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You’re mid-shift, mid-crisis, and maxed out. You’ve got zero privacy, 30 seconds (if that), and an urgent need to NOT spiral. In this episode of The Ritual Nurse, we’re diving deep into how to emotionally regulate when you’re still on the floor—with tools that actually work.

You’ll learn two trauma-informed, DBT-inspired skills made specifically for nurses:

• Code Blue to Code You (a must after any traumatic event)
• The IV Push (for that mid-shift, panic-tinged chaos)

We break down why they work, how to do them in real time, and exactly when to use them—even if you’re a psych nurse, med-surg warrior, floor manager, or burnt-out exec. Trauma isn’t just for codes, and regulation isn’t a luxury. It’s your lifeline.

Plus:

• A guided mid-episode reset (pause, hydrate, breathe)
• This week’s Coffee, Crystals & Divination
• How YOU can help this podcast go viral and heal the soul of nursing

Mentioned in this episode:

• Free downloads: TCTH.org
• LET'S GET THIS VIRAL!!! <3 <3
• Follow @TheRitualNurse on TikTok + @The_Code_Team on Instagram

Don’t forget: If this episode helped you—share it. Let’s start regulating like our lives depend on it. Because they do.

Hey! Make sure you subscribe to stay connected. Love a nurse? Who doesn't! Share with all the nurses you know. The more we reach, the more we help. We feel like no one deserves center stage focus more than nurses and our mission is to reach the millions of superstars out there. We'd love to hear your stories, your adventures, your wins, and especially your needs and questions! Email us at hello@ritualnurse (dot) com. Also, you can send us fan mail! Use the link at the beginning of the show notes. Resources, classes, blogs, and podcast info can be found on our home site at TCTH.org. The Ritual Nurse Podcast is part of The Code Team educational platform.

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Happy Nurses Week, sacred soul. This episode is your reminder—and your ritual—that you are not just part of the system… you ARE the medicine.

This year’s Nurses Week theme is “The Power of the Nurse,” and we’re making it more than a slogan. In this episode, we reclaim that power together.

We talk about:

• Why “power” in nursing isn’t just about staying strong—it’s about rest, boundaries, and reclaiming your nervous system.
• My trauma-informed nursing skill, Code Pause, and how to use it to reset in moments of chaos
• How to protect your peace, vocalize your needs, and prioritize yourself without guilt
• The actual science behind why these practices work for real, sustainable healing
• A guided ritual to remind you that your needs matter
• This week’s Crystals, Coffee, and Divination prescription to fuel your spirit

BONUS: It’s Gift-Giving Time

To celebrate YOU during Nurses Week, we’ve dropped some sacred magic into your hands:

🛍️ The Code Team Store is LIVE → TCTH.org
🎉 Use code NURSEPOWER for 20% off everything in the new shop
📚 The Authentic Nurse Course is only $20.50 (normally $297)
📝 Download the special Nurses Week editions of The List – totally free!

These offers disappear at the end of Nurses Week. Go grab your ritual tools, resources, and reminders that you are worthy of the same care you give everyone else.

✨ Let’s Connect + Share the Power

If this episode spoke to your soul, share it with another nurse who needs to hear it. Tag me @theritualnurse and let me know:

This isn’t just a podcast. It’s a movement.
And this week, it moves with you.

Hey! Make sure you subscribe to stay connected. Love a nurse? Who doesn't! Share with all the nurses you know. The more we reach, the more we help. We feel like no one deserves center stage focus more than nurses and our mission is to reach the millions of superstars out there. We'd love to hear your stories, your adventures, your wins, and especially your needs and questions! Email us at hello@ritualnurse (dot) com. Also, you can send us fan mail! Use the link at the beginning of the show notes. Resources, classes, blogs, and podcast info can be found on our home site at TCTH.org. The Ritual Nurse Podcast is part of The Code Team educational platform.

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This week’s episode is a love letter to every nurse who’s been overwhelmed, under-caffeinated, and hanging on by a stethoscope string. Host Riva gets real about the kind of week that makes you question your career, your sanity, and your alarm clock.

You’ll hear:

• How Riva survived a 70-dred-hour dumpster fire of a week without losing her cool (It's not even Wednesday)
• Why DBT distress tolerance skills are actual life preservers in the nursing world
• What it really means to recalibrate expectations instead of spiraling into shame
• A sacred coffee experiment (CHERRY COLD FOAM, shutup)
• A ritual crystal + tarot pull to anchor your spirit (read you to filth)

Plus: exciting updates about the Ritual Nurse merch store dropping soon and a shift to biweekly episodes to protect the sacred sanity of us all.

If this episode hits you in the soul — share it.
If you’re still listening, bless your soul and your cortisol levels. Here’s how you can help me not spiral into content creator burnout:

👉 Follow us on TikTok @TheRitualNurse
I am the ONLY follower. It’s raw. It’s real. It’s baby brand new.
But with your energy, we can turn it into a whole-ass sacred space for nurse healing, rituals, and chaotic holy wisdom.

So please. Come follow. Come like stuff. Come save me from screaming into the void alone.

🎙️ Tell your people about the podcast
💬 Leave a comment
🪄 Share it with a nurse who’s on the edge — we are not meant to do this alone.

Let’s build this thing together. Let’s make it so good no nurse ever feels like they’re losing it in silence again.

Hey! Make sure you subscribe to stay connected. Love a nurse? Who doesn't! Share with all the nurses you know. The more we reach, the more we help. We feel like no one deserves center stage focus more than nurses and our mission is to reach the millions of superstars out there. We'd love to hear your stories, your adventures, your wins, and especially your needs and questions! Email us at hello@ritualnurse (dot) com. Also, you can send us fan mail! Use the link at the beginning of the show notes. Resources, classes, blogs, and podcast info can be found on our home site at TCTH.org. The Ritual Nurse Podcast is part of The Code Team educational platform.

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The past few weeks, we've had those clinical days — the kind where you laugh so hard with your students that you’re crying in the break room with mascara halfway down your face and someone might have a chux pad stuck to on a shoe.

But between the chaos, the giggles, and gagillion mg K+ home remedy (>>??)… something clicked.

This episode is for the nurses, the students, the exhausted preceptors, and everyone in between who forgot that resilience is born in the mess — not in the module.

We’re talking:

• What nursing school never taught us — and how we learn anyway
• Why laughter is a survival skill
• The difference between failure and becoming
• And yes… that one time I almost had to call a code because a med pass turned into a slip ‘n slide. 😬

But we’re also holding space for something serious — because it’s Black Maternal Health Week, and this platform is about advocacy, truth, and care that includes everyone.

🖤 Black birthing people are 3–4x more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes in the U.S.
Not because of biology — but because of systemic bias and racism in healthcare.
This is our lane. And it starts with awareness, with listening, and with doing better.

🎧 If you’re a nurse who wants to show up with both humor and heart — hit play.
🌿 If you’re ready to mix medicine with magic — hit play.
🩺 And if you’re tired of dry, boring nursing podcasts that make you feel like you’re in a conference you didn’t sign up for — you already know what to do.

✨Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Black Mamas Matter Alliance
• SisterSong
• National Birth Equity Collaborative
• Irth App – Birth Without Bias

🎉 BONUS: Don’t forget — our free download “The List” is live!
Check the Birthday show for your special birthday bonus code (hint: it’s hidden in that episode 😉)

🖤 Ready to laugh, reflect, and maybe cry into your coffee?
Hit play. Then share this episode with your nursing bestie, your preceptor, your patient care tech, or that one classmate who keeps you sane. We’re building this community together.

Hey! Make sure you subscribe to stay connected. Love a nurse? Who doesn't! Share with all the nurses you know. The more we reach, the more we help. We feel like no one deserves center stage focus more than nurses and our mission is to reach the millions of superstars out there. We'd love to hear your stories, your adventures, your wins, and especially your needs and questions! Email us at hello@ritualnurse (dot) com. Also, you can send us fan mail! Use the link at the beginning of the show notes. Resources, classes, blogs, and podcast info can be found on our home site at TCTH.org. The Ritual Nurse Podcast is part of The Code Team educational platform.

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Ever felt like you're just done — with the shifts, the drama, the expectations, the trauma? Yeah, same. This week on The Ritual Nurse, we’re talking about real boundaries — not just the kind where you say no to picking up a shift, but the kind that protect your emotional, spiritual, and energetic capacity. Inspired by the new series The Pitt (which hit way too close to home), this episode gets honest about how even watching fictional portrayals of nursing trauma, or even just overextending ourselves on a daily basis, can push us past our limits.

💔 From emotional flashbacks to emergency chaos, and all the boundaries we never learned to set — we’re unpacking it all.

Then, we lighten it up with some hilarious (and horrifying) stories from simulation (what do you MEAN "you have p3nis on your gloves?!") and my own new grad “what even is nursing?!” moments. Because let’s be real — we’ve all got those stories.

Finally, we wrap with this week’s Crystals, Coffee, and Divination:

☕ Coffee: DIY Budget Affogato (yes, you can make it at home and keep it dairy-free!)

💎 Crystal: Amethyst – Lunar Insight (calm, intuition, spiritual wisdom)

🃏 Tarot: The Devil – Labradorite (break the cycle, reclaim your power)

✨ Want to be part of the show? Tell me your best “you didn’t know you didn’t know” story from nursing school or your new grad days! Seriously — I want to read them on air. We can keep it anon. ;) Email me, DM me, or use the feedback form in the show notes.

Links:

💌 Send your story: https://tcth.org/the-ritual-nurse-podcast/

🌐 Website: https://tcth.org

📧 Email: hello@ritualnurse.com

💬 Social: @TheCodeTeam

Hey! Make sure you subscribe to stay connected. Love a nurse? Who doesn't! Share with all the nurses you know. The more we reach, the more we help. We feel like no one deserves center stage focus more than nurses and our mission is to reach the millions of superstars out there. We'd love to hear your stories, your adventures, your wins, and especially your needs and questions! Email us at hello@ritualnurse (dot) com. Also, you can send us fan mail! Use the link at the beginning of the show notes. Resources, classes, blogs, and podcast info can be found on our home site at TCTH.org. The Ritual Nurse Podcast is part of The Code Team educational platform.

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This episode is your invitation to stop spiraling in burnout and start stepping into your power—one beautiful task at a time.

It’s Riva’s birthday week, and instead of just celebrating with cake and candles, she’s showing up with a bold gift for every nurse who’s drowning in chaos, mental overload, and the crushing pressure to do it all.

In this special solo episode of The Ritual Nurse Podcast, we’re talking about one of the most overlooked roots of burnout in nursing today: the constant weight of disorganized mental tasks, emotional clutter, and invisible labor. Nurses aren’t just exhausted—we’re overloaded. And that’s exactly where The List comes in.

The List is a unique and powerful, printable and digital-friendly organization tool built specifically to address overload for high-capacity humans. It’s simple, it’s intuitive, and it reprograms your stress response by helping your brain perceive clarity, control, and calm—without adding more to your plate.

Riva walks you through how to use The List to reclaim your time, your peace, and your boundaries. You'll learn how this ritual planning system taps into neuroscience, nervous system regulation, and real nurse-life flexibility.

There’s a free version of The List available now on the shop page at tcth.org, the home of The Code Team’s educational hub. It's ready to download, use, and ritualize immediately.

But here's the birthday secret:

As a podcast listener, you’ll also get a special code during the episode to unlock one of Riva’s premium digital designs for free. These exclusive versions are designed for both digital note-taking apps (like Goodnotes or Notability) and printable use. They’re beautiful, simple, effective, and made to make you actually want to organize your life.

If you’re ready to stop reacting and start healing—with systems that meet your spirit—this episode is your spark.

Listen now. Download your gift. Use your code.
Then tag @the_code_team and show us your List in action. Let’s start a new ritual together.

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Pause, breathe, and step into the ancient forest where healers across time have gathered to witness, release, and renew.

Healthcare providers know the weight of what they carry – the moments that linger too long, the emotions locked deep in the chest, the images that refuse to fade even after the shift ends. This guided meditation offers a sacred, intentional space for nurses, doctors, caregivers, and first responders to process what often goes unprocessed in the demanding world of healthcare. Through crystal medicine, box breathing, and a powerful visualization journey, I guide you to a stone circle where you can safely release doubt, sorrow, fear, confusion, regret, overwhelm, exhaustion, anger, and sadness. Watch as these burdens transform in ancient flames, making space for resilience and clarity to return. Meet the healers who have walked this path before you and encounter a personal guide who embodies your innate strength.

This 20-minute meditation serves as both a debrief ritual and restoration practice. Many healthcare providers develop physical symptoms from carrying others' trauma alongside their own – this practice acknowledges that healing must happen in both body and spirit. The journey includes grounding techniques, meditation guidance, and integration support to help you process emotions safely and return to your work with renewed purpose.

Your ability to care for others depends on how well you care for yourself. This meditation is an invitation to make that self-care a priority and a promise that you are never alone on this healer's path. Remember, you can return to this sacred circle anytime you need to release, restore, and reclaim your strength.

Hey! Make sure you subscribe to stay connected. Love a nurse? Who doesn't! Share with all the nurses you know. The more we reach, the more we help. We feel like no one deserves center stage focus more than nurses and our mission is to reach the millions of superstars out there. We'd love to hear your stories, your adventures, your wins, and especially your needs and questions! Email us at hello@ritualnurse (dot) com. Also, you can send us fan mail! Use the link at the beginning of the show notes. Resources, classes, blogs, and podcast info can be found on our home site at TCTH.org. The Ritual Nurse Podcast is part of The Code Team educational platform.

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Take a deep breath and step into a sanctuary of calm with this special meditation episode designed to restore your center when life feels overwhelming.

Your Ritual Nurse Riva guides you through a soothing 15-minute practice combining breathwork, progressive body relaxation, and a powerful visualization journey. Beginning with a simple 4-5-6 breathing pattern, you'll feel tension melting away as relaxation cascades from your crown to your toes, creating space for deeper peace.

The heart of this meditation transports you to a mystical forest clearing where an ancient, magnificent tree awaits—a living metaphor for your own unwavering strength and resilience. As you connect with this tree, something magical happens: a unique symbolic object appears, offering personal insight and guidance. Many listeners report profound revelations from this object, which often symbolizes exactly what they need in their current life chapter.

Through gentle affirmations like "I am in control of my breath, I am in control of my mind," you'll reinforce your inherent power to stand firm amid life's storms. This meditation doesn't just offer temporary relief; it provides a sacred inner space you can return to whenever you need grounding.

The episode concludes with a crystal oracle reading featuring Flower Agate, encouraging self-growth and manifestation. "Time to grab life by the petals and manifest like a boss," as the oracle card suggests—perfect synchronicity with the meditation's themes of rooting down to rise up.

Ready to discover what symbolic object awaits you in the forest clearing? Listen now, and don't forget to join us next week for another unique guided meditation. Protect your peace—because you can't nurture others until you've nurtured yourself first.

Hey! Make sure you subscribe to stay connected. Love a nurse? Who doesn't! Share with all the nurses you know. The more we reach, the more we help. We feel like no one deserves center stage focus more than nurses and our mission is to reach the millions of superstars out there. We'd love to hear your stories, your adventures, your wins, and especially your needs and questions! Email us at hello@ritualnurse (dot) com. Also, you can send us fan mail! Use the link at the beginning of the show notes. Resources, classes, blogs, and podcast info can be found on our home site at TCTH.org. The Ritual Nurse Podcast is part of The Code Team educational platform.

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