Belly Full

Heidi Edmundson grew up on Northern Ireland's spectacular Causeway Coast. After attending Coleraine High School, she went to university in Dundee to study medicine and has worked as a doctor since 1994, predominantly for the NHS.She currently lives in North London where she has been a consultant in Emergency Medicine for over ten years. She is a passionate advocate for staff wellbeing and building positive workplace cultures. When the COVID pandemic began to take hold in Britain in March 2020, she experienced first-hand the impact of the deteriorating conditions in the NHS on her own health.

'Dr Heidi Edmundson gives a powerful testimony of the enmeshment of mind and body. Belly Full is a gripping tale of the moment, where we hide from our lives by keeping busy at work, where we we bury our fears and shame by distraction and self-deception. Going the extra mile at work is seen as virtuous; meanwhile our bodies are keeping the score of the consequences of our stress. Belly Full reads with the pace of a novel but hits harder from the knowledge that it is a true reflection of our burned-out world today.'Bruce DaisleySunday Times bestselling author