In this, the last episode of the season, host Dr Catriona Bradley speaks with consultant psychiatrist Professor Abbie Lane about the podcast series. Key concepts from the series are explored, including factors which can challenge resilience, and key strategies and coping mechanisms.  Useful resources: https://iiop.ie/content/mental-health-wellbeing 

Title: Mentoring                                                                                                Date of release: 20 October 2021  The penultimate episode of the series takes a different approach as mentoring programme lead Sarah Chambers, mentors Louisa Power and Margaret Doherty, and mentees Moyosola Tijani and Cian O’Caheny share their experience of the pilot mentoring programme.   Useful resources: https://iiop.ie/content/mental-health-wellbeing 

Brenda talks about her experiences when she started to manage a team. In this episode, she shares hints and tips that helped her make the transition to management.  Useful resources: https://iiop.ie/content/mental-health-wellbeing 

Seamus talks about how the decisions we make impact on our wellbeing and on the direction of our lives. In this episode he talks about the factors that are important to consider in decision making. Useful resources: https://iiop.ie/content/mental-health-wellbeing 

Jean is a pharmacist with a diverse career in community and industry pharmacy. She shares with us her personal experience with anxiety and therapy, as well as her journey of self-discovery.    Useful resources: https://iiop.ie/content/mental-health-wellbeing 

Rebecca is a community pharmacist in Dublin. She talks about the difficulty of “switching off”/being on high alert as a pharmacist. Rebecca also discusses the pros and cons of being a perfectionist and how it’s intrinsically linked into her personal and professional life.    Useful resources: https://iiop.ie/content/mental-health-wellbeing 

Dec is a community pharmacist and owner. He talks about his experience with burnout (or as Dec likes to call it, his “breakthrough”) and how it affected his personal and professional life. Dec shares the methods he uses to maintain his mental health and speaks about the importance of recognising our own signals of stress and burnout.   Useful resources: https://iiop.ie/content/mental-health-wellbeing

Julian, a former pharmacy owner, chats about the realities of community pharmacy practice and offers practical tips on developing resilience. He also challenges us to think about where pharmacists best add value.   Useful resources: https://iiop.ie/content/mental-health-wellbeing

Lisa Kehily. Tough TimesLisa is a community pharmacist in Cork city. She talks about coping with grief and her own personal health issues, and how her experiences receiving healthcare treatment had an influence on her decision to become a pharmacist. Lisa discusses how she manages her stress and shares her experience of reaching out to a professional counselling service.  Here are resources mentioned in this podcast:  https://mymind.org/  https://iiop.ie/content/mental-health-wellbeing 

Dublin community pharmacist, Ailbhe, tells us about a frightening experience she encountered when newly qualified. She describes the impact this had on her, in the short and long-term, how she dealt with it and gives advice for other pharmacists who experience similar events.    Useful resources:   https://iiop.ie/content/mental-health-wellbeing 

Catriona Bradley, Executive Director of the Irish Institute of Pharmacy, and lead for Lifelong Learning in RCSI, speaks to guests about their experience in building resilience within pharmacy. Topics will range from issues such as anxiety, stress, and burnout, to the more enjoyable parts of work. In this podcast, pharmacists share the stories that often go untold. The result is a wonderful collection of human experiences within Irish pharmacy.