The Well Helper: Recent Episodes
Katherine King, PsyD
Are you trying to take care of yourself in the midst of a zillion responsibilities? Are you trying to do right by your clients or patients without sacrificing yourself along the way? In the Well Helper podcast, Katherine King, PsyD, clinical psychologist and psychology professor, shares hard-earned wisdom and actionable strategies based on the real world experience of herself, her guests, and the best research evidence. If you’re a helping professional, or student helper, trying to flourish in your work, avoid burnout or compassion fatigue, practice mindfulness, communicate better, learn self care, dream bigger, or be a stronger leader, The Well Helper is here to help. For more, follow on FB/TW/IG @drkateking or check out www.drkateking.com.
This little audio message officially wraps up season one of the Well Helper. If you've been enjoying the show, there are still many ways to stay in touch. If you are a helping professional continuing to look for ways to enhance and improve your well-being, you can go to DrKateKing.com to stay up to date on new trainings, guided instruction, and more. If you are interested in mindfulness, self compassion, and meditation, you may be interested in listening to the Noble Mind podcast. This is an interview-based podcast which Dr. King co-hosts and which will be continuing going forward.
This is a brief guided practice session designed to help you connect with a recent positive experience and savor the pleasant feelings associated with it.
The Well Helper podcast is hosted by Katherine King, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor. Each episode explores new strategies and insights to inform the life of a helping professional. Join the Well Helper community, get show notes, free downloads, and more, at www.thewellhelper.com. Follow Kate @drkateking on FB/TW/IG.
What month is it? What year is it? For anyone who has been waylaid by the chaos of COVID-19, allow me to help: it is now the middle of 2020, and this means it is a great time to check in with ourselves on how the year is going. How are we taking care of ourselves? Do we need to revisit our hopes and dreams for this year, and maybe make some revisions? Nobody's year has gone as planned, but that doesn't mean we ditch our dreams and just sit this one out. This episode will give you a six-step framework to guide you through reassessing your 2020 goals, revising them as needed, ditching old ones that no longer make sense, and adding in any new ones that feel right at this time. Check out www.thewellhelper.com/12 to access a template for the process as well as a completed example.
The Well Helper podcast is hosted by Katherine King, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor. Each episode explores new strategies and insights to inform the life of a helping professional. If you’re a helper or student trying to flourish in your work, avoid burnout or compassion fatigue, practice mindfulness, communicate better, learn self care, dream bigger, or be a stronger leader, The Well Helper is here to help.
Join the Well Helper community, get show notes, free downloads, and more, at www.thewellhelper.com. Follow Kate @drkateking on FB/TW/IG.
Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be considered psychotherapy or any form of treatment.
This episode discusses common humanity, the third core element of self-compassion. When we are in pain, common humanity reminds us of the struggles that we all face as human beings - and the kindness we all deserve in tough times. In this way, even our most difficult moments can be a gateway to connection and compassion.
The Well Helper podcast is hosted by Katherine King, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor. Each episode explores new strategies and insights to inform the life of a helping professional. If you’re a helper or student trying to flourish in your work, avoid burnout or compassion fatigue, practice mindfulness, communicate better, learn self care, dream bigger, or be a stronger leader, The Well Helper is here to help.
Join the Well Helper community, get show notes, free downloads, and more, at www.thewellhelper.com. Follow Kate @drkateking on FB/TW/IG.
This episode continues our exploration of the core elements of self-compassion by talking about mindfulness, which is an essential skill required to be able to tune in and notice what you are experiencing at all. From there, other tools of self-compassion can be applied. We go over a simple formula you can use for checking in with yourself, bringing mindfulness and basic kindness into your day to day life.
The Well Helper podcast is hosted by Katherine King, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor. Each episode explores new strategies and insights to inform the life of a helping professional. If you’re a helper or student trying to flourish in your work, avoid burnout or compassion fatigue, practice mindfulness, communicate better, learn self care, dream bigger, or be a stronger leader, The Well Helper is here to help.
Join the Well Helper community, get show notes, free downloads, and more, at www.thewellhelper.com. Follow Kate @drkateking on FB/TW/IG.
Self-compassion is the radical idea that you deserve the same care and concern as other people. What's more, research on this skill has shown it helps people with a variety of difficulties such as depression, anxiety, trauma, stress, and shame. In this episode, I talk about Self-Kindness, which is one of the three core skills of self-compassion. Learn more at www.thewellhelper.com/9.
The Well Helper podcast is hosted by Katherine King, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor. Each episode explores new strategies and insights to inform the life of a helping professional. If you’re a helper or student trying to flourish in your work, avoid burnout or compassion fatigue, practice mindfulness, communicate better, learn self care, dream bigger, or be a stronger leader, The Well Helper is here to help.
Join the Well Helper community, get show notes, free downloads, and more, at www.thewellhelper.com. Follow Kate @drkateking on FB/TW/IG.
This is a brief guided practice session designed to help you release stress at the end of a challenging day.
The Well Helper podcast is hosted by Katherine King, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor. Each episode explores new strategies and insights to inform the life of a helping professional. If you’re a helper or student trying to flourish in your work, avoid burnout or compassion fatigue, practice mindfulness, communicate better, learn self care, dream bigger, or be a stronger leader, The Well Helper is here to help.
Join the Well Helper community, get show notes, free downloads, and more, at www.thewellhelper.com. Follow Kate @drkateking on FB/TW/IG.
Too often, resiliency is talked about like an individual superpower, something you either have or you don't. In reality, resiliency involves skills you likely already have or can learn. Even more importantly, it exists beyond the individual and is a feature of relationships, communities, and society as a whole. Learn more in this episode, and download a Resiliency Self Test at www.thewellhelper.com/8.
The Well Helper podcast is hosted by Katherine King, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor. Each episode explores new strategies and insights to inform the life of a helping professional. If you’re a helper or student trying to flourish in your work, avoid burnout or compassion fatigue, practice mindfulness, communicate better, learn self care, dream bigger, or be a stronger leader, The Well Helper is here to help.
Join the Well Helper community, get show notes, free downloads, and more, at www.thewellhelper.com. Follow Kate @drkateking on FB/TW/IG.
In this episode, Dr. Jenny Yen and I have an honest chat about how we're adapting to working from home, what's working and what's not, and how we're trying to keep our spirits up. We also share some actionable tips for our fellow helping professionals trying to work, play, and basically do everything from home. You can grab a handout with some of the strategies we discuss at www.thewellhelper.com/7. Dr. Yen is a clinical psychologist specializing in geropsychology who is also passionate about teaching students and early career clinicians about self-care.
The Well Helper podcast is hosted by Katherine King, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor. Each episode explores new strategies and insights to inform the life of a helping professional. If you’re a helper or student trying to flourish in your work, avoid burnout or compassion fatigue, practice mindfulness, communicate better, learn self care, dream bigger, or be a stronger leader, The Well Helper is here to help.
Join the Well Helper community, get show notes, free downloads, and more, at www.thewellhelper.com. Follow Kate @drkateking on FB/TW/IG.
It seems like grief is everywhere these days, and there are many people and aspects of life to grieve. But how much do we really know about grief, anyway? In this episode, Dr. King describes some ways that people commonly experience grief and tips for noticing when grief might be turning into something more problematic. She also introduces two types of grief particularly relevant these days: traumatic grief and anticipatory grief.
The Well Helper podcast is hosted by Katherine King, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor. Each episode explores new strategies and insights to inform the life of a helping professional. If you’re a helper or student trying to flourish in your work, avoid burnout or compassion fatigue, practice mindfulness, communicate better, learn self care, dream bigger, or be a stronger leader, The Well Helper is here to help.
Join the Well Helper community, get show notes, free downloads, and more, at www.thewellhelper.com. Follow Kate @drkateking on FB/TW/IG.
The moment we are living through challenges people with even the most robust coping skills. We are witnessing the loss of life at a massive scale, fearing for the lives of ourselves and our loved ones, grieving for the life we knew before, and that's just the start of it. In this episode, Dr. King reviews seven skills you can develop now to help maximize your resiliency - things like cultivating a survivor narrative, finding meaning, activating positive emotions, and more.
The Well Helper podcast is hosted by Katherine King, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor. Each episode explores new strategies and insights to inform the life of a helping professional. If you’re a helper or student trying to flourish in your work, avoid burnout or compassion fatigue, practice mindfulness, communicate better, learn self care, dream bigger, or be a stronger leader, The Well Helper is here to help.
Join the Well Helper community, get show notes, free downloads, and more, at www.thewellhelper.com. Follow Kate @drkateking on FB/TW/IG.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to acknowledge the tremendous stress that helping professionals have been experiencing during the current COVID emergency. This episode provides some actionable stress management strategies, tips for decompressing, and ways to use your self-talk to help you through even the busiest days.
The Well Helper podcast is hosted by Katherine King, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor. Each episode explores new strategies and insights to inform the life of a helping professional. If you’re a helper or student trying to flourish in your work, avoid burnout or compassion fatigue, practice mindfulness, communicate better, learn self care, dream bigger, or be a stronger leader, The Well Helper is here to help.
Join the Well Helper community, get show notes, free downloads, and more, at www.thewellhelper.com. Follow Kate @drkateking on FB/TW/IG.
In this episode, we are going to take all that burnout jargon you have been hearing - compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, impairment, secondary traumatic stress, to name a few - and organize it into one nice and neat continuum. Even better, you'll also look at some of the ways things can go well, from compassion satisfaction to optimal functioning.
The Well Helper podcast is hosted by Katherine King, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor. Each episode explores new strategies and insights to inform the life of a helping professional. If you’re a helper or student trying to flourish in your work, avoid burnout or compassion fatigue, practice mindfulness, communicate better, learn self care, dream bigger, or be a stronger leader, The Well Helper is here to help.
Join the Well Helper community, get show notes, free downloads, and more, at www.thewellhelper.com. Follow Kate @drkateking on FB/TW/IG.
Tired of well-meaning advice about getting massages and doing yoga? This episode looks at self care a little differently, and describes four key strategies that I think are the most useful. Pick up the companion cheat sheet and self-assessment tool at www.thewellhelper.com/2.
Looking to step back, reboot, and get a fresh start? This episode will walk you through a step-by-step process of reflecting on the past, gleaning what you've learned, brainstorming big dreams for the future, then planning the key next steps to start taking real action. Great for birthdays, New Years, and anytime you need a little life re-visioning. Grab the companion worksheet free at www.thewellhelper.com/1. Let me know how it goes on FB/TW/IG @drkateking!