Dearest Nurse, I’m reaching out from my nursing heart to yours and offering you a gift today. As a nurse, I know you are on the front line of this pandemic and your life has changed drastically over a very short period of time. It’s a lot to take in and there’s much angst to process. People are hunkered down, isolating, spreading further apart and yet at this time, we feel closer to one another than ever…
Since you are here reading this, I want to play a little guessing game! I believe that you are a nurse. 👩⚕️ I sense that you love yoga! 🧘♀️ I know that you searched for “yoga” and “nursing” and you found us! Your YogaNurse tribe! 🤭 How did I guess? A nurse never reveals her secrets! 🤐 Here’s a better question. What made you search for such a curious combination of words? “Yoga” and “Nursing” sounds…
Wow! It’s 2020! Whippee! The World Health Organization has designated 2020 as the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife”, in honor of the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale. This certainly feels like the year of the nurse for the yoganurse tribe. We are finally launching our very own YogaNurse Yoga Teacher Training (YNYTT) made specifically for nurses by nurses! We want to thank all of the nurses who enthusiastically enquired about the course. Please…
You are a beacon of light in a very dark world, darling nurse. You are caring for people who are suffering. This is truly a noble profession. We have greats like Florence Nightingale and we can only hope to go down in history as a pioneer and a caring problem solver. Even if it’s only among our own patients, we want to know that we made a difference. Except…we can’t always achieve this due to…
I recently experienced a power outage in Montreal, Canada. It was so bad that the mayor had to cancel Halloween. The winds were wild, the storms were unforgiving and the power outage kept me apart from my much beloved cuppa coffee. I couldn’t cook, I was struggling to stay in touch with my team and I was salvaging every last drop of battery power on my phone to try and finish up some of my…
The Struggle: Dodge the Lawsuit. What does your day as a nurse consist of lately? Paperwork, sacrifice and skipped lunch breaks? Ringing phones and chronic staff shortages? Paperwork. Damage control. More paperwork. It’s almost like we’re playing “dodge the lawsuit” daily. We’re so far removed from the primary function of a nurse – caring for our patients. We imagine we’d get time to talk to our patients, get to know them, form a trusting relationship…
HAPPY SPRING! Trusting you have weathered the Winter storms, both in the outer life and the inner life. I feel compelled to share some contemplative thoughts to stir your soul. Plus a few resources to consider on your life journey. #1 The Most Essential Practice of Your Job as a NURSE As a nurse or indeed as a human being with any job, there are those days. Yes, those days where we get sucked into the mire…
