Healing Tapestry: The Collective Stories of Nurses
Healing Tapestry: The Collective Stories of Nurses
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Healing Tapestry is a podcast created by nurses, for nurses—sharing real stories of struggle, resilience, recovery, and growth. Hosted by Kristin and Jenny, each episode weaves together voices from across the profession, tackling substance use, mental health, burnout, and the path to healing. This is more than a podcast—it’s a movement toward a nursing culture where wellness thrives, stigma fades, and every story matters. Together, we flourish.
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The podcast explores themes of substance use, mental health, burnout, and recovery within the nursing profession. Notable episodes include Dr. April Lenzmeier's journey through alcohol use disorder and the healing power of peer support, and the hosts' narratives on navigating recovery challenges while maintaining nursing roles.
Healing Tapestry is a podcast created by nurses, for nurses—sharing real stories of struggle, resilience, recovery, and growth. Hosted by Kristin and Jenny, each episode weaves together voices from across the profession, tackling substance use, mental health, burnout, and the path to healing. This is more than a podcast—it’s a movement toward a nursing culture where wellness thrives, stigma fades, and every story matters. Together, we flourish.
In honor of Nurses Week 2026, this moving episode of Healing Tapestry features nurse Ruth sharing her transformative journey through polysubstance use disorder and recovery.
Ruth opens up about the ”spiritually transforming” moment she lost her job, reframing a professional rock bottom as a vital new beginning. We dive into the barriers that keep nurses from seeking help and the resilience required to rebuild an identity beyond the license.
This episode includes:
- Resilient Hope: Ruth’s current mission of giving back through the Nurses Peer Support Network (NPSN).
- The Mask of Strength: Overcoming the ”triple stigma” and the fear of vulnerability in nursing.
- Navigating Recovery: Ruth’s firsthand experience with professional monitoring programs and boards of nursing.
- Identity & Boundaries: Learning that your career doesn’t define you and how ”self-sustainable care” creates a better clinician.
This episode is proudly sponsored by Tennessee Professional Assistance Program ~ TNPAP.
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