AVA Conference Gold Coast 2020

This Three-Part series focuses on practical Mindfulness practices that you can implement daily to decrease stress, support your overall well-being and increase your capacity to experience positive emotional states more often. Emphasis will be on practices and considerations pertaining to veterinarians in clinical practice who are caring for critically ill patients and interacting with the guardians of those pets. While we can't control most of the events we experience in life, we can learn tools to help ourselves navigate those experiences with more ease and grace. With practice, those new habits become second nature and we soon find that things which used to feel difficult for us may no longer feel that way. We become happier. We become more peaceful. When we are happier and more peaceful, that positively impacts everything we do. We become more resilient and are not so deeply affected by the stressors of life. As we are happier and healthier, we are able to offer more to those we care about. We are able to be better pet parents, doctors, caregivers, spouses, siblings, friends and community members.