During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Christine Gibson turned to TikTok to help people cope with their distress. Her videos were a sensation, and she became known as the “TikTok trauma doc.” But TikTok is only a small part of Dr. Gibson’s body of work, and in this conversation, we’ll explore everything from her ascent to social media fame to the many coping strategies she offers patients - and her many viewers - for moving beyond trauma towards a better life.

Dr. Christine Gibson is a family physician, trauma therapist, and author of The Modern Trauma Toolkit (releasing May 2023 with Hachette Go). She’s also on social media as TikTokTraumaDoc with >125k followers on TikTok. She has a masters in medical education and is halfway through a doctorate, and has been involved in academics and education - creating Calgary’s R3 in Health Equity. She runs an international non-profit Global Familymed Foundation, a cooperative, and a new company to train professionals how to manage workplace trauma - Safer Spaces Training.

Jillian Horton, M.D., is an award-winning medical educator, writer, musician and podcaster. A former Associate Dean at the University of Manitoba, she has cared for thousands of patients in an inner-city hospital, and now works to provide care to people living with addiction.  She is the winner of the prestigious 2020 AFMC–Gold Foundation Humanism award, recognizing her as a national thought leader in medical education and the delivery of compassionate and humane care. As a teacher of mindfulness, she is sought after by doctors at all stages of their careers, and she leads the development of national programming in physician health for Joule, a subsidiary of the Canadian Medical Association. Her writing about medicine appears frequently in the LA Times, the Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star, and her first book, We Are All Perfectly Fine, now a national best seller, was released by HarperCollins Canada in Feb 2021.
 

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