Doctors' Notes: A crisis of willpower


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Mar 24 2025 26 mins   190

Join Chris and Xand for some bonus content as they dig deeper into the topic of each week’s episode of What’s Up Docs?

Such is their passion for health and wellbeing that when joined by an expert they find it hard to contain their excitement and the questions just keep coming. Doctors' Notes is the solution. Here, they spend a little more time with the expert and explore some ideas that they can’t get out of their minds.

In this episode, picking up from their conversation with chartered psychologist Kimberly Wilson, Chris and Xand take a further look at willpower. Xand gets a bit of free therapy, evaluating his own relationship to willpower and they discuss relapse and the role it plays in the cycle of behavioural change.

If you’d like to share your thoughts on willpower or anything else that piqued your interest in this edition of Doctors' Notes or the main episode about willpower, you can email [email protected] or Whatsapp on 08000 665123.

Presenters: Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken
Guest: Kimberly Wilson
Producer: Jo Rowntree
Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar
Editor: Kirsten Lass
Assistant Producer: Maia Miller-Lewis
Researcher: Lisa Lipman
Tech Lead: Reuben Huxtable
Production Manager: Leon Gower
Digital Lead: Richard Berry
Composer: Phoebe McFarlane
Commissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts
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