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

We often believe that in order for something to be done right, we have to do it ourselves. But do we hold this belief for happiness as well?

Loving your work is not only crucial for reducing stress, but also for sustaining your ability to remain committed to it.

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

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

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?

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...

Because we lack control over many external circumstances, it seems reasonable to think that you don’t know what to do to feel better. 

What are you willing to do for relief? Relief from the intensity of work, the emotions, cognitive load, or busyness?

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

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?

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

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

While there are times that making decisions ahead of time can be very useful, there are times that it results in worry and overwhelm

Choosing to focus on what you need to hear, and then telling yourself that very thing, will make you feel better every time.

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.

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?

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.

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

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