Dr. Claire Plumbly: Burnout, modern lives and how to protect our mental health
Dial Emma
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help.
In this week's episode, Dr. Claire Plumbly, a clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and author, joins me to explore the complexities of burnout, a subject that she specialises in alongside PTSD, anxiety, and trauma-informed wellbeing.
We respond to a listener who is struggling with the constant connectivity of modern life and work, discussing our physical and emotional responses to stress, the importance of understanding the autonomic nervous system, and the practical strategies we can implement to manage energy and set boundaries.
We also talk about the need for self-compassion, the role of personal values in shaping identity, and how creating cues of safety can facilitate relaxation and help us transition more smoothly into rest time.
If you have a dilemma for Emma, please fill out this form.
Find Claire on social media here.
Access her free resource, the 5-step PARKS Method for switching off, here.
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| 0:00.0 | Now time to thank our partner of this episode, Alzheimer's Society. |
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| 1:00.1 | Hello and welcome to Dial Emma, the podcast where your dilemmas meet my therapeutic insights. |
| 1:06.9 | I'm Emery Terrell, psychotherapist, author, and Well-Recovering People Pleaser. |
| 1:11.5 | Each week, I'll be unpacking real-life questions from listeners just like you. |
| 1:15.8 | The big ones, the small ones, the ones that keep you up at night, |
| 1:19.6 | offering practical tools and gentle truths to help you find your way through. |
| 1:24.3 | So if you've got a question, you don't know how to ask out loud. |
| 1:29.2 | You've come to the right place. |
| 1:43.1 | Welcome to this week's episode of Dial Emma. And in the true spirit of this time of year, |
| 1:46.0 | we're getting a lot of dilemmas right now on a similar theme. And it's all about, well, I think of it as a kind of that feeling of wanting |
| 1:53.1 | there to be change, wanting there to be something different and not quite being able to let go |
| 1:59.2 | of what we need to let go of in order to kind of begin what we need to |
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