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Project ReNew
Enter the world of Project ReNew, a podcast designed for anyone on the frontlines of healthcare, especially our dedicated nurses.
Within these audio waves, we delve into a tapestry of vital topics, exploring post-traumatic stress, trauma, anxiety, insomnia, and the far-reaching impact of the pandemic on those who stand at the forefront of care.
Project ReNew is more than just a podcast; it's a shared journey, a place where you'll discover that your experiences resonate with a community of like-minded individuals who understand the challenges you face.
As you tune in to our podcast, you embark on a voyage of self-restoration, revitalization, and renewal, collectively charting a course toward healing and self-discovery.
Mark your calendars for February 10, 2023, when our inaugural podcast episodes and our dedicated website will be unveiled.
Join us as we navigate the path to rejuvenation and healing, hand in hand with frontline healthcare warriors like yourself.
Project ReNew
Episode 37: Pour
Pour the quiet cost of constantly giving
You kept showing up.
Kept pouring, even when nothing poured back.
This isn’t burnout.
It’s something deeper.
A quiet unraveling.
Pour is a return to your why
before the noise, before the numb.
You don’t need fixing.
You need remembering.
Project ReNew
These are not just stories.
They are anchors.
Written in the after,
after the shift,
after the silence,
after the moment you wondered if you could still keep going.
This space isn’t loud.
It doesn’t shout advice.
But if you let it,
it might steady something in you.
A small pull toward the part of you
that still believes in why you began.
Not because it’s easy.
Because it’s yours.
Pour
You used to know why you did this.
Not the schedule,
not the title,
not the charting after midnight.
The real why.
The one that lit something in your chest,
even on the worst days.
But somewhere along the way—
it started to fade.
Not all at once.
More like a slow leak.
You kept pouring,
like it was instinct.
Like you didn’t have a choice.
And maybe you didn’t.
There’s always someone waiting.
A patient, a shift,
a family member, a system that says,
“Just a little more.”
So you do it.
Again. And again.
And now?
You’re tired.
But not just the kind of tired that sleep fixes.
The kind that makes you forget
what you even sound like when you’re not surviving.
That part matters.
Not because you’re weak.
Not because you can’t handle it.
But because you’re starting to drift so far
from your own center
that even silence feels loud now.
And that deserves your attention.
You don’t need fixing.
You need remembering.
Who you are under all of this.
Before the pressure.
Before the praise.
Before the parts of you went quiet to keep everyone else safe.
There is no award for disappearing.
So maybe today,
you don’t quit.
You don’t make a grand decision.
You just notice.
How far you've come.
How far you’ve drifted.
And what it might take
to come home to yourself again.