Episode 31: Treating the Osteopath: Caring for the Caregiver

About this episode

The episode explores the importance of self-care for osteopaths and how it impacts their ability to care for others.

How we care for ourselves, or how we ignore our wellbeing, influences the way we care for others. How can we encourage and teach our patients to care for themselves if we don’t do that for ourselves? How do we model self-care to the young Osteopathic students that we teach? In this episode, we take a dive into exploring the possibilities of why and how as Osteopath we might want to seriously consider choosing to be cared for by one of our colleagues. ~~~ We’ve created several foundational episodes, which are free and are available anywhere you get your podcasts. The complete collection is only available at https://www.patreon.com/OsteopathyUnplugged Please sign up for our mailing list news about our podcast by entering your email in the "Subscribe to our mailing list" section at the bottom of each page at www.OsteopathyUnplugged.com

People in this episode

Hosts: Steve Paulus, DO, Bonnie Gintis, DO

Topics covered

• self-care
• osteopathy
• wellbeing
• education
• caregiver support

Keywords

• osteopathy
• self-care
• wellbeing
• caregiver
• education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Osteopathy Unplugged

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