Ep. #173 | Front Line Resiliency with Shannon Feir

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Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I’m delighted that you’ve joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women’s revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

Today, I am speaking to one of the women in our Audacious Woman mentorship programme, Shannon Feir. She is a registered nurse and has been on the front line this entire year and a half and working in healthcare for 30+ years where she has seen a chronic level of burnout and burnout culture.

In this episode, we will be discussing how to do ‘all the things’ without burning yourself out, without creating a health issue for your own self and body. Shannon is real and loving and brings wonderful humour to our conversation. 

Shannon has worked her entire career, decades, taking care of other people and being a nurse and really excelling at it. But she wants something more. She’s raised her children and she’s at a time in her life where she can start to make some different decisions. So as a nurse, a self-care and resiliency coach, and a heart math certified practitioner, she helps kickass female healthcare workers build resiliency. She does this by being on the front lines for decades and she offers coaching and programs to help women show up and do the job that needs to get done in those moments on your feet, on your toes – when you need critical thinking in the moment.

To inquire about and join The 12-week Frontline Resiliency Reset Formula program, click the following link: https://www.shannonfeir.com. You can join Shannon Feir’s facebook group here: Burnout prevention for female health care professionals.

Lastly, I don’t have any products to share with you today specifically, I really just want to say thank you so much to the companies that support us. Not only sponsoring the show, but for supporting us in our health and in our life. 

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Access links to Shannon Feir’s facebook group, socials and website below in the ‘Connect with us’ section of the show notes.

Here are the main topics of today’s episode:

• Introducing our guest, Shannon Feir
• Helping women in healthcare build resiliency
• How do you support one another?
• The feeling of guilt for wanting
• We need to have that permission to be vulnerable
• Burnout prevention for female health care professionals
• Frontline Resiliency Reset

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To connect with Shannon, and to inquire about and join The Frontline Resiliency Reset Formula program, click the following link: https://www.shannonfeir.com. You can join Shannon Feir’s facebook group here: Burnout prevention for female health care professionals.

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Quotes

• “I feel like over the past 30 years, things have certainly changed, in the culture of healthcare, particularly with women.”
• “My mission now has been to help women in healthcare build their resiliency so that they can balance their career in healthcare, as well as having a beautiful life that they desire at home.”
• “ You wear the mask at work when you support people, you take their energy on, and I feel like the culture of healthcare, we have not done a fantastic job on building resources internally, whether it’s your organization or from a personal perspective where we support each other”
• “We don’t have the tools inside. We’re not taught the tools to be able to be vulnerable, right. When you get home.”
• “Like you get guilt, you feel guilty about wanting more, so you kind of stay small and then that’s kind of how burnout starts. Right. It’s slow, it’s not just one event. It’s not like one thing happens, it’s this cumulative stressors that you don’t process”
• “We need to have that permission to be vulnerable. And if we can’t do that at home because of, you know, PHIPAA, confidentiality, whatever. You know, we need to have somewhere, we need to have a group where we can be supportive to each other and allow the permission that it’s ok not to be ok.”
• “I wholeheartedly believe that in order to prevent and manage burnout, you need to have a foundation that improves your personal resiliency.” 
• “My goal is to reach my hand out to these women, thousands and thousands of women, to show them that it doesn’t have to be so hard. It doesn’t have to be so separate. And by implementing some simple strategies and simple techniques that improve their resilience, improving their mindset, all of those things will help them be able to show up as a better version of themselves.”

Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.