Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION!

"I finally did find my purpose, and my purpose is to nurture an atmosphere of unlimited potential for those around me. And when I typed those words out, I cried, and I still get emotional about it, because I'm like, you know what? It doesn't matter what situation, what relationship, what Nursing field I work in. It doesn't even matter if I'm a Nurse, a teacher, a stay at h...

"I am helping Nurses at the bedside and providing them with tools and expertise to change their practice, and make a difference in the things they do every single day. And that's how we should be practicing.  It's all not patient care, some of it's the practice environment. And maybe there's best practices for how to create a better work environment." ~Jill Arzouman D...

"If you don't feel like enough, if you feel like you need something more, start talking to someone about why you feel that way. And really cultivate a sense of awareness. And you're not going to find the answer outside yourself.  You're going to have to go inward and find out, what is leading me to the decisions that I am making right now that seem to bring me to a place that i...

73: More Inspiring Nurse Voices from the 2024 INCA Symposium Highlights Ah Ha Moments Welcome and welcome back to the Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast. Episode 72 continues on with the excitement, wisdom and positive energy of the 2024 Integrative Nurse Coach Symposium in Miami Florida. If you missed episode 72, (you can find it here), it contains all the fun, insights and learnings fr...

Highlights EEEEEEE!  I am so excited to share this episode with you, because it includes the voices of many inspiring, wise and wonderful Nurses and Nurse Coaches from all over the country. From Alaska to Florida, to Massachusetts to California... Nurses were represented from all over the country and the vibes were high! There was SO much positive energy throughout every second and we were treated...

“…you need space in order for energy to be exchanged and to hear what we're saying, and hear what the other person said. Historically, I've wanted to fill that space really.  So, it's still practice for me as well. I still have to work on it. But just trying to lean into that. And, allow that space to exist so people get the benefit of hearing themselves talk too.” ~Lindsay Frey MA,...

Ah Ha Moments “I am a different person because of what I went through, and I want to preach to other people not to take their health for granted.  And not to live on autopilot. Because this life is just too short.” ~Nicole Monteserrato BSN, RN, NC-BC Nursing the Nurse.  Who to better serve Nurses, than fellow Nurses? Living on autopilot is not serving you.  Take a chance for you! Feel the fear and...

"Nurses are interested. Nurses want to use this medicine. They want to explore this medicine. They want to understand this medicine. And inevitably, they want to share this medicine. Through our experience, we, minute for minute, spend more time with vulnerable people— not just vulnerable people, but vulnerable people in their most vulnerable times— than nearly any other profession."   ~...

“As Nurse coaches, we often in coaching sessions, or when we're talking to people, we often really want to see those big aha moments, or those clients come up with these phenomenal, smart goals.  And sometimes, especially when we're Nurse Coach students, we think that maybe a session wasn't overly productive if we didn't have those.  But it really isn't about those grandio...

Highlights "I think everybody has their own intuitive gifts. And it's something that you get to just connect with and then practice.  I think everybody has their own gifts and their own... call it body wisdom, call it intuition, these different ways, just like having a sense about something beyond what you can see with the eye."   ~Dr. Caitlin Jarvis DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC Ah-has We all...

"I noticed, a lot of the times, I would check out after work. I would find myself after a hard day, pulling over to get some beer or wine, coming home, having dinner and then just wanting to shut everything out and be alone with my wine while my husband would read to my son and put him to bed... Now that I'm more present, I've noticed a shift within our family. And I think my son ha...

65: Feeding Compassion: Exploring Intuitive Eating in Nursing-Tiffany North, BSN, RN, INC, Certified Intuitive Eating Professional Highlights  "Intuitive eating is really about letting go of shoulds around food, letting go of this food is good, this food is bad, and instead, looking at food from a body attunement lens. So how does this food feel for me in my body? How does eating in this way...

64: Regulating the Nervous System as Nurse Coaches- Ellie Monjoseph, RN, BSN, NC-BC Highlights “Are you fighting something? Are you fleeing? Are you, what's called, collapse or shutdown, and just trying to figure out where we're at with our nervous system, so we can support ourselves? It’s plugging in some of the missing pieces that an unresolved stress takes away from us. It kind of mas...

63: Nurses Overcoming Addiction- Kacie Salas, BSN, RN, NC-BC Highlights "My coping mechanism was, drinking and using.  I think symptoms of cumulative caretaking trauma are shame, guilt, anxiety, grief. Right? Once I started to learn that language, I realized that it had been something I've really suffered with my whole life. Through Nurse Coaching and all the tools that I learned in my N...

62: Group Coaching in Hospitals: Healing Together- John Piazza DeDonatis Highlights Ah-Ha Moments There may be a time you feel an ‘itch’ to do something else.  What would happen if you decided to follow it? Do some research about Nurse Coaching, especially if you’re on the fence.  You deserve to look deeper into the things you are curious about Group Coaching allows for more touch and connection w...

61: Vulnerability is Courage- Christie L. Kaywood, RN, BSN, NC Highlights "Over time, healing and different things like that helped me. And also, with the vulnerability, it's like, these are my goals. And how can I achieve them if I just stay in the same place? How can I achieve them if I don't step up and step out of my comfort zone?" ~Christie L. Kaywood, RN, BSN, NC Ah-Ha Mo...

Caring for the Caregivers- Renee Panec, BSN, RN, HWNC-BC, CCM, CPHQ Highlights "It brings up a lot of feelings, too, in caregivers in terms of not only overwhelm, but they may be sad about their current situation. They may experience feelings of... really of grief, of that loss of the life that they anticipated living. And now it's going to be a very different kind of life. And it's...

59: Passionately Growing as a Nurse Coach- Aaron Williams, BSN, RN, HWNC-BC Highlights Ah-Ha Moments "It's your creation. And you can take it any direction you want. I'm taking it to the gardening, the nature side, the reconnecting with spirit, reconnecting people like me, who get in their head and think too much and don't, you know, don't get in their heart or their body...

Trusting Your Intuition as a Nurse Coach- Love Hawkins, MSN, APRN, WHNP-BC, CNM, NC-BC Highlights "It's such a powerful thing when you get more attuned to your own intuition. And you start to learn how to trust yourself and what is good for you. Not what's good for anybody else and having everybody else tell you what's good for you. You know from the core of your being what&apo...

Go! Do it Afraid Nurse Coach! Ashley Hagood, BSN, RN, NC-BC Highlights "Go. Do it. Make it happen. Do it afraid, go. Chase that light, whatever it is that you're inspired to do. Whatever calling that's been placed on your heart, take the chance, take the leap of faith, go, make it happen. Resources will come up along the way. Tools, people, wisdom, knowledge, all of that will come a...

How to Take Nurse Coaching Anywhere!- Deborah McElligott, DNP, ANP-BC, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC, CDE Highlights "Coaching adds the component of not knowing.  It was so powerful for me because as an NP, you had to be the expert. You know, as a Nurse, you have to be an expert. You can't give the wrong medication, you'll kill somebody. You have to be perfect. And this not knowing part of coachi...

“We see this a lot in oncology too, where we're seeing a lot of use of hypnosis in even outpatient oncology, Nurses learning hypnotic language and using it there. Patients starting to feel more supported. Like, I knew you supported me before, but when we add that extra layer of using our communication styles with more conscious effort, our patients feel it, they draw more meaning from those e...

“And that's where we get into that fixed thinking, the black and white thinking, And I use this thing where I say, well, it's not an "or" it's an "and". It's both. It can be both. You can be happy, and you can be sad at the same time. Similar to what I was talking to you when I was with you guys when my brother passed.  Well, I was really sad, however, there...

“Being fully present, allows me to get into touch with the wonders of life and the wonders of everything around. And I find that incredibly nourishing, and I find that incredibly healing. And I know, from the 10 years or more that I've been doing mindfulness, that I've become a stronger person in myself.”  ~Louise Bobbitt, RN, PgDipNurs Ah-Has Mindfulness brings us to the present moment,...

“We need to teach our Nurses how to find this peace within during stressful times, and it's really just breathing, it's breath work. It's getting our heart electrical rhythm under control, our heart rate variability, and in sync with our emotions which come from the mind.  I know for me, in the critical care world, I definitely didn't stop to breathe during my stressful times....