This one simple strategy can help you recover from an overwhelming week so that you can truly enjoy your life.

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?

Being a nurse isn't easy. The duties, coworkers, struggling patients, and personal exhaustion can be overwhelming.

As nurses, it's often not the patient care that we feel overwhelmed by, it's all the negativity at work, and sometimes it's our coworkers.

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.

Overcoming self-doubt is one of the least discussed aspects of self-care. What if being happy at work, resilient at home is possible for you

you want to feel less exhausted from the work you do, from managing all of the competing demands at work, but you can't do one more thing.

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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.

Being interested in feeling better is isn't enough to get you there; being invested means taking action. Small steps work.

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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

Drop the idea of a resolution for one minute. Drop the idea of making yourself smarter, richer, thinner, healthier, more consistent,

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

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