Episode Summary:
In this episode I dive in with Karen Doiron about her personal journey that sparked her to look outside the medical system to revive her own health through health coaching with a focus on stress management and productive rest. We dive into so many topics, but I love the focus on the role health coaches can play when working with patients when they leave the hospital or doctors office to save time and fast track their health!
Topics we explore:
- The important bridge nurses play when working with patients to help advocate for them
- The time differential nurses and doctors spend with patients
- The personal catalyst that made her start to question and dive deeper into understanding health
- Learning to advocate for yourself when your labs come back “normal” or “healthy” but you still feel crummy
- Overwhelm that happens when you’re exhausted, over stressed, in information overload, and working 14 hour shifts
- Learning that nurses are the most unhealthy profession in the nation and finding out about health coaching and behavior change
- The focus of nursing school and the role of a nurse in a hospital setting
- Knowledge does not equal habit change
- Improving the environment and culture for nurses to take care of themselves while they take care of others
- The importance of creating a team of providers around you
- Listening to your intuition as your compass for navigating conversations with doctors
- Taking an AND perspective with your health and the medical system rather than either or
- What can patients ask or look for to be an informed patient
- What are ways to expand the conversation and bring health coaches into the choice of options available
- The role health coaches can play when working with patients when they leave the hospital or doctors office to save time and fast track their health
- Learning how to honor your health and your culture to reduce self-sabotage
- Stress management and rest as a productive healthy activity rather than only looking at the number on a scale
About Karen Doiron:
Karen Doiron is a Transformational Health & Life Coach specializing in helping women overcome exhaustion and chronic stress. As a mom of 4 and a registered nurse she spent most of her adult life stressed, exhausted, over-committed, overwhelmed and burnt out.
Integrating critical habits of stress management helped her reclaim her energy, her health and create a more restful life that actually is now more productive than before!
As a coach, she is on a mission to walk women through her signature Productive Rest Pathway so they can move from surviving to thriving.
She is here to fully empower you to reclaim your life from the impacts of stress and share there is HOPE that easy to implement healthy habits will create abundant energy.
Stay connected with Karen here:
Website: https://therestrn.com/
Facebook: Www.Facebook.com/groups/therestrn
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