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A hospital recently brought me in—an NP and burnout coach—to lead a Mindfulness in Healthcare workshop for Nurses Week.

It was scheduled during work hours.

You can probably guess what happened…

ZERO nurses showed up.

Not because they didn’t care.
Not because they weren’t interested.
But because they couldn’t leave the floor.
Because patient loads were full.
Because no one had coverage.
Because that’s the system.

And honestly? I wouldn’t have gone either.

You can’t heal in the same environment that’s burning you out.
You can’t regulate your nervous system in a place that doesn’t let you rest.
And you can’t access mindfulness when you haven’t even had lunch.

Burnout recovery isn’t just about breathing deeper. It’s about changing the way we live.

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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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