Beat Nurse Burnout | Holistic Wellness, Stress Management, Burnout Recovery, Caregiver Fatigue, Identity
Are you an exhausted nurse running on empty? Do you feel irritable after every shift, emotionally numb, or like you’re just surviving instead of thriving?
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Phantom Shifts: Why Your Brain Never Clocks Out (Even On Your Days Off) (opens the original)
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In this follow-up to our conversation with Jolene, author of Still Standing: One Burnt-Out Nurse's Story, Shan breaks down the two hidden autopilot patterns driving nurse burnout that most self-care advice completely misses: an identity so fused to the caregiver role it can't be set down, and a nervous system so stuck in "shift mode" it never actually clocks out, even during time off. If you've ever cried in your car after a shift, dreaded the next one before you'd even left the last, or found y
This Nurse Wrote the Book on Burnout -- While Still In It (opens the original)
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What does burnout actually look like from the inside... when you're still showing up, still performing, still getting it done? Today's guest, Jolene Smith, knows exactly what that feels like. Jolene is an LPN with nearly two decades of experience across long-term care, corrections, and occupational health. She is still working bedside. And she wrote STILL STANDING: One Burnt-out Nurse's Story — not from the other side of burnout... but from inside it. Post-it notes covering her bedroom walls. No
Breath Prayer for Nurses Who Feel Like a Failure: You Are Not What You DO [ Breathe & Be Still series ] (opens the original)
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You clocked in exhausted. You made a mistake, or felt like you did. And somewhere in there, you started measuring your worth by your shift instead of remembering who made you. Psalm 139:14 says it plain: "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Not because of what you got done today. Because you exist. That's it. That's the whole qualification. In this episode we sit with that truth and let it undo the performance-based lie burnout loves to whisper. Breath Prayer:Inhale: I am
Aligned Leadership for Nurses and Working Moms: How to Lead Yourself Before You Lead Anyone Else [ with Susan Ro] (opens the original)
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In this episode of Beat Nurse Burnout, Shan sits down with Susan Ro — creator of the Aligned Leadership Method, host of the Leadership for Busy Working Moms podcast, and a woman who knows firsthand what it looks like to rebuild your life around what actually matters. Susan went from the high-energy world of New York City fashion to teaching, marriage, motherhood of four boys, and eventually to coaching and leading other women — and the thread running through all of it is a simple but radical con
ICU Nurse, PTSD, Fractured Spine... The Warning Signs You Cannot Afford to Miss [with Ashley Chancellor] / 245 (opens the original)
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What happens when a nurse gives 14 years to the ICU, survives COVID on the front lines, fractures her spine, and battles PTSD... and still finds her way back to hope? That's Ashley Chancellor's story. And she is telling all of it. In this episode of the Beat Nurse Burnout Podcast, we sit down with Ashley Chancellor, RN, bestselling author of Just a Nurse: Memoir on the Heartbeat of Healing, Writing Coach, and Self-Empowerment Coach for nurses. Ashley spent 14 years in critical care, traveled as
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