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.”
Follow one doctor’s revealing journey through struggle, therapy, and transformation. Step into the room with her and her therapist as they uncover the invisible internal Map that shapes her unconscious thoughts, emotions, and behaviours.
Through the exploration of five essential domains, Identity, Perfectionism, Judgment, Physiological Needs, and Control. The Map gives readers practical tools to examine their own inner landscape, reset their autopilot,
and create lasting change.
In this book GP Partner 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.
A Short Introduction to The Map
Dr Alice Baldock and Diana Martin Odell
The Domains
In The Map, Alice and Diana identify and explore the 5 elements or domains existing in all of us
which inform the creation of our unique internal map.
The blueprint of this map is created from our past experiences, beliefs and emotional reactions.
It is at the heart of the unconscious responses to the world around us and determines
the path our Autopilot takes 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 responsibilities
or your job?
What happens when your sense of self changes or feels threatened?
Pursuit of Perfection
Why do we feel we need to get things
“just right”? How does this contribute to increased stress, anxiety, and
eventually, burnout?
Judgement and Self
How do we judge ourselves and others, and how do those judgements shape our emotional world?
Physiological Needs
What happens when are minds and bodies are out of balance?
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?
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 the University of Hertfordshire 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 and Chelsea Hospital, Diana was part of a research team investigating the connection between stress andpregnancy. 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 The connection between psychological dysregulation and physical conditions has long been of interest and she has worked closely with GPs and consultants both in the NHS and the private sector. Her specialist areas of therapy are fertility issues including unexplained infertility and IVF, relationship difficulties, stress and burnout.
Diana moved from Hertfordshire to the Kent coast a few years ago. She and her husband now live in a house overlooking the sea which is usually calm and peaceful, except when filled with their blended family of four children, partners, grandchildren and dogs.