Why do I feel like I have lost myself as a paramedic?

The role asks you to hold your reactions back so you can work. Held back long enough, that becomes a habit, and the parts of you the job does not need can go quiet. That is an identity change, and it can be understood and worked with.

Who am I without my job title?

When a role carries your identity, the title starts doing the answering. The work here is separating what you do from who you are, so the answer stops depending on a rota.

Is it burnout or something else?

Burnout describes exhaustion. What many paramedics describe is broader than tiredness: not recognising yourself. AURIS teaches identity and stability, and is not a diagnosis. For medical concerns, speak to your GP.

Can I do this without anyone at work knowing?

Yes. It is your own private account and your own pace, and nothing you write is shared with your service.

If this is you

Identity after the job: for paramedics and ambulance staff

You are the person who arrives when everything has gone wrong, and you are steady while you do it. Then you drive home and you are not sure who that steady person is any more. Nothing has gone wrong with you. A role that demanded that much of you has shaped who you think you are.

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What this looks like for you

The calm is a skill, not your whole self

Being the person who copes is something you learned. It is not the limit of who you are allowed to be.

For the shift pattern you actually work

Short lessons you can pick up between shifts, saved where you left them, with nothing to attend live.

Honest about what this is

This is education and coaching, not therapy, and it does not ask you to relive jobs you would rather leave alone.

Questions people ask

The questions behind this page.

Where your money goes

Paying for a course or a membership is an investment in yourself first. It also pays for the research this learning is built from, and for free places for people who cannot pay, delivered with Trafford Veterans CIC, Out in the Bay and Red Rose Recovery.

Nobody is asked to pay in order to be supported, and the free Introduction to AURIS stays free.

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If your service wants this for its people

Ambulance services and trusts can deliver this work with us at team level. Individual learning stays private either way.

How AURIS works with organisations

Where this connects

The free Foundation is where this becomes practical.

Reading explains the pattern. The first free course gives you something to practise.

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Five situations AURIS is written for. A pathway is a suggested order, never a requirement.

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