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Prefer to listen?  Check out the audio version below.Have you thought to yourself: Is this just a hard stretch, or is this burnout?  It's a worthy question, because most of us can't say exactly where stress ends and burnout begins.   Stress Isn't the Enemy Stress, in...

Prefer to listen?  Check out the audio version below.You armor up before every shift. You brace, you push through, you keep your face steady no matter what's happening in the room. Then you get home and you can't feel much of anything. Not the bad stuff; not the good...

Prefer to listen?  Check out the audio version below.You know the sentence. Maybe you said it this morning in the shower, or last night after the shift finally ended. "I'm a bad nurse." "I'm failing my team." "I can't do this job anymore." It comes out fast, almost...

I’ve been thinking about the current climate—spiraling turbulence, uncertainty, and the unsettling sense that the ground keeps shifting under our feet. In my work with health care professionals and leaders, I’m noticing more people quietly slipping into survival mode....

Each year at this time, I share the books that moved me most—the ones I found myself imploring friends to check out, the ones I stayed up too late reading, the ones that shifted something inside me. Books are more than mindless escape. Stories help us make sense of...

The holiday season: a time of joy, connection, and celebration. And also, if we're honest, a time when stress levels spike and our best intentions sometimes crumble under the weight of impossible expectations. Whether you're hosting the family gathering, traveling to...

The Hollywood Reporter called it "the most surprising ghost story of the season…. the story of one of America's great artists wrestling spirits and trying to contain them on a cassette, which serves as its own kind of sacred vessel." I recently saw the film...

When we say we're afraid of failure, what are we really afraid of? When we avoid taking risks, what are we actually avoiding? If you dig beneath the surface, you'll find that what we're truly fearing isn't the external circumstance—it's how we'll feel if it happens....

There's something magical about late August air. Maybe it's the way the light shifts just slightly, or the sweaters and composition books appearing  on store shelves, but something in us stirs with possibility. For those of us who never quite outgrew the academic...

We’re often attracted to people who are fundamentally different from us—their spontaneity, their calm presence, their different way of seeing the world. But somewhere along the way, we start spending enormous energy trying to reverse-engineer them into versions more like us, while simultaneously contorting ourselves to become what we think they want. Both are exhausting control projects dressed up as love. What if we could reclaim all that wasted energy and learn to love without fixing?