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Integrating Holistic Treatment into Elbow Recovery
Holistic Treatments for Elbow Healing If you have suffered an elbow injury, then this article is for you. Especially if you have been undergoing treatment for elbow pain and are getting minimal relief… keep reading. Holistic treatment may be an option for you....
Yoga Lunges for Elbow Recovery: A Quick Video
Join us for a 15-minute yoga practice, focusing on table top pose and lunges. This video is specifically for those who have had elbow surgery and/or are recovering from complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) in the elbow. Ready to ease your elbow pain? Check us...
Healing from Surgery: Practicing Yoga for Elbow Pain
Practicing Yoga for Elbow Pain If you are someone who’s had and is recovering from elbow surgery, then this article is for you. Practicing yoga for elbow pain may improve your overall health and reduce discomfort. Quick Backstory “So, how did you hurt your arm?”...
Left Elbow Pain Just Won’t Go Away
Left Elbow Pain Lingers On... If you have or currently are experiencing left elbow pain, then this article is for you. From someone who’s dealt with elbow discomfort for months, I understand what you’re going through. Check out this article for tips on dealing with...
Using Household Items for Elbow Recovery: A Video Tutorial
Join us for this quick video regarding using household items for therapeutic activities in elbow recovery. This video is specifically for those who have had elbow surgery and/or are recovering from complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) in the elbow. Ready to heal...
Where Does it Hurt? Relieving Inner Elbow Pain with Holistic Care
Inner Elbow Pain and Holistic Care If you’re someone who’s had elbow surgery and you’re now in therapy, making attempts at relieving inner elbow pain, then this article is for you. Physical Trauma from Surgical Repair: How Prevalent is Inner Elbow Pain? After elbow...
Healing from Elbow Surgery with Holistic Modalities
Elbow Surgery and Holism If you’ve had elbow surgery and are looking for additional tools to cope, this article is for you. Having experienced numerous complications after elbow surgery, I needed to find options. Sure, I needed pain medicine fresh out of elbow...
Chair Yoga: 15 Minute Upper Body Practice
Join us for a 15-minute chair yoga set, focusing on the upper body. This video is specifically for those who have had elbow surgery and/or are recovering from complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) in the elbow. Ready to ease your elbow pain? Check us out and come...
Holistic Remedies for Elbow Injuries
Elbow Injuries? Holistic Remedies May Help Have you heard elbow injuries can be some of the most difficult to recover from? If you’ve had an elbow injury and are experiencing complications, this article is for you. Holistic Modalities for Elbow Injuries Typically,...
Elbow Surgery Recovery: Using Holistic Practices for Healing
Elbow Surgery Recovery and Holism Elbow surgery recovery can be tough. An elbow fracture is one of the most difficult injuries to recover from. If you’ve had the procedure and are now living through elbow surgery recovery, this article is for you. Acute Recovery...
Chair Yoga for Elbow Recovery
Join us for a 15-minute chair yoga set, focusing on the upper body. This video is specifically for those who have had elbow surgery and/or are recovering from complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) in the elbow. Ready to ease your elbow pain? Check us out and come...
Easing Elbow Pain with Holistic Modalities
Easing Elbow Pain through Holism If you’re experiencing elbow pain and are looking for alternatives to medications, this article is for you. Crash One morning, I took my bike out for a quick ride. Or, so I thought! BAM!! I went flying over my handlebars, suffering...
4 Tips to Boost Resilience
Tips to Boost Resilience Resilience. It's a buzz word these days. Before we go into some tips for increasing resilience, let's review the definition so that we're all on the same page. According to Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, resilience is: 1: the...
How Gratitude Affects the Human Body
How Gratitude Affects the Human Body I'm sure that we as nurses, just like anybody else, are always looking for easy ways to feel better and improve our health. Well, did you know that expressing gratitude can affect the human body? That's right! Just by being...
6 Habits That Block Your Happiness
Quit Blocking Your Happiness What if I told you that there are things that you are doing that block your happiness? Would you shrug this information off, calling it crazy? Or, if you truly took the time to reflect honestly about your thoughts, feelings and actions...
The Physical Benefits of Positive Thinking
Physical Benefits of Positive Thinking Now, don't go running away before reading a bit into the post. Many rational thinking, very bright nurses may have a hard time with the title of this post. In a world where there is hardship and a profession where there are...
Morning Hacks for a Ridiculously Productive Day
Morning Hacks for a Productive Day. I am ALL about productivity. I mean, I'm a nurse. Aren't we all? We have a TON to do and little-to-no time to do it in. Many of us have families to take care of in addition to our nursing roles. And, couple the actual job we do...
22 Affirmations to Boost Self-Confidence
Affirmations to Boost Self Confidence Affirmations are things that drum up strong emotion in people. You either love them or hate them. How do I know? I have been on both sides of the coin when it comes to affirmations. When I first started out on my...
Be Nice To Yourself! 5 Ways You Need to Give Yourself a Break
Be Nice to Yourself! Give Yourself a Break. I often wonder if it's because I am a nurse that I beat myself up. Or, maybe it is because I'm a woman? Furthermore, could something have happened early on in my life that makes me critical, judging every little thing...
Holiday Health: How to Obtain & Maintain Your Mental Health During the Holiday Season
The holiday season is often thought of as the time leading up to Christmas, but that’s far from reality. It actually starts in the middle of October when it’s time to RSVP for Halloween parties and make adjustments to your little ones costumes. That’s where the...
Integrate Self Care Practices into Nursing
Self Care Practices Guess what? Along your self care journey, you may just slip and fall. And, that's OK. That is the reason that these are called self care practices. These activities that you are trying out and committing to- they aren't set in stone. It's not a...
Move that Body! Self Care Activities for Groups
Self Care Activities for Groups This topic is going to be a fun one. Why is that? Well, there are just SO MANY options available when it comes to self care activities for groups. And even if you are a bit like me, a person who likes to stay to themselves, I bet...
Self Care Ideas for Healthy Eating
Self Care Ideas Healthy eating. A topic of terror. Why does this topic of eating healthy and whole make people shudder? Well, for one reason, there is SO MUCH information out there! What is the truth and what do you follow for the best outcomes? To me, the issue of...
Self Care Starts with Intention
Self Care Activities Last week we covered the initial topic related to self care activities which included coming up with a plan. In this next post, we are going to describe intention and what that means for your self care activities. Before we dive right into...
How to Start a Self Care Plan
Self Care Plan Getting healthy can be tricky. Then, once you feel that you have reached a desired health goal, sticking to that self care plan and sustaining healthy... boy that can often pose an even greater challenge! I can speak to this from personal experience....
How to Turn Your Nurse Burnout Into Resilience With Ease
Turn Nurse Burnout Into Resilience With Ease Last week, we talked about how nurse burnout can actually be good for the profession of nursing. That's right. Burnout is not all bad! So we talked about the "what" and the "why" in terms of reasons that burnout can be...
5 Reasons Nurses Fail at Building Resilience in Nursing
Five Reasons Nurses Fail at Building Resilience in Nursing Janet thought she was a resilient nurse. For the past 28 years of her nursing career, she went to work, took the best care of her patients, and read everything she could to learn more about nursing...
Nurses Bring Meditation Practice to Your Nursing Career
Nurses Bring Meditation Practice to Your Nursing Career If you are feeling the following, then you might enjoy this short meditation practice: Distracted at work with all of the bells, alarms, and whistles that beg for your attention Tired because you are up at...
4 Bad Habits that Drive Resilient Nurses Crazy
Four Bad Habits that Drive Resilient Nurses Crazy Resilient nurses. What does that mean? I am sure as soon as you hear the term, an image -or person- comes to mind. To me, resilience means going through a difficult situation and being able to bounce back from it......
Nurses, What Keeps You Resilient in Your Nursing Career?
Nurses, What Keeps You Resilient in Your Nursing Career? We asked. You answered. We listened. Resilience in nursing is crucial. With the stresses facing today's nurse, many nurses are wondering if they should give up and quite nursing altogether. My answer to that:...
The Alchemy of Self Care
Guest Post by Padma Dyvine One day a friend of mine used the word alchemy and I was catapulted into contemplating the topic and its reality in life today. The feelings and concepts of mystery and transformation tickled my senses, stimulated my imagination and...
Proven Strategies that Improve Resiliency
Around the world, nurses are challenged with burnout. In response to nursing burnout, organizations that seek to find and implement strategies that improve resiliency, have found that this is not always so easy to do. Nurse burnout is a difficult issue, mainly...
Pray with Patients? An Opportunity to Practice Nursing from Within
Prayer with a Patient? About a month ago, I posted a question to nurses and nursing students on social media. It raised a lot of interesting and diverse discussion. The question was: [Tweet ""How do you feel when a patient asks you to pray with them? Is it...
Looking for Happiness in Your Life? Look Through a New Lens
Guest Post by Carmen Buck. I lived with a negative, grumpy, smelly being in my home for years. Yes, that’s right, I had a pre-teen son. It was early summer of 1999 in beautiful southern New Mexico. Everything I offered was ‘boring’ unless it involved a baseball. ...
Top Three Mistakes that Stress Nurses Out
Guest Post by Lisbeth Overton I’d like to share three oversights that I have noticed and that people share with me in my coaching practice that contribute to chronic stress and less than stellar health. I will also share simple ways to address each issue starting...
Yikes! I’m Overwhelmed at Work… Tips to Increase Resilience in Nurses
A nurse at any stage of their career can experience feelings of overwhelm in nursing. Maybe it's a nursing student who has the pressure of final exams, papers, and clinicals all at the same time. Or a new graduate nurse who's just trying to learn the ins and outs...
Resilient Nurses Don’t Do This
Nurse Cathy was sitting in the break room early one Saturday, waiting for report. She got to work extra early since this was her weekend to round with the weekend attending. She wanted time to review the charts, check in with the night shift staff, and get...
Feeling Fatigued? Strategies for Nurse Resilience
Nurse burnout affects the whole person. Physically, mentally, emotionally, and energetically the nurse can be depleted from the long hours, heavy workload, and taxing environment. Unsurprisingly, The Bureau of Labor Statistics ranked nurses fifth of all occupations...
Rejected by Nurse Colleagues? A Tip to Enhance Resilience
Recently I received a very alarming email from a nurse who was extremely upset. She had made a mistake at work and was experiencing negative repercussions from her coworkers. In fact, the nurse shared with me how abandoned and isolated she felt. She asked me what...
Resiliency Strategies for the Nursing Community
In healthcare we often operate within certain structures. For example, we are employed overall by an organization. Within that institution, we may find ourselves working in a department of nursing. Each department often houses many nursing units. And then nursing...
I’m Overwhelmed & Overbooked! 3 Tips to Reduce Stress
With the hustle and bustle of the holiday season in full swing, it's no wonder we feel overstretched these days. Add to the 'normal' needs of the holidays season, the work schedule of a professional nurse... and gosh, it's enough to make your head spin! I know...
I Struggle to Say ‘No’! How to Respond with Respect
A few weeks ago, my husband and I were enjoying a warm lovely evening on the front porch. Or so I thought. If it wasn't his email or text, he was getting calls. Which he responded to. It was really starting to tick me off so I said something about it. "How come you...
Letting Go: How to Handle this Touchy Subject
Last month I engaged in two experiences that dealt with this notion of letting go. First, I spoke at the Wyoming Nurse's Association Annual Convention. Part of my talk involved introducing these nurses to the Nursing from Within process. As I found myself in the...
4 Steps to Going Within to More Fully Enjoy Your Career
I was in Yoga the other night and had an amazing insight. I'll share in a moment, but first some background on what happens in Yoga for those of you reading who may have never practiced. Now I have been practicing for over five years now. And because of that have...
How Inner Confidence Helps Us Enjoy Our Nursing Career
Recently I went to the beach with my husband and two nephews (ages 8 and 10). It was perfect beach weather and even more perfect surf for boogie boarding (I had to look up the spelling, LOL). Anyway, they were in the water non-stop... all three of them. And it...
Healthy Behaviors (On a Shoe-String Budget)
I had a great comment come through from a nurse who participated in the Art of Nursing 2.0. In her overall program survey, she said something along the lines of this: "We can teach all this but if socioeconomic barriers stands in the way of purchasing and...
Secrets to Stress Reduction: 3 Strategies for Nurses
It's fascinating to me that what we focus on, expands. I'm doing this summer training on list building (email list) and I have found that when I focus on building my list, it grows more quickly! What does this have to do with stress reduction and busy nurses? Well,...
Virtual Reiki Shares for Nurses
So, for those of you who do not know, I attempt to host a monthly Reiki share. In not one, but two places. And guess what? No surprise to me or any busy nurse reading... they are poorly attended. Why? Well, it's not because people don't enjoy them. They do- in...
Benefits of Reiki Practice in Nursing
Last week we talked about some of the benefits from Reiki Practice for nurse professionals. To build upon this, we have part two of this two-part video series. In today's video I highlight some of the ways that Reiki Practice and nursing careers can be blended...
Benefits of Reiki Practice for Nurses
Over the past several weeks, I have been sharing blog posts and videos about Reiki Practice. In this first video of an upcoming two-part video series, I speak to some of the self-care benefits Reiki Practice has gifted me. As you heard, for me, Reiki has helped me...
Reiki: Breaking Down Myths & Sharing Facts
Reiki Practice is a challenge to understand. If you go to Google and type in 'Reiki', you can find all sorts of information. From those in complete harmony with this spiritual healing practice to people who berate it as nonsense, what you'll find on Reiki Practice...
Reiki in Nursing: What the Heck is Reiki Practice?
Whenever I speak to a group of nurses about Reiki, the number one question I get asked is: 'What the heck IS Reiki Practice?' While that is a great question, it is also a difficult one to answer. As a Reiki Nurse who uses Reiki as a self-care tool on a daily basis,...
How to Thrive in Your Nursing Career: My Number One Tip
Here's a wonderful excerpt from 'Your Next Shift' (see book here): My final tip to you is my personal number one value. We all have values in life, at least I hope we do. When I contemplate what’s important to me, it may sound selfish, but it’s true: my number one...
How to Fit Mindfulness into a Busy Nursing Career
Picture this: You walk into the storage room on your unit and stare at the materials cart, unable to remember what you are there for. Or how about this one? You enter Mr. Smith's room and when you do you suddenly cannot recall what you were going to ask the patient...
Barbara Dossey Celebrates Nurse Resilience with the Nurse Coach Role
Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, HWNC-BC, internationally recognized integrative, holistic nursing pioneer, a nurse theorist, and Florence Nightingale Scholar. She is Co-Director, International Nurse Coach Association (INCA), and Core Faculty, Integrative...
From Frustrated to Fulfilled: A Book for Nurses
“What a beautiful blend of story and strategy. Lorie Brown and the nurse authors of ‘From Frustrated to Fulfilled’ weave together solutions in such a heartfelt and authentic way, you can’t help but feel inspired. This group shares the tools you need to step into...
Exercise as a Busy Nurse: What’s the Point?
So when you read this blog post title, you may think to yourself: "Exactly! I'm a nurse. I work on my feet ALL day. Why do I need to exercise? Better yet, how do I exercise when I am so drained from a busy work day?" Great question- and you know what, I hear you....
A Mindful Pause: How to Increase Concentration and Focus
Last month I was blessed with the opportunity to teach a Reiki Level I course to two groups of nursing students. The first week of the course was an eye-opening experience- for all of us. One of the nursing students shared with the group how he was feeling. He...
How to Get Better Sleep as a Nurse: Two Tips that Will Help
Nursing can be an exhausting field. From night-shift to overtime, we nurses never get a break. So that you don't find yourself snoozing on the job (and losing your nursing career to exhaustion) here is a video blog with two tips on getting better rest as a busy...
How Resilience Impacts Your Nursing Career
This is the first day of the year that I can say I am physically 'well'. I know right; we're already fourteen days in... And as nurses, I am sure you 'get' the correlation between physical health and professional productivity since all we hear about these days are...
Rest Well, Dear Nurse
I almost missed the boat. The daily self-blog challenge. I was driving home from the Reiki Share I just attended and realized I had not yet written for the day. So to keep today's post short and sweet, I want to ask you a serious question: what do you do for...
12 Tips for Self-Care in the New Year
This past week I had the honor of interviewing one of my favorite authors on Reiki Radio. Amy Z. Rowland, author of 'Reiki for the Heart and Soul' joined me this past Monday for a beautifully resourceful interview. Not only did Amy share her passion for and wisdom...
Rosemary Lonce Cramer, RN, BSN, CH, RM Joins Reiki Radio
Rosemary Lonce Cramer is a woman in transition. Striving to achieve the best spiritual, mental, and physical health to gift others through her life’s work as a wife, mother, grandmother, professional Rosemary is a nurse of 39 years. Her nursing experience...
Charlotte L. Cuneo Joins Reiki Radio
Charlotte L. Cuneo, MSN. RN, CCAP is a Clinical Nurse Educator for a general medical floor at Boston Medical Center. As a member on the hospital's Integrative Care Committee, Charlotte helps plan educational offerings for nurses and participates in integrative...
Pamela Miles Joins Reiki Radio
Pamela Miles is an international Reiki master, medical Reiki pioneer, and author of the award-winning REIKI: A Comprehensive Guide. In 28 years practicing Reiki, she has created in-hospital programs; presented and taught in academic medical centers, including...
3 Mindsets to Help You Stay Calm through Stress
I'm Gonna Freak Out! One of my sister's favorite bands is called LCD Sound System. This is one of my favorite jams from them (YouTube here, please note there are some graphically shocking images... but the music is GREAT!). The lyrics "I'm gonna freak out!" came to...
‘F’ for Fundamental: A Video Blog
In this five-part video series, Elizabeth Scala takes you through her process for total well-being. This week we start off with the F in this series: for fundamentals. Enjoy this first video as Elizabeth shares with you the first steps to optimal wellness and...
Penelope Quest, MSc, BA, Cert.Ed. Joins Reiki Radio
Penelope Quest, MSc, BA, Cert.Ed, is an internationally renowned Reiki Master and Author who has been teaching workshops on healing, personal growth and spiritual development in Britain for more than twenty years. She is the author of five best-selling...
Buddy Ann Ross, ND, MS, BSN, RN, HNB-BC Joins Reiki Radio
Buddy Ann Ross developed a passion for holistic health, after her own immune system deteriorated from burn out while working in the emergency department in the mid 1990’s. She learned that with a natural holistic integrative approach, her immune system was able...
Kathie Lipinski RN, MSN, CH Joins Reiki Radio
Kathie Lipinski, RN, MSN, CH is a holistic nurse and certified hypnotist in private practice. She is a Usui and Karuna Reiki Master, and Jikiden Reiki practitioner. Kathie has taught Reiki at various NYC hospitals, nursing schools and VA Center. Kathie is also...
3 Tips for Reiki Nurses
Being a Reiki Nurse can be challenging. Why? Because although Reiki is making its way into mainstream trends; it still is not fully accepted by everyone in the medical community. Some folks are skeptical of Reiki Practice and see it is 'woo-woo nonsense'. Others...
The Mid-Atlantic Reiki Conference Hosts Join Reiki Radio
Jacqueline Ramsey was struggling with chronic pain from a herniated disc in her neck when she decided in October of 2006 to start a daily routine of self-Reiki. Five months later she had her first pain free hour in three and a half years. She hasn’t looked back...
Angela Brathovde, MSN, RN, BC, HNB-BC, PhD Joins Reiki Radio
Angela Brathovde is a certified psychiatric and holistic nurse, has a PhD in holistic counseling and is a Reiki Master. She is a nurse educator, has published several articles and has speaks widely on holistic nursing. She is the Clinical Director of Children’s...
Elizabeth Kryak Joins Reiki Radio
Elizabeth 'Bette' Kryak recently retired from 34 years of nursing at Abington Memorial Hospital in Abington PA. She was integral to the Integrative Medicine Services and educated over 900 nurses and members of the community in Reiki. She was involved in 2 grant...
Ode to the Waitress
Last month, I posted about an exceptional bus driver who takes such pride in and enjoys his career in such a way that it makes me smile on a daily basis. Well, soon after I published that post my husband and I went out to dinner. We had this waitress, who at first,...
Patty Penner of Heart Light Reiki Joins Reiki Radio
Not in her wildest dreams would she have thought, that at age 55, her life would take such a 360 degree turn... Having worked in about every field imaginable - secretarial, reception, billing, medical transcribing, store manager, retail sales, college student,...
Glenda Watson Natale Joins Reiki Radio
What is a fresh and innovative way to cope with nursing burnout? Reiki Practice, says Glenda Watson Natale. Glenda Watson Natale is a Board certified Holistic Nurse degreed in Nursing, Communication and Theatre. She is also an active member of the American Holistic...
Holistic Stress Management for Nurses
I shared earlier in the week how coming back from a 10 day break can be perceived as overwhelmingly stressful. Top that with being a full-time nurse, wife, friend and community member- boy... the stress can be debilitating. So much so that we can stuck in...
All Nurses Deserve a Break
I am coming off of a ten day break from it all: my work, business, emails and routine. Getting back online can be overwhelming for everyone, especially a busy nurse. As a nurse entrepreneur, I am always in collaboration with others. I have social media to keep up...
Nursing Self-Care for Success
Summer is slowly coming to an end. Back-to-school season has taken over (or already ended!). Fall holidays are on their way and lots of times this time of year can get hectic and quite busy. However, as busy nurses we are up to any challenge. In our nursing...
As Nurses, We Need Reiki Research
When I begin to talk about Reiki Practice, I can get a whole host of reactions. From complete acceptance to total disbelief, the response to Reiki and nursing is all over the spectrum. And I get that. As a scientifically logical person with a strong influence of my...
Reiki Radio Kicks Off with the Reiki Share Project
The Reiki Share Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Through sharing the gift of Reiki, the organization hopes to empower others as they journey toward healing and balance in their daily lives. The Reiki Share Project is dedicated to providing...
Inviting Reiki into Nursing Practice
Since I have become more clear that Reiki Practice is the self-care modality that I teach to and speak about with nurses, I have received lots more feedback and questions from nursing staff. I recently wrote a FAQ blog post on Reiki Practice, which you can access...
Enthusiastic Nursing: How Reiki Radio Highlights Best Practice
When was the last time you got really, really excited about something? How fun does it feel when your full of joy and enthusiasm? It’s almost like you can feel the adrenaline rushing around inside; you’re fully alive. Fully of vitality. As a nurse entrepreneur, I...
Reiki and Nursing: How to Be an Effective Healer
Unattachment. Maybe one of the most challenging concepts to grasp. We buy a new car. A small spot on the fender starts to rust. We go ballistic; this tiny spot irritates us daily. An 89 year grandparent develops congestive heart failure. Their illness progresses...
Reiki for Nurses: Frequently Asked Questions
As a nurse entrepreneur, one of the best things you can do for your business is to get extremely clear. Clarity around your message, who you can help, and how you help them is a crucial step in entrepreneurial success. So what does that have to do with Reiki and...
How Can Reiki Practice Sustain a Nursing Career?
What is a Reiki Nurse? Is there even such a thing? When I have spoken on or written about the term before I typically receive the following assumption: "A Reiki Nurse is someone who uses Reiki as a healing modality on or with their patients." On one hand, this...
Resiliency in Nursing: 3 Steps to Success
Searching the literature on nurse well-being can be tough. There are a lot of articles that can be found on the importance of resiliency in nursing, yet the evidence can be frustrating. Case studies, qualitative research and even meta-analyses can be found- however...
Essentials Steps to Enjoy Your Life (Even as a busy nurse)
As a busy nurses, I bet we all would like two things in a life: a nursing career we enjoy AND a social life that we have time for. Even if we do not use terminology like 'holistic health' or 'self-care', I can guarantee with confident certainty that we all want to...
Reiki for Nurses: An Rx for Self-Care
As a Reiki Nurse, I have an awesome opportunity. I get to share Reiki with both patients and staff. In a recent blog post, I shared a story of offering Reiki to a patient in the hospital and the outcome of the practice (you can read more about that here). Today I...
A Tribute to My Dog: The Ultimate Lesson in Letting Go
I have had a challenging week. And yes, while this is a nursing blog today's post is about a personal story of letting go. My family and I went to see Nancy Williams (applied animal behavioral psychologist) on Thursday, June 5. When my husband looked at me in the...
Feel the Energy: A Moment at a Time
It's 4:35 pm on a Friday afternoon. Typically I avoid working this late. However it has been a crazy, scattered past 24 hours. I know this is a nursing blog, and sometimes we want to indulge in things that are off topic from the usual nursing career advice,...
Yoga and Nursing Practice: Hand-In-Hand Support
How to relieve stress in nursing is a hot-topic for nurses like me. And as a Registered Nurse, who lives and works in today's world of nursing, I have some of my own stress reduction needs. One of the best ways that I release stress: Yoga Yoga practice can teach us...
Pondering on Practical Wisdom: An Inquiry from a Fan
I received an email from a reader asking a question he would like to see responded to in a blog post. For those of you reading, you can always email me with a topic you would like me to touch on and I will do my best to do so. Here we go with today’s inquiry: Dear...
Recommended Read: The Healing Consciousness
This past week I completed another phenomenal read. In my opinion, every nurse would benefit from reading this awesomely written book by a holistic breast surgeon. The Healing Consciousness: A Doctor's Journey to Healing by Dr. Beth DuPree was given to me by one of...
Self-Talk: Lift Yourself Up from Beating You Down
Today's video post is about how positive self-talk and inner thought can improve, enhance, and uplift our overall health and well-being. I want you to notice: How are you talking to yourself? How do you think about yourself? What energy do you put out to your...
Spiritual Practice Nursing Tip: Ask, Trust, Allow
What a past couple of days/week. I am feeling joyful inspiration and the genuine bliss of gratitude. Being a spiritual practice nurse sure does have its perks. Listening to and trusting the nurse within instils great peace of mind. Last week I took some wonderfully...
How to Bring More Mindfulness to Nursing Practice
What if you're not into meditation? Each time you sit down to meditate you fall asleep, get bored or frustrated with yourself thinking, "I just can't do this". Here's another resource that can increase your mindfulness in nursing practice. In this video I...
3 Spiritual Principles for Nursing Graduates (New or Not)
As a Spiritual Practice Nurse and student of universal law I reflect a lot on spiritual principles and energy tools. Nursing graduates, of any age- be it further from their graduation day or newly graduated- can benefit from theories grounded in spirituality. So...
Re-Energize Your Nursing Career through Food Ruts
If you're looking to shake things up with respect to your nursing career, then this video blog is for you. Let me ask you this, have you found yourself bored, under-stimulated or no longer challenged by your nursing role? If you have a hint of a 'yes' to any of the...
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