It’s a holiday weekend, are you feeling festive? OR Are you putting a lot of pressure on yourself to feel festive when perhaps you actually feel somewhat worn down or even apathetic?  It can be difficult to deal with the duality of life when we just want to take a break and enjoy ourselves. We want the good times to just be good; this would make everything much easier. We don’t want to be grouchy or reactive, stressed or detached. This isn’t what we would pick if given the

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

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

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?

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.

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?

The majority of nurses leaving the profession are not doing so to follow another passion, they are leaving as a last ditch effort to help th

Sometimes so much is going on at work that the idea of trying to change anything is too overwhelming. What if the answer lay outside of work

Look at your life through a nursing lens. Zoom out. What is your overall goal? We can't design a project if we don't know what the goal is.

Make your holiday season AND the work you do easier just by asking 3 simple questions with intention. It all starts with WHY?

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

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?

Any decision can help move you away from the discomfort of uncertainty. Not choosing doesn’t protect you from unhappiness, it keeps you ther

Do you ever feel like there is nothing you can do to feel better, that the situation is just too tough and you don't know where to start?

How many things in your life do you plan? We are superstars and planning all our tasks but what about planning our happiness?

Do you ever feel like you have no good options available to you? That you’re stuck without any power to make things better?

When people discuss change, focus is always put on having a WHY, But there is a 2nd part to meaningful change, belief that it is possible.

We all have lists of things to do, to accomplish. And we judge our success by how much progress we make. What if visualization could help?

Do you spend hours weighing out the options or trying to research an answer? The problem isn’t whether or not you are going to make the righ

One of the core characteristics of overwhelm is lack of a solution. This idea that there is no answer promotes helplessness .