Nancy Philpott is a Registered Nurse, Emotional Investment Coach/Hypnotherapist, Founder and Chief Transformation Officer for HeartSync™ Wellness Center and the Compassionate Care Project. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Nursing, a master’s degree in Healthcare Administration, and has 30+ years helping individuals, groups, and organizations formulate and accomplish successful health outcomes.
She is passionate about helping caregivers and their daughters recognize, prevent, and recover from secondary traumatic stress and burnout and achieve a positive return on their emotional investments. She believes the power to release stress and trauma, eliminate self-defeating habits, and transform our destiny is waiting within each of us.
Nancy is the # 1 Best Selling Author of “The Smoke Free Habit,” Co-Author of “Wake Up..Live the Life You Love,” and creator of HeartSync™Wellness Center’s Habit Mastery Programs. She’s on a mission to restore compassionate care back in caregivers and healthcare delivery. Her goal is to teach 100,000+ caregivers how to make the physical, perceptual, and behavioral shifts immediately to restore physiological balance, enhance decision making, improve communication and maintain healthy emotional boundaries in personal and professional relationships.
Close your eyes and imagine you’re sitting on your back deck with your mom when she announces.. ”I’m here for a week and I’m going home and die.”
What would you think, how would you feel? What would you do next?
In that heart stopping, can’t catch my breath moment when it happened to me, It felt like I became two different people. A scared little girl who couldn’t imagine losing her best friend and mom and an empathetic, caring nurse who, instantly disconnected from my feelings, stepped up, and asked, “What’s going on mom?”
21 days later mom was gone.
As I sat by mom’s bedside, her body and I struggled with the decision her spirit had made. My head and heart were at war. A part of me was determined to save her and the other part ready to let her go. It was impossible to detach from my emotions and I wanted to run away.
What I know now, that I didn’t know then, is that the helpless feeling I felt at her bedside triggered a secondary traumatic stress reaction, a response unique to health professionals and caregivers. It was a Wake Up Call for me and it transformed my life personally and professionally.
According to the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP, 32.4 million Americans provide unpaid care to an adult age 50 or older. 15.7 million Americans care for family members with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. Caregiving is more complex, costly, demanding, and stressful than any other time in human history. Studies indicate 75% of caregivers are female and hold full time jobs in addition to their caregiving roles. The economic value of unpaid family caregiving was estimated to be 470 billion in 2013. The personal cost to caregivers includes exhaustion, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout.
Are you a family caregiver now? Will you be one in the future? Who will care for you?
I’d love to connect with your listeners and share three simple strategies to help them release stress and trauma, reset their emotions, and restore emotional resilience.
1. What is secondary traumatic stress? How is different from stress? What are the symptoms?
2. Are nurses, health professionals, and caregivers at greater risk for developing Compassion Fatigue and burnout? Why?
3. You indicate that your mom’s death transformed you personally and professionally. How did it do that? What did you learn about 9-1-1 Autopilot living? Does it still impact you?
4. What are the 4 powerful forces that you indicate contribute to an “Emotional Hijacking?”
4. You’re on a mission to help 100,000 caregivers release stress and trauma, reset their emotions, and restore their emotional resilience. What are 3 strategies you recommend to do that?
5. What resources do you offer and recommend to support caregivers?
Yeti Blue Mic, Zoom webinar and video
I’m very flexible
