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"I think that's the purpose and meaning of us being here right now is to enjoy each other and to enjoy the process and the meaning. And so that's my takeaway: is make sure that your your work is fits with your life and make sure that you have meaning and purpose and joy in what you do." ~Kristine Davidson MSN, RN, HWNC-BC, AHN-BC

Ah Ha Moments

• Your Nursing career can evolve with you. Kristine's journey from critical care to education, Integrative Nursing, and entrepreneurship reminds us that we can follow new passions and redefine our Nursing practice.
• Bring holistic care back to the bedside. As an Integrative Nurse Specialist, Kristine brings mindfulness, healing touch, and other holistic modalities into hospital care while empowering fellow healthcare professionals.
• Nurse Coaching creates new opportunities to serve. Through her business, SOL Health, Kristine brings holistic wellness into the community with ear seeds, reflexology, Nurse Coaching, and personalized concierge services.
• Care for yourself and choose joy! Kristine's Nurse Coaching journey deepened her self-awareness and spiritual growth, reminding us that caring for ourselves allows us to better serve others. Her message from the heart? Find meaning, purpose, and joy in your work and life.

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"A lot of us get in that go-go-go mode and we don't know how to slow down.

Our thoughts are our biggest stressors. So our thoughts alone can wreak havoc on our body. Even if you think, oh, I have no stress in my body right now, no stress in my life, but what you're thinking about can cause so much stress. So doing all the modules and courses with INCA really opened me up to that world and really helped me realize what was missing in my world was working on my mind." ~Cheryl Toto BSN, RN, NC-BC

Ah Ha Moments

• Our experiences shape the nurses we become. Compassionate nurses cared for Cheryl during childhood scoliosis treatment, inspiring her lifelong career in pediatric nursing.
• Nurse Coaching connected the missing pieces. Through INCA, Cheryl discovered how mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and the mind-body connection could support her own well-being and her work with others.
• The client knows what works for them. Nurse Coaches don’t prescribe joy or well-being. They listen, ask, and help clients discover their own path forward.
• Presence is powerful. Slowing down, truly listening, and helping someone feel seen can transform nursing care. And Cheryl reminds nurses that caring for ourselves matters, too.

Links and Resources

Integrative Nurse Coach Academy's Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast

Cheryl’s email: ctoto@innursecoach.com

Well-Being Reimagined

Cheryl's Instagram

Cheryl's Facebook

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"...these are qualities that are core to who we are. And there's times where we may be underusing strengths. And one of them I'll give for Nurses. Often one of our strengths as a profession, is kindness. We're caring. We're compassionate. Everybody says that about Nurse. We know that.

But how many of us would underuse kindness for ourselves? At some level, potentially. I mean, it's so easy. We're caring, giving to others, but we may be underusing it for ourselves. These strengths are to be used, the goal is to use them to benefit ourselves and others." ~Chad Sanders RN, BSN, NC-BC, MSc APPCP, MBSP Certified Facilitator

Ah-Ha Moments

• Nurse Coaching begins with knowing and caring for ourselves. Chad reflects on his own experiences with burnout and the tension nurses can feel when healthcare systems don’t align with their values. Integrative Nurse Coaching helped him recognize that his own well-being, self-awareness, and personal growth are foundational to how we care for and coach others.
• Know your strengths and learn to live them. Chad introduces the VIA Character Strengths and encourages listeners to identify the qualities that are essential, energizing, and natural to who they are. Rather than simply knowing your strengths, he invites you to practice them mindfully and consider how they can support you through challenges, relationships, nursing practice, and everyday life.
• Mindfulness and character strengths can become powerful partners. Through practices such as mindful strength use, strength spotting, reflection, and intentional awareness, we can become more present to what is best within ourselves and others. Chad’s work reminds us that strengths don’t eliminate adversity, and they can provide meaningful resources for navigating it while supporting well-being.
• Nurse Coaching can evolve into something uniquely your own. Chad’s journey has led him to combine positive psychology, mindfulness, music, movement, character strengths, and group coaching into his emerging Embody Your Strengths Coaching practice. His story is a beautiful example of how Nurse Coaches can evolve over time, bringing your own interests, talents, experiences, and even playfulness into how you serve others.

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Chad’s LinkedIn
• Chad’s Instagram
• Connect Wellness™ website
• Newsletter: Embodied Rhythm & Inner Intelligence Review™
• VIA Institute on Character: Free VIA Character Strengths Survey

Published research:

• Wellbeing and Nursing Burnout — Journal of Happiness and Health (2022)
• Interprofessional Substance Use Disorders Education — American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (2020)
• Interprofessional Psychiatry Education — Academic Psychiatry (2017)

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"I need to be bold and empower myself to this too! And Nurses are uniquely positioned to do that, and I really think through empowerment and being a bit more bold I can transform healthcare in many different ways." ~Elise H. Peterson MS, MPH, BSN, RN, CPN, AMB-BC, AHN-BC, NC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• Integrative Nurse Coaching empowers nurses to lead with courage, and to be bold. Elise shares how stepping into Integrative Nurse Coaching gave her the confidence to advocate for herself, embrace new opportunities, and create a career aligned with her purpose rather than staying where she had outgrown.
• From "educating and directing" to partnering and empowering. One of Elise's biggest transformations was learning to shift from telling patients what to do, to partnering with them, honoring each person as the expert in their own life, who is ready for change in their own time.
• Nurse Coaching skills extend far beyond the bedside. From pediatric critical care and global medical missions with Operation Smile, to a health technology startup supporting caregivers of people living with dementia, Elise demonstrates how coaching principles can transform healthcare in every setting.
• An exciting new chapter for ALL Nurse Coaches. Elise shares the vision behind the International Nurse Coach Association (INCAssociation), a growing professional organization creating state, regional, national, and international connections, leadership opportunities, continuing education, and community for Nurse Coaches around the world.
• What's on Elise’s heart? Elise reminds us that boldness, connection, partnership, and humanity have the power to transform both nursing and healthcare. When nurses embrace these qualities, they create healing not only for their patients but also for themselves and the future of the profession.

Resources and Links

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• International Nurse Coaching Association I-NCA
• International Nurse Coaching Association Facebook page
• Elise's LinkedIn
• Elise’s email: elisepeterson@hotmail.com

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Celebrating 100 episodes of Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! with a special “What Is On Your Heart?” edition featuring heartfelt reflections from past guests across episodes 49–75.

This milestone honors 100 Integrative Nurse Coaches from around the world who have shared wisdom, vulnerability, compassion, and inspiration over the last five years.

This episode also includes special reflections from nurse coaching co-founders Dr. Barbara Dossey and Susan Luck whose vision helped shape the future of Integrative Nurse Coaching and continue to inspire nurses globally. ✨

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"...when you can get yourself and that parasympathetic nervous system in a calm place, that is when you start healing.

That is when you heal your nervous system, and to calm that nervous system is such an important part of Nursing. And that helps us do our self care, that helps us to regenerate who we are, so we can function day to day. It helps us so that we can love ourselves and each other. It's coming from that calm nervous system that is a primary focus of being human." ~Geralyn Retzel MS, BSN, RN, NC-BC, CAP, LMT

Ah Ha Moments

• Integrative Nurse Coaches help patients access their inner healer through presence, listening, self-awareness, and whole-person support.

• Addressing and calming the nervous system is foundational to healing, with practices such as meditation, sound healing, movement, and stillness supporting wellbeing.

• Nurses bring immense value beyond tasks and treatments through education, emotional support, family guidance, and compassionate human connection.

• You are already whole and life’s challenges can become opportunities for growth, wisdom, and deeper self-understanding.

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Trust Your Intuition: A Journey with Geralyn Retzel
• Geralyn’s email: gerringo@gmail.com

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"Nurse coaching, as we know, is not only about coaching others, but it's also about self development of the Nurse and helping the Nurse to transform and into greater health and well being for themselves. And how did we think of it?

Well, we certainly have been in the space together in certain conferences and listening to certain programs, and we realize that Nurses have an awful lot of education, experience that they can bring to clients, and use a lot of functional medicine principles as well as lifestyle nursing principles." ~Karen Avino

Ah Ha Moments

• Integrative Nurse Coaching, Functional Nursing, and Lifestyle Nursing come together to create a powerful, whole-person approach that transforms how nurses support health, healing, and prevention.

• Lifestyle Nursing focuses on evidence-based pillars like nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management, and connection to prevent, treat, and even reverse chronic disease.

• Functional Nursing personalizes care by identifying root causes and addressing the mental, emotional, and physiological factors that influence health and healing.

• Integrative Nurse Coaching enhances outcomes through presence, deep listening, and partnership, empowering patients to create sustainable lifestyle change.

• Together, these approaches shift healthcare from reactive “sick care” to proactive, relationship-based care that restores joy, purpose, and impact in nursing practice.

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Functional Nursing + Lifestyle Nursing Dual Certificate Pathway
• Lifestyle Nursing: A Lifestyle Medicine Framework for Nurses course
• Functional Nursing: A Functional Medicine Framework for Nurses course
• Episode 96: Ignite Your Impact with Lifestyle Nursing - Karen Laing DNP, APRN, AGPCNP-BC, DipACLM, HWMC-BC, CHES, FPCNA
• Episode 95: Functional Nursing: Tools, Presence, and Hope for Modern Nurses - Thomas Sult MD, IFMCP and Elizabeth Sult BSN, RN, NC-BC
• Episode 85: Celebrating Integrative Nurse Coaching - Karen Avino EdD, RN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC
• Karen Avino’s email: kavino@inursecoach.com
• Karen Laing’s email: kalaing1@gmail.com
• Elizabeth and Tom Sult’s email: fn@justbewell.info

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“I've never seen this type of healing in the conventional healthcare system. Never. It's so profound and so fast and long lasting, and it's just absolutely mind blowing every time. Not always, though, isn't this effective for everybody, right? It's not a magic pill or a cure all or anything like that.

But for the people that it does work for, they say that everything they tried didn't work, but this was it. It brings me to my soul work, which is being able to be a bridge or a facilitator, to help somebody heal, and that is what lights me up.” ~Anna Desmarais BSN, RN, HWNC-BC

Ah Ha Moments

• Integrative Nurse Coaching can reconnect you to your “why.” It’s OK to shift the way you show up and practice as a Nurse, connecting back to your purpose can help you discover new ways to find joy and a renewed passion for your work.
• Anna’s biggest Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Nurse Coach Certificate Program takeaway: hold space, listen deeply, use silence well, and ease up on the “fix it” reflex.
• It’s not all private practice. Her Integrative Nurse Coaching skills translate directly into nurse-led telehealth roles with ongoing client relationships, without constant hustle.
• Psilocybin highlights the evolving role of nursing. Integrative Nurse Coaching skills, like presence, safety, and deep listening, facilitate naturally into psilocybin-supported care, where Nurses can blend clinical expertise with holistic, relationship-centered healing.
• Your RN background becomes a superpower in all spaces. Nursing supports safety and clinical judgment, coaching supports preparation, regulation, and integration for real change.

Links and Resources

Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast

Nursing Pathways in Psychedelic Care course

Upcoming (legal) psilocybin retreat in Boulder, CO in April

The Path Back: A Holistic Nurse’s Guide to Healing from the Intersection of Science, Spirituality, and Ancient Wisdom

Link to a free consultation with Anna

INCs in ACTION! Podcast episodes related to psychedelics

80: Psychedelics and Sacred Medicine in Nursing- Dr. Stephanie Van Hope DNP, RN, NC-BC

69: Combining Psilocybin Education and Nurse Coaching- Chandra “CeeCee” Campanelli RN, HN-BC, HWNC-BC

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"...we sell hope, because lots of times patients will come to us, they've got the med list this long, and they just think it's going to keep getting longer. We let them know that this is not what it has to continue being. We can actually make changes, and lifestyle medicine providers will, as appropriate, de-prescribe or decrease the dose on these medications.

And from the Nursing perspective, it's about being very specific, so making the recommendations instead of saying, you know, eat more fruits and vegetables. You know, well, what's realistic for you at this time? What are you ready to do? So Nurse Coaches are the best at this because we're already used to being able to assess where the client is and what they're ready to make a move on." ~Karen Laing DNP, APRN, AGPCNP-BC, DipACLM, HWMC-BC, CHES, FPCNA

Ah-Ha Moments

• Explore how Lifestyle Nursing and Integrative Nurse Coaching blend the art and science of Nursing to prevent, and even help reverse chronic disease with evidence-based lifestyle interventions.
• Learn the six pillars of lifestyle medicine: sleep, stress, movement, nutrition, social connection, and avoiding risky substance, and how Lifestyle Nursing makes them practical and doable for real patients and real Nurses.
• Hear how Nurses can use a Lifestyle Nursing framework to “sell hope,” collaborate with patients, and confidently stay within scope while talking about food, movement, and behavior change.
• Discover how Integrative Nurse Coaching + Lifestyle Nursing give Nurses structure, language, and heart-centered tools to support patients, communities, and themselves.
• Feel inspired as Karen reminds us that Nurses are powerful, trusted advocates who can model lifestyle change and help transform a broken healthcare system from the inside out.

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Lifestyle Nursing: A Lifestyle Medicine Framework for Nurses course
• Functional Nursing: A Functional Medicine Framework for Nurses course
• Functional Nursing + Lifestyle Nursing Dual Certificate Pathway
• Lifestyle Nursing book
• Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for Advanced Practice book
• Karen's email

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"A lot of what we do is give patients hope. Give patients hope and listen to them. And that, in itself, is so healing. I think it's so healing and transformative, ...even if they don't get to where they were before, they become the best version of themselves that they can be." ~Elizabth Sult BSN, RN, NC-BC

"In conventional medicine, the question is, what's the diagnosis? And once you know the diagnosis, then there's sort of these algorithms that, you try to see if they help. But in functional medicine, once you understand what's the diagnosis, the question is, really, why? Why do you have the diagnosis?

And that's where these antecedents, triggers, mediators, all these kinds of ideas come from— to get to the why. But I like to say that the antecedents, triggers and mediators are kind of like Einstein's Theory of Relativity, right? Because an antecedents from one frame might be a trigger from another frame.

And so, you know, getting to the real root cause. You might think, Oh, I got to the molecular medicine cause. But actually, it was a spiritual mal-alignment that caused the biochemical issue, because it caused all this stress and strain and all that trickles down to the molecular medicine." ~Dr. Tom Sult MD, IFMCP

Ah-Ha Moments

• Functional Nursing asks a different question: Not just what’s the nursing diagnosis? But, why is this happening? And what does this body need to heal? It’s about raising wellness so illness has less space to take hold
• The Functional Nurse listens for patterns, stories, and turning points. Elizabeth and Tom highlight how powerful it is when Nurses can really listen, and help patients connect the dots in their own health journey
• Functional Nursing and Integrative Nurse Coaching are a natural fit. When Nurses combine root-cause thinking with coaching presence, patients feel seen, supported, and empowered to take steps that fit into their busy lives
• The nervous system matters deeply. Functional Nurses learn about how long-term stress and fight-or-flight affect digestion, immunity, hormones, and healing, and why joy, safety, and regulation are essential parts of care
• This work restores dignity and hope for patients and nurses.

Links and Resources

• Functional Nursing: A Functional Medicine Framework for Nurses
• Functional Nursing + Lifestyle Nursing Dual Certificate Pathway
• Just Be Well website
• Book: Just Be Well by Thomas Sult
• Email for questions: fn@justbewell.info
• More episodes of Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast

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"What is homeopathy? I think a lot of people confuse it with home remedies. And it's not necessarily home remedies. It is, not garlic and using turmeric and herbs. Rather, it's its own subset of medicine.

It's an energetic medicine. So everything is ultra diluted in homeopathy. So they do take a mother tincture, or a natural substance, and will dilute that to the point where it's only the energy left of that substance. So we are talking about only the energy, and the way that it works is these ultra dilutions are going to help us to heal the body.” ~Lauren Briggs BSN, RN, HWNC-BC, HN-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• You can redefine nursing on your own terms. Lauren’s journey from bedside burnout to Integrative Nurse Coach shows that Nurses can create meaningful, holistic careers that light them up.
• Homeopathy is more than herbs. Discover how this energetic form of medicine works with the body’s natural healing response using the principle of “like cures like."
• Acute vs. chronic care — there’s a remedy for that. Learn the difference between quick, short-term symptom support and deeper, long-term healing approaches
• Education is empowerment. Nurses can confidently integrate homeopathy within their scope through safe, evidence-informed education and client teaching
• Holistic nursing is evolving. Explore how Integrative Nurse Coaches are expanding the definition of care — weaving together compassion, intuition, and science to support whole-being healing

Resources and Links

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Practical Medicine LLC website
• Homeopathy for Nurses: Acute Care course
• Lauren's email

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Wellness Nurse Revolution: Alison Boser RN

“Everybody wants their employees to be healthy, but being healthy…What does that mean? And that means different things to different people. It's not one size fits all.

It's a really flexible, definition based on your stage of life, where you are. And I think an awareness of wellness as this sort of amorphous different things at different times for people would be fantastic. I think wellness, like capital W wellness, has a bit of a negative connotation that, you must be very thin and muscular and do hot yoga or something, but that's not it.

You know, it's like walking your dog. It's your grandma who can carry your groceries into her house at 95 and she gets them after she goes and plays cards! It's strong communities. I'd love to see all of the skills from Nurse coaching and all the Nurse coaches ripple out like that.” ~Alison Boser, RN

AH-HA Moments

• From Trauma to Transformation: Alison shares her journey from emergency and travel nursing to creating her dream role as a Wellness Nurse—a position she literally spoke into existence.
• Wellness in Action: Learn how Alison supports hospital staff with coaching, crisis response, mindfulness, group programs, and even “7-minute weightlifting sessions” to make wellness accessible in busy hospital life.
• Healing the Healers: Through compassion, listening, and presence, she models what it means to show up for others—and herself—while advocating for sustainable, human-centered healthcare systems.
• Community & Connection: From workplace book clubs to environmental wellness initiatives like composting and recycling programs, Alison weaves community care into hospital culture.
• The Ripple Effect: By supporting one nurse at a time, the Wellness Nurse Revolution uplifts whole teams, reduces burnout, and redefines what health looks like inside healthcare.

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program
• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Severance by Ling Ma
• Alison's LinkedIn
• Alison's Instagram
• Alison's Substack

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The Daring Power of Two: Midlife Women Entrepreneurs Enhancing Health Care- Jen Schroer BSN, RN, NC-BC and Angie Maguire BSN, RN, NC-BC Highlights

Ah- Ha Moments

• Meet the Nurse Coach Duo: Jen Schroer and Angie Maguire as they share why they chose entrepreneurship and the Integrative Nurse Coach path to serve midlife women through preventative, actionable lifestyle care.
• From “do it perfect” to “do it sloppy”, they launched a collaborative YouTube channel. Larning the behind thumbnails, Zoom, Canva, cadence, they’ve proved momentum and community beats perfectionism every time
• The ah-ha moments they discovered from their Integrative Nurse Coaching programs center on client-led change, simple tools like breathwork, and honoring each person’s unique vision of wellness, and that life and healthcare is not a one-size-fits-all approach
• Integrative Nurse Coaches ‘slow the roll’ of fast, task-driven systems—focusing on prevention, whole-person assessments and plans (physical, mental, emotional, social, occupational and more), and practical lifestyle tweaks (e.g., blood-sugar awareness) with time to truly listen
• Inspired by the 2024 INCA Symposium, they championed collaboration over competition, inviting Nurses and Nurse Coaches to connect, share modalities (sound healing, pelvic floor PT, hypnosis, functional medicine), and lift up more voices to transform care together

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Inspiring Nurse Voices at the 2024 INCA Symposium!
• More Inspiring Nurse Voices from the 2024 INCA Symposium
• Nurse Coach Duo YouTube
• Clarity Health & Wellness Coaching
• Coach Angie
• Clarity Health & Wellness Coaching Instagram
• Clarity Health & Wellness Coaching Facebook
• Jen’s LinkedIn
• Coach Angie Instagram
• Angie’s LinkedIn

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Ah Ha Moments

• We have our own pharmacy inside
• Movement in your body is a powerful tool for whole health
• Communities are an imperative piece of any healing journey
• Everything and anything you do to advance wellness, collective joy, health and whatever it is YOU want to do will benefit our world
• Diversifying your revenue streams may help you find more joy in your work
• We need each other!

Links and Resources

• Cannabis Nursing Certificate Program
• Integrative Nurse Coach Academy Integrative Nurse Coach Program Info
• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast episodes
• Pause. Notice. Choose
• The Joy of Movement Kelly McGonigal
• Strong Women Stay Young Miriam Nelson
• Whole Health Institute Alice Walton
• Whole Health Collective
• Whole Health Wheel VA
• Lisa is also a holistic nurse coach to the men of http://www.heldhousinginitiative.com/We are helping men who have made the brave decision to rebuild their lives again after addiction and incarceration.
• Thriller Video link

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Connect with Nicole: nicole@bluemonarchhealth.com

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From Patient to Purpose: A Nurse Coach’s Mission to Transform Organ Donation Support- Taylor Byrer BSN, RN, NC-BC Highlights

“I was telling these two about my story and about how I needed a liver. And it was the most moving, most like chilling experience, like every single hair on my body was standing straight, because then the next time that we met, one of them had shared that she had lost her dad, and it was unexpected.

And then the hospital staff came to her and asked if he was an organ donor. And she said, ‘No, he wasn’t.’ And she said, ‘I had never thought about him being an organ donor, like I never thought about that process.’

And she said, ‘…and it wasn't until I heard about your story that I said, Yes, I want him to be an organ donor, and he would be okay with that’. And then he was an organ donor. And then she came back to me again a couple weeks later, and she said, Taylor, the only organ that he was able to get was his liver.” ~Taylor Byrer BSN, RN, NC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• Taylor’s story reminds Integrative Nurse Coaches how vital holistic presence and deep listening are during life-altering medical experiences
• This story is a powerful lesson in how lived experiences can shape a meaningful coaching niche. Feel and notice how you are called towards the population you will serve best!
• Even small steps—emails, calls, visits—can create real momentum
• You will hear “no”: instead of discouragement, no can bring clarity and redirection
• Say yes to the possibilities that call to you, yes to compassion, and yes to being an organ donor

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program information
• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast past episodes
• Taylor's email
• https://www.organdonor.gov

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“I find that people make the changes best when they uncover the information themselves. I can offer them information, but unless they come up with that solution, that's where real magic happens. That's where change happens when they come up with their own solution.

And I find through the subconscious work with hypnosis and yoga nidra, that sometimes you just really need to be in that relaxed state to have it come to the surface. You may not even be aware of it, and it comes to the surface, and then that's when the transformation happens.” ~Mary Cohen MSN-ED, RN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC, CH, NLP

Ah-Ha Moments

· Nurses can combine Integrative Nurse Coaching with any other modality that they find impactful. Integrative Nurse Coaching is limitless!

· When patients, clients and communities allow for stillness in their lives, messages from their subconscious will move into consciousness, often allowing for new awareness and opportunities for impactful transformation

· Important to listen, and hear the client’s patient’s message and then to reflect back what you heard, instead of offering solutions- this allows the person to define their own solutions in their unique life

Links and Resources

· Hypnosis for Nurses Certification Program with the Integrative Nurse Coach Academy

· Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast

· Joyful Wellness website

· Free Hypnosis Audio. Calm from Within

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· Mary's email

· Mary's Facebook

· Mary's Instagram

· Mary's LinkedIn

· Mary's YouTube

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Inspiring Collective Community: Christine Gilchrist PhD, MPH, RN, NC-BC, CH Highlights

"To each of you— to ask, at this point, 'what is it you're hoping for'? And then when you have that, when you've reflected on that, to go back inside and ask, 'what is your deeper hope'? I think, to be able to connect with feelings of hope through difficult times that certainly we experience in our lives and as a society, it's important to connect with hope, the feelings of hope, and what ultimately we're hoping for, because there's always, there's always hope in each moment." ~Christine Gilchrist PhD, MPH, RN, NC-BC, CH

Ah-Ha Moments

• You can do anything you set your mind to!
• Connect with your Community- they will hold up a mirror for you, to see how powerful you are
• Words and how we can connect them for our clients, patients and communities are important in the sense of change and evolution
• Imagine your future as you want it... and so it is
• You'll find healing in community

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Clinical Meditation and Imagery with Bonney and Richard Schaub
• Harnessing the Power of Hypnosis Intro Course
• Hypnosis for Nurses: Certification Course
• Calm Collective Care
• Dean Ornish program
• Christine's LinkedIn
• Christine's YouTube
• Ep34: Powerfully Linking Curanderismo and Nurse Coaching-Caroline Ortiz, MS, MPH, RN, NV-BC

Articles:

• Trauma-Disclosure, Meaning-Making, and Help-Seeking in Mothers Experiencing Homelessness: Results From a Trauma-Focused, Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Intervention
• Pilot clinical trial of a clinical meditation and imagery intervention for chronic pain after spinal cord injury
• A Randomized Trial of a Group-Based Integrative Medicine Approach Compared to Waitlist Control on Irritable Bowel Syndrome Symptoms in Adults
• The Nurse Coach Community – 700+ Amazing Connections

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Menopause Insights from a Nurse Coach-Suzanne Greiner BSN, RN, NC-BC Highlights

“Yes, I'm going through perimenopause. And what do I want my perimenopause story to look like? Do I want to be a victim to going through this?

Or do I want to be that victor? I went through perimenopause, and I was able to do this, and I was able to find solutions for my own health. And I think the kicker for me at that point in my perimenopausal journey was, I want this to be that when I'm 85 years old, and I look back on my life, this is the point that I chose for longevity of my life, versus a quick fix.

So, every decision past, that point in time was, is this going to be helping my 85-year-old body to hike a mountain, or is it going to set me back? So those are the kinds of decisions of working with my future self. What does my future self-want me to do at this moment?” ~Suzanne Greiner BSN, RN, NC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• In mid-life, if you’re lucky, you WILL go through the stages of menopause- perimenopause, menopause and post menopause
• You have choices and a voice as it relates to your health- and ALL aspects of your life
• Imagine the life you want to life at 85 years old- ask yourself- is this a decision that will support me when I get to be 85?
• Let Them = Let Me…. You get to choose what comes next. What will you do with your one precious life?

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Maternal Loss Healing Circles- please email >>holly@lifecyclebalance.llc
• Ep52: Connecting Hearts with Nurse Coaching - Kim Karraker
• Human Design
• The M Factor documentary
• The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
• Suzanne's website
• Suzanne's Instagram
• Suzanne's TikTok
• Suzanne's Facebook

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86: Building a Meditation App- Ann Adams, MS, RN Highlights

"Two supportive practices that are accessible to anybody is their breath— that can help regulate their nervous system, just by learning different ways to breathe. And gratitude. So a gratitude practice is free, and that helps you not ignore what's negative, but helps you scan the horizon for also what's good.

If we have a dysregulated nervous system, we tend to look for what can be threatening, because that will be what saves our life. So a gratitude practice helps balance that out, that intentional practice of looking for the good." ~Ann Adams, MS, RN

Ah-Ha Moments

• Take your wisdom, creativity and passion and create something you’ve always wanted or needed
• “Sometimes, you don’t always have the answers, you just know you need to begin.” ~ Dr. Barbara Dossey
• Two supportive and accessible practices are breath and gratitude
• Let your heart and inner wisdom guide you, it will never let you down
• You will learn so much about yourself when you decide to dig in and do something that is fueled by your passion and desire

Links and Resources

· Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast

· Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

· Mindfulness Meditation: Stillness Practices for Nurses Specialty Course

· CRUSH the Pain Instagram

· CRUSH the Pain Meditation app on Google

· CRUSH the Pain Meditation app on Apple

· CRUSH the Pain website

· Ann's email

· Dean Ornish Intensive lifestyle changes for reversal of coronary heart disease (1998) article

· Candace Pert Molecules of Emotion book

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85: Celebrating Integrative Nurse Coaching: Karen Avino EdD, RN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC Highlights

"The trend word out there is well being, right? We want Nurses, everyone, to feel like they are in the state of well being. We know that well being is really static. It's like in the present moment, I'm feeling well, whereas really, self development is about well becoming, because it's a much longer journey of... and never ending, a never ending journey of well becoming, right?

That always has to be a major part of who we are and what we do, because without that experience and being able to develop ourselves, we can't sit with the suffering of others and do a meaningful job with them, or take on the suffering ourselves, or, you know, all of those pieces." ~Karen Avino EdD, RN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• Innovative Specialty Courses for Nurses
• Update on Nurse Coaching CPT Codes
• Revamping the online curriculum of the Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program (INCCP)
• Renewing Alumni Connection Program
• Celebrating the success of the Integrative Nurse Coach Symposium in Florida
• Excitement about the Holistic Holiday at Sea
• + MORE!

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Ep25: It's Time to Re-Energize Nurses!- Karen Avino
• Ep72: Inspiring Nurse Voices at the 2024 INCA Symposium!
• Ep73: More Inspiring Nurse Voices from the 2024 INCA Symposium!
• Holistic Holiday at Sea
• INCA's Specialty Course Page
• Karen's email

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