To begin writing from our pain eventually engenders compassion for our small and groping lives. Out of this broken state there comes a tenderness for the cement below our feet, the dried grass cracking in a terrible wind. Natalie Goldberg 2015 Today I attended my first creative writing for wellbeing workshop. I had wanted to […]
Month: February 2017
The Protective Nature of Compassion
How can compassion protect us against stress and burnout in the nursing profession? We hear many stories of good and bad nursing that demonstrates the importance of compassion. It is also improtant in protecting the people that we care for as well as our colleagues, environment and families. Fundamentally compassion provides the opportunity for us […]