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January Is Done, Now What?

Published on: 23/01/2026

A month filled with goals, resets, intentions, and expectations, often layered on top of tired bodies, busy minds, and lives that didn’t pause just because the calendar changed.

Resilience Isn’t Loud — It’s What Carries You Forward

Published on: 12/01/2026

Resilience isn’t about avoiding darkness. It’s about learning how to move through it without abandoning yourself.

The Truth About Mornings: Why How You Start Your Day Matters More Than You Think

Published on: 12/01/2026

Mornings can be hard. Not just the “I need more sleep” kind of hard, but the deep, disorienting overwhelm that sets in before the day has even begun.

Introducing the Digital Hub: A Quiet Space for Busy Minds

Published on: 11/10/2025

Over the last few years, I’ve worked closely with individuals, parents, professionals, and teams navigating everything from burnout to overwhelm, parenting pressure to self-doubt. Again and again, I saw one recurring patter.

Feeling Scattered, Stretched, or Burned Out? Here’s Your Blueprint for a Resilient Mind

Published on: 22/09/2025

It’s about reconnecting with the part of you that knows how to rise — calmly, clearly, and on your own terms. Your mind deserves this. So do you.

Why Building Team Resilience is the Key to Sustainable Success in Today’s Workplace

Published on: 18/08/2025

Farnaaz Sharief’s Leadership Development Packages are anchored in four core pillars that support team resilience from the inside out:

Dr Farnaaz Sharief MBE on finding balance in a pressured system

In this podcast, Dr Sharief outlines practical steps that GPs and other healthcare professionals can take – acknowledging how they are feeling and making adaptations based on that. She explains how to make small, habitual changes that will bring long-lasting benefits.

How to manage your mind with Dr Farnaaz Sharief MBE

As CEO of Manage Your Mind, an organisation which aims to develop the mental resilience of staff working across health and social care, Dr Farnaaz Sharief MBE is passionate about enhancing peoples wellbeing and resilience, their ability to build relationships, transform partnerships, and keeping people focused, motivated and moving.

Also a GP, ex-Medical Director, independent management consultant and leadership coach, and a Senior Fellow at the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, it was a pleasure to chat to Farnaaz about all things leadership and how it is possible for us, as leaders, to maintain our health and wellbeing both at home and at work.

How Big a Problem is Stress and Burnout?

In this episode, Ciaran Fletcher is joined by Dr. Farnaaz Sharief MBE, to discuss stress and burnout in healthcare.

Farnaaz offers insight about how you can recognise signs of stress and burnout in yourself and your colleagues, as well as offering her tips and advice for dealing with these complex issues.

Wellbeing in the NHS and how to develop mental resilience

Talking General Practice speaks to Dr Farnaaz Sharief, a GP and chief executive of Manage your Mind, an organisation which provides training on mental resilience to NHS and social care staff.

In this episode Farnaaz talks about mental wellbeing in the NHS, what mental resilience means and why it is so important.

She also has lots of practical advice on how people can boost their mental resilience to help them cope with stress and pressures - both inside and outside work, how to support friends and colleagues experiencing stress, what practices and organisations can do to promote wellbeing, and the role coaching can play.

This episode was presented by GPonline editor Emma Bower. It was produced by Czarina Deen.

Building resilience in practice

Leadership in Practice

Resilience is now a must have skill for leaders and managers in primary care, such are the demands and pressures of the job, In this episode we talk to
Farnaaz Sharief, join in and you’ll be listening to a real expert on resilience. We learn how to navigate and build resilience, she teaches us how to look after the resilience of our team, and what to do when our own resilience is flagging.

At the end of Farnaaz’s brilliant, simple, and accessible advice, that is useful for everyone, we both give our usual podcast takeaways.

In the conversation we also reference some breathing techniques which you’ll easily find with a simple internet search, Here are two links to get you started