Megan Filoramo
How to Prevent Burnout. Yes, it's a thing.
As Benjamin Franklin said, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
In healthcare, we know the little things matter.
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Megan Filoramo
- Sep 6
- 4 min
Unlocking the Key to Understanding Your Needs
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.
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Megan Filoramo
- Aug 23
- 5 min
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.
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Megan Filoramo
- Aug 16
- 3 min
You don't have to be happy about it
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
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Megan Filoramo
- Aug 2
- 4 min
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?
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Megan Filoramo
- Jul 26
- 4 min
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.
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Megan Filoramo
- May 31
- 3 min
When you have no idea what to do.
Because we lack control over many external circumstances, it seems reasonable to think that you don’t know what to do to feel better.
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Megan Filoramo
- May 24
- 5 min
When is self-improvement just too much?
Self-improvement sounds like a great idea. But oftentimes, work gets in the way. Work is exhausting and plans get thrown out the window
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Megan Filoramo
- May 17
- 3 min
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.
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Megan Filoramo
- May 10
- 5 min
What are you willing to do for some relief?
What are you willing to do for relief? Relief from the intensity of work, the emotions, cognitive load, or busyness?
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Megan Filoramo
- Mar 8
- 4 min
Back to the basics
No matter how you stack the odds in your favor, life comes in seasons and those seasons come with challenges. The basics can help us cope.
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Megan Filoramo
- Mar 1
- 3 min
Forget the oxygen mask and grab a boat
We need our relationships at work to be strong. THIS is what we can focus on. Building up the people around us builds us all up
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Megan Filoramo
- Feb 23
- 3 min
Worklife, Version 2.0
You want to feel better at work. You don't want to dread going in, or feel exhausted coming out. But it seems like nothing is going to chang
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Megan Filoramo
- Feb 16
- 2 min
It's not just hard work
A diatribe could be written about all the things that make working in healthcare difficult. What else is true about the work we do?
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Megan Filoramo
- Feb 9
- 3 min
Stop ignoring yourself
We ignore things for a lot of reasons but when it comes to other people, most would agree that ignoring them is incredibly rude. And yet...
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Megan Filoramo
- Feb 2
- 5 min
Drowning at work
Do you ever feel like you are drowning at work? Like you are thrashing around and can't get your feet under you? Difficulty sleeping? Worry?
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Megan Filoramo
- Oct 27, 2023
- 3 min
Let's not choose happiness, ok?
Has it ever occurred to you that maybe you don’t want to feel happy at work? Let me tell you why I don’t want to always feel pleased or con
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Megan Filoramo
- Oct 13, 2023
- 4 min
Honoring where you are...maybe
What does it mean to honor where we are now and why is it important? How is it the first step to healing, building resilience and thriving?
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Megan Filoramo
- Sep 8, 2023
- 4 min
An iced Latte with almond milk and 2 pumps of arsenic
Work is like coffee. We know what it should taste like, we chose it because at the time we wanted it. We have expectations of what it should
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Megan Filoramo
- Sep 1, 2023
- 4 min
Plans, plans, and more plans
What happens when you don't make a plan for the important things in life? Frustration with a side of chaos. How can we plan to feel better?
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