Ever finish a full clinic afternoon and only notice your shoulders when you start the car? Your body was talking the whole time. In episode 207 of the Burnout Recovery Podcast, Dr Jo Braid explains why high-performing clinicians override their body's early burnout signals, and gives you a simple map to hear them earlier. A practical episode on clinician wellbeing.

IN THIS EPISODE -

• Interoception: your brain's sense of what's happening inside your body, and the insula, the dashboard to the amygdala's smoke alarm
• The difference between your body sending a signal and you noticing it, and why burnout can live in that gap
• Why your brain turns the volume down when you're locked onto a goal, drawing on Anil Seth's work on prediction
• Why burnout is rarely one event, and why this isn't about "you should have noticed"
• THE WARNING LIGHT MAP 1. Name your lights (body, behaviour, thoughts) 2. Find your amber, before it turns red 3. Attach a 60-second response to each amber 4. Attach one question to a habit you already have: "Which of my lights is on?"
• Plus quick wins across mindset, support, movement and sleep.

THIS WEEK Jot down 2-3 of your warning lights, attach the question to one daily habit, and tell one trusted person your first warning light.

This episode is general education, not medical advice. If a symptom is persistent, new or worrying, please see your own GP.

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