Nurses are experts at caring for others—but what happens when we ignore the signals our own bodies send? This post explores how stress shows up physically, why we often miss it, and how simple mindfulness practices can help us reset before burnout takes hold. Listen, breathe, and rediscover your balance—your body is the best barometer you have.

Difficult conversations are part of healthcare, but they don’t have to drain you. With calm, empathy, and curiosity, you can turn tense moments into meaningful connection. Learn to stay grounded, speak with compassion, and build confidence in every conversation.

After long shifts, many nurses come home drained, facing what feels like a “second shift.” Instead of elaborate plans that add pressure, simple, back-to-basics strategies can help restore energy—physically, mentally, and emotionally. From hydrating and mindful transitions to nourishing food, gratitude, and connection, even one small step can ease exhaustion and build resilience. Wellness doesn’t require perfection—just starting.

Nursing is demanding—physically, emotionally, and mentally. Just like patients with chronic pain can live fulfilling lives, nurses can thrive even when work feels overwhelming. By building stress tolerance through meaning-making, connection, humor, and creativity, you can turn daily struggles into background noise and rediscover joy in your career without needing the job itself to change.

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.

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

Every nurse is a candle for their patients, a moment, an experience in someone else’s life. We need to remember this and apply the light to

Helping and generosity are not exactly synonymous. Generosity is going beyond what is expected...and is a feel good way to build resilience.

Healthcare can be chaotic, but mindfulness doesn't have to be complicated. These practices can calm your nervous system and break the stress

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

Do you come home from work really really tired? Have you been tired all week, tired when you wake up, dragging when you get to work?

Sometimes being at work can feel like being with toddlers, everywhere you turn it seems like someone is pushing your buttons. We get trigger

There are a lot of negative things that happen in life and these are made exponentially worse by our feelings that things shouldn't be

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.

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

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

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.

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

Has it ever occurred to you that maybe you don’t want to feel happy at work? Let me tell you why I don’t want to always feel pleased or con

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?