Staying Calm during COVID

We occasionally hear from other healthcare professionals who ask why they can’t join our community for doctors, Permission to Thrive. It’s a fair question, and we want to answer it properly.  

Here’s the short version: Permission to Thrive offers peer support for doctors in a doctors-only community. Members get protected time to stop, reflect and be with other doctors who understand the work without needing it explained. 

Why Permission to Thrive is a doctors-only community 

Many of the things we talk about are shared across healthcare: overwhelm, burnout, responsibility, difficult working conditions, boundaries and the struggle to switch off. 

Permission to Thrive is doctors-only because the community itself is part of what people join for. Again and again, our members tell us they value having protected time with other doctors who “get it”. 

They don’t need to explain the weight of clinical responsibility, the expectations that come with being a doctor or the culture of medicine...