Restoration Abbey

10/08/2024

🌿 We know that as a healthcare professional you face unique challenges—stress, burnout, and even trauma are actual occupational hazards of the work 🌿

That's why we're excited to offer a wellness program specifically designed to address you and your coworkers' unique needs. This program will blend therapeutic techniques and mind/body practices to help you foster balance, recharge, and re-regulate your nervous system.

✨ What makes this program unique? ✨
* Tailored for you: our program is crafted specifically for healthcare professionals and their coworkers, ensuring a personalized experience
* Build resilience together: each session fosters resilience, connection, and mutual support, while helping you re-regulate your nervous system
* Holistic wellness: We blend therapeutic techniques with mind/body practices to promote you mental, emotion, and physical well-being.
* Accessible to all: we ensure high-quality care without financial barriers

Our mission is to support your well-being so you can continue the incredible work you do for others.

💬 Ready to start? Submit your info in the google form on our website, and we will be in touch to discuss this opportunity. Link in bio or visit: www.restorationabbey.net/services

06/05/2024

Christine is from Tend Health which is dedicated to providing high quality mental health support to healthcare professionals.. a mission awfully similar to ours!

Check them out, and check out this great podcast about their work on one of our favorite shows The On Being Project 🫶

Prescience, understanding, and simple strategies for metabolizing what the past four years have worked inside us — as individuals, and as a species.

06/01/2024

Final day of our and we are introducing the simple formula for cultivation of self-compassion.

This is based on the work of Tim Desmond, LMFT. We hope you found this information helpful, and invite you to join us in practicing self-compassion so we can improve our well-being and ability to show compassion to others.

Thank you for liking, sharing, and following! ✨

05/30/2024

Today is the second to last day of our , and we are looking at the “near enemies” of self-compassion. “Near enemies” is a buddhist concept that describes a quality that is similar enough that it is mistaken for the real thing, but is actually a type of opposite. Often times we think self-compassion is something it isn’t, which is what this post covers. Learning what to discern it from can help us better cultivate it.

The information of our self-compassion week is adapted and quoted from the work of Tim Desmond, LMFT, renowned psychotherapist and buddhist practitioner.

Tomorrow: The key ingredients of self-compassion, aka how we can cultivate for ourselves. Thanks for following us!

05/29/2024

Having a low self-esteem and feeling bad about yourself is bad for mental health, but having too high of a self-esteem can also cause problems. We don’t want to swing from an inferiority complex to superiority complex. And when assessing ourselves under the umbrella of self-esteem, it inevitably leads to comparing ourselves to others, leading to a value judgment (whether we are better or worse). Too low or too high of a self-esteem can be an obstacle to practicing self-compassion.

When we focus on self-compassion, it doesn’t really matter how we compare to other people. What matters is kindness and seeing ourselves clearly

This information is from the works of Tim Desmond, LMFT. Tomorrow, we will look at the “near enemies” of self-compassion. Thank you for joining us for our

05/28/2024

While there are many similarities between empathy and compassion, empathy is about connecting with another person's experience, where compassion is seeing another suffer and feeling inclined to do something about it. You could even say that empathy happens first, and compassion may then follow. Both are cornerstones of being a great healthcare professional, but compassion is about action.

Since we are talking about self-compassion, we also wanted to take a moment to break down the key ingredients of compassion: understanding that the other is suffering + understanding they're doing the best they can with what they have (and are not necessarily choosing to suffer) + we ALL struggle, are trying our best, and are connected in this way and many more. What does it then look like to turn that recipe inward, toward ourselves?

Tomorrow: self-compassion vs. self-esteem...

05/27/2024

Starting off our , before we define some terms, we wanted to share why we think this is so important, especially for us healthcare professionals.

Tomorrow we will look at the difference between compassion and empathy.

This week's series is based on the work of Tim Desmond, LMFT. Thank you for following, liking, and sharing 🤍🌱

05/23/2024

Did you know that self-care without self-compassion isn't truly effective?

But what exactly do we mean by "self-compassion"?

Starting Monday, we'll be diving into this essential topic with a week-long series, each day sharing a post exploring:

🌱 The difference between empathy and compassion
🌱 The difference between self-esteem and self-compassion
🌱 Why practicing self-compassion matters
🌱 The "near enemies" of self-compassion
🌱 Key ingredients for cultivating self-compassion

This series is inspired by the work of renowned psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner Tim Desmond. Follow us to receive updates, and thank you for joining us for our !

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05/11/2024

✨Join us in making a difference! We're raising funds to support Roanoke nurses and provide them with the gift of free yoga sessions. As you may know, yoga offers a myriad of benefits, and our dedicated nurses deserve every opportunity to prioritize their physical and mental well-being. By supporting this initiative, you will help our nurses reduce stress, improve their physical health, enhance mental clarity, increase their energy levels, enjoy better sleep, and cultivate emotional well-being. Let's come together and show our gratitude by giving back to those who give so much. Link in bio 🫶

05/10/2024

✨Exciting news! We've added a new page to our website of wellness resources for healthcare professionals, called the break room✨

Discover fresh content & valuable info. Explore the new page now and let us know what you think! Link in bio 🫶

05/08/2024

Thank you.

dedicated to improving the well-being of healthcare professionals in Roanoke VA

05/08/2024

Exhausting schedules and a tumultuous work environment have left many nurses feeling burned out. The COVID-19 pandemic only compounded problems that have been plaguing nurses for decades. How can you take care of others when you don't have the time or energy to take care of yourself? In Courageous Well-Being for Nurses, Advanced Practice Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse, psychotherapist, and educator Donna Gaffney and National Board-certified health and wellness coach Nicole Foster provide essential strategies and resources.

Learn about the research underpinning the science of well-being and discover practices that can reduce stress, rejuvenate your capacity for caring, and improve the quality of your own life. Informed by inspirational stories and real-life guidance from nurses around the world, this book provides you with the steps to thrive personally and professionally. Gaffney and Foster research and describe

• How to cope with stress, burnout, grief, and empathic distress
• The power of self-compassion and mindfulness
• Current findings on eating, sleeping, and exercising well
• Science-based practices for alleviating stress through nature
• The benefits of professional mental health support
• The profoundly healing effects of advocacy and activism
• How to use the arts and creativity as sources of respite and joy

Hundreds of suggested resources, including recommended books, websites, podcasts, videos, and webinars, round out this essential guide. Courageous Well-Being for Nurses is the ultimate journey to well-being: one that is essential, inclusive, deep-rooted, individual, and above all, courageous.

Learn more: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12847/courageous-well-being-nurses

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