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? 

In the absence of data, our brains create stories (Brene Brown). How we use this skill can make or break our experience at work.

Tough weeks at work are unavoidable you may be crashing and burning. What if it wasn't a problem when you feel yourself getting burned out?

As Benjamin Franklin said, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." In healthcare, we know the little things matter.

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.

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

What happens when your job has great benefits, and you are good at it, but the culture sucks? How do actually cause meaningful change?

No matter how you stack the odds in your favor, life comes in seasons and those seasons come with challenges. The basics can help us cope.

A diatribe could be written about all the things that make working in healthcare difficult. What else is true about the work we do?

Do you ever feel like you are drowning at work? Like you are thrashing around and can't get your feet under you? Difficulty sleeping? Worry?

The majority of nurses leaving the profession are not doing so to follow another passion, they are leaving as a last ditch effort to help th

It doesn’t require magic to feel better at work, it literally just requires learning the process. We don't have to accept overwhelm.

Make your holiday season AND the work you do easier just by asking 3 simple questions with intention. It all starts with WHY?

Achieving balance feels like another obligation, work that we don’t have energy for because our jobs are using up all of our energy.

We all know how important self-soothing is for infants and toddlers but somehow, we don’t think about it for ourselves…

Let's face it, we all just want to feel better. The question is, are we using the most efficient way to get there? Or are we defaulting to

What if I believe everything you say about your job AND I still think you can be happy at work? Even despite the unreasonable expectations

This week I had a setback. There I was, living my best life at work when someone did something that really aggravated me, like REALLY aggrav

Systemic change is needed in healthcare, but we don't have to wait for this to happen before we can be happy at work. We can be happy now.

Being happy at work is much like being in shape. The tools that I have learned and used to accomplish a sense of peace and satisfaction at w