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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- Mar 22
- 5 min
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
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Megan Filoramo
- Feb 2
- 5 min
Drowning at work
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?
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Megan Filoramo
- Jan 19
- 4 min
Being good at your job isn't enough
It doesn’t require magic to feel better at work, it literally just requires learning the process. We don't have to accept overwhelm.
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Megan Filoramo
- Jan 12
- 5 min
The one thing to do when work is A LOT
Sometimes so much is going on at work that the idea of trying to change anything is too overwhelming. What if the answer lay outside of work
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Megan Filoramo
- Dec 22, 2023
- 3 min
Don't decide!
While there are times that making decisions ahead of time can be very useful, there are times that it results in worry and overwhelm
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Megan Filoramo
- Dec 15, 2023
- 2 min
The one thing you need to hear
Choosing to focus on what you need to hear, and then telling yourself that very thing, will make you feel better every time.
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Megan Filoramo
- Dec 8, 2023
- 5 min
I am changing your job
Look at your life through a nursing lens. Zoom out. What is your overall goal? We can't design a project if we don't know what the goal is.
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Megan Filoramo
- Oct 13, 2023
- 4 min
Honoring where you are...maybe
What does it mean to honor where we are now and why is it important? How is it the first step to healing, building resilience and thriving?
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Megan Filoramo
- Sep 22, 2023
- 3 min
Sometimes anxiety means nothing
It would be great if there were a quick fix for anxiety. Unfortunately there's not but cohabitating with it may be something you could try.
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Megan Filoramo
- Sep 15, 2023
- 3 min
Bigger fish to fry
Achieving balance feels like another obligation, work that we don’t have energy for because our jobs are using up all of our energy.
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Megan Filoramo
- Sep 8, 2023
- 4 min
An iced Latte with almond milk and 2 pumps of arsenic
Work is like coffee. We know what it should taste like, we chose it because at the time we wanted it. We have expectations of what it should
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Megan Filoramo
- Sep 1, 2023
- 4 min
Plans, plans, and more plans
What happens when you don't make a plan for the important things in life? Frustration with a side of chaos. How can we plan to feel better?
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Megan Filoramo
- Aug 25, 2023
- 4 min
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?
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Megan Filoramo
- Aug 4, 2023
- 4 min
Shooting for neutral
If loving your job seems totally out of reach, shooting for feeling neutral may give you the forward momentum you are looking for.
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