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The scientific, 5-minute intervention that will change your life
If I told you to achieve something you really wanted, something that you feel would totally change your life, all you had to do is lie...

Megan Filoramo
4 days ago4 min read
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Rediscovering Your Purpose as a Nurse: The Incredible Impact of Your Calling
WHY DO I KEEP DOING THIS?!? Do you ever feel this way, wondering how and why you are in the job you are in? Ironically, it’s often...

Megan Filoramo
May 93 min read
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Embracing Self-Compassion: Supporting Yourself While Carrying Others' Burdens
When was the last time someone you loved was suffering, when your heart was full of compassion but heavy in your chest? And yet, you...

Megan Filoramo
May 22 min read
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Mastering Overwhelm: A Simple Strategy to Reclaim Your Peace
This one simple strategy can help you recover from an overwhelming week so that you can truly enjoy your life.

Megan Filoramo
Apr 254 min read
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Finding Hope When It Feels Impossible to Feel Better at Work
Often, we know from experience that if we just can get ourselves started, if we just put on our sneakers, if we just take out the book to study, that we will then move forward. It’s the getting started that holds us up.
This is also true about feeling better at work.
Did you know that people experience resistance to the idea of feeling better at work? Can this be another iteration of that damning evolutionary response?

Megan Filoramo
Apr 183 min read
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When you've run out of willpower
By noon, there is no more willpower. You wanted to have a good day, you planned to have a good day, you took steps to try and make it a good day.
And yet, you’re exhausted and only half-way through the day.
So, what happened?
You’ve realized what anyone who’s ever been on a diet can tell you, willpower is a finite resource and there is only so much that willpower can accomplish.
So how do you keep doing all the hard things that are required of nurses?

Megan Filoramo
Apr 113 min read
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The simple step to overcoming overwhelm.
Being a nurse isn't easy. The duties, coworkers, struggling patients, and personal exhaustion can be overwhelming.

Megan Filoramo
Apr 42 min read
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How to Deal with Difficult Coworkers: Tips for Maintaining Your Sanity in the Workplace
As nurses, it's often not the patient care that we feel overwhelmed by, it's all the negativity at work, and sometimes it's our coworkers.

Megan Filoramo
Mar 283 min read
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Is self-care even worth it?
It's easy to feel like self-care doesn't work. You take a break but when you get back to work it is just as bad as ever.

Megan Filoramo
Mar 214 min read
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Breaking through self-doubt: Becoming the person I didn't think I could be.
Overcoming self-doubt is one of the least discussed aspects of self-care. What if being happy at work, resilient at home is possible for you

Megan Filoramo
Mar 144 min read
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Upleveling for fun, not because you have to
you want to feel less exhausted from the work you do, from managing all of the competing demands at work, but you can't do one more thing.

Megan Filoramo
Mar 74 min read
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Is the culture of healthcare keeping you unhappy?
Many of us in healthcare feel that our culture at work could use some “upleveling”. We read about self-care and mindfulness but can feel...

Megan Filoramo
Feb 283 min read
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Recognizing the red flags of stress
Working with patients day in and day out, we are well acquainted with the signs and symptoms of stress. We are tuned into the physiologic...

Megan Filoramo
Feb 213 min read
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Why you don't need help
Nurses are tough. And yet so many nurses are suffering. We need to acknowledge the stress inherent to nursing if we want to feel better.

Megan Filoramo
Feb 143 min read
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Invested vs. Interested: The Key Difference in Feeling Better
Being interested in feeling better is isn't enough to get you there; being invested means taking action. Small steps work.

Megan Filoramo
Feb 73 min read
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Reinventing the 0-10 Score: A Tool for Meaningful Motivation
Discover how reinventing the 0-10 score can help counteract the effect of work fatigue on living your best life. It can be a tool for good

Megan Filoramo
Jan 314 min read
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Creating the life you want, starting today
It's easy to think about a life we love as a "someday" project. But what if we could have it starting today?

Megan Filoramo
Jan 244 min read
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Reevaluating What It Takes to Make Positive Changes in Your Life
We avoid being wrong to escape rejection and embarrassment, but accepting it opens doors to growth, motivation, and positive change.

Megan Filoramo
Jan 174 min read
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The Importance of Distinguishing Between Rest and Time Off: How to Truly Recharge and Avoid Burnout
Do your days off restore you or do you come back to work more exhausted than before? If time off doesn't really help, then what does?

Megan Filoramo
Jan 104 min read
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Light a candle, be a candle
Every nurse is a candle for their patients, a moment, an experience in someone else’s life. We need to remember this and apply the light to

Megan Filoramo
Jan 35 min read
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