Self Care Secrets: Avoiding Burnout & Helping Others | @caroline-cavanagh

can only help others when you are strong yourself. And it's the proverbial put your own face mask on first, put your own oxygen mask on first. It is so true. So now I invest a huge amount of time in looking after me. So, you know, every morning I do exercise, I walk the dogs, I do meditation, and I don't start my working life until 10 AM because that 3 hours of investment between 7 and 10 mean that I can still be working at 9 o'clock that night because I'm the strongest, best person that I can be. And by looking after my diet and hydration and not having too many gin and tonics— there's got to be some vices in there— it also means that, you know, physically my body isn't quite as old as my head is. But that's good because I still intend to be dancing in nightclubs at my 100th birthday party. Yeah, that's the sort of thing that drives me. How can I keep taking all of this to the next level physically, mentally, intellectually? And by learning it myself, how can I then help others learn the same things quicker and faster? I don't want to go and visit anyone in hospital in the state that I was. So by sharing what I have learned through my own lived experience, means that hopefully other people will not fall in quite as deep a hole and will learn to climb out of it even quicker.