Nurses spend more time with patients than most other types of providers and have unique insight into patient care and the the healthcare system.
Nurse Burnout Recovery: Healing Ourselves to Better Serve Patients
Shedding parts of us that no longer serve us.
A couple months ago, I shared my experience with burnout and lessons learned from it. This experience propelled me into a healing journey. This healing journey wasn’t just about a newfound appreciation for “self-care.” Guided by several mentors, coaches, and healers, it incorporated modalities such as energy healing, spiritual healing, mindset work, inner child work, meditation, breathwork, and journaling. Burnout had initiated an intense deconstruction and deprogramming process that made it clear it was time to shed the pieces of me that were no longer serving me.
During this healing journey I asked myself:
- Why do I do what I do?
- Why do I feel that I’m not good enough/smart enough/skilled enough to take care of my patients?
- Why do I feel like I can’t prioritize myself and my own needs so I can take better care of my patients?
- Why do I feel like it’s not safe to speak up if I have a concern?
- Why am I afraid to fail?
After being brutally honest with myself, I realized I had to go back to where the programming began.
Confronting our fears.
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