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301: Resilience, Burnout, and the Power of Self-Compassion – with Dr. Olivia Ong

What would you do if everything you worked for came to a crashing halt? Our guest today, Dr. Olivia Ong, has a truly incredible story – one not just of resilience, grit, and 'pushing through the pain'... but one of self-compassion. After a horrible accident, Olivia was told by her doctor that she…

39: Dr Olivia Ong: How to Recover from Burnout Using Self-Compassion, Values, and Nervous System Regulation

If you’ve ever felt burnt out, or too busy to take care of your mental wellbeing, you’ll find a lot of wisdom in this interview. Today I speak with Dr Olivia Ong, and we had an eye-opening conversation that I know you will love. Dr. Olivia Ong—widely known as The Heart-Centred Doctor—is an award-wi…

Episode 116. Spinal cord injury and burnout with Dr Olivia Ong

In this deeply personal episode, I speak with Dr Olivia Ong, a Melbourne-based GP and rehab physician, about her life-changing experience with a severe spinal cord injury, her journey through rehabilitation, and how she overcame multiple episodes of burnout. Olivia shares vivid memories of the acc…

Sunday Extra 22 March 2026

This week on Sunday Extra, a new study finds no evidence that medical cannabis was any more effective at treating anxiety and depression than placebos.  The fascinating world of numbers stations, one of the oldest forms of encrypted communication which are still used by intelligence agencies to get…

Doctor Burnout Recovery: What Medicine Never Taught Us Episode 172

What happens when a doctor becomes the patient and discovers that everything she thought she knew about recovery was only half the picture?  Dr. Olivia Ong was a second-year rehabilitation registrar when a car struck her in a hospital car park, leaving her with a spinal cord injury and a prognosis…

The Day Dr. Ong Stopped Being a Doctor

A routine afternoon. A hospital parking lot. A split second that changes everything. When a young rehabilitation physician is struck by an out-of-control car, she suddenly finds herself experiencing medicine from the opposite side of the bed. In this intimate conversation, Dr. Olivia Ong recounts t…

The doctor who learnt to walk again, using exercise

After a catastrophic car crash in the parking lot of her hospital, Dr Olivia Ong became a paraplegic. But her obsession with learning how to walk again was stronger than her incomplete spinal cord injury. When Olivia Ong was 28 years old, she had the world at her feet. She had recently qualified as…

#2228 Achievement vs Meaning - Dr. Olivia Ong

Dr. Olivia Ong is a Melbourne-based rehabilitation and pain medicine physician, author and speaker whose personal story has profoundly shaped her career. In 2008, while working as a young doctor, Olivia was struck by a car in a hospital car park, sustaining a spinal cord injury that left her parapl…

From Doctor to Patient - Author Olivia Ong’s Memoir on Healing After Trauma

In ‘Culture Club’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Dr. Olivia Ong, a Melbourne-based pain physician & specialist, and author of the memoir: “Back On My Feet”. Ong talks about how her book details a spinal cord injury from an accident that left her facing the possibility of never walking again. She des…

#2248 How Burnout Works - Dr. Olivia Ong

Dr. Olivia Ong is back at TYP Central and this time we endeavour to gain a deeper understanding of burnout - what it is, what it isn’t, who it affects, how it affects us, how to recognise it and what we might do about it. Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.