Nursing blends compassion with toughness—pushing patients toward their best health while offering steadfast support. Yet caring for others can strain a nurse’s own well-being. This post shares why real care isn’t coddling and offers practical, everyday ways nurses can manage stress, build resilience, and protect their own health while guiding patients through recovery.

Feeling disconnected or burned out in nursing? Mentorship might be the unexpected remedy. Supporting others can restore your own energy, purpose, and job satisfaction. It’s not about adding more to your plate—it’s about adding meaning. Mentorship heals both mentor and mentee. The culture of “nurses eat their young” ends with us. Let’s build something better—together. 💛 #NurseMentorship #BurnoutRecovery

At the AANP conference, surrounded by thousands of NPs, I was reminded of the deep strength and unity in our profession. If you're feeling alone or overwhelmed, read this—you are part of something powerful. You are never alone in nursing.

It’s a holiday weekend, are you feeling festive? OR Are you putting a lot of pressure on yourself to feel festive when perhaps you actually feel somewhat worn down or even apathetic?  It can be difficult to deal with the duality of life when we just want to take a break and enjoy ourselves. We want the good times to just be good; this would make everything much easier. We don’t want to be grouchy or reactive, stressed or detached. This isn’t what we would pick if given the

Being a nurse isn't easy. The duties, coworkers, struggling patients, and personal exhaustion can be overwhelming.

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.

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

It's easy to think about a life we love as a "someday" project. But what if we could have it starting today?

We avoid being wrong to escape rejection and embarrassment, but accepting it opens doors to growth, motivation, and positive change.

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

Picking how you feel can change your life. It almost sounds magical but choosing our emotions is 100% within our reach.

When your sense of self is poorly defined and your life conflicts with your core values and identity, moral injury can occur.

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

Self-improvement sounds like a great idea. But oftentimes, work gets in the way. Work is exhausting and plans get thrown out the window

Discounting yourself, downplaying your achievements, is an unexpected way we promote self sabotage. We don't have to accept self-sabotage

What if success didn't lie in resolutions for achievement but rather in the pursuit of becoming? What would that even look like?

Self-love: it CAN be rest, but it CAN also be taking action. Sometimes self- love is doing something that feels hard, for the greater good.

There is a certain heaviness that comes with the thought that nothing is going to change. As a nurse, it can seems final, and overwhelming.

When you don’t have a good idea, how about taking one from someone else. The only thing holding us back is what we are thinking.

How do we deal with the parts of work that don’t necessarily feel in alignment with our altruistic reasons for choosing nursing?