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When Even the Things You Want to Do Feel Overwhelming
Sometimes work is just hard, life is just hard...everything just seems hard. Things are coming at you from every direction and even...

Megan Filoramo
Jun 142 min read
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Finding Hope When It Feels Impossible to Feel Better at Work
Often, we know from experience that if we just can get ourselves started, if we just put on our sneakers, if we just take out the book to study, that we will then move forward. It’s the getting started that holds us up.Â
This is also true about feeling better at work.Â
Did you know that people experience resistance to the idea of feeling better at work? Can this be another iteration of that damning evolutionary response?Â

Megan Filoramo
Apr 183 min read
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When you've run out of willpower
By noon, there is no more willpower. You wanted to have a good day, you planned to have a good day, you took steps to try and make it a good day.
And yet, you’re exhausted and only half-way through the day.
So, what happened?Â
You’ve realized what anyone who’s ever been on a diet can tell you, willpower is a finite resource and there is only so much that willpower can accomplish.Â
So how do you keep doing all the hard things that are required of nurses?

Megan Filoramo
Apr 113 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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Creating the life you want, starting today
It's easy to think about a life we love as a "someday" project. But what if we could have it starting today?

Megan Filoramo
Jan 244 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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Exploring the Power of Generosity in Building Resilience
Helping and generosity are not exactly synonymous. Generosity is going beyond what is expected...and is a feel good way to build resilience.

Megan Filoramo
Dec 13, 20242 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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If you want it done right... taking control of your happiness
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?

Megan Filoramo
Oct 18, 20245 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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Mastering the Art of Emotional Regulation: How to Become Less Reactive in the Workplace
Sometimes being at work can feel like being with toddlers, everywhere you turn it seems like someone is pushing your buttons. We get trigger

Megan Filoramo
Sep 20, 20245 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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What if you had the solution all along?
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.

Megan Filoramo
Jul 26, 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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To thine own nurse be true
When your sense of self is poorly defined and your life conflicts with your core values and identity, moral injury can occur.

Megan Filoramo
Jul 12, 20243 min read
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Creating the culture you want: Enthusiasm as social courage
What happens when your job has great benefits, and you are good at it, but the culture sucks? How do actually cause meaningful change?

Megan Filoramo
Jun 7, 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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