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Your Better Mental Wellbeing Podcast

Every Friday, GP and mental wellbeing expert Dr Neera Dholakia, and software developer and neuroscience researcher Soen Trueman, will help you discover how you can manage stress and build resilience through discussion and practical exercises, so that you can live a healthy, productive and meaningful life.

How this podcast can help you

Do you want to improve your ability to deal with stress? Not only surviving, but thriving through the challenges life throws?

Building resilience will prepare you for difficulties and tough times ahead by finding healthier ways of responding to stressful thoughts and feelings. By listening to this podcast, you'll learn how to identify the early signs of stress, to be able to reduce them, and you'll learn how to prepare for and prevent stress triggers. You'll have insights from health and wellness specialists and tips on developing helpful strategies using easy evidence-based tools.

Your Better Mental Wellbeing is a weekly podcast with Dr Neera Dholakia, a GP and expert in mental wellbeing, and Soen Trueman, a software developer and neuroscience researcher.

Join us on Friday to explore how to lose the grip of long-term stress

Find our more:

For transcripts visit our website: https://yourbettermentalwellbeing.show

For great health, lifestyle and wellbeing information visit: https://onlinedoctor.boots.com

The information in this podcast is not intended to replace your own GP or other doctor’s professional medical advice.

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Neera

Hello and a very warm welcome to you. This is a short bonus episode about why you should listen to Your Better Mental Wellbeing.

I'm Dr. Neera Dholakia. I'm a GP for Boots Online Doctor and the NHS, and my expertise is in mental health and wellbeing. I'm really pleased to be hosting this show, focusing on improving your mental wellbeing.

 Soen

And I'm Soen Trueman. I'm a software developer for Boots Online Doctor and a neuroscience researcher. I'm going to help you understand the science of mental health and wellbeing.

 Neera

Do you want to improve your ability to deal with stress? Not only surviving, but thriving through the challenges life throws?

Building resilience will prepare you for difficulties and tough times ahead by finding healthier ways of responding to stressful thoughts and feelings. By listening to this podcast, you'll learn how to identify the early signs of stress, to be able to reduce them, and you'll learn how to prepare for and prevent stress triggers.

 Soen

You'll hear insights from health and wellness specialists, and you'll also learn how to cope well with tricky problems by enhancing the skills you already have, and develop new helpful strategies. All the tips and practical exercises are free and easy to follow, and you don't need any special equipment.

And you can use these tools straight away to live a more healthy, productive, and meaningful life. Our advice is backed by science. We use proven research to develop our tips and exercises, so you can be confident that they will work.

Thank you so much for listening to Your Better Mental Wellbeing.

 Neera

Please follow us and share with anyone you think would benefit from this podcast.

Join us on Friday for Episode 4, Loosening the Grip of Long Term Stress. And remember, to live your values, accept yourself, and let go.
About This Podcast
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Dr Neera Dholakia
Dr Neera Dholakia
Dr Neera is a GP and Clinical Lead for our Depression and Anxiety service. A safeguarding and mental health expert, she helps ensure services are both efficient and safe. As well as promoting self-care, she works to improve mental wellbeing in the workplace.
Soen Trueman
Soen Trueman
Soen is a full stack developer with Boots Online Doctor, specialising in graphics design, user experience, and user behaviour. Soen’s interests in behavioural analysis extends to psychology and further to neuroscience, which he is currently studying at Harvard University.
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The information in this podcast is not intended to replace your own GP or other doctor's professional medical advice.
Music credits: Main theme by AudioCoffee, Impactful 10 by Dream-Protocol, Jingle by Serge Quadrado Music