Improved Response to Stress and Burnout

A self-paced, in-depth overview of burnout, stress and trauma, responses to it and ways to reset and grow.

Better Emotional Regulation and Resilience

Regulate your nervous system and find true freedom within your body.

Reconnect with Your True Nature

Come out of states of survival and threat and reconnect to your true nature!

Reduce Anxiety. Heal Burnout and Trauma. Regulate Your Nervous System

✔ Self Paced Course - 16 Chapter + 61 Lessons | ✔ 12 CE Credits | ✔ Lifetime Access | ✔ Nervous System Regulation Practices  Deepen your understanding of the body shifts that occur when you move into survival mode, empowering you to take control of your well-being. Over 6 modules, you'll expand your knowledge of the body and nervous system’s response to stress, burnout and trauma. You will learn practical tools to utilize during work and at home to re-wire your nervous system (neuroplasticity), leading to improved emotional, physical, and relational health.  This not only benefits your personal life, but also enhances your professional relationships and equips you for life's challenges.

About the Course

Rising in Resilience: Freedom from Burnout for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals offers a unique approach to healing and preventing burnout. Steeped in the latest neuroscience, Polyvagal Theory, somatic psychology, nature based therapy, and ancient wisdom practices, this course is an invitation to renegotiate your trauma, stress, and burnout, and reconnect with your essential self.   This course provides a compassionate space for you to cultivate deeper self-awareness, attune to your body’s wisdom, and navigate burnout with more ease and presence. By the end of this course you’ll gain tools to regulate your nervous system, create safety within, and embrace life’s challenges as opportunities for growth. This journey is about coming home to yourself—because when you are deeply connected to your body and inner world, you are better able to come out of survival states and into embodied presence aligned with your true nature and essential self.

Meet Your Instructor

Jessica Conway, RN, MSN, RYTT, is a multifaceted healer with over 14 years of critical care nursing experience and presently working as a hospice nurse. A passionate seeker of truth and wisdom in the human experience, Jessica's own journey from burnout and nervous system dysregulation led her to become a Somatic Practitioner and Educator, Safe and Sound Protocol Provider, Yoga Instructor, and Meditation Guide. With a heart that feels life intensely, she created the transformative course "Rising in Resilience - Freedom from Burnout for Nurses and Helping Professionals" to empower Nurses and other Helping Professionals to prevent and heal burnout and nurture resilience. As a trauma-informed Somatic Practitioner, her mission is to guide individuals on a journey of embodied self-discovery, where the body becomes a doorway to healing, resilience, and profound connection.  This course is rooted in the belief that the body holds the key to transformation, offering a path to wholeness, self-attunement, and embodied presence.

Course Curriculum

16 Chapters · 62 Lessons

  1. 1

    Introductory Webinar

    1. Introductory Webinar Free preview
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      Webinar Slides

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      Somatics— A Radically Different View of Who We Are

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      Polyvagal Theory - A Science of Safety

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    Support Resources

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      Diagram: Autonomic Nervous System States

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      Trauma and the Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective

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      Emotional support & other support resources

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    Live Session 1 Recording

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      Live Session 1 Recording

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      Live Session 1 Slides

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      Live Session 1 Story and Meditation

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      Rest Your Nervous System Guided Meditation

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      Resources - Body Sensations, Feelings, and Needs List

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      Live Session 1 Survey

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    MODULE 1: Overview of Applied Polyvagal Theory and its application within healthcare burnout, prevention and resilience.

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      MODULE 1: Overview of Applied Polyvagal Theory and its application within healthcare burnout, prevention and resilience.

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      Module 1 Slides

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      Burnout and the Radical Path of Non-Abandonment of Self

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      Module 1 Survey

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    MODULE 2: The N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol: A 5-Step Map to Prevent and Heal Burnout and Deep Dive into Steps 1 and 2 of the N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol

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      MODULE 2: The N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol: A 5-Step Map to Prevent and Heal Burnout and Deep Dive into Steps 1 and 2 of the N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol

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      Module 2 Slides

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      The Witness Meditation

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      The N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol for Caring for Yourself in Challenging Times

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      Understanding Acute Stress: A Compassionate Response to Crisis

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      Module 2 Survey

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    MODULE 3: Learn the Power of Resourcing and Regulation to Increase Your Window of Capacity for Stress and Overcome Burnout

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      MODULE 3: Learn the Power of Resourcing and Regulation to Increase Your Window of Capacity for Stress and Overcome Burnout

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      Module 3 Slides

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      Our Breathing Body E-book

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      A Somatic Morning Ritual E-book

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      Survey Module 3

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    Live Session 2 Recording

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      Live Session 2 Recording

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      Live Session 2 Slides

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      Live Session 2 Survey

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    MODULE 4: Co-Regulation and Somatic (Felt-Sense) Boundaries to Create a Healthy and Healing Relationship with Yourself, Others and the World Around You

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      MODULE 4: Co-Regulation and Somatic (Felt-Sense) Boundaries to Create a Healthy and Healing Relationship with Yourself, Others and the World Around You

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      Module 4 Slides

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      Boundary Embodiment Practice

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      Module 4 Survey

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    MODULE 5: Somatic Explorations to Re-Tune Your Nervous System and Re-Write Your Story

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      MODULE 5: Somatic Explorations to Re-Tune Your Nervous System and Re-Write Your Story

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      Module 5 Slides

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      Practice: Somatic Flow Writing

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      Module 5 Survey

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    MODULE 6: The N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol for empowered awareness and embodied change. An individual and systems look at implementing positive change.

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      MODULE 6: The N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol for empowered awareness and embodied change. An individual and systems look at implementing positive change.

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      Module 6 Slides

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      Watch: Seat of the Healthcare Practitioner Embodiment Practice

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      Watch: Grounding and Centering Practice

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      Module 6 Survey

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    Live Session 3 Recording

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      Live Recording #3

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      Rising in Resilience Final Meditation PDF

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      Caring for Yourself in Challenging Times - Extended Instructions

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      Caring for Yourself in Challenging Times - Spacious and Short Version

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      Live Session 3 Recording Survey

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    Extra Resources

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      Rising in Resilience Recommended Books

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      Rising in Resilience Quotes

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      Research Articles

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    Bonus Interview with Dr Arielle Schwartz

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      Dr. Arielle Schwartz Bio

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      Bonus Interview with Dr Arielle Schwartz

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    Bonus Interview with Dr. Heather Abernethy

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      About Dr. Heather Abernethey

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      Dr. Heather Abernethy Interview Outline

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      Bonus Interview with Dr. Heather Abernethy

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    Bonus Interview with Dr. Danny Lewin

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      Dr. Danny Lewin Bio

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      Bonus Interview with Dr. Danny Lewin

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      Resources to support your healthy sleep habits - Sleep Log

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      Resources to support your healthy sleep habits - Epworth Sleepiness Scale

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    Final Course Survey

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      Final Course Survey

Module 1 - Overview of Applied Polyvagal Theory and Its Application to Burnout Prevention and Resilience.

In this module, you’ll gain a foundational understanding of Polyvagal Theory and how it applies to burnout prevention and resilience. By learning to understand your body’s signals, you will bring clarity, compassion, and empowerment to your healing journey. Discover how to work with your nervous system, rather than against it, shifting from states of survival to deeper states of connection, presence, and resilience.

Module 2 - The N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol: A 5-Step Map for Compassionate Awareness and Skillful Attunement.

This module introduces the N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol, a 5-step map for navigating challenging times with compassionate awareness and skillful attunement. We’ll take a deep dive into Steps 1 and 2: Notice and Name and Understanding. These steps help bring compassionate awareness to the protective and defensive patterns held in the body, nervous system, and mind. With this new awareness comes greater freedom and choice, aligned with a broader vision for your well-being.

Module 3 - Deep Dive into Step 3 of the N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol: Resource and Regulate.

In this module, we’ll focus on Step 3: Resource and Regulate - essential tools for a healthy nervous system. In today’s world, many of us live in a constant state of stress or overwhelm, leaving our nervous systems stuck in patterns of fight, flight, freeze, or collapse. Somatic resourcing and nervous system regulation tap into the body’s innate wisdom to find anchors of stability, comfort, and grounding, allowing us to feel more present and engaged in life.

Module 4 - Co-Regulation and Embodied Boundaries.

Learn the importance of co-regulation and establishing healthy embodied boundaries to foster deeper connection, safety, and authenticity—both with yourself and others. This module will guide you in moving through life with more trust, safety, and presence, allowing you to live in alignment with your true Self and engage in relationships from a place of compassion and care.

Module 5 - Deep Dive into Step 4 of the N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol: Somatic Inquiry and Attunement.

In this module, we explore Step 4: Somatic Inquiry and Attunement. It’s easy to become merged with patterns of unconscious protective strategies. Somatic Inquiry and Attunement invites you to slow down, listen to the wisdom of your body, and access your deepest truths. These practices are pathways to wholeness, helping you release old tensions, integrate fragmented parts, and reconnect to your authentic self with greater compassion.

Module 6 - Deep Dive into Step 5 of the N.U.R.S.E. Resiliency Protocol: Embody, Empower, Expand.

Step 5, Embody, Empower, Expand, is an invitation to live a vibrant, authentic, and deeply connected life. In this module, you’ll embark on a journey to awaken your true essence, harness your inner power, and step boldly into a life of freedom and possibility. Together, let’s start a revolution of compassion, connection, and well-being.

Who is this Program for?

Nurses and Healthcare Professionals

You’re in the trenches every day, offering care and compassion to others, but you know that the key to truly supporting others starts with understanding your own nervous system. This course will help you integrate this knowledge into your practice, so you can prevent burnout and stay balanced while healing others.

Coaches, Caregivers, Teachers and Parents

You dedicate your life to helping others grow, but you’ve realized that sustainable change happens when people’s nervous systems are in balance. This course will teach you how to work with your own nervous system while empowering others to do the same, creating a foundation for lasting change.

Personal Growth

You're aware of how stress impacts your body and mind, and you're ready to take proactive steps toward emotional and physical well-being. With this course, you'll gain profound insights into your nervous system’s responses and learn how to regulate them, so you can experience more balance, clarity, and inner peace.

A letter from Jessica Conway...

Are you ready for radical befriending and reconnecting with your deepest Self? More than simply learning theory and tools, this course is dedicated to transforming and changing your relationship between you and your body. This has been an especially hard season. The world seems to be on fire (literally and metaphorically). It feels as if there is a constant drip (or stream) of cortisol in the air sending our nervous systems into overdrive. It is our human nature and the survival strategy of our reptilian brain to get pulled toward reaction, despair, helplessness, fear, anxiety and rumination during times of distress. This loop of dysregulation can cause us to get stuck in ght, ight, freeze and collapse. Stuck in seeing all of life and one another as a threat. This is for our survival and by design. BUT, with awareness and attunement, we can bring in enough felt safety to our bodies in order to cultivate aligned choice and greater exibility and capacity in our nervous systems for these times. "Rising in Resilience: Freedom from Burnout for Nurses and Helping Professionals" redefines burnout as any event or series of events that's perceived as too much by our nervous system and body. Burnout overwhelms our ability to cope and self-regulate, puts us into states of defense, and it disconnects us from ourselves, from others, from the here-and-now. This course also radically redefines resilience as a relational journey rooted in compassionate awareness, self attunement, and co-regulation. Your participation in this course helps build a shared humanity and compassionate lens for how we are biologically wired for safety, threat and connection. This course is grounded in Polyvagal Theory and Somatic Psychology, and is designed for nurses and other helping professionals who may be feeling the weight and burden of overwhelm from challenging times. By the end of this course you will be equipped to recognize the physiological signs of burnout and nervous system dysregulation and take proactive steps that support your wellbeing. You will also learn bottom up (body and nervous system based) interventions, in line with the latest Polyvagal research, to regulate your unique nervous system. But more than simply learning theory and tools, this course is dedicated to transforming and changing your relationship between you and your body, leaving you with a deeper understanding of your nervous system responses, furthering your own self compassion, and having a greater ability to provide attuned nourishment for your body. This is an invitation into being and befriending. It's being and befriending that are the two requirements to heal… to awaken… to transform… to shift… to fully be here… to fully live this life… to participate… to discover your true nature… to be alive… fully… to not hold back any longer. This world needs you. You need you. Your families, neighborhoods need you. You are already whole and resilient; our bodies contain wisdom that can guide us. Let’s reconnect with our True Self to nurture our nervous systems and rise in resilience—together. Sending love to you and your nervous system. Warmly, Jessica Conway, RN, MSN, RYTT

What you'll learn

Gain a foundational understanding of Polyvagal Theory and how it applies to burnout prevention and resilience

 By learning to understand your body’s signals, you will bring clarity, compassion, and empowerment to your healing journey. Discover how to work with your nervous system, rather than against it, shifting from states of survival to deeper states of connection, presence, and resilience.

Develop skills and tools to regulate your nervous system during times of stress, burnout, and trauma

Learn essential tools for a healthy nervous system. In today’s world, many of us live in a constant state of stress or overwhelm, leaving our nervous systems stuck in patterns of fight, flight, freeze, or collapse. Somatic resourcing and nervous system regulation tap into the body’s innate wisdom to find anchors of stability, comfort, and grounding, allowing us to feel more present and engaged in life.

Caring for yourself in challenging times through somatic inquiry and attunement.

It’s easy to become merged with patterns of unconscious protective strategies. Somatic inquiry and attunement invites you to slow down, listen to the wisdom of your body, and access your deepest truths. These practices are pathways to wholeness, helping you release old tensions, integrate fragmented parts, and reconnect to your authentic self with greater compassion.

What's Included?

6 Self-Paced Modules: Six 60-90 min pre-recorded sessions with lectures augmented with stories and experiential exercises. Participants get lifetime access to recording. 12 CE Credits: 12 CE credits for RNs in California by the California BRN. And 12 CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT by the American Psychological Association. Guided Embodiment Practices and Nervous System Regulation Exercises: Somatic practices, tools, exercises, and guided meditations attuned to your unique goals and desires. Dedicated to the continuation of the work we are doing together between our course modules and beyond. These practices are dedicated to enhance nervous system and emotional regulation, resilience, and stress recovery. Bonus Modules: Three recorded bonus modules. Interviews with Dr. Heather Abernethy, Dr. Arielle Schwartz, and Dr. Danny Lewin. Community Support and Development: Access to community discussion space on Thinkific. An opportunity to build a community of like hearted individuals. Lifetime Access: You will get lifetime access to this course and its material.

Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals

12 CEs available at the end of the course for an additonal $60 fee. CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association. LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association. SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact Jessica Conway at Jessicaconwaysomatics@gmail.com. For questions about CE, contact Spiritual Competency Academy at info@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.

Why I created this course…

“Maybe my stories can free you from yours.” I want to share a bit more of my personal journey with burnout and how it led me to create Rising in Resilience. I share this not to play victim, or get sympathy, but truly because I believe our stories are meant to be shared. As my favorite heart-teacher, Sarah Blondin, writes, “Maybe my stories can free you from yours.” And because I believe that what is cast-away in me is also hidden in you. Since my small eyes could open, I have been a deep feeler. I often believe I feel life at 140%. Being a highly sensitive human and having a sensitive nervous system, life often felt too much, too fast, too overstimulating. As a nurse for over 15 years, including 8 years in critical care and 3 years in acute dialysis, I chronically battled work related burnout and anxiety. However, it reached a tipping point during the pandemic where even stepping foot into the hospital would trigger a fight-flight response in my body. My body would be consumed by a rushing energy. My vision became tunneled. My breath constricted and shallow. Even on a mellow-ish day at the hospital these responses took me hostage. In January 2021, I came home from work and collapsed on the ground, feeling an overwhelming and foreign energy coursing through my body. It was a feeling of collapse, freeze, overwhelm and fear. My mind was thinking thoughts it had never thought before and my body was frozen in overwhelm. After getting through that initial night, I remember the days and weeks following, trying to make sense of it all. My family, out of their love, and the doctors out of their concern, all tried to figure out what this was. There was this urgency to try and analyze it, fix it, diagnose it and medicate it. However, my Somatic Therapist offered a different perspective. And my Somatic Therapist said to me, "I think what you’ve experienced is a protective, survival response from your nervous system that is outside of your window of capacity.” And she said, "We can try an experiment. If you give me some time, I think we can bring in enough resources to get you back into your window of capacity and even grow your window of capacity a bit bigger so you can start handling more of these larger energies that the world just keeps pouring on us wave after wave." And it really made sense to me, I was willing to do this experiment and give this a shot. I also decided to go back to school for somatic therapy to learn more about the science behind what I was going through and tools to help. I realized that my burnout came from experiencing too much stress for too long of time without proper resourcing or tools to come back to a felt sense of safety in my body. Burnout had interrupted the resiliency and flexibility of my nervous system, leaving me “stuck” in a threat response until my body had enough and collapsed. My hope is that the evidence-based tools and strategies I have found over the years to untangle my own knots, will untether you from yours. For it wasn’t the Code Blues that broke me (when you have to do CPR), or the 24-hour call shifts, or even the years of caring for patients at the end of their life…what ultimately broke me was my nervous system. Nursing burnout left me another person, one who longed to feel like myself again, to slow down, to feel compassionate, to feel alive and full of joy. One thing I know for certain is I would not be where I am today had I not been buoyed by the tools, practices and science of Somatic Therapy and Applied Polyvagal Theory to reclaim my nervous system. Through Rising in Resilience, I aim to help others overcome burnout and build resilience by providing the tools to come back to a felt sense of safety in their bodies. The book focuses on addressing the physiological responses to stress and burnout, teaching somatic embodiment practices to resource and regulate the nervous system, and promoting self-awareness and resilience.

A Call to Renegotiate your Trauma, Stress, and Burnout and Reconnect with Your Deepest Self

I am honored to accompany you on this transformative journey. Together, we will explore the depths of your inner world, uncover the patterns that shape your experiences, and embrace the wisdom of your body as a guiding force in your healing process.

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This is an invitation into being and befriending. It's being and befriending that are the two requirements to heal… to awaken… to transform… to shift… to fully be here… to fully live this life… to participate… to discover your true nature… to be alive… fully… to not hold back any longer. This world needs you. You need you. Your families, neighborhoods need you. You are already whole and resilient; our bodies contain wisdom that can guide us. Let’s reconnect with our True Self to nurture our nervous systems and rise in resilience—together. Sending love to you and your nervous system.

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