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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

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