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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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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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Resolving to take care of yourself
Drop the idea of a resolution for one minute. Drop the idea of making yourself smarter, richer, thinner, healthier, more consistent,

Megan Filoramo
Dec 27, 20243 min read
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Recognizing compassion fatigue for what it is
Compassion fatigue is not a death sentence to the career that you have poured your heart and soul into. Compassion fatigue is treatable.

Megan Filoramo
Nov 22, 20246 min read
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Drop everything, someone needs you.
Are you the person that people go to when there is a crisis? Are you really good at dropping everything and jumping into action? Read this

Megan Filoramo
Oct 11, 20243 min read
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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.

Megan Filoramo
Sep 13, 20244 min read
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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.

Megan Filoramo
Jul 19, 20243 min read
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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...

Megan Filoramo
Jun 29, 20243 min read
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The disappointment of me
Disappointment feels terrible. When we direct it at ourselves and top it with shame it can feel unbearable. The impact of this in our life c

Megan Filoramo
Mar 29, 20243 min read
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Permission to slow down
Are you so busy? Are you so tired? We feel like we can't slow down or life will just fall apart. But if this is true, how can we feel better

Megan Filoramo
Mar 22, 20245 min read
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Forget the oxygen mask and grab a boat
We need our relationships at work to be strong. THIS is what we can focus on. Building up the people around us builds us all up

Megan Filoramo
Mar 1, 20243 min read
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The one thing
Nurses take care of A LOT of things at work and in life. The question: on a 0/10 scale, how much are you taking care of your physical body?

Megan Filoramo
Aug 25, 20234 min read
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What do you need, Love?
Do you ever feel like there is nothing you can do to feel better, that the situation is just too tough and you don't know where to start?

Megan Filoramo
May 26, 20234 min read
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Work is like a Christmas movie
We don’t believe things can get better.
We don’t believe that there is a way to progress, despite the odds. This is totally understandable.

Megan Filoramo
Apr 28, 20233 min read
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What to do about the thorn in your side
We don't have to hit rock bottom before trying to improve our situations at work. Compassion fatigue and burnout can creep up on us.

Megan Filoramo
Feb 3, 20233 min read
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It's December. Don't anyone panic!
December is one of the few months that people seem acutely aware of how many days are left. How do we protect ourselves from the panic?

Megan Filoramo
Dec 2, 20223 min read
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What to do when your empathy abandons you.
One of the most common concerns of overwhelmed and exhausted nurses is that they’ve lost their empathy, having a job to do without the soul

Megan Filoramo
Aug 5, 20224 min read
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Are you a nice person?
How great is it to be on the receiving end of someone’s unprecedented kindness? What if every day, someone did something just for us?

Megan Filoramo
Jun 17, 20223 min read
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Giving up on your patients
Would you ever give up on your patients? When they are struggling and vulnerable? Holding belief FOR them is one of nurses' greatest skills

Megan Filoramo
Mar 11, 20222 min read
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Getting exactly what I want for Christmas
What is it that you want for Christmas? I want peace. Not world peace (I want that too) but peace within myself and I want it to start now.

Megan Filoramo
Dec 24, 20214 min read
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