Welcome to the Women in RACHP Monthly Blog. Where members of the network talk about what is important to them.
Welcome loyal reader, we hope you have enjoyed summer and let’s go September – it is officially sweater weather. We would like to introduce this month’s blog written by Lisa Waters. Appropriately named The Scully Effect for reasons that will become clear in her writings.
I am trying to teach myself a new skill. I am trying to teach myself to be present. I have been thinking about it for some time, and I am aware I am not often really in it.
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A year ago, if you had suggested I write a blog for Women's Health Month, I would have cringed at the idea. I’d probably have tried to hand the task off to someone else, feeling unqualified to speak on the topic. To be honest, I was blissfully unaware that Women's Health Month even existed!
On this International Women’s Day, I was thinking that the world feels a less inclusive place than it did this time last year.
Edith Meyer hosts our blog this month. Highlighting this hot topic – which everyone is talking about: Schools, pupils and companies. It is apprenticeships.
As each new year begins I am thrown into reviewing my achievements for the past year whilst simultaneously looking ahead to the following one. Whilst reviewing achievements can be cathartic, I often find that it increases my anxiety – why was I not better this year? Am I where I need to be? More importantly, am I where I should be?
DEFINITION: When there is too much information to process, you may feel cognitive overload. This happens when you reach a point of paralysis of information — not being able to process and then act on what is heard.
Back in 2020 I was given an opportunity to take part in the STEMAZING inspiration academy, queue masses of imposter syndrome! Surely, they’d asked me by accident? What do I know about STEM subjects? I don’t even have a Science GCSE!
Ada Lovelace Day, celebrated on 8 October 2024, is a time to honour the remarkable achievements of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)