Two Nurses & A Therapist
Working in healthcare is not (now or really, ever has been!), for the faint of heart. So many of us are overwhelmed, exhausted, and considering hard choices.
We get it.
We've been there; even before the pandemic years.
For the three of us, there has been a big shift in how we see things. We see things from the inside out now - not from the outside pushing in on us.
It's been the best thing - personally and professionally.
Two Nurses & A Therapist - The Innate Health Podcast. By & for healthcare providers who would love some peace of mind and mental well being.
Join us.
Two Nurses & A Therapist
01 - Meet the nurses and the therapist
What if we told you there's a way to find lasting peace, even in the chaos of a busy clinical setting?
We get it. The challenges of healthcare are real. Long hours, intense emotions, and the weight of responsibility can leave us feeling depleted and discouraged.
But what if there was a way to have a different experience?
In this podcast, we'll be sharing our journey of discovering a new paradigm for mental health: the Inside-Out understanding of the human experience. We're so looking forward to sharing what we found out with you. We'll guide you to reclaim your innate well-being and find deeper meaning and purpose - both personally and professionally.
This is our mission: To empower healthcare providers like you to reclaim their innate well-being and thrive, by sharing practical wisdom, heartfelt stories, and the transformative power of the Inside-Out understanding.
Our vision: We aim to spark a movement within healthcare that recognizes the Inside-Out nature of our experience, shifting the focus from external pressures to inner peace; an innate capacity; empowering individuals to flourish.
So who are we? We're nurses Wendy Williams and Tyson Larson, and Lori Carpenos, a licensed marriage and family therapist. We're three colleagues and friends sharing our profound personal and professional experiences with this Inside-Out understanding.
Join us each week as we share honest conversations, laughter, and support. We're excited to connect with you and help you thrive, bringing real relief to your day-to-day life. Whether you're a seasoned healthcare provider, a mental health professional, or simply curious, grab your favorite drink and tune in to this engaging and supportive dialogue designed to uplift those on the front lines of healthcare.
Two nurses and a therapist walk into a bar. The nurse orders drinks, but the therapist opts for water with lemon, explaining she's the designated listener, calling all healthcare providers welcome to Two Nurses and a Therapist your podcast for raw truth and real relief. These hosts share a profound understanding about the mind that leads to a happier, healthier life. Imagine feeling more than okay, not just faking it, but truly thriving. This podcast isn't about band-aids. It's about learning what is not yet taught in nursing schools. But if we have anything to say about that, it will be because it makes a huge difference for the health of the helper. Meet your hosts Wendy Williams, yson Larson and Lauri Carpenos. They've seen it all on the front lines and they're here to tell you you're not alone. So grab your beverage of choice and join us, because in this crazy world of healthcare we can all use friends. And they promise only 25 minutes for each weekly episode, sometimes less. This is Two Nurses and a Therapist. Let's listen in.
Wendy Williams:Hi there, my name is Wendy Williams. I am a nurse and part of this wonderful podcast called Two Nurses and a Therapist, and we are here because we are three healthcare providers and we want to speak directly to you. Another healthcare provider I'm here with my colleagues Tyson Larson, one of the other nurses, and Lori Carpenos, the LMFT, the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and the three of us just want for you to get to know us a little bit. So I'll start. My name is Wendy and I have been a nurse for many, many years I won't even bother telling you how many, but a number.
Wendy Williams:I'm over 60 years old and I've been a nurse since I was in my 20's and a lot of my experience has been with pretty interesting diagnoses like cancer, H, aids, chronic pain, all the lighthearted stuff, that's what I went for. Chronic pain, all the lighthearted stuff, that's what I went for. So I've been, and I'm still an active healthcare provider at this point in time, working with people who are in chronic pain, and so that's a little bit about me. And in regard to what we're talking about here, the inside out understanding, that's what we're talking about. The inside out understanding is an amazing clearing up for me of a misunderstanding an innocent misunderstanding that I had for many years, which was that the amount of difficulty or stress or discomfort or desire to run away from my job because I was burned out All of that, it turns out, wasn't so much coming to me from the outside, where I had to manage things.
Wendy Williams:Rather, it was coming from the inside, how I actually metabolized or thought about the events in my life. They say you have 60,000 thoughts a day. Well, I'm sure I did, and maybe more. Why did I only get hooked on a few of those, the ones that seem to be really anxiety producing? Why did I get focused on the ones that seemed insurmountable? It's a really interesting question and one of the questions that we're going to be addressing in our time together. So that's enough out of me. I'm going to turn it over to my friend, Lori Karpenos, the licensed marriage and family therapist.
Lori Carpenos:Thank you, Wendy. That was a wonderful introduction. Oh, where to begin? Well, I began as an art teacher. I never had a plan to be a therapist, okay, and one thing led to another.
Lori Carpenos:I was a depressed art therapist in my 20's and I sought a lot of self-help and I sought out different therapies and I could tell you why I was depressed. My mother said this, my father did that and he said something that stuck with me and all of these sorts of things that I learned to think about my problem, as, wendy, you said so eloquently, as though my problem was out there. My problems, my depression, my low state of mind was the result of what people said or did to me. And then I wound up at a lecture by someone without any degrees, no medical background, an ordinary person who had an extraordinary experience, and my depression went away, disappeared I have never. And because I was in the art world, I drew a picture from 1985. I found it after many moves since then, I still had that picture. I laminated it because it was so profoundly sad. So, having that visual, looking back, I have a memory that I was there, but there is no way that I feel anything like that and I haven't in all these years. It's now 2024, 1985 to 2024.
Lori Carpenos:So I am proof in the pudding, so to speak, that when you see and learn something new and hear something that you always knew but you didn't know, you knew. That was the experience I had. Like a light bulb went off. Incrementally. ver time, I just realized more and more how I was doing it to myself, believing in all these negative things. I was telling myself that I wasn't smart enough, I wasn't good enough, I wasn't pretty enough, I wasn't this, I should be that and what's wrong with me. And none of it was true. It was a story I had made up and that was the reason for my depression, and it's just been remarkable. And so I'm just so. I went into the field of therapy in order to be able to share this with other people, and having this podcast with Wendy and Tyson is just a wonderful way of reaching other healthcare professionals. So thank you so much, wendy and Tyson, for having me, and I'm going to pass it on to Tyson now.
Tyson Larson:Thank you, L. Thank you, wendy, beautiful introductions. My name is Tyson. I am the second nurse in this podcast and just very excited to have you with us today, have you with us today.
Tyson Larson:I have been a nurse for about four years. I started in MedSurg and went through COVID there and then went to labor and delivery and I'm currently in labor and delivery and I also work in mental health. and I can tell you that my experience of nursing has changed tremendously since learning that my experience comes from my thinking and not from my patients and not from what's happening in the world around me. Necessarily it's my reaction to that and my thinking about that. And as a nurse I really thought that it was my job to fix people and to change their experiences. But when I saw for myself that first I don't need any fixing I've been a seeker for a very long time and I finally saw that there was nothing to, there was nothing to do, there was nothing to change about me, that that life has my back and when I can just settle my thinking down, the the experiences that I'm in just change tremendously. So when I saw that innate wellbeing for myself, it became so much easier to see it in my patients and also in my colleagues.
Tyson Larson:I can go into a shift that, while it may be challenging that day, I know that there's really nothing for me to do, in the sense that it is what it is and it's going to evolve how it's going to evolve.
Tyson Larson:Circumstances don't need to go into trauma and drama and create more suffering; for not only myself but my coworkers, because when you're, when you're in that, that story, you tend to to speak in that story to the people around you which um can, can, can be, um can be contagious to them. And so when I remember that there's nothing for me to do, I remain calm and I come up with I don't even come up with things happen through me and answers appear through me, and that becomes more contagious, where I can be that calming force and I can just be present in the moment with whatever situation arises. And it seems to have an effect on my colleagues and my patients to help them stay more calm and focused as well. So we'll go more into deeper explanation of all of this that we're trying to explain in this brief introduction as the podcast progresses. But I'm just super thrilled that you're listening and I'm excited to get these ripples out to my fellow healthcare workers. So thank you for joining us.
Wendy Williams:Oh, that's great. I'm just so privileged to be with you guys. So Lori and Tyson are top drawer in terms of their professional caring and their dedication to their respective clients and patients and I would put myself in that category as well and we're just thrilled to be able to again bring you this podcast by health care providers for health care providers, bring you this podcast by healthcare providers for healthcare providers. And so, yeah, along with what Tyson just said, some upcoming topics are going to be inside out versus outside in stress anxiety.
Wendy Williams:So these are some things, and we're making a promise to you and you got to hold us to it that these podcasts are going to be about 25 to 30 minutes tops. We're going to try to get air more on the side of 20, 25 minutes because, just like you, our time is precious and your time is precious, and it really isn't lengthy lectures that we're after here. It's just sharing insights with you, sharing what we've learned and sharing examples of what we've learned, sharing examples of what we've learned, and so we're excited, we're happy to be here and welcome again to Two Nurses and a Therapist a podcast by healthcare providers for healthcare providers. All right, until next time, bye-bye, bye.
