5 days to stop dreading going to work as a veterinary surgeon (wasn't it supposed to be the DREAM??)

I bet when you went through 5+ years of vet school you never thought you'd spend your Sunday evenings with a heavy, sick feeling in your stomach, dreading going to the clinic Monday morning.

But here we are.

You might still be going to work, doing your absolute best, trying to keep upbeat and not let the inner critic take over too much (which more and more seems to become a losing battle), but you've definitely not got the passion you felt in the beginning, and you're more and more tempted by other professions. The ones that don't come at such a great cost, like a baker, yoga teacher or a truck driver (real fantasies from other vets — you're not alone)!

I've been there and I ended up leaving veterinary medicine for a year. I didn't even know I had anxiety until one day, walking near the beach with my husband, it suddenly lifted for a few seconds — and I felt genuinely light for the first time in years. My chest no longer felt like I had iron bands strapped around it (like the wooden wine barrels), and the knot in my stomach, which had been sitting there like a cold, grey stone, loosened, to the point of me being SHOCKED by the sudden freedom to breathe.

I'm Gunila. I'm a small animal ER vet, a Master Certified Life Coach, and I've spent years coaching vets who are exactly where you are right now.

And the thing I hear most often from vets who've tried therapy, mindfulness apps, or just pushing through, hoping to just magically feel better at some point:

"Nobody really gets what it's like to be a vet."

This course is for the ones who need someone who gets it.