CFMHN PRESENTS: Katrina Stephenson RN BSN - Back to Self: A Nurse's Guide.
Date: Monday, January 19, 2026
Workshop Time:
10:00 AM Pacific Time
1PM Eastern Time
Duration: 3hrs including processing breaks
$135 members / $150 non-members
Register at www.cfmhn.ca
➡️ Join us virtually via Zoom link (to follow) and be part of the conversation!
Katrina's Bio & Workshop Objectives:
I’m a Gardener, Mom, Wife, Neighbour, and Nurse — grounded in both the soil and the soul. With 20+ years in mental health, substance use, trauma care, and psychotherapy, I’ve learned that healing is never linear. My own journey through trauma informs my work with those impacted by stress, traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, moral distress, mental health and substance use, and the complex emotional challenges that come with holding on to it all.
I love creating safe spaces for nurses and healthcare providers to gently reconnect with their self-awareness, inner steadiness, and sense of wholeness. Projects like Nurse 2 Nurse Peer Support (N2NPS), WESUP, and my independent practice, Mindful Nurse Gardener, are born from my commitment to shift the culture of silence and stigma toward compassion, connection, and collective healing.
Together, we’ll deepen our collective awareness by naming and exploring the lived experiences of Nursing Psychological Injuries — the stress, trauma, moral distress, and emotional residue we so often carry silently. I will guide us in understanding our nervous system through a holistic, nurse’s lived experiences lens, noticing how traumatic stress and cumulative strain shape our thoughts, emotions, behaviours, relationships, and sense of self.
Throughout our time together, I’ll introduce trauma-sensitive, mindful, and embodied practices that you can bring into everyday moments — practices that support coming back to self, returning to inner steadiness, and cultivating acceptance for where we find ourselves. These approaches aren’t about “fixing” but about gently re-inhabiting our bodies, softening self-judgment, and calling home the parts of us that have drifted.
