Building Resilience | Your Health Comes First

Your Health Comes First

Take Care of the Foundations, So the Rest Can Follow

A calm, evidence-informed way to rebuild steadiness, clarity, and care from within.

Your Health Comes First is an award-winning preventive health education programme developed by Dr Jasmin Tzortzakakis Malik, a General Practitioner with over two decades of clinical practice, research experience, and lived experience of illness. The programme is designed to improve understanding of how the body functions under strain, illness, and recovery, and how early physiological changes often precede more established disease.

The body often communicates well before illness takes hold.

So many of us look to address our health only once it starts to become a problem. We often wait until things get bad before we pay attention. But behind the scenes, our bodies are speaking through fatigue, inflammation, sleep issues, stress responses, and subtle shifts in energy that often go unrecognised.

Here, we take a different approach.

At Your Health Comes First, you will find support that bridges medical insight and practical care, helping you understand what is happening beneath the surface, so you can respond with clarity rather than fear.

Created with Both Clinical and Lived perspectives

I’m Dr Jasmin Tzortzakakis Malik, a General Practitioner with over 20 years’ experience in trauma-informed healthcare. Throughout my career, I’ve supported people facing the early signs of burnout, chronic stress, and exhaustion.

But I’ve also been on the other side.

After years of over-functioning, juggling roles, pushing through, and working at an unsustainable pace, I was unprepared for what followed when I developed long COVID. My energy, immune function, and physical resilience collapsed. Despite my medical training, I found myself without clear answers. Healing required something different: slowing down, listening more deeply, and rebuilding from the inside out.

This platform is the resource I wish I’d had during that time: practical, compassionate, and rooted in both clinical insight and lived experience..

My mission is simple:

To support prevention by making wellbeing practical, trauma-informed, and accessible.
To enable people to respond early, stay connected to what their bodies may need, and recover more steadily when things shift.

What You’ll Find Here

Clarity

Understand what your symptoms are telling you and why slowing down isn’t failure, it’s wisdom.

Foundations

Build steady, sustainable practices that support your body’s real needs.

Agency

Feel confident navigating your health with evidence-based tools you can apply in everyday life.

Understanding Energy, Regulation, and Recovery

Your Health Comes First is about understanding how symptoms can emerge when the body is under strain. It focuses on helping you tune in to your body’s rhythms through developing skills in self-observation, empowering you for change.

You can help you:

understand common body systems and why symptoms cluster
notice patterns in energy, sleep, mood, pain, digestion, and concentration
identify early signals of overload and what tends to worsen them
build steadier foundations using the 10 Principles, one area at a time
choose small adjustments that are safe, sustainable, and specific to you
use evidence informed tools alongside medical care, not instead of it

The 10 Principles of Energy and Wellness

At the core of Your Health Comes First are the

10 Principles of Energy and Wellness.

These principles describe the key domains that shape how the body regulates stress, energy, and recovery over time.

1.) Self awareness Recognising internal signals and early physiological change.
2.) Balance Managing exertion and recovery across physical, cognitive, and emotional load.
3.) Rest and recovery Supporting sleep, stillness, and biological repair.
4.) Nourishment Attending to food, hydration, environment, relationships, and sensory input.
5.) Movement Using appropriate movement to support circulation, regulation, and safety
6.) Connection Maintaining relational, social, and environmental connection that supports resilience.
7.) Purpose and meaning Aligning energy with values, direction, and motivation.
8.) Boundaries Protecting time, attention, and emotional capacity to reduce physiological strain
9.) Adaptability Responding flexibly to change rather than forcing control.
10.) Integration Bringing body, mind, and life context into the same health conversation.

Support That Meets You Where You Are

Whether you’re just beginning or ready for deeper transformation, our evidence-informed programmes help you reconnect with your health, with clarity and care.

The Foundational Course Your Health Comes First: Building the Foundations of Wellbeing

A calm, self-paced course designed to help you understand your stress, support your energy, and reconnect with what your body’s been trying to tell you. Simple, steady lessons. Guided reflections. Practical tools that bring clarity and calm back into daily life.

Free Guides & Companion Tools

Evidence informed articles and practical tools you can use immediately. Read the blog and download free resources

Books

Informative books that connect medical science with lived experience.

What I’ve Learned as a Doctor, and as Someone Who’s Been Unwell

“Before long COVID, I was running, cycling, climbing, dancing, working full time, holding it all together. Then suddenly, I couldn’t walk 100 metres without my heart racing. I was inflamed, in pain, exhausted, and lost in the very system I was trained in.

I had to rebuild from scratch, not just as a GP, but as someone whose body had stopped coping. That experience changed how I practise medicine and why I created this space.

I had to slow down. Learn to feel safe in my body again. To stop silencing symptoms and start listening to what they were trying to show me.

That’s what this work is about. It’s about remembering that your body has been on your side all along.”

I'm Dr Jasmin, a GP with two decades of experience in trauma-informed, inclusive care. I founded Your Health Comes First to support those who, like me, were falling through the cracks.

This is about prevention, not perfection. And it’s about creating a calm, compassionate space to make sense of your health through both science and lived experience.

Words from Those Whose Lives Have Shifted

Every journey to better health tells a story. Here’s what our clients have shared about their transformation—honest experiences that reflect healing, balance, and renewed confidence.

"Dr Malik is a rare breed of doctor who is all about the well-being of her patients.
She is knowledgeable and not dismissive or vague in any way. I would not hesitate to recommend her to others"

"Jasmin has been key in leading compassionate healthcare for the most marginalised, with a clear vision and deep dedication to doing things differently."

"I feel very safe and comfortable with this doctor. She’s attentive and kind. She knows her stuff and delivers it well."

"Dr Malik genuinely cares. She understands how a patient feels, and that makes all the difference."

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