr 19, 2022
What I Got So Wrong About Mindfulness and How it Might Transform Your Life
Mar 29, 2022
How to Find Peace and Happiness, Even in a Life You Haven't Chosen
Mar 22, 2022
How to Get an Appraisal That Doesn't Suck
Mar 15, 2022
What to Do When a Junior is Badmouthing Your Colleagues
Mar 08, 2022
Why We're Ditching the Term 'Imposter Syndrome'
Mar 01, 2022
What to Do When You Start to See Red?
Feb 22, 2022
How to Stop People Pleasing and Absorbing Other People's Angst
Feb 15, 2022
Is it Possible to Have Fun at Work?
Feb 08, 2022
What We Wish We'd Learnt at Med School
Feb 01, 2022
Defining Your Own Success in Life
Jan 25, 2022
How to Stop Worrying When There’s a Lot to Worry About
Jan 18, 2022
The Simplest Way to Beat Stress and Work Happier
Jan 11, 2022
How to Cope With Nightmare Relatives and Colleagues Without Losing the Plot
Dec 21, 2021
How Not to Settle for the Way it's Always Been Done
Dec 14, 2021
Why FAIL is Not a 4-Letter Word
Dec 07, 2021
Making Helpful Habits Stick
Nov 30, 2021
Dealing With the Guilt of Not Being Okay
Nov 23, 2021
How to Deal With Criticism When You've Reached Your Limit
Nov 16, 2021
Why it’s Easier to Talk About Football Than Feelings with Dr Naren Senthil Nathan
Nov 09, 2021
What to Do When Your Strengths Have Side Effects with Dr Joanna Bircher
Nov 02, 2021
How to Deal With Difficult Meetings with Jane Gunn
Oct 26, 2021
3 Conversations Which Will Get You Unstuck with Annie Hanekom
Oct 19, 2021
How to Reconnect With Your Purpose in Life with Dr Richard Pile
Oct 12, 2021
How to Delegate, Do it, or Drop it with Anna Dearmon Kornick
Oct 05, 2021
How to Avoid Becoming the Second Victim with Dr Caraline Wright & Dr Lizzie Sweeting
Sep 28, 2021
How to Break Up With Your Toxic Relationship With Your Career with Dr Pauline Morris
Sep 21, 2021
What to Do About Bitching and Backbiting with Dr Edward Pooley
Sep 14, 2021
Should I Stay or Should I Go? with Corrina Gordon-Barnes
Sep 07, 2021
Summer Replay Series: The One About Alcohol with Dr. Giles P. Croft
Aug 31, 2021
Summer Replay Series: Productivity Hacks for a Calm, Effective Life with Dr. Gandalf
Aug 24, 2021
Summer Replay Series: How to be an adult with Ebonie Allard
Aug 17, 2021
Summer Replay Series: Treat Others How THEY Would Like to Be Treated with Gitanjali Trevorrow-Seymour
Aug 10, 2021
Summer Replay Series: How to Do Conflict Well with Jane Gunn
Aug 03, 2021
Summer Replay Series: Eff-It Living with John C Parkin
Jul 27, 2021
How to Ditch the Saviour Complex and Feel More Alive with Rob Bell
Jul 20, 2021
Complaints and How to Survive Them E5: What Should I Do When I Think a Complaint is Unfair? and Other Questions with Drs Sarah Coope, George Wright, Samantha White, and Andrew Tressider
Jul 13, 2021
Gaslighting and Other Ways We’re Abused at Work: What’s Really Going on? with Dr James Costello
Jul 06, 2021
How to Have Crucial Conversations with Dr Ed Pooley
Jun 29, 2021
Complaints and How to Survive Them E4: Creating a Workplace Where it's OK to Fail with Prof Susan Fairlie and Dr Jane Sturgess
Jun 22, 2021
The Ups and Downs of Being a Man-Frog with Dr Chris Hewitt
Jun 15, 2021
Complaints and How to Survive Them E3: Surviving the Process
Jun 08, 2021
When Soft and Fluffy Met Coronavirus with Steve Andrews
Jun 01, 2021
Complaints and How to Survive Them E2: What to Do When You Make a Mistake with Drs Clare Devlin and Dr John Powell
May 25, 2021
How to Give Yourself Permission to Thrive with Dr Katya Miles
May 18, 2021
Complaints and How to Survive Them E1: Preparing to Fail Well with Drs Sarah Coope, Annalene Weston and Sheila Bloomer
May 11, 2021
Denial, Displacement and Other Ways We Neglect Ourselves with Dr Andrew Tresidder
May 04, 2021
Tech Tips for Happy Hybrid Working with Dr Hussain Gandhi
Apr 27, 2021
How to Escape the Drama Triangle and Stop Rescuing People
Apr 20, 2021
Managing Your Time in a System Which Sucks with Dr Ed Pooley
Apr 08, 2021
EASTER REPLAY: What we're talking about when we talk about compassion fatigue
Apr 06, 2021
How to Find Your Tribe: The PMGUK Story with Dr Nazia Haider and Dr Katherine Hickman
Mar 30, 2021
Working Well - From Anywhere! with Dr Katya Miles
Mar 23, 2021
Create a Career You’ll Love with Dr Claire Kaye
Mar 16, 2021
How Safe Do You Feel at Work with Scott Chambers
Mar 09, 2021
Make Time for What Matters with Liz O’Riordan
Mar 02, 2021
The Revolutionary Art of Breathing with Richard Jamieson
Feb 23, 2021
Bringing Your Best Self to Work with Dr Sarah Goulding
Feb 16, 2021
Staying Positive Through COVID – Getting Back to Basics with Dr Amrita Sen Mukherjee
Feb 09, 2021
Passing the Naughty Monkey Back with Dr Amit Sharma
Feb 02, 2021
What to Do When You’re Out of Fuel with Dr Jess Harvey
Jan 26, 2021
How to Survive Even When Times are Tough with Dr. Caroline Walker
Jan 19, 2021
Self-Coaching for Success with Dr Karen Castille, OBE
Jan 12, 2021
The Self-Help Book Group on Happiness with Dr. Nik Kendrew
Dec 15, 2020
Creating a Workplace that Works with Dr. Sonali Kinra
Dec 08, 2020
A Social Dilemma? with Dr James Thambyrajah
Dec 01, 2020
Bullying in the Workplace with Dr Adam Harrison
Nov 24, 2020
Fertiliser for Your Brain with Michael Ledzion
Nov 17, 2020
Very Nice People and Other Deadly Perils
Nov 10, 2020
The One About Alcohol
Nov 03, 2020
How to Work Flexibly, Without the Stress
Oct 27, 2020
How to Be More Anti-Racist
Oct 20, 2020
A Year of the Frog
Oct 13, 2020
How to Stay Calm and Focused in the Face of Uncertainty
Oct 06, 2020
Freeing Yourself from the Money Trap
Sep 29, 2020
The Self Help Book Group No 2 with Nik Kendrew
Sep 22, 2020
Looking After Your People Through COVID and Beyond
Sep 15, 2020
How to Have a Courageous Conversation
Sep 08, 2020
Default to Happy
Sep 01, 2020
Rest. The final frontier
Jul 28, 2020
How to ACT Instead of Stewing on Your Thoughts
Jul 21, 2020
COVID-19 Supporting Doctors. COVID boredom – What Should We Do?
Jul 14, 2020
Ask the Frog – What Will You Stop Start Continue After Lockdown?
Jul 07, 2020
How to Be a Professional Woman with Dame Jane Dacre
Jun 30, 2020
Leading With Tough Love with Gary Hughes
Jun 23, 2020