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Defining Safe Space: An intention versus a declaration

Uncategorized Jun 23, 2025

This is a safe space resonates across therapy offices, yoga studios, support groups, classrooms, and workplaces. It can be heard anywhere humans are receiving care.

Labeling a space should be viewed as an intention rather than a ...

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What is GivingTuesday? And why it matters so much.

givingtuesday Nov 19, 2023

In 2020, I facilitated 99 debriefing sessions until alone was no longer enough. 

In 2021, during Debriefing the Front Lines GivingTuesday Campaign, our commUNITY raised enough funds to build a team of Debriefing Nurses. Enter Kac...

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Do You Miss Nursing?

tara ryan kosmas Aug 27, 2023

I get asked often, “Do you miss nursing?” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Each time someone asks this, my mind a whirlwind of thoughts, my stomach knotted and for a brief moment I am heart broken. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

As I come to my senses, let the irrational ...

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Ego Death of the ICU Nurse

tara ryan kosmas Aug 20, 2023

The ego is innate and universal to all humans. An individual’s ego differentiates self from others by way of the reality principle - capacity to distinguish what is occurring in the mind from what is occurring in the external worl...

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How Affirmations Re-program the Subconscious Mind

tara ryan kosmas Aug 13, 2023

Affirmations are short, positive and empowering statements you repeat to yourself with intentionality and focus.  

Affirmations are for nurses looking to 

  • Become more confident in themselves

  • Grow their sen

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Navigating Cumulative Care Taking Trauma

tara ryan kosmas Aug 06, 2023

We are witnessing a unique and complex occupation trauma affecting the collective nursing profession. These challenges have created a new type of trauma, one Debriefing the Front Lines calls Cumulative Care Taking Trauma (CCT).

C...

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