The Overworked Woman’s Guide to a Stress-Free Christmas with Jess Baker, Chartered Psychologist & Author – The Happy Menopause Podcast

Season 6 • Episode 8
Jess Baker, Chartered Psychologist & Author

Christmas can be a lot of fun and create some wonderful memories. But let’s face it, all that festive joy doesn’t happen by accident. Behind the scenes, pulling all the strings and juggling all the plates, there’s usually a woman making the magic happen. We really do take on a lot at this time of year. So, if you’re already feeling overwhelmed by all the planning, shopping, wrapping, prepping, and cooking that lies ahead, don’t worry – help is at hand.

In this episode, I chat to Chartered Psychologist Jess Baker, the co-author of the excellent book The Super Helper Syndrome: A Survival Guide for Compassionate People. She’s here to help us establish some boundaries, banish guilt and avoid overloading ourselves – just what we need at this time of year.

Jess has some brilliant advice to get you through the season while still having fun. Tune in as we dive into some tricky festive scenarios—I’m pretty sure you’ll recognise them! —now you’ll learn how to handle them with confidence and ease.

This is the first in a series of three podcasts designed to support you through the challenges of the festive season. If you’re a member of The Happy Menopause Club, you can listen to the whole series right away. For non-members, the next episode—on managing Christmas stress—will be available on 12th December, and the final one, packed with Christmas nutrition tips to help you navigate parties and dinners, will drop on 19th December. But if you’d like access to all the advice straight away, so you can sail through the season stress-free, head to The Happy Menopause.com and join for just £6 per month.

Show Notes

Find out more about Jess and the work that she does by visiting her website.

Listen to my previous episode with Jess from Season 4: The Super Helper Syndrome:  A Survival Guide for Compassionate People. 

Buy your copy of The Super Helper Syndrome: A Survival Guide for Compassionate People by Jess Baker & Rod Vincent. When you order a copy here you can also join the FREE Super Helper Book Club and access a whole community of support.

Discover Jess’s FREE workbooks and other courses here.

Follow Jess on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Linked In.

Sign up for Jess’s Tame Your Inner Critic course.

Follow Rod as @RodVincent on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram

and as one half of O’Reilly & Vincent on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram

Biographies

Jess Baker is a Chartered Business Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and Women’s Leadership Coach (CPsychol AFBPsS). For the past 20 years she’s worked in the areas of leadership and wellbeing with individuals and global organisations. Jess started her career in healthcare before specialising in business psychology. She regularly deliver wellbeing webinars to global audiences of up to 15,000 people. As well being an award-winning coach for her private 1:1 sessions, she runs online programmes. Over a thousand women have been through Tame Your Inner Critic, a course that helps people overcome the inner critic, one of her  oldest friends!

Rod Vincent is an Anglo-Irish Chartered Psychologist, a writer and a musician. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and during his previous career as a business psychologist he helped to develop leaders in forty-one countries. He is now doing his best to rebalance that carbon footprint by confining himself to walking the Shropshire hills. His poems and stories have won prizes in competitions and been published in a number of literary journals including Poetry Ireland Review, Stand and The Rialto. His poems are also in the Iron Book of New Humorous Verse (Iron Press). He writes the lyrics and plays bass as one half of O’Reilly & Vincent.