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.

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.

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

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

Tough weeks at work are unavoidable you may be crashing and burning. What if it wasn't a problem when you feel yourself getting burned out?

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

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

As Benjamin Franklin said, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." In healthcare, we know the little things matter.

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.

There are a lot of negative things that happen in life and these are made exponentially worse by our feelings that things shouldn't be

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.

Because we lack control over many external circumstances, it seems reasonable to think that you don’t know what to do to feel better. 

Self-improvement sounds like a great idea. But oftentimes, work gets in the way. Work is exhausting and plans get thrown out the window

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