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With your innate tendency to take care of everyone else, it’s easy for you to fall into the OVER-GIVER SYNDROME.
Since your intrinsic nature is to be empathic, your concern for the well-being of patients, colleagues or your family makes it even more difficult for you to set clear boundaries, and take time to stop, relax, unwind and recharge.
But… the way through the Over-Giver Syndrome is to know that paying attention to your own well-being is as critical as anything you do for your patients.
When you recognize that self-care is the fuel that keeps your light shining, it becomes so much easier to cope with high levels of pressure and stress. When you thrive you give from a space of replenishment, and it’s sustainable.
That’s why I created The Thriving Giver online course, to help you develop simple, lasting practices to navigate pressure with greater ease, while also nurturing your mind, body and spirit. Then, you bring a calm, confident and joyful presence to your life and work.
You can see how the ‘ovary’ of the flower (Your Inner Radar and Empowering Beliefs) lay the foundation for freeing yourself from the Over-Giver Syndrome and developing greater self-awareness to prevent burnout. Without this ‘base’, the petals cannot emerge.
The five petals of the flower comprise a comprehensive range of powerful strategies to master stress and replenish your energy, empowering you to become a Thriving Giver.
You will be guided through these 7 Thriving Giver Principles and their powerful tools so that by the end of this transformational course, you will experience:
Embracing the 7 Thriving Giver Principles in your daily life will help you replenish your energy, restore motivation and discover how to thrive at home and work
Ironically, earlier in my life as a hypnotherapist, I helped so many clients master stress and balance their lives, but… I failed to practice what I preached.
As a single mother and sole provider for three boys from when they were 4, 6 and 8 years old, I found it hard to juggle work and family responsibilities.
I felt like I was giving, giving, giving….to my family, to my clients, to anyone who needed me.
The onset of burnout was insidious. It crept up on me. I became more and more exhausted – mentally, emotionally and physically. My passion and enthusiasm for work dissipated and I started to dread seeing clients. Instead of feeling empathy and compassion, I became hardened and numb.
The voice in my head kept saying, “I can’t do this anymore. I have nothing left to give.”
My wake-up call came when 6 clients canceled their appointments in one day.
Fortunately, my youngest son was leaving home at that time, so I was able to take a 3-month sabbatical.
Crewing on a sailing boat in the Caribbean gave me ample time to recharge and reflect, and then backpacking around Peru helped heal my body, mind and spirit.
On my return, I carried out extensive research on burnout which revealed the importance of overcoming the Over-Giver Syndrome, as well as developing a comprehensive range of tools to manage stress and optimize wellbeing.
Like so many health professionals, I had to learn to balance my own needs with the care of others, and I now embrace the value of self-care to ensure that my giving is sustainable.
So, I’ve been walking my talk for many years. As an author, lecturer, trainer and resilience coach, I have over 10 years of experience in teaching the 7 Thriving Giver Principles to nursing and medical students, doctors and other health care professionals.
I am passionate about sharing my knowledge and expertise and welcome the opportunity to help you replenish your energy and rekindle the love for your life and work so that you can share a balanced and joyful presence with others.
Keep on Thriving,
Sarah Kuipers
“I was exhausted and drowning under the pressure. Sarah’s course was a game changer. My thinking has shifted massively and I now feel comfortable setting boundaries and have lifelong tools to cope with stress. I’m much less anxious, sleeping well, feel lighter, more energised… and enjoying work and family again.”
Jude Grice, Registered Nurse and Acupuncturist
“Using her own life as a laboratory for the impossible, Sarah Kuipers has created a rich, detailed and deeply valuable formula to go from a life of depleting, soul and body destroying, one-way caring relationships, to a balance of other care and self-care.”
Thomas Skovholt, Psychologist and Co-author of The Resilient Practitioner
“After compassion fatigue led me to complete burnout, through working with Sarah I was able to return to my passion, delivering outstanding care to patients, despite the overwhelming workload on the frontline. I now feel energized, empowered, fulfilled and my beautiful little family is thriving.”
Claire Garner, RN Accident & Emergency
“I felt exhausted, crushed, and dreaded going to work each day until Sarah’s work literally changed my life. It encouraged me to pluck up the courage to request changes at work and to push through the resistance I met. After a month in a new role, I’m happier, have more energy, and love my work again. I have got my life back.”
Leigh Forbes, Care Worker in Adult Social Care
“In a well researched, wise and superbly practical way, Sarah Kuipers takes you through simple, doable steps, not only to reduce stress and prevent burnout but also to feel energetic, happy and inspired while giving your best to others.”
Richard Gillett, Psychiatrist
Developing a range of simple strategies to help you cope with the mental and emotional demands of your work will enhance your wellbeing and enable you to continue to provide quality care. When you cultivate emotional agility, it also becomes easier to relax and replenish in your time off.
In this session, you will discover:
The ability to reduce anxiety and calm the stress response is a crucial skill for managing pressure and stress. These simple tools can easily be incorporated into a busy schedule, enhancing your mental, emotional and physical wellbeing.
In this session, you will discover:
Unearthing the roots of poor self-care and releasing unhelpful behaviour patterns that amplify your stress is an essential step in becoming a Thriving Giver. Once you have created a foundation of supportive beliefs, it becomes so much easier to take time for yourself and create a balanced and nurturing life.
In this session, you will discover:
In this session, you will discover:
In this session you will discover:
In this session you will discover:
In this session, you will discover:
“Sarah Kuipers offers both personal warmth and professional understanding of the roots of exhaustion and burnout, and a comprehensive choice of approaches to help recovery and support continuing wellness.”
Elizabeth Wilde McCormick, Psychotherapist and Author of Change for the Better
“I used to struggle with impostor syndrome. As Sarah guided me along my journey I felt as if I was being wrapped around by a warm hug. She asks the difficult questions, with kindness, gentleness and love. Now, I can truly say that I love and respect myself.”
Louise Anderson, Art Teacher, Former Health Professional
“Sarah shines a restorative light on doable ways and means to replenish
vital energy so needed for quality care.”
Carole Falkner, Consultant in Healthcare Organization Development
“Sarah is an excellent course provider with a wonderfully clear and positive style of delivery. She has developed a wealth of accessible, effective self-help skills and strategies to deal with life’s challenges, and takes great pleasure in sharing with others.”
Mary Wilkinson, Counsellor and Hypnotherapist
“Sarah is a dedicated communicator in the classroom environment. She is consistently popular with her students, motivating them to engage with course material. Sarah is always professional and pays attention to her students’ needs in such a way as to ensure her teaching always stays fresh and engaging.”
Ursula James, Visiting Teaching Fellow, Oxford University Medical School, Patron of Anxiety UK
These PDF handouts are downloadable and printable. They are also fillable – so that you can enter your responses to the reflective questions.
Listen in your own time. Progress at your own pace.
Here’s a Summary of What the 7-Module Course Includes:
With over 30 years of experience in healthcare, Sarah’s work has included osteopathy, hypnotherapy, coaching, lecturing and training.
Bringing up three boys as a single mother alongside running a successful practice, together with her own experience of recovering from burnout, gives her an insight into the challenges of balancing your own well-being with the needs of others. Her MSc in Research focused on studying stress and burnout in health professionals. This has led to a depth of knowledge and understanding about how to thrive in a caring profession.
Sarah’s #1 Bestseller The Thriving Giver: 7 Principles for Health Professionals and Caregivers offers a clear framework to release self-sabotage patterns and create lasting practices to cultivate resilience. Thomas Skovholt, a globally renowned author in this field has called The Thriving GIver “a gem of a book in the burnout prevention, self-care literature”. It is currently being translated into Chinese and was shortlisted for the Business Book Awards in the Wellness and Wellbeing Category.
With over a decade of experience in teaching the 7 Thriving Giver Principles to healthcare students and practitioners, Sarah is passionate about empowering you to recharge your energy and reignite the love for your life and work.
This 7-module course delivers the teaching materials through videos, audios and comprehensive guidelines for the practical and experiential exercises.
You can work through the course at your own pace. All the recordings and other course materials are available on the course website, which you can access at any time.
Yes, you can choose which order you work through the modules.
However, our experience shows that most people will benefit from starting with one of the first two modules: Emotional Mastery or Self-Soothe. Having simple tools to process and release mental and emotional distress, or to calm the stress response in the body, is a crucial first step in managing pressure and stress more effectively.
The order of modules has been chosen carefully, and will be the most helpful for the majority of people taking the course, although it’s important to trust yourself when you choose which module to explore next.
No. It is equally valuable for anyone who wants to cultivate resilience, restore balance and learn to thrive. We welcome teachers, parents, busy professionals and anyone who tends to take care of everyone else and ignore their own needs.
If for any reason you are not satisfied with the course, please contact us within 14 days for a full refund. All refund requests must be submitted in writing via email to: sarah@sarahkuipers.com.
You have access for 12 months from the date of purchase.
All you need is access to the internet using a computer, tablet or smartphone. Then, you can access the course website and Discussion group.
Most of the bite-sized videos are 15-20 minutes.
For most of the modules, you have a choice as to which strategy or tool you think might be most helpful for you, so there is no need to watch all the videos. The introductory video for these modules will help you decide which video you may prefer to watch.
For other modules it is recommended that you watch all the videos.
We recommend spending a minumum of 7 weeks to complete the course; one week for each module. That makes it easier to embed the new habits into your daily life, step by step.
You have access for 12 months, so you can work through the course at your own pace.
Yes, you will find the 7 Thriving Giver Principles invaluable in helping you develop a comprehensive range of tools and strategies to restore balance and replenish body, mind and spirit. This course will help you discover that burnout has the potential to become a powerful catalyst for change.
It is quite simple to access The Thriving Giver learning portal and community forum and interact in the live sessions. All course materials can be downloaded. We will give you all the support we can, and you will find that once you’re in the flow, it’s really easy.
For queries related to course registration or technical support, you can contact sarah@sarahkuipers.com.
There is also the option to have personal coaching sessions with Sarah. You may contact sarah@sarahkuipers.com to find out when she has time available.
This is an educational program, and the concepts, exercises and strategies in this course are not intended to replace the need for advice, therapy or support from medical or psychotherapeutic professionals.