The
Map
Understand Yourself
Change Direction
Reclaim Control
A book for anyone ready to take the wheel and chart a new path to well-being.
“We believe that emotional balance is the foundation for a contented life and a powerful resource for navigating life’s challenges.”
In this book Dr. Alice Baldock, and her Psychotherapist Diana Martin Odell, will help you acknowledge feelings of overwhelm, unease, and discontent and guide you in understanding them.
From Autopilot to Awareness
If you ever feel at a crossroads in your
career and relationships,
reach for this book.
And if you reach for it... reach for yourself.
Be your own Mapmaker.
The Domains
In “The Map” we explore the 5 elements or “domains” which Alice and Diana have identified in all of us.
They, together, inform the creation of our unique internal map.
The blueprint of which is created from our past experiences, beliefs and emotional reactions, and is at the heart of the unconscious behaviours we adopt in moments of pressure, crisis and stress.
Discover how you can challenge these patterns and the “autopilot” sitting in your driving seat.
Identity
Who are you beyond your roles or your job?
What happens when your sense of self changes or feels threatened?
Judgement and Self
How do we judge ourselves and others, and how do those judgements shape our emotional world?
Physiological Needs
What happens to our minds when our bodies are out of balance and vice versa?
What does true self-care
look like?
Control
When does control help us feel safe, and when does it trap us? How can we let go without falling apart?
Pursuit of Perfection
Why do so many of us feel we
need to get things
“just right”?
How does this need contribute to increased stress, anxiety, and
eventually, burnout?
Dr Alice Baldock
Alice has been working as a GP for over 25 years and is currently an NHS GP Partner in a busy Hertfordshire practice.
After qualifying from Imperial Medical School, she held various hospital posts before being offered the opportunity to work in Australia for a year. On her return, Alice decided to enter the GP vocational training scheme in Essex.
Since becoming a doctor, Alice has consulted with thousands of patients and continues to be curious in the ways illness presents and the patterns of human behaviour.
She specialises in women’s health, and has also gained her coaching diploma. She continues to support her colleagues and remains committed to the NHS.
Alice is now a trainer of the next generation of GPs and is often invited to present to key influencers in the profession on the ways to prevent burnout and enable doctors to flourish .
Alice can often be found in her cosy house with her husband and two wonderful teenage children…otherwise, she will be on her bike in the sand dunes on the coast of her native country of Holland, thinking of her next book .
Diana Martin Odell
Diana has been working as a psychotherapist for 25 years. After graduating from university with an honours degree in Linguistics and Psychological Studies, Diana completed diplomas in clinical hypnotherapy, stress management and cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy as well as further training in counselling, life coaching, CBT, and therapy for fertility issues.
As a Stress Management Consultant at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, Diana was part of a research team investigating the connection between stress and pregnancy. She was, for many years, a consultant and director at St. Albans Women's Refuge.
Over the years Diana has seen thousands of clients who have sought help with a wide range of issues working closely with GPs and consultants both in the NHS and private sector. Her specialist areas of therapy are fertility issues including unexplained infertility and IVF, relationship difficulties, stress and burnout.
Diana currently lives in a lovely house along the seafront in Kent.
She and her husband have a grownup, blended family with four children and four grandchildren