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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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The simple step to overcoming overwhelm.
Being a nurse isn't easy. The duties, coworkers, struggling patients, and personal exhaustion can be overwhelming.
Megan Filoramo
Apr 42 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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The Importance of Distinguishing Between Rest and Time Off: How to Truly Recharge and Avoid Burnout
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?
Megan Filoramo
Jan 104 min read
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Light a candle, be a candle
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
Megan Filoramo
Jan 35 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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What to do when you're sliding toward burnout.
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?
Megan Filoramo
Nov 1, 20243 min read
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What if you could just decide how to feel?
Picking how you feel can change your life. It almost sounds magical but choosing our emotions is 100% within our reach.
Megan Filoramo
Oct 25, 20245 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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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.
Megan Filoramo
Sep 13, 20244 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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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
Megan Filoramo
Aug 16, 20243 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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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.Â
Megan Filoramo
May 31, 20243 min read
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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
Megan Filoramo
May 24, 20245 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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