How Boundaries Saved Me From Burnout in the ICU

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This is a picture of my face after three back-to-back 12-hour ICU shifts.

No filter. No glam. Just raw exhaustion.

I used to think boundaries were for people with less on their plate.

That saying no was a luxury I hadn’t earned yet.

At one point, I was working full-time in ICU, finishing NP school, juggling clinicals, and holding everything together with caffeine and cortisol.

People would say, “You’re killing it.”

But I was barely surviving.

My body had been warning me for a long time—anxiety, racing heart, sleepless nights. Until I finally realized:
If I didn’t create healthy boundaries and understand my true bandwidth, the healthcare system would take everything from me until there was nothing left.

So I made a radical choice:

• I cut back to part-time

• I brought yoga back into my life

• And for the first time ever, I chose myself
  
  
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Today, I coach brilliant—but burnt out—women in healthcare who are done waiting for permission to live differently.

You don’t have to leave healthcare to love your life again.

But you do have to stop giving away every last drop of yourself.

Strong, healthy boundaries aren’t selfish—they’re survival.

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