How To Make Better Decisions Under Stress with Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton #101

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

My guest on this week’s podcast is living proof that trauma doesn’t have to break you – that your start in life needn’t determine where you’ll end up. Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton is one of just six female chief fire officers in the UK, and a psychologist with a PhD in behavioural neuroscience. She’s also an ambassador for The Big Issue, which she sold on the streets while experiencing homelessness as a teenager – something she describes as the worst, most dehumanising experience of her life. And yet, as you’ll hear in this episode, it helped create the grit, resilience, empathy and compassion that’s made her the incredible human being she is today. Sabrina talks us through her amazing journey from childhood trauma through homelessness, harassment and onto academic and professional excellence. She shares the experiences that lead her to research the psychology behind how and why we make the decisions we do when under pressure. Her work explores the tension between instinct and procedure, gut decisions versus protocol. And her findings have revolutionised not just how the UK Fire Service works, they’ve been adopted across many areas of industry and won 10 science awards globally. This podcast, recorded in front of a live audience at the Life Lessons festival, is one of the shortest conversations I’ve released, and yet it’s absolutely packed with Sabrina’s enthralling stories, powerful lessons and practical advice. Her message – that every single one of us is stronger than we think – is a vital one. This is a truly life-affirming episode and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Show notes available at drchatterjee.com/101 Follow me on instagram.com/drchatterjee/ Follow me on facebook.com/DrChatterjee/ Follow me on twitter.com/drchatterjeeuk DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website.

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0:00.0	I mean, you know what? Bad things are going to happen to you in life. Whoever you are, wherever
0:04.7	you are, whatever you're going to have disappointment, you're going to have failure. Things
0:09.9	will happen that just aren't fair. That's life. You can't control that. But what you can control
0:15.2	is how you respond to that. And I'd love to say that's solely a choice. It's not always a choice
0:20.8	because your emotional reaction to something's solely a choice. It's not always a choice because your emotional
0:22.3	reaction to something is not a choice. But what you do about it, the way you choose to respond to that,
0:29.9	the actions that you take, the words that you use, the thoughts that you allow yourself to have,
0:35.3	you can control those things.
0:39.9	Hi, my name is Ronan Chatschi,
0:46.0	GP, television presenter and author of the bestselling books, The Stress Solution and the Four Pillar Plan. I believe that all of us have the ability to feel better than we currently do, but getting
0:51.7	healthy has become far too complicated. With this podcast, I aim to simplify
0:56.9	it. I'm going to be having conversations with some of the most interesting and exciting people,
1:01.7	both within as well as outside the health space, to hopefully inspire you, as well as empower you
1:07.6	with simple tips that you can put into practice immediately to transform
1:11.6	the way that you feel. I believe that when we are healthier, we are happier because when we feel
1:17.1	better, we live more. Hello and welcome back to episode 101 of my Feel Better Live More podcast.
1:32.7	My name is Ronan Chatsjee and I am your host. My guest on this week's podcast is living proof that trauma does not have to break you and that your
1:38.3	start in life need and determine where you'll end up. Dr. Sabrina Coenhattan is one of just six female chief fire
1:46.8	officers in the UK and a psychologist with a PhD in behavioral neuroscience. She's also an ambassador
1:53.8	for the big issue, which she sold on the streets whilst experiencing homelessness as a teenager.
2:00.3	Something she describes as the worst,
2:02.7	most dehumanizing experience of her life. And yet, as you'll hear in this episode, it helped
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