Olivia Ong

"I'm my own best friend, even when I don't do well as I'd hoped "Being kind to oneself is the most important thing your child could ever learn to do.Invite your child to explore self-compassion in this engaging daily practice of being your own best friend. Make this book a regular part of the night-time routine and help the children in your life establish greater self-awareness and self-kindness.Jo-Jo the Kind Sloth learns to be his own best friend. This book explains how self-compassion is a powerful tool for a child's well-being, leading to self-kindness and self-acceptance and the cultivation of resilience for meeting life's challenges."This is a wonderful children's book about teaching children to be kind and compassionate to themselves. After all, isn't this the most important lesson? Showing kindness to oneself." Julie Postance, author of Breaking the Sound Barriers

"I'm my own best friend, even when I don't do well as I'd hoped " Being kind to oneself is the most important thing your child could ever learn to do. Invite your child to explore self-compassion in this engaging daily practice of being your own best friend. Make this book a regular part of the night-time routine and help the children in your life establish greater self-awareness and self-kindness. Jo-Jo the Kind Sloth learns to be his own best friend. This book explains how self-compassion is a powerful tool for a child's well-being, leading to self-kindness and self-acceptance and the cultivation of resilience for meeting life's challenges. "This is a wonderful children's book about teaching children to be kind and compassionate to themselves. After all, isn't this the most important lesson? Showing kindness to oneself." Julie Postance, author of Breaking the Sound Barriers

"I'm my own best friend, even when I don't do well as I'd hoped "Being kind to oneself is the most important thing your child could ever learn to do.Invite your child to explore self-compassion in this engaging daily practice of being your own best friend. Make this book a regular part of the night-time routine and help the children in your life establish greater self-awareness and self-kindness.Jo-Jo the Kind Sloth learns to be his own best friend. This book explains how self-compassion is a powerful tool for a child's well-being, leading to self-kindness and self-acceptance and the cultivation of resilience for meeting life's challenges."This is a wonderful children's book about teaching children to be kind and compassionate to themselves. After all, isn't this the most important lesson? Showing kindness to oneself." Julie Postance, author of Breaking the Sound Barriers

The Heart-Centered Doctor is written by Dr Olivia Ong who is an established pain physician working in private and public practice in Australia, and a medical leadership coach and mentor helping busy, high achieving doctors avoid burnout and exhaustion, and achieve a balanced life through her Life Transformation for Doctors program.This book has been written to address an urgent need that very few of the people who rely on doctors know anything about. That is that way too many doctors are walking on a knife's edge in relation to their own health.In the book Dr. Olivia shares her personal experience of burnout, and the principles, strategies, and heart-based tools that helped her to get through it. She also draws on what she found out through studying the fields of self-compassion and wellbeing, and through coaching her fellow medical peers.

The inspirational story of how a rehabilitation doctor overcame her devastating spinal injury with faith and determination, and changed her life and practice as a result. When Dr Olivia Ong was struck by a car and suffered a catastrophic spinal injury, her prognosis was devastating. Experts told her she would never walk again. The future she had envisioned - practising medicine, having children and sharing life's simple joys with her husband, family and friends - seemed to slip away. What followed was an extraordinary journey of resilience, requiring years of intensive physical therapy, unwavering determination and the relentless support of her loved ones. Against the odds, Olivia regained the ability to walk and returned to medicine, specialising in rehabilitation and pain management. Olivia also discovered something profound as she transformed in heart and mind: self-compassion. This newfound empathy not only made her stronger, it also made her a better human being and doctor - one who truly understands and values the process of healing. Olivia now practises in a way that offers her patients hope, giving insight and motivation to anyone struggling in a situation that seems beyond their control. She believes that we can all learn to heal from the inside out, with courage, compassion and connection. Back on My Feet is for anyone facing adversity, anyone searching for hope and anyone who loves a powerful, inspirational story of perseverance.