From Patient to Purpose: A Nurse Coach’s Mission to Transform Organ Donation Support- Taylor Byrer BSN, RN, NC-BC Highlights

“I was telling these two about my story and about how I needed a liver. And it was the most moving, most like chilling experience, like every single hair on my body was standing straight, because then the next time that we met, one of them had shared that she had lost her dad, and it was unexpected.

And then the hospital staff came to her and asked if he was an organ donor. And she said, ‘No, he wasn’t.’ And she said, ‘I had never thought about him being an organ donor, like I never thought about that process.’

And she said, ‘…and it wasn't until I heard about your story that I said, Yes, I want him to be an organ donor, and he would be okay with that’. And then he was an organ donor. And then she came back to me again a couple weeks later, and she said, Taylor, the only organ that he was able to get was his liver.” ~Taylor Byrer BSN, RN, NC-BC

Ah-Ha Moments

• Taylor’s story reminds Integrative Nurse Coaches how vital holistic presence and deep listening are during life-altering medical experiences
• This story is a powerful lesson in how lived experiences can shape a meaningful coaching niche. Feel and notice how you are called towards the population you will serve best!
• Even small steps—emails, calls, visits—can create real momentum
• You will hear “no”: instead of discouragement, no can bring clarity and redirection
• Say yes to the possibilities that call to you, yes to compassion, and yes to being an organ donor

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program information
• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast past episodes
• Taylor's email
• organdonor.gov

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“I find that people make the changes best when they uncover the information themselves. I can offer them information, but unless they come up with that solution, that's where real magic happens. That's where change happens when they come up with their own solution.

And I find through the subconscious work with hypnosis and yoga nidra, that sometimes you just really need to be in that relaxed state to have it come to the surface. You may not even be aware of it, and it comes to the surface, and then that's when the transformation happens.” ~Mary Cohen MSN-ED, RN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC, CH, NLP

Ah-Ha Moments

· Nurses can combine Integrative Nurse Coaching with any other modality that they find impactful. Integrative Nurse Coaching is limitless!

· When patients, clients and communities allow for stillness in their lives, messages from their subconscious will move into consciousness, often allowing for new awareness and opportunities for impactful transformation

· Important to listen, and hear the client’s patient’s message and then to reflect back what you heard, instead of offering solutions- this allows the person to define their own solutions in their unique life

Links and Resources

· Hypnosis for Nurses Certification Program with the Integrative Nurse Coach Academy

· Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast

· Joyful Wellness website

· Free Hypnosis Audio. Calm from Within

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· Mary's email

· Mary's Facebook

· Mary's Instagram

· Mary's LinkedIn

· Mary's YouTube

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Inspiring Collective Community: Christine Gilchrist PhD, MPH, RN, NC-BC, CH Highlights

"To each of you— to ask, at this point, 'what is it you're hoping for'? And then when you have that, when you've reflected on that, to go back inside and ask, 'what is your deeper hope'? I think, to be able to connect with feelings of hope through difficult times that certainly we experience in our lives and as a society, it's important to connect with hope, the feelings of hope, and what ultimately we're hoping for, because there's always, there's always hope in each moment." ~Christine Gilchrist PhD, MPH, RN, NC-BC, CH

Ah-Ha Moments

• You can do anything you set your mind to!
• Connect with your Community- they will hold up a mirror for you, to see how powerful you are
• Words and how we can connect them for our clients, patients and communities are important in the sense of change and evolution
• Imagine your future as you want it... and so it is
• You'll find healing in community

Links and Resources

• Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast
• Clinical Meditation and Imagery with Bonney and Richard Schaub
• Harnessing the Power of Hypnosis Intro Course
• Hypnosis for Nurses: Certification Course
• Calm Collective Care
• Dean Ornish program
• Christine's LinkedIn
• Christine's YouTube
• Ep34: Powerfully Linking Curanderismo and Nurse Coaching-Caroline Ortiz, MS, MPH, RN, NV-BC

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• A Randomized Trial of a Group-Based Integrative Medicine Approach Compared to Waitlist Control on Irritable Bowel Syndrome Symptoms in Adults
• The Nurse Coach Community – 700+ Amazing Connections

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