Empowered Mind, Empowerful You

02/01/2026

🚨 MISSING TEENS 🚨 17-year-old Jada Colon and 15-year-old Nevaeh Colon have been missing from Hardin County, Tennessee since January 31, 2026. A deputy with the Hardin County Sheriff's Department was dispatched to 4015 Lonesome Pine Rd regarding the two missing girls after their mother reported she left the residence around 8:30 a.m. and both girls were at home. She stated there was no power, so she went to a friend’s house to take a shower, and when she returned she found a note from the girls stating they were going to the creek to play their instruments, but they did not return. Harbert Hills Academy also sent people to search the area mentioned in the note from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. As of 8:00 p.m., there was still no sign of the girls. They do not have a phone, at least not one their mother is aware of. At this time, there is no known clothing description for either girl.

Jada Colon is described as 5'4" and 120 pounds, with black hair about shoulder length.

Nevaeh Colon is described as 5'1" and 115 pounds, with long dark curly brown hair with blonde streaks.

If you see them, make contact with them, or have any information on their location, please call 911 or Hardin County Central Dispatch at 731-925-4989 or 731-925-9007.

Time matters in cases like this. Please share this post so more people know to be on the lookout, and leave a comment to help boost visibility. The right person seeing their faces at the right moment could make all the difference. 💙❤️🧡💛

01/29/2026

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01/29/2026

I keep hearing this argument from nurses:

“There’s no room for politics in nursing.”
And I say, "Erm, actually, quite the contrary."

Nursing has always been political. Community and public health nursing explicitly assess environmental, social, and systemic factors because health does not exist in a vacuum. Housing, access, safety, education, policies - these things directly shape our patient's outcomes.

Advanced nursing education doesn’t shy away from this. Civil and human rights, advocacy, health equity, and political engagement to advance the profession and protect patients are foundational concepts.

Caring for people while ignoring the systems that harm or help them is neglectful. Advocacy isn’t optional in nursing. It’s a huge part of the job.

01/28/2026

The American Holistic Nurses Association joins the national nursing community in mourning the death of our colleague, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, RN.

In moments like these, many of us are holding grief, shock, fear, and fatigue—sometimes all at once. As holistic nurses, we are reminded to return to our core AHNA values: Compassion, Authenticity, Integrity, Wellness, and Inclusivity.

Wellness during difficult times includes intentional self-care:

✨ Checking in with our emotions and energy
✨ Honoring our capacity and limits
✨ Practicing gratitude and prayer or reflection
✨ Offering quiet acts of care to those in need

We invite you to pause with us, to hold those who are grieving gently in your heart, and to direct intentions of peace, love, and healing where you feel called.

Connection matters.

Please check in with one another, listen deeply, and remember that your presence—calm, caring, and authentic—is a powerful form of healing.

01/17/2026

Let’s clear something up real quick, historically, legally, and professionally.

***Updated***

Yes, the word “nurse” has been used in many ways across history, long before professional nursing existed. That does not mean those roles represent nursing as a profession.

Professional nursing was created to replace untrained custodial care with education, standards, independent clinical judgment, and accountability.

Once nursing became a profession, it was never intended to function as “helping”. Instead, it became about:
* Assessing patients
* Tracking patterns
* Managing symptoms
* Preventing complications
* Coordinating care
* Improving survival through holistic care: environment, hygiene, nutrition, preventions, and rest

Florence Nightingale used data and outcomes to change the systems, which resulted in dramatically reduced death rates.

Sounds more like leadership and disrupting the status quo for improved patient care than “helping.”

🏥 Hospitals didn’t create nursing, they captured it

As hospitals grew, they needed nurses to function. But they really just wanted nursing labor, not nursing power...

So nursing was shifted from:
➡️ services & outcomes
➡️ to hourly coverage & tasks

Hourly pay wasn’t about fairness, it was about control. (That tracks, huh?) They wanted to:

* Control nurses
* Control schedules
* Control scope
* Control costs
* Keep nursing tied to hospital walls

Nothing in nursing law or education requires hourly employment.
That was a business decision, and not a nursing one.

💰 Nursing has value — it’s just financially invisible

Research consistently shows nursing care reduces:

* Mortality
* Complications
* Readmissions
* Length of stay

But nursing care is bundled into room charges, not reimbursed as a service. So hospitals benefit from nursing outcomes
without paying for nursing judgment. That’s not accidental.

⚖️ Nurses are NOT legally “helpers”

Legally:

* Nurses have independent licenses
* Nurses are accountable for their own assessments and decisions
* Courts do NOT view nurses as extensions of physicians

If nurses were “helpers,” malpractice law wouldn’t work the way it does.

🚨 Why nurses are pushing back now?

Because the system relies on nurses to:

* Absorb unsafe staffing
* Compensate for system failures
* Emotionally regulate patients & families
* Prevent harm no one bills for

And when nurses stop working, everything stops. Not because doctors can’t diagnose, but because nursing is the connective tissue holding care together.

🔥 The truth?

Nursing is:

* Its own profession
* Its own body of knowledge
* Its own clinical judgment
* Its own ethical responsibility

Hospitals didn’t invent that, they just benefited from it. And I believe we deserve to have our profession back.

Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

— Nurse Jamie
RN, HeartMath Certified Practitioner, Mental Health Advocate
Empowered Mind, Empowerful You™
nursejamie@empowerfulyou.org

01/16/2026

Be open to grace. Let's make it happen.

01/16/2026

Imagine if we gave ICE a more noble and worthy mission. Over 300,000 youth under 21 go missing each year and there are currently over 93,000 active cases... In a beautiful world, no parent or guardian would ever need the list below, but here it is.

01/16/2026

It's vital to give past you grace, loving kindness, and understanding for not knowing what now you does. Without past you growing through what you went through, you wouldn't who you are today.

01/14/2026

Hey friends - and especially my healthcare and mental health folks around SWMO.

I've been running a 4-week Stress & Anxiety Reset class using HeartMath®-based skills, and I'm opening up a few more spots.
It's simple, practical, and nurse-led.

We meet once a week for 4 weeks and work on calming the nervous system so stress, anxiety, and emotional overload aren't what is driving your life.

$150 total for the 4 sessions. (Depending on what you’re dealing with, some people choose to continue past four weeks or do maintenance sessions - and that’s always an option.)

This is great for people who:

• feel overwhelmed most days
• are anxious, stressed, or emotionally reactive
• need stress management skills but aren't "therapy people."
• parents, caregivers, frontline workers, healthcare (seriously, anyone can benefit)
• feel stuck in the same stress loops
• don’t really know who they are or what they want anymore
• feel triggered, angry, or guilty about their reactions
• are honestly just at their wits’ end

Research and clinical outcome data indicate that HeartMath® stress-regulation skills are linked with improvements in:

• Stress, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm
• Depression and mood regulation
• PTSD symptoms and trauma-related stress
• Anger and irritability
• Sleep quality
• Blood pressure regulation

HeartMath tools are also used to support people dealing with chronic fatigue, chronic pain, ADHD, addictive behaviors, emotional eating, and obsessive-compulsive tendencies by strengthening self-regulation and resilience.

If you're a provider (medical, mental health, behavioral health, school, etc.) and you have clients you know would benefit, I'd love to collaborate. Message me - I offer discounted rates for referrals because I truly want this accessible.

I'm a holistic RN, work in home care behavioral health, and have a passion for youth mental/behavioral health. I'm trying to grow Empowered Mind, Empowerful You because I've seen how badly people need real nervous-system support.

If you want more info, just send me a message. If this isn't for you, but you know someone who may be interested, please send them my way.

I would love to share this within our community, and would appreciate your support!

- Jamie
Empowered Mind, Empowered You

01/13/2026

My children strongly dislike that I did this, lol, but I was curious. AI music - no, I didn't sing it. No, I didn't write the music. But the message is all me. Click the link below and give it a listen.

A warm, emotional, uplifting song about healing, self-compassion, stress relief, and learning to show up for yourself. The theme is about being overwhelmed, feeling broken, and realizing you’re not, you just need to come back to yourself.

https://suno.com/s/FLoocal0E6E1GGTU

01/13/2026

Let's do it!

It is time to shed the burdens of the past year and come out Fresh and Alive.