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- Powerlessness is at the heart of moral distress. It is the feeling that we have had to, or must seriously, compromise ourselves or something we hold dear due to external forces seemingly beyond our control. It is also the sense that others don’t grasp a moral significance or moral imperative that is clear to us.
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- Self-Mastery: The Art of Learning to Self-Regulate
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“Moral distress” is a term coined in 1984 by philosopher Andrew Jameton to describe the suffering nurses experience when institutional or systemic barriers prevent them from acting with integrity, particularly when it comes to fundamental moral principles and ethical responsibilities. With Covid-19, the weight of moral distress on health care worke...
The symptoms can be similar. So how do you know what you’re experiencing? In health care or social service settings, the damaging effects of moral distress aren’t limited to clinicians. Patients can also be negatively impacted, due to changes in a providers’ actions or attitudes toward care. In our day-to-day lives, this type of calcification can t...
Human beings are hardwired to detect and respond to threats. Like physical threats, psychological and existential or “soul” threats (like those to our integrity) can activate the body’s nervous system, shifting it from a calm, regulated state into survival mode. The most primitive part of the brain — the reptilian brain — goes on high alert, scouri...
Resilience is generally considered to be the ability to recover or adapt well to stress, adversity, or trauma; it ensures that change and challenge improve, rather than hurt our lives, and fortifies rather than weakens our spirit. Resilience helps us to see that difficulties need not leave us eternally damaged; only temporarily challenged. Moral re...
Self-mastery is the present-focused realization that we can always be in command of ourselves— body, mind, and spirit — even while accepting that we may not be able to control all situations or outcomes. It’s about learning how to struggle well, starting by turning our attention inward or engaging in interoceptive awareness. Interoception helps us ...
Rushton says that moral resilience is grounded in moral conscientiousness. “It reflects a vigilance to live in ways that are aligned with who we are and what we stand for in the midst of situations that appear to be incommensurate with integrity.” This vigilance or desire to be moral requires that we are fundamentally aware of what values, commitme...
There are many ways to express ourselves, but when it comes to moral resilience, two ways can be particularly helpful: developing ethical competence and speaking with clarity and confidence. Ethical competence involves what Rushton refers to as ethical embodiment, that is living the values that we espouse by making sure that what we hold to be true...
Meaning-making is the process of how we perceive, interpret, and make sense of events in life, relationships, and ourselves. It gives us a way to organize memories and shape the narrative of an experience. Meaning also helps us to reconcile incongruities in our values, beliefs, and expectations and in our attitude toward life. This is especially im...
Being connected is one of the realities of life; in fact, recent neuroscience research shows that we’re hardwired for it: When we talk to other people, mirror neurons in our brains light up to mimic the emotions and behaviors the other person is conveying. Matthew Lieberman, director of UCLA’s Social Cognitive Neuroscience lab, suggests that human ...
People who report feeling little power in their lives tend to show a greater risk of illnesses and death, even when you control for factors like their socioeconomic status.
Sep 15, 2017 · If we feel unable to solve problems for ourselves, we become more dependent on others, or start to withdraw into ourselves until we become isolated and alone. But what lies behind these avoidant patterns of behaviour and learned helplessness?
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May 6, 2022 · Feeling powerless is a desperate, overwhelming sensation, yet one that’s very much embedded in the human experience – especially lately. Many are facing this crippling, paralysing reaction,...
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Aug 16, 2023 · If you've been feeling lonely and powerless, here are some empowering strategies from two award-winning coaches.
Nov 20, 2016 · If you’re feeling powerless, one option is to get political if only to vote in the next election. Or get involved in a campaign, or even run for office. Gain an important skill.
