089 – Leading a Mindful Life with Jess Leggatt - a podcast by Brock Cook

Jess is a phenomenal OT and a great friend of mine. She has often explored the road less travelled in this profession and has developed into a clinician with a unique perspective on life, health, wellbeing and OT. In this episode we delve into Jess's story, her burnout and how she rebuilt herself to be a better, stronger OT. She talks about her use of mindfulness, self-awareness, rest, and yoga among many other things.







I've been trying to get Jess on the show for quite some time so I'm super stoked i finally wore her down and helped with her shyness as her story holds within it, so many learning points.







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Episode Transcript







089 Leading a Mindful Life with Jess Leggatt







00:00:01 - 00:05:20







Hi, welcome to episode number 89 just a quick thing before we get stuck into this episode is if you roll on over to the occupied podcast Instagram page or our Facebook page, you'll find a little video explaining that we are currently doing a giveaway. We are giving away a copy of Assessments in occupational therapy mental health version three the textbook for nothing. Well not necessarily for nothing. There is a change something that you have to do for it, but jump along their check out that and enter that if that's something that you think might be of interest to you this episode not a long-term friend an amazing amazing occupational therapist. Just like it. Let's kick out the jams off.







Yeah very much. So I I'm kind of of the same Theory OT definitely found me when I was in my younger teenage years. I always wanted to get into like a helping profession of some sort. I went through a phase of wanting to be a nurse at some stage and then I really got Keen that I wanted a doctor and then I found out how long it would take to become a doctor and the study that was involved in that so I decided no that wasn't for me. But yeah, there's definitely a period of time for a good probably one or two years when I was serious about becoming a doctor and then I got to my later teenage years and my senior high school study that thought I was talking to my sisters friend who was studying occupational therapy at the time and she was telling me about this wonderful profession and what it included. And I was very holistic and it was very based on, you know, the person and very client-oriented. It was all about helping people get back to what they loved, you know doing things that were meaningful and when she started telling me about this profession and at the time she was interested in Pediatrics OT so she was studying a lot of subjects based on that fact, I was very much interested in working with kids as well. So I thought perfect this is a beautiful match up. I'll be able to help people but it will also be very holistic and I will be able to work with kids need someone to so from there. I basically thought yep, that's the profession for me and it wasn't I think I was in like you're twelve at the time so luckily I'd taken the rat subjects more science-based kind of subjects and yeah knowing that I wanted to get into sort of some sort of tertiary sciency helping profession and then yet when I found out about that when you're twelve was like God That sounds like the perfect perfect profession for me. So I went in to actually didn't get straight into OT. I didn't get a high enough o p but I ended up going into human movement studies and I did a year in human movements and then I was able to go from Human movement studies into occupational therapy from there. And I was very focused on becoming a pediatric OT. I was just going to like there was just no doubt in m...

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