Nurses are the backbone of the health system, always there to care for a stranger as if they were one of their own. Forsaking special moments with their own families to ensure that other families loved ones are being cared for.
Compassion fatigue, stress, and burnout are on the rise in healthcare workers. Self care has never been so important.
Elaina Mullery RN has over 20 years of clinical nursing experience as well as being trained in Mindfulness, Meditation, Hypnotherapy, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Having burnout a couple of times herself, she is passionate about promoting effective self care strategies to her Nursing colleagues.
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Nurses are the backbone of the health system, always there to care for a stranger as if they were one of their own. Forsaking special moments with their own families to ensure that other families loved ones are being cared for.
Compassion fatigue, stress, and burnout are on the rise in healthcare workers. Self care has never been so important.
Elaina Mullery RN has over 20 years of clinical nursing experience as well as being trained in Mindfulness, Meditation, Hypnotherapy, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Having burnout a couple of times herself, she is passionate about promoting effective self care strategies to her Nursing colleagues.
055: How You May Be Hijacked By Your Nervous System with Michelle Powell
The Happy Nurse
41 minutes 8 seconds
3 years ago
055: How You May Be Hijacked By Your Nervous System with Michelle Powell
The pressure of everyday life can become unreasonable at times. The effect of this can have us operating from our fight or flight response.
In this episode, we’ll unpack the impact of the nervous system on our well-being with Michelle Powell.
Michelle is a world-renowned trauma and wellness expert, and a regular guest on The Happy Nurse Podcast. She shares her knowledge of how the nervous system influences thoughts, actions, and responses, and how It’s important for to create a strategy that can help regulate our inner self.
If we’re aware of the impacts of the nervous system, we learn how to navigate its activation and quickly return to homeostasis. Michelle reveals the methods she uses to manage stressful situations, how to recenter focus, and bring us back to a grounded space.
TOPICS WE DISCUSSED INCLUDE:
Why we need to talk about the nervous system (03:46)
Recognising our default fight or flight reactions (05:30)
Regulating our inner voice (12:25)
What can you do when your nervous system is activated (17:05)
A good relationship with ourselves matters (18:25)
Strategies that can help recenter and reground (21:00)
The power of breath-work (26:35)
Therapeutic zone of breathing (29:10)
The significance of 5-5 and 468 breathing techniques (35:05)
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Grab a copy of Michelle’s book The Mastery of Wellness.
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The Happy Nurse
Nurses are the backbone of the health system, always there to care for a stranger as if they were one of their own. Forsaking special moments with their own families to ensure that other families loved ones are being cared for.
Compassion fatigue, stress, and burnout are on the rise in healthcare workers. Self care has never been so important.
Elaina Mullery RN has over 20 years of clinical nursing experience as well as being trained in Mindfulness, Meditation, Hypnotherapy, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Having burnout a couple of times herself, she is passionate about promoting effective self care strategies to her Nursing colleagues.
