Webinar Highlights: Resilience following Overcoming MS with Dr Rachael Hunter | S6E17

21/08/2024 20 min Temporada 6 Episodio 17
Webinar Highlights: Resilience following Overcoming MS with Dr Rachael Hunter | S6E17

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Welcome to Living Well with MS, the podcast that empowers you to take control of your health and wellbeing. Today we’re sharing the highlights from our webinar on ‘Resilience following Overcoming MS’ with the fantastic Dr Rachael Hunter. Rachael is a clinical psychologist and senior lecturer in clinical and health psychology at Swansea University. She's an OMSer herself and wrote the chapter on resilience in the Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis Handbook. She gave us so much interesting information and many helpful tips - we hope you find this really useful in bringing resilience into your own life. Let us know what you think!  
Watch this episode on YouTube here and keep reading for the key episode takeaways.  
 
Topics and Timestamps:   00:59 Dr Hunter’s professional background and an overview of the Overcoming MS Program 
04:30 What happens to the body physiologically during a stress response 
06:55 Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and the fundamentals of wellness 
09:37 Managing emotional wellbeing and scheduling “worry time”  
14:30 Managing anxiety through self-compassion and mindfulness 
17:24 The benefits of positive relationships with others 
 
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More info and links:   Dr Rachael Hunter was featured on S4E67: ‘Building Resilience with Dr Rachael Hunter’ 

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