Megan Filoramo
How to Prevent Burnout. Yes, it's a thing.
As Benjamin Franklin said, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
In healthcare, we know the little things matter.
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Megan Filoramo
- Sep 6
- 4 min
Unlocking the Key to Understanding Your Needs
We talk about work-life balance.
We talk about self-care and burnout.
There’s lots of talking going on and yet relief doesn’t get closer.
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Megan Filoramo
- Aug 30
- 4 min
Developing belief as you go
The problem BEHIND the problem is that we don’t believe we can feel better at work, or at home, if something in our situation doesn't change
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Megan Filoramo
- Aug 23
- 5 min
Burned out? No... Yes... Maybe?
Burnout is an experience, not a personal weakness. It manifests in many ways but the incapacity to experience positive emotion is hallmark.
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Megan Filoramo
- Aug 16
- 3 min
You don't have to be happy about it
There are a lot of negative things that happen in life and these are made exponentially worse by our feelings that things shouldn't be
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Megan Filoramo
- Aug 9
- 3 min
Making life easier, despite overwhelm.
We are faced with difficult situations all day long, during our work day and our home lives. How can we be happy and avoid overwhelm despite
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Megan Filoramo
- Aug 2
- 4 min
What is secondary trauma, and do I have it?
Trauma is anything that is too much, too fast. It's overwhelm for our nervous system. So what happens when our work causes us trauma?
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Megan Filoramo
- Jul 26
- 4 min
What if you had the solution all along?
It's really frustrating when we don't know how to feel better, when life seems too much out of our control to make meaningful change.
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Megan Filoramo
- Jul 19
- 3 min
The obvious answer to compassion fatigue
Every nurse knows what compassion fatigue is. You spend a lot of time being compassionate.
You know the fatigue that can come from it.
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Megan Filoramo
- Jul 12
- 3 min
To thine own nurse be true
When your sense of self is poorly defined and your life conflicts with your core values and identity, moral injury can occur.
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Megan Filoramo
- Jul 5
- 5 min
When a bath doesn't cut it: a deeper dive into self-care
Self-care is not just about recovery, it is about building our strengths, bolstering ourselves up.
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Megan Filoramo
- Jun 29
- 3 min
Trauma of nursing
You’re not broken. Something isn’t wrong with you. You haven’t lost your empathy or your compassion or your drive. It’s time we talk...
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Megan Filoramo
- Jun 21
- 3 min
The futility of trying
At times, having faith in yourself and your capacity to bring about significant changes may seem unattainable. In the absence of this belief
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Megan Filoramo
- Jun 14
- 3 min
Finally moving forward
We can learn from the past but we can also let it distract us.
I don’t want to be distracted, not when it comes to building a better future
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Megan Filoramo
- Jun 7
- 3 min
Creating the culture you want: Enthusiasm as social courage
What happens when your job has great benefits, and you are good at it, but the culture sucks? How do actually cause meaningful change?
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Megan Filoramo
- May 31
- 3 min
When you have no idea what to do.
Because we lack control over many external circumstances, it seems reasonable to think that you don’t know what to do to feel better.
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Megan Filoramo
- May 24
- 5 min
When is self-improvement just too much?
Self-improvement sounds like a great idea. But oftentimes, work gets in the way. Work is exhausting and plans get thrown out the window
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Megan Filoramo
- May 17
- 3 min
Wait, am I starting the fire?
Whether or not things are fair at work, spinning out about it sets everything on fire, your relationships AND the quality of your work.
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Megan Filoramo
- May 10
- 5 min
What are you willing to do for some relief?
What are you willing to do for relief? Relief from the intensity of work, the emotions, cognitive load, or busyness?
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Megan Filoramo
- May 3
- 4 min
Self-compassion as a strategy, not a feeling
If we have an undertone of lack of self-support, our day is that much harder. Self-compassion can be learned and used as a strategy.
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