2025! What a year! The emotional highs and lows were palpable due to outside influence including work, news, weather, social media, and most importantly, the people you surround yourself with. I don’t know about you, but this year kicked my ass emotionally…..in a good way. I figured out who I don’t want to be, however,Continue reading “2025 vs. Cancer Diagnosis”
Tag Archives: health
When are they going to find out?
I am going on twenty years as a nurse, and I did come down with a mild case of pneumonia and so I am sitting in my house and I am stewing. What am I stewing about, you may ask? The fact the hospital puts on a donation ball every year so they can raiseContinue reading “When are they going to find out?”
How do we do this?
I was sitting at my counselor’s office this afternoon and she asked me what I want to do in life? Over the six to seven years that I have been seeing her; I am still at a loss. My main drive is to change healthcare. I just don’t believe in it anymore. Now, yes, IContinue reading “How do we do this?”
Burnout vs. Moral Injury vs. Betrayal
According to Psychology Today, “burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and often physical exhaustion brought on by prolonged or repeated stress.” I hear a lot of peers, hospital administrators saying, “They are burned out.” Then administrators, f-ing fix it. I am not talking managers; I am talking to the upper management. The cost ofContinue reading “Burnout vs. Moral Injury vs. Betrayal”
No Life Outside of the Hospital
I am finding a pattern lately. As nurses, we focus so much on our work inside the system, we lose ourselves. We find that caring for others fills our souls so much that we forget what fills our souls outside of work. We become lost. We hide away in our houses; we don’t feel likeContinue reading “No Life Outside of the Hospital”
Dear Anxiety
Dear Anxiety, Thank you so much for hindering me when you did at a young age. I wouldn’t have been good at athletics, school, and essentially life. Thank you for scaring me if I wronged my parents, it made me become more empathic. Anxiety, thank you for getting me into and through nursing school, IContinue reading “Dear Anxiety”
What Am I Filling?
The more important question is what are you filling? What are you filling to suppress the feelings? I was doing a video on a new skin product line which is all natural by the way and it works, and, in my video, I touched on fillers. It made me go down the rabbit hole. ThisContinue reading “What Am I Filling?”
Not This, This Instead
So, I typed this out and texted it to myself not too long ago. I don’t know if I read it somewhere, which I need to be doing more instead of worrying about how my book is going to do, or “am I doing enough?” “Am I making the most out of my day?” TheseContinue reading “Not This, This Instead”
Becoming a Coach
After 15 years of being a bedside nurse, I was burnt out. I was sitting outside on my patio, and told myself, there has to be more to help people than just put band aids on and feed them pills. I was looking through Instagram and a nurse coach program came up and I wasContinue reading “Becoming a Coach”
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