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It's a holiday weekend. Are you feeling festive?
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?Â
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

Megan Filoramo
May 233 min read
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Embracing Self-Compassion: Supporting Yourself While Carrying Others' Burdens
When was the last time someone you loved was suffering, when your heart was full of compassion but heavy in your chest? And yet, you...

Megan Filoramo
May 22 min read
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Is self-care even worth it?
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.

Megan Filoramo
Mar 214 min read
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Why you don't need help
Nurses are tough. And yet so many nurses are suffering. We need to acknowledge the stress inherent to nursing if we want to feel better.

Megan Filoramo
Feb 143 min read
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Reevaluating What It Takes to Make Positive Changes in Your Life
We avoid being wrong to escape rejection and embarrassment, but accepting it opens doors to growth, motivation, and positive change.

Megan Filoramo
Jan 174 min read
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The Importance of Distinguishing Between Rest and Time Off: How to Truly Recharge and Avoid Burnout
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?

Megan Filoramo
Jan 104 min read
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Light a candle, be a candle
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

Megan Filoramo
Jan 35 min read
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Uncovering the Calming Power of Your Existing Skills: 5 Abilities You Didn't Realize Can Bring Peace to Your Life
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

Megan Filoramo
Dec 20, 20245 min read
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Choose your own adventure...at work
In the absence of data, our brains create stories (Brene Brown). How we use this skill can make or break our experience at work.

Megan Filoramo
Nov 15, 20244 min read
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What if you could just decide how to feel?
Picking how you feel can change your life. It almost sounds magical but choosing our emotions is 100% within our reach.

Megan Filoramo
Oct 25, 20245 min read
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Drop everything, someone needs you.
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

Megan Filoramo
Oct 11, 20243 min read
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Redefining Tired
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?

Megan Filoramo
Oct 4, 20244 min read
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Unlocking the Key to Understanding Your Needs
We talk about work-life balance.Â
We talk about self-care and burnout.
There’s lots of talking going on and yet relief doesn’t get closer.

Megan Filoramo
Sep 6, 20244 min read
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Burned out? No... Yes... Maybe?
Burnout is an experience, not a personal weakness. It manifests in many ways but the incapacity to experience positive emotion is hallmark.

Megan Filoramo
Aug 23, 20245 min read
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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?

Megan Filoramo
Aug 2, 20244 min read
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The obvious answer to compassion fatigue
Every nurse knows what compassion fatigue is. You spend a lot of time being compassionate.
You know the fatigue that can come from it.

Megan Filoramo
Jul 19, 20243 min read
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When a bath doesn't cut it: a deeper dive into self-care
Self-care is not just about recovery, it is about building our strengths, bolstering ourselves up.

Megan Filoramo
Jul 5, 20245 min read
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Finally moving forward
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

Megan Filoramo
Jun 14, 20243 min read
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Wait, am I starting the fire?
Whether or not things are fair at work, spinning out about it sets everything on fire, your relationships AND the quality of your work.Â

Megan Filoramo
May 17, 20243 min read
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Innovating your unique path to wellness
Innovating your own path to wellness may be the approach you haven't tried. What if it's the one that works.

Megan Filoramo
Mar 15, 20243 min read
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