Dr Jess Morgan
Reconnecting with your inner child is liberating and can transform your identity and wellbeing.
Dr. Jess Morgan is a physician, educator, and mental health advocate whose unconventional career path illustrates that professional identity doesn’t need to follow a linear trajectory. After over a decade as a clinical paediatrician, she left medicine in 2019 to retrain as a primary teacher, a transition that deepened her understanding of wellbeing. During her medical career, Jess developed significant expertise in physician wellbeing, drawing on her lived experience of burnout and mental illness to become a leading voice on the topic. She is published in high-impact medical journals and has spoken at national and international conferences.
Today, Jess maintains a portfolio career encompassing medical education, primary school teaching, and mental health advocacy. Her varied journey demonstrates that careers can evolve and become richer when we remain open to change. Through her work, Jess shows how meaningful impact across diverse fields is possible whilst maintaining authenticity and personal wellbeing.
About the talk
Jess’s talk will explore how childhood memories and emotions buried beneath our adult identities influence how we show up in the present. She will investigate what happens when we create space to reconnect with our inner child, the part of us that knows how to find joy, embrace playfulness, and approach the world with curiosity. Drawing on her unique perspective as physician and educator, Jess will examine how reconnecting with this younger self can transform wellbeing. Through reflection and storytelling, she will invite audiences to reconsider their own relationship with their inner child and explore the liberation that emerges when we give ourselves permission to play.
Interesting Facts
Interesting thing about you that people won’t know
I speak fluent French.
What achievement makes you most proud?
Deciding to break from the norm and go my own way.
What do you get up to in your spare time?
I have two daughters and a husband. We are quite an outdoorsy family, so a weekend in the woods, open water swimming, paddle boarding or gorge walking followed by a one-shot latte in a bookshop would be ideal!
I am also part of a choir, which I love.
If you weren’t doing what you’re doing now, what would you be doing instead?
Working in a bookshop, quietly arranging the shelves and creating window displays!