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Nobody is going to pull you into the break room, sit you down, and ask how you're actually doing. Not your charge nurse. Not your manager. Not the hospital that handed you a gift card in May and moved on by June 1st. So I'm doing it.

Every May, nurses get celebrated. But what if the real threat to your wellbeing isn't your workload — it's the way you think? A former ICU RN turned mindset and self-leadership coach gets honest about all-or-nothing thinking, and what small and consistent actually looks like in real life.

Loving nursing doesn't mean losing yourself. Former ICU RN and mindset coach Heather breaks down the 3 inner boundaries every nurse needs and why having them makes you better, not burned out.

For most of my nursing career, I believed exhaustion was a logistics problem. If I could just plan better, manage my time more efficiently, or color-code my planner, surely I wouldn’t feel so drained. As an ICU nurse, I was highly capable. I could juggle multiple patients, sometimes while also being Charge Nurse, anticipate needs before alarms sounded, and stay calm in chaos.