Sometimes work is just hard, life is just hard...everything just seems hard. Things are coming at you from every direction and even...

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.  This is also true about feeling better at work.  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? 

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?  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.  So how do you keep doing all the hard things that are required of nurses?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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?

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.

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

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

What happens when your job has great benefits, and you are good at it, but the culture sucks? How do actually cause meaningful change?

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