Room to Breathe: Rewiring for Ease
Get Sweet Relief from the Frazzle
What if you could stay true to your vision of how to care for people,
AND have less stress, struggle, and irritation?
You can with Room to Breathe: Rewiring for Ease 7 Week Mindfulness Program for Health Professionals.
This course is for you if you are a physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, nurse, or other health professional who desires to have more time for what they love and less time in stress and overwhelm.
- Dates: Join the email list to be the first to know when the next course is announced. Click here.
- Where: Online/Teleconference (So on your phone from your office, car or living room!)
- Time: All Live Calls are Recorded! If you can’t make the live class or you want to listen again, you can. At your convenience.
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What if you could have
- More effective communication with colleagues and staff.
- Greater ease with challenging patients and families.
- More time at home with less on your mind from work.
- Advanced (non medicine) tools to relieve the stress, anxiety and pain (and many other health conditions) your patients experience.
Room to Breathe: Rewiring for Ease is your gateway there.
It’s been designed for you, the health care provider, in mind so when…
- You work with someone who is anxious, you easily drop into the calm and stable part of you so they relax and you feel nourished, empowered, and good about the moment.
- There is a time crunch, you remember to pause and breathe, so when you work with patients or staff, you connect feeling spacious and at ease.
- You’re confronted with an angry person, instead of biting your tongue (or lashing out), you know just the right thing to ease their frustration. And yours, too.
- You’re taking on too much of the world, you ask for the help you need. And get it with a smile.
- The proverbial *#@* hits the fan, which it will —this is health care—you’re not riddled with stress and guilt, instead you feel like you and your team worked together in service to your common purpose.
Imagine doing the work your heart feels called to do, without the stress and mental exhaustion.
So at the end of the day, you live your calling. As a physician, nurse practitioner or physical assistant . And you feel good. Really good.
But, frankly, when it’s not like that, are there days you feel like quitting?
I know what that’s like. Working in health care is hard. It really is.
Why?
- So much uncertainty, it’s unpredictable.
- There’s lots of negativity.
- A lot of inefficiencies.
- And drivers, like productivity, high census, mean colleagues. (Yes, some colleagues are mean, right?)
And this impacts you. In so many ways.
How to you get to living your vision from the stress and struggle in and around you?
Not by sheer will power or working harder, longer or better. You already do enough of that!
And it’s not a new age gimmick or about memorizing a new acronym from the latest communication guru, or about being passive and saying, “It’s all good.” Especially when it’s not.
It’s about taking time to renew and restore your inner world to fill your cup. With a little (or a lot) of kindness for yourself.
It’s about learning how to quiet your inner critic, create more ease for an overburdened heart, and open up your vast and natural inner resources you already have to be the care provider you long to be.
Explore the Practices and Benefits of Mindfulness
More than any other practice I know of, Mindfulness cultivates:
- Ease where there is struggle,
- Energizes where there is exhaustion,
- Raises your spirit when you feel low,
- Transforms moments of stress to relaxation,
- Helps you focus on the positive, but
- Doesn’t ignore the negative.
Mindfulness practice is about transforming your habitual mental processes that cause you suffering and even disease. (High Blood Pressure anyone?)
How does Mindfulness do all this?
Mindfulness is the practice of paying attention in a very particular way. It shifts how you attend to what’s happening in the moment.
Room to Breathe course member says:
“The practice of Mindfulness taught me that when I’m stressed, I can just breathe. At work I bring mindfulness in more and more with people and patients under stressful circumstances. It helps me be more mindful of my physical reactions and I can intercede then, without reacting. To make good decisions, not influenced by my own stressful biochemicals.”
After completing Room to Breathe, over 65% of participants saw a noticeable improvement in insomnia and over 50% of participants experienced a noticeable reduction in depression.
See how Mindfulness impacted Laura:
Laura Showers, RN, MSN an Infection Preventionist/Accreditation Specialist says, “I found that over years of clinical management I became a too-busy distracted professional. I thought always thinking and planning was helping me get more done. But instead I was less effective, unaware and impatient. Mindfulness changed my healthcare practice by helping me to stay centered on the important work I am doing. I am more appreciative, vastly less stressed and just as productive as I need to be.”
The Room to Breathe program – what it is, and how it works
- Room to Breathe is a 7-week live tele-course program.
- Classes meet once/week and each class is 60-75 minutes long.
- Class Time is typically 5:30 – 6:45pm Pacific Time – specifics TBA with future dates. Can’t make each class? I’ve got you covered – each class is recorded live and sent to you in a few hours. Listen when it’s convenient for you!
- An 7-chapter eWorkbook that takes you through the course, gives instructions on cultivating your own mindfulness meditation practice.
- A special selection of 5 home-based audio meditation practices to strengthen the class material, further reducing stress, anxiety and chronic health problems.
- A video on a mindful movement practice (from my Pilates background).
- Current research readings included in each chapter and encouragement to share what you find in the news and journals.
- A Bonus chapter on how to create a mindfulness retreat day for yourself.
- A Room to Breathe private Facebook group to get coaching from me and connection with others like yourself.
- This program has been approved for 16 Continuing Nursing Education hours from the American Holistic Nurses Association. You may be able to apply this to your professional development CMEs.
Each of the 7 Classes
- Teaches a mindfulness concept that will radically change how you approach your work
- Provides powerful & effective new tools you can immediately apply in your day to day work and life
- Gives you current research, guided meditations and weekly readings (just enough, but not too much!)
- Allows time to address your day to day reality and incorporate mindfulness practice into work and life.
Class One: Becoming an Observer
- The nuts and bolts to establish your home-based Mindfulness practice so you can begin right away
- Why we focus on your practice, not your goals
- Why the present moment is the only moment
Class Two: The Reward of Patience, Is More Patience
- Identifying your biggest stressor(s), their impact and the tools to work with them
- The essential concept of patience and how it speeds up slowing down
- Informal mindfulness practice and it’s impact on every day activities
Class Three: The Road to Less Stress Starts with a Beginner’s Mind
- Why cultivating a beginner’s mind challenges your set (and unhelpful) patterns
- Learning to trust your own experience
- Increasing your awareness of your unique mind-body responses to stress and relaxation
Class Four: Working with Pain – Yours and Others
- Non-Striving as a way of “being” and shifting the way you “do” things
- Noticing when your “auto pilot” takes over and how that limits your work, relationships and effectiveness
- Embracing paradox when working with pain
Class Five: Working with Difficult Emotions – Yours and Others
- Acceptance as a way of being with “what is” without being passive.
- How to work with difficult emotions – yours and others
- How to get out of circular thinking that compounds problems and into clear-mindedness instead
Class Six: Communication Patterns – Getting Unstuck
- How the mindfulness practice of “letting go” is not just saying, “It’s all good.”
- Getting unstuck from negative habitual communication patterns and creating new effective ones
- How choosing not to react is different from avoidance
Class Seven: Keeping Your Practice Going
- Self-reliance as a practice of coming home to yourself
- Strategies to keep your practice going long after the class has ended
- Reassessment of your stressors
Bonus Class: A Day for Yourself
- Going deeper into your practice
- Creating a day for yourself
- A sample of a silent retreat structure
What’s your investment?
I once told a friend that I was practically spending a second mortgage on my Pilates training. She said to me, “It’s the only house you’ll live in your whole life!”
That made me think. Yup. That’s right. I feel the same about mindfulness training. It helps you takes good care of your mind, body, heart and relationships. 7 weeks of live instruction, audio and video support, current research, and ways to connect with others like you. And 16 CNEs, if applicable.
Your investment in this course is a small price to pay for lifelong resources in order to enjoy more ease and enjoyment at work. I want as many of you as possible to get that sweet relief from the frazzle.
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Questions? Here are some answers!
One thing people worry about is that they can’t learn to meditate! They say, “I can’t make my mind go blank!” I know, right?! I want to assure you that Mindfulness is not about making your mind blank. It’s about noticing where your mind goes and to bring it back to your breath. It’s training the mind, much like a puppy needs to be trained. Nothing wrong with a puppy’s enthusiasm, but it’s attention span is short. So is ours.
Mindfulness helps you be more aware of where your mind is at in the moment and gives you the room to look at those thoughts and beliefs clearly. To assess their validity and if they are helpful or causing you more suffering.
Others wonder if they have the time to learn Mindfulness and put it into practice? From my personal experience and from the many nurses I have worked with, getting started does require effort. But what you get back, is so much more than what you invest in both time and money.
One person in my class struggled giving clear and concise reports. She rambled, giving more weight to the irrelevant bits and forgot the big stuff. (The kind of thing stress does to you.) Mid-way through the course, she told me, “I’m no longer all over the place when I give report. I start with a breath and collect my thoughts. The nurses and docs I work with are so appreciative! And so am I.”
Others feel they can’t afford the class. Sometimes finances are tight. I think about this as an investment in myself and those I love. Truly a pay it forward gift for my health, my relationships and my career. And one that pays for itself quickly.
A nurse in one of my classes was very depressed about about not finding a job. She also had an ill family member and other stressors. She told me it was learning mindfulness that really helped her weather that time in her life. Able to take each day as it was, not projecting worry onto an unknowable future. She now has a great job and uses the strategies from the course everyday.
I’m also asked, “Don’t I know this already?” Maybe yes, you do! And if so, then consider taking the program to take your practice to a deeper level and in a community of like-minded providers.
If you’re not sure, you can ask yourself, “Is what I know about mindfulness from hearing about it or does it come from my practice of mindfulness?” Because what I do know, there is a real difference between wishing things were different and things actually being different.
One person who studied with me said, “I read a lot of books about mindfulness and thought I was managing my stress and communications well. But I realized that I wasn’t managing my stress well at all! I interrupted people and snapped. Then I was irritated with myself. Ugh! But after your course and a steady practice, it’s way different. I’m a much better listener. Much more patient. Happier.”
I encourage you to find out for yourself, like this Director of Nursing, Quality Improvement and Risk Management did. “I can appear calm but, I internalize my stress. Jackie helped me to be more aware of how I handle stress and enabled me to initiate breathing and relaxation techniques. I have many more restful nights since participating in the Executive Wellness Programs.”
These changes are not accidental. They are the result of physicians nurse practitioners, physician assistants and nurses, like yourself, being in a program, learning mindfulness practice and naturally finding ways to bring this to work. Whether you’re new to mindfulness practice or want to reignite your practice, join me! This is your time to get the sweet relief from the frazzle!
Take advantage of what Room to Breathe offers you:
- Powerful breathing techniques that turn off the fight and flight response and turns on the relaxation response creating more calm, focus and ease in your day.
- Many effective strategies that increase the space between your thoughts and actions transforming challenging interactions into healthy and supportive relationships.
- Practical tools that quiet the inner critic and judge so you have more compassion for yourself and resilience when working with the suffering of others.
- Personal guidance from me addressing the particulars of your situation, resulting in an individualized mindfulness practice that works for you.
Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer.“Jackie makes an incredible impact on nurse’s lives. Her optimistic presentation of the deep respect and value she holds for the human spirit is truly inspiring and infectious. Her support of nurse leaders allows them to face the multiple, complex interdisciplinary issues with less stress and symptoms of burnout.”
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Please note the following disclosures: This activity has been submitted to the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) for approval to award contact hours. The American Holistic Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Approval Expires: Date to be determined. Approval for contact hours through the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) is based on an assessment of the educational merit of this program. The faculty and planners of this program have no conflicts of interest to disclose. Less Stress: More Ease.
Your purchase is completely backed by my money-back guarantee. If you find after working with Room to Breathe: Rewiring for Ease materials for first 14 days from the start of the program, is not what you expected, email me and request a refund. I will refund your money less a small administrative fee of 10%.
