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This is your wrap-up report. Your sacred shift sign-out. Your permission to exhale.

In this emotional, powerful, and heart-filled finale of Season One, host Riva reflects on the journey we’ve taken together through trauma-informed healing, skill-building, and ritual creation. This season wasn’t just a podcast. It was a guided process for learning how to regulate, recover, and reconnect with ourselves, designed specifically for nurses.

Riva walks us through the key DBT-inspired nursing skills we’ve explored throughout the season, including Code Blue to Code You, IV PUSH, T.R.A.U.M.A. - C.A.R.E., and The LIST. Each skill is recapped with clarity and purpose, reminding us how and why we use them.

She also shares her personal story of how this work began during the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a front-line nurse, student, and researcher, Riva witnessed firsthand the mental health crisis unfolding among nurses and knew that something had to change. Her commitment to creating evidence-based, real, and ritual-infused healing practices is what built this podcast, and what will carry it forward.

Plus, stay tuned for what’s coming in Season Two:

• New DBT-inspired skills and deeper trauma recovery work
• Guest episodes featuring nurses, therapists, and healers
• The official launch of the R.I.S.E. curriculum
• Exclusive access to The Ritual Nurse Collective for private community learning
• All-new sticker merch and free gift offers for listener stories

This isn’t just a podcast. This is practice. This is science. This is sacred.

Want to receive a free sticker pack?
Send Riva your story: how the podcast or any episode helped you, your story... and she’ll mail you a full set of our new waterproof stickers, made for nurses who wear their truth loud and proud. You can also request a private use promo code if you prefer not to share your address via a message.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Code Blue to Code You
• IV PUSH
• C.A.R.E.
• T.R.A.U.M.A. - C.A.R.E.
• S.T.E.P.
• The LIST: A Nurse’s Survival Task Organizer
• R.I.S.E. Curriculum (launching Fall 2025)
• The Ritual Nurse Collective (by invitation only)

Support the show:
If this podcast has helped you, please consider leaving a review. It helps the show reach more nurses and healers who need it.

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The Four Agreements of Nursing —

This week, Riva dives into a deceptively simple book with a surprisingly deep message for nurses everywhere: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.

But this isn’t a book club. It’s a reckoning.

Because when nurses are expected to carry entire systems on their backs, absorb everyone’s trauma, and do it all with a charting pen in hand… how the hell do we stay whole?

Turns out, The Four Agreements might be the answer.

In this episode, we explore how each of the Four Agreements translates directly into the real-life mess and magic of nursing:

• What it really means to be impeccable with your practice
• How learning not to take things personally can save your sanity (and maybe your job)
• Why assumptions kill - in life, and at the bedside
• And how giving your sustainable best is a radical act of self-preservation

Riva shares personal stories, hard-won wisdom, and a science-backed breakdown of why these principles aren’t just spiritual fluff they’re neuroprotective, trauma-informed, and resilience-building tools every nurse deserves.

Then, in our Crystals, Coffee & Divination segment, you’ll get a sunkissed reminder of what ritual means and why we do this (along with a heartfelt plea for recipes for Mexican Coffee)(help your girl out!), a spot on pull for the week that's just so good, and a card pull for nurses who are done carrying what was never theirs.

This episode is for every nurse who was trained to sacrifice and is now learning to survive.

Listen in and start healing, one agreement at a time.

Links + Resources:

• New to The Ritual Nurse? Start here: tcth.org
• Grab the free downloads or shop the store: Ritual Nurse shop
• Submit your story or question for an upcoming episode: Hello @ ritualnurse (dot) com

Hashtags to follow this week:
#HealFirstNurseBetter
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Hey! Make sure you subscribe to stay connected. Love a nurse? Who doesn't! Share with all the nurses you know. The more we reach, the more we help. We feel like no one deserves center stage focus more than nurses and our mission is to reach the millions of superstars out there. We'd love to hear your stories, your adventures, your wins, and especially your needs and questions! Email us at hello@ritualnurse (dot) com. Also, you can send us fan mail! Use the link at the beginning of the show notes. Resources, classes, blogs, and podcast info can be found on our home site at TCTH.org. The Ritual Nurse Podcast is part of The Code Team educational platform.

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This week on The Ritual Nurse, we're celebrating Pride not just with rainbows, but with radical accountability, affirming care, and professional truth-telling. What does it really mean to practice nursing with equity—not just equality? How do we ensure that LGBTQIA+ and especially transgender patients receive safe, trauma-informed care, even when someone’s personal beliefs might conflict?

Spoiler alert: it’s not about opinion—it’s about ethical practice.
We cover:

• The difference between gender and sex (and why that matters)
• What cisgender and transgender actually mean
• Why using inclusive language is clinical best practice, not “going above and beyond”
• What to do when your personal beliefs and professional role collide
• Real resources for continuing your education as a safe, affirming nurse
• Plus: our “Clinical Pearls for Affirming Care” checklist and a rainbow-wrapped Coffee, Crystals, and Divination segment 💫

Whether you're here to learn, unlearn, or just feel seen—welcome home.

These are real, evidence-based, affirming organizations and tools for clinicians:

LGBTQIA+ Healthcare & Transgender Care

• WPATH – Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People
• The Fenway Institute – LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center
• GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality
• U.S. Trans Survey
• OutCare Health Provider Directory

Inclusive & Trauma-Informed Nursing Practice

• ANA Code of Ethics – Provision 8
• Healthy People 2030: LGBTQ+ Health Goals
• National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center – Glossary of Terms
• The Joint Commission: Advancing LGBTQIA+ Patient Safety & Equity

Further Professional Development

• LGBTQIA+ Curriculum Toolkit (AAMC)

Hey! Make sure you subscribe to stay connected. Love a nurse? Who doesn't! Share with all the nurses you know. The more we reach, the more we help. We feel like no one deserves center stage focus more than nurses and our mission is to reach the millions of superstars out there. We'd love to hear your stories, your adventures, your wins, and especially your needs and questions! Email us at hello@ritualnurse (dot) com. Also, you can send us fan mail! Use the link at the beginning of the show notes. Resources, classes, blogs, and podcast info can be found on our home site at TCTH.org. The Ritual Nurse Podcast is part of The Code Team educational platform.

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You’re mid-shift, mid-crisis, and maxed out. You’ve got zero privacy, 30 seconds (if that), and an urgent need to NOT spiral. In this episode of The Ritual Nurse, we’re diving deep into how to emotionally regulate when you’re still on the floor—with tools that actually work.

You’ll learn two trauma-informed, DBT-inspired skills made specifically for nurses:

• Code Blue to Code You (a must after any traumatic event)
• The IV Push (for that mid-shift, panic-tinged chaos)

We break down why they work, how to do them in real time, and exactly when to use them—even if you’re a psych nurse, med-surg warrior, floor manager, or burnt-out exec. Trauma isn’t just for codes, and regulation isn’t a luxury. It’s your lifeline.

Plus:

• A guided mid-episode reset (pause, hydrate, breathe)
• This week’s Coffee, Crystals & Divination
• How YOU can help this podcast go viral and heal the soul of nursing

Mentioned in this episode:

• Free downloads: TCTH.org
• LET'S GET THIS VIRAL!!! <3 <3
• Follow @TheRitualNurse on TikTok + @The_Code_Team on Instagram

Don’t forget: If this episode helped you—share it. Let’s start regulating like our lives depend on it. Because they do.

Hey! Make sure you subscribe to stay connected. Love a nurse? Who doesn't! Share with all the nurses you know. The more we reach, the more we help. We feel like no one deserves center stage focus more than nurses and our mission is to reach the millions of superstars out there. We'd love to hear your stories, your adventures, your wins, and especially your needs and questions! Email us at hello@ritualnurse (dot) com. Also, you can send us fan mail! Use the link at the beginning of the show notes. Resources, classes, blogs, and podcast info can be found on our home site at TCTH.org. The Ritual Nurse Podcast is part of The Code Team educational platform.

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Happy Nurses Week, sacred soul. This episode is your reminder—and your ritual—that you are not just part of the system… you ARE the medicine.

This year’s Nurses Week theme is “The Power of the Nurse,” and we’re making it more than a slogan. In this episode, we reclaim that power together.

We talk about:

• Why “power” in nursing isn’t just about staying strong—it’s about rest, boundaries, and reclaiming your nervous system.
• My trauma-informed nursing skill, Code Pause, and how to use it to reset in moments of chaos
• How to protect your peace, vocalize your needs, and prioritize yourself without guilt
• The actual science behind why these practices work for real, sustainable healing
• A guided ritual to remind you that your needs matter
• This week’s Crystals, Coffee, and Divination prescription to fuel your spirit

BONUS: It’s Gift-Giving Time

To celebrate YOU during Nurses Week, we’ve dropped some sacred magic into your hands:

🛍️ The Code Team Store is LIVE → TCTH.org
🎉 Use code NURSEPOWER for 20% off everything in the new shop
📚 The Authentic Nurse Course is only $20.50 (normally $297)
📝 Download the special Nurses Week editions of The List – totally free!

These offers disappear at the end of Nurses Week. Go grab your ritual tools, resources, and reminders that you are worthy of the same care you give everyone else.

✨ Let’s Connect + Share the Power

If this episode spoke to your soul, share it with another nurse who needs to hear it. Tag me @theritualnurse and let me know:

This isn’t just a podcast. It’s a movement.
And this week, it moves with you.

Hey! Make sure you subscribe to stay connected. Love a nurse? Who doesn't! Share with all the nurses you know. The more we reach, the more we help. We feel like no one deserves center stage focus more than nurses and our mission is to reach the millions of superstars out there. We'd love to hear your stories, your adventures, your wins, and especially your needs and questions! Email us at hello@ritualnurse (dot) com. Also, you can send us fan mail! Use the link at the beginning of the show notes. Resources, classes, blogs, and podcast info can be found on our home site at TCTH.org. The Ritual Nurse Podcast is part of The Code Team educational platform.

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This week’s episode is a love letter to every nurse who’s been overwhelmed, under-caffeinated, and hanging on by a stethoscope string. Host Riva gets real about the kind of week that makes you question your career, your sanity, and your alarm clock.

You’ll hear:

• How Riva survived a 70-dred-hour dumpster fire of a week without losing her cool (It's not even Wednesday)
• Why DBT distress tolerance skills are actual life preservers in the nursing world
• What it really means to recalibrate expectations instead of spiraling into shame
• A sacred coffee experiment (CHERRY COLD FOAM, shutup)
• A ritual crystal + tarot pull to anchor your spirit (read you to filth)

Plus: exciting updates about the Ritual Nurse merch store dropping soon and a shift to biweekly episodes to protect the sacred sanity of us all.

If this episode hits you in the soul — share it.
If you’re still listening, bless your soul and your cortisol levels. Here’s how you can help me not spiral into content creator burnout:

👉 Follow us on TikTok @TheRitualNurse
I am the ONLY follower. It’s raw. It’s real. It’s baby brand new.
But with your energy, we can turn it into a whole-ass sacred space for nurse healing, rituals, and chaotic holy wisdom.

So please. Come follow. Come like stuff. Come save me from screaming into the void alone.

🎙️ Tell your people about the podcast
💬 Leave a comment
🪄 Share it with a nurse who’s on the edge — we are not meant to do this alone.

Let’s build this thing together. Let’s make it so good no nurse ever feels like they’re losing it in silence again.

Hey! Make sure you subscribe to stay connected. Love a nurse? Who doesn't! Share with all the nurses you know. The more we reach, the more we help. We feel like no one deserves center stage focus more than nurses and our mission is to reach the millions of superstars out there. We'd love to hear your stories, your adventures, your wins, and especially your needs and questions! Email us at hello@ritualnurse (dot) com. Also, you can send us fan mail! Use the link at the beginning of the show notes. Resources, classes, blogs, and podcast info can be found on our home site at TCTH.org. The Ritual Nurse Podcast is part of The Code Team educational platform.

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The past few weeks, we've had those clinical days — the kind where you laugh so hard with your students that you’re crying in the break room with mascara halfway down your face and someone might have a chux pad stuck to on a shoe.

But between the chaos, the giggles, and gagillion mg K+ home remedy (>>??)… something clicked.

This episode is for the nurses, the students, the exhausted preceptors, and everyone in between who forgot that resilience is born in the mess — not in the module.

We’re talking:

• What nursing school never taught us — and how we learn anyway
• Why laughter is a survival skill
• The difference between failure and becoming
• And yes… that one time I almost had to call a code because a med pass turned into a slip ‘n slide. 😬

But we’re also holding space for something serious — because it’s Black Maternal Health Week, and this platform is about advocacy, truth, and care that includes everyone.

🖤 Black birthing people are 3–4x more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes in the U.S.
Not because of biology — but because of systemic bias and racism in healthcare.
This is our lane. And it starts with awareness, with listening, and with doing better.

🎧 If you’re a nurse who wants to show up with both humor and heart — hit play.
🌿 If you’re ready to mix medicine with magic — hit play.
🩺 And if you’re tired of dry, boring nursing podcasts that make you feel like you’re in a conference you didn’t sign up for — you already know what to do.

✨Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Black Mamas Matter Alliance
• SisterSong
• National Birth Equity Collaborative
• Irth App – Birth Without Bias

🎉 BONUS: Don’t forget — our free download “The List” is live!
Check the Birthday show for your special birthday bonus code (hint: it’s hidden in that episode 😉)

🖤 Ready to laugh, reflect, and maybe cry into your coffee?
Hit play. Then share this episode with your nursing bestie, your preceptor, your patient care tech, or that one classmate who keeps you sane. We’re building this community together.

Hey! Make sure you subscribe to stay connected. Love a nurse? Who doesn't! Share with all the nurses you know. The more we reach, the more we help. We feel like no one deserves center stage focus more than nurses and our mission is to reach the millions of superstars out there. We'd love to hear your stories, your adventures, your wins, and especially your needs and questions! Email us at hello@ritualnurse (dot) com. Also, you can send us fan mail! Use the link at the beginning of the show notes. Resources, classes, blogs, and podcast info can be found on our home site at TCTH.org. The Ritual Nurse Podcast is part of The Code Team educational platform.

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Ever felt like you're just done — with the shifts, the drama, the expectations, the trauma? Yeah, same. This week on The Ritual Nurse, we’re talking about real boundaries — not just the kind where you say no to picking up a shift, but the kind that protect your emotional, spiritual, and energetic capacity. Inspired by the new series The Pitt (which hit way too close to home), this episode gets honest about how even watching fictional portrayals of nursing trauma, or even just overextending ourselves on a daily basis, can push us past our limits.

💔 From emotional flashbacks to emergency chaos, and all the boundaries we never learned to set — we’re unpacking it all.

Then, we lighten it up with some hilarious (and horrifying) stories from simulation (what do you MEAN "you have p3nis on your gloves?!") and my own new grad “what even is nursing?!” moments. Because let’s be real — we’ve all got those stories.

Finally, we wrap with this week’s Crystals, Coffee, and Divination:

☕ Coffee: DIY Budget Affogato (yes, you can make it at home and keep it dairy-free!)

💎 Crystal: Amethyst – Lunar Insight (calm, intuition, spiritual wisdom)

🃏 Tarot: The Devil – Labradorite (break the cycle, reclaim your power)

✨ Want to be part of the show? Tell me your best “you didn’t know you didn’t know” story from nursing school or your new grad days! Seriously — I want to read them on air. We can keep it anon. ;) Email me, DM me, or use the feedback form in the show notes.

Links:

💌 Send your story: https://tcth.org/the-ritual-nurse-podcast/

🌐 Website: https://tcth.org

📧 Email: hello@ritualnurse.com

💬 Social: @TheCodeTeam

Hey! Make sure you subscribe to stay connected. Love a nurse? Who doesn't! Share with all the nurses you know. The more we reach, the more we help. We feel like no one deserves center stage focus more than nurses and our mission is to reach the millions of superstars out there. We'd love to hear your stories, your adventures, your wins, and especially your needs and questions! Email us at hello@ritualnurse (dot) com. Also, you can send us fan mail! Use the link at the beginning of the show notes. Resources, classes, blogs, and podcast info can be found on our home site at TCTH.org. The Ritual Nurse Podcast is part of The Code Team educational platform.

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