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

Do your days off restore you or do you come back to work more exhausted than before? If time off doesn't really help, then what does?

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

At this time of year, work may seem like the easiest part of your day and considering the work you do, that really says something about life

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

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

Are you the person that people go to when there is a crisis? Are you really good at dropping everything and jumping into action? Read this

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?

We talk about work-life balance.  We talk about self-care and burnout. There’s lots of talking going on and yet relief doesn’t get closer.

Burnout is an experience, not a personal weakness. It manifests in many ways but the incapacity to experience positive emotion is hallmark.

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?

Every nurse knows what compassion fatigue is. You spend a lot of time being compassionate. You know the fatigue that can come from it.

Self-care is not just about recovery, it is about building our strengths, bolstering ourselves up.

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

Whether or not things are fair at work, spinning out about it sets everything on fire, your relationships AND the quality of your work. 

Innovating your own path to wellness may be the approach you haven't tried. What if it's the one that works.

We ignore things for a lot of reasons but when it comes to other people, most would agree that ignoring them is incredibly rude. And yet...

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.

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.

Self love, true, transforming self love means treating yourself with care and concern. Everyone deserves being treated with care and concern