I completed my education as a Holistic Wellness Coach through the International Association of Wellness Professionals’ Wellness Coach Certification Program. The IAWP is an international organization that supports and trains holistic professionals and coaches to create wellness careers in order to inspire people to make healthy changes.

The problem with most health and wellness programs today is that they’re narrowly focused on one area of wellness (whatever that expert’s specialty happens to be).

My holistic approach teaches that one imbalance in your life can create an imbalance in another area. So you’ve got to address the whole you. Because that relentless feeling of sadness may be an indicator of lack of purpose. And that may be caused by your stressful career. And that can impact your relationships as well as your health choices. In this case, your emotions, your purpose, your career, your relationships and other health behaviors are all interconnected.

See it’s not necessarily that you need to change your career because a lot of those imbalances in the other areas of your life will still be there. An alternative approach to start balancing those other areas and see what kind of impact it has on your career.

I’m not out here to encourage people to leave the profession of nursing because we need nurses.  I need them, you need them, our parents, friends, family, everyone, we all need nurses.  But the reality is that nurses are leaving at a much higher rate than ever before because of exhaustion, overwhelm, burnout, depression, and so much more.  But it is my belief that if we can start to create change in the other areas of our life we can return ourselves to the passion that we first entered nursing with.