Nurse Burnout Recovery | Caregiver, Somatic, Boundaries, Nervous System, IFS

Work with Kristi 1:1** If you’re ready to go deeper — to understand your system, regulate your nervous system, and heal the patterns keeping you stuck in burnout — I currently have openings for one-on-one coaching. → Work with me 1:1 **Join the Nurse Burnout Recovery Course Waitlist/Email list** The course walks you step-by-step through the nervous system work, the parts work, the identity work, a...

Work with Kristi 1:1** If you’re ready to go deeper — to understand your system, regulate your nervous system, and heal the patterns keeping you stuck in burnout — I currently have openings for one-on-one coaching. → Work with me 1:1 **Join the Nurse Burnout Recovery Course Waitlist/Email list** The course walks you step-by-step through the nervous system work, the parts work, the identity work, a...

Work with Kristi 1:1** If you’re ready to go deeper — to understand your system, regulate your nervous system, and heal the patterns keeping you stuck in burnout — I currently have openings for one-on-one coaching. → Work with me 1:1 **Join the Nurse Burnout Recovery Course Waitlist/Email list** The course walks you step-by-step through the nervous system work, the parts work, the identity work, a...

Work with Kristi 1:1** If you’re ready to go deeper — to understand your system, regulate your nervous system, and heal the patterns keeping you stuck in burnout — I currently have openings for one-on-one coaching. → Work with me 1:1 **Join the Nurse Burnout Recovery Course Waitlist/Email list** The course walks you step-by-step through the nervous system work, the parts work, the identity work, a...

Work with Kristi 1:1** If you’re ready to go deeper — to understand your system, regulate your nervous system, and heal the patterns keeping you stuck in burnout — I currently have openings for one-on-one coaching. → Work with me 1:1 **Join the Nurse Burnout Recovery Course Waitlist/Email list** The course walks you step-by-step through the nervous system work, the parts work, the identity work, a...

You just finished a shift. You're exhausted--but your mind is still at the nurses' station. This guided practice is the companion to the episode "Why Rest Doesn't Work for You" and it's the answer to everything we talked about. In about 7 minutes, you'll move through three simple practices: an extended exhale to signal your nervous system that the shift is over, a gentle IFS inquiry to meet the pa...

In this episode of Nurse Burnout Recovery, Kristi Croddy — ER nurse and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner — explores why so many nurses take time off yet still feel exhausted, emotionally overloaded, and unable to truly recover. Through the lens of nervous system science, Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic healing, and Christian faith, this episode unpacks the difference between sim...

Have you ever driven home from a 12-hour shift with your nervous system still on high alert… too wired to sleep — and then spent your day off completely depleted on the couch? That’s not weakness. That’s the burnout cycle — and it’s one that many caregivers and nurses are stuck in without realizing it. In today’s episode, I break down the three-phase burnout cycle that keeps high-performing nurses...

If you've ever clocked out and still felt completely "on" — jaw tight, brain still running triage, body too wired to rest — this episode is the one. Kristi Croddy, ER nurse and psychiatric nurse practitioner, breaks down exactly what chronic activation does to your nervous system, your brain, and your soul. Using her three-pillar framework of IFS parts work, somatic body awareness, and Christian f...

Most nurses don't recognize they have secondary traumatic stress — because it progresses so slowly they've already normalized it by the time it becomes a crisis. In this episode, Kristi Croddy applies Dr. Karen Foli's Middle-Range Theory of Nurses' Psychological Trauma to trace the four stages of the silent STS progression — from the Absorbed Shift through the Crisis Point — and explores what heal...

If you’ve ever said yes when every part of you wanted to say no — and then driven home exhausted, resentful, and wondering what is wrong with you — this episode is for you. In this episode, Kristi goes beneath the nervous system conversation from last week and gets to the root of why people-pleasing runs so deep in nurses. This isn’t about discipline or willpower. It’s about a survival pattern you...

You’ve read the books. You’ve heard the advice. You know you’re supposed to say no. And yet — when the moment comes, you say yes again. And then you go home exhausted, resentful, and wondering what is wrong with you. Here’s the truth: nothing is wrong with you. Boundaries don’t feel hard because you’re weak or undisciplined. They feel hard because of what’s happening in your nervous system, in you...

If you’ve been snapping more than you want to… losing patience faster than you used to… feeling like you’re one comment away from losing it — this episode is for you. But not in the way you might expect. Because today we’re not talking about how to control your irritability. We’re talking about what it actually *is* — and why it showing up might be the most honest thing your body has done in a lon...

EPISODE SUMMARY If you’ve been feeling more irritable, more numb, less sharp, or like you don’t fully come back to yourself after a shift, this episode will put words to that experience. Kristi breaks down what burnout actually is—and what it isn’t—through the lens of secondary trauma and neuroscience. She walks through how repeated exposure to distress reshapes the brain over time, affecting emot...

There’s a part of you that learned how to stop feeling. And if you’re a nurse—especially in the ER, ICU, or any high-acuity setting—you probably know exactly what I mean. In this episode, I’m sharing something deeply personal… my own experience with what I call my “wall part.” The part of me that learned early on how to block emotions so I could keep going. And for a long time, I thought that mean...

We talk about burnout all the time in nursing… but what if burnout isn’t the full story? In this episode, I break down how secondary trauma—the repeated exposure to suffering, fear, and loss—may be one of the hidden drivers of nurse burnout. Through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS), we explore how your nervous system adapts to trauma by creating protective parts—like the “just keep going”...

Feeling exhausted before your shift even starts? In this episode, we break down burnout in nurses and caregivers—and why it’s not a personal failure. This isn’t just stress. It’s what happens when your nervous system is under constant pressure, emotional load, and secondary trauma. You’ll learn what’s actually happening in your body, why caregiver stress builds over time, and how IFS (Internal Fam...

If you’re a nurse or caregiver running on empty, this podcast is for you. In this short trailer, you’ll get a glimpse into how you can heal burnout at the root—not just manage it.   Hosted by a psychiatric nurse practitioner and ER nurse, this show blends nervous system regulation, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and faith-based tools to help you reduce stress, set boundaries, and feel like yoursel...