Submitted by Breeze Powell Spivey, RN – OHNA Director-at-Large For whatever reason, the thought of self-care is daunting at times. I’m not sure at what point I started to think of self-care as more of a chore than a way of life. Maybe it was the association of having to…
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Submitted by Christina Dynamite, BSN, RN-BC, NC-BC, OHNA Conference Coordinator This is our very first Vlog!! Christina provides some expert tips for exploring a different approach to self-care! Check it out here
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Submitted by Guest Blogger, Judith Tamarah, MIARC Not enough time to do a self-care practice is frequently looked at as the culprit behind a derailed self-care routine; but I believe the deeper cause is that we haven’t made the space. One of the greatest tools we have is our environment.…
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Submitted by deonne wright RN OHNA Communication | Conference Coordinator Founding Board Member I was raised on a farm more than half a century ago by staunch, fundamentalist Christian parents. I was also the eldest of their twelve children. As I look back I see how those three elements formed…
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Submitted by Marina Ormes RN, HN-BC (ret) Because I am an astrologer, it’s hard for me to think about self-care and not think of the Moon. In astrology, the Moon is the symbol that represents needs. The astrological Moon encompasses the intangible: our emotional needs and our needs for caring and…
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Submitted by Cordy Anderson, RN, BSN, QTTT, CCMHP OHNA Treasurer One thing I want to share right off is that doing things to take care of myself is much easier now that I am retired. Before retirement, I awoke and did a short meditation, ate a healthy organic breakfast, made…
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Submitted by Christina Dynamite BSN, RN-BC, NC-BC OHNA Conference Coordinator-in-Training As a new board member I was tasked with writing a sort of “what is holistic nursing to me” blog post and I’ve found myself unable to define that quite yet, so let me tell you about my experiences at my…
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Submitted by Breeze Powell Spivey, RN I grew up in a family where all things alternative and natural were our normal. We always had a naturopath as our family practitioner, and we used plants and folk remedies as our first line of medicine. My mother really taught us to listen to…
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Submitted by Lee Anne Hellesto, Nurse Practitioner I really started down my path in my fifties (and no, you don’t have to wait that long!!). I had just finished NP school and had a good job in Internal Medicine treating the elderly population. I felt strongly I was in the…