Healing Through Movement, Play, and Art: Nurse's Journey from Burnout to Joy w/ Tara Rynders

Join Coach Charlene in this captivating episode of the "When the Moment Chooses You" podcast, as she sits down with nurse and artist Tara Rynders. Discover Tara's powerful journey from nurse burnout to creating spaces of healing through movement, play, and art. Listen to her heartfelt stories of difficult patient interactions that ignited her passion for compassionate care. Together, they delve into the significance of acknowledging exhaustion and caring for caregivers, as well as tackling racism at the bedside. Get inspired to find joy and create safe spaces for healing amidst life's stresses. Don't miss this transformative conversation! Tara Rynders Bio Tara Rynders, she/her, RN, MFA, BSN, BA is a registered nurse, a researcher, a dancer and an artist. Rynders has been a registered nurse for over twenty years and received her Master’s in Fine Arts in Dance and Somatic Practices in 2011 from The University of Colorado at Boulder. Rynders also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish, and is an Advanced Certified Grief Recovery Specialist. Rynders is the founder and artistic director of The Clinic, an arts and play-based company that provides workshops, performances, and research around burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Rynders has had the pleasure of dancing with Wild Heart Dance and 3rd Law Dance/Theater. Rynders is extremely honored to have been named, A Blade of Grass Fellow, a three time Arts in Society grantee, a 2019 Colorado Nightingale Luminary, the recipient of Rose Medical Center’s Excellence in Nursing Award in Compassionate Care, a Hamilton Awardee in Arts & Resiliency from the National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH), the 2022 EY Next Wave Leader Award from the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts and a Fulbright Specialist where she will be returning this summer to Amsterdam to finish up her research in the arts and health. Rynders believes that her work as a nurse and performer are symbiotically intertwined and are not as different as one would think. Drawing from the intimacy and vulnerability found in her work as a registered nurse, Rynders creates authentic connections in workshops and through performance that allow guests to feel seen, heard and inspired to create alongside her. She does this through large scale immersive performances in site-specific locations, with her most recent work performed in an active hospital setting. Rynders believes we heal in connection and in relationship with one another. She is so grateful for her connection and relationships with her partner, her children, her patients, and her nursing and artist colleagues for daily exploring this life with her and helping her appreciate the gift and privilege of growing older every day. ABOUT WHEN THE MOMENT CHOOSES YOU PODCAST Coach Charlene’s purpose is to bring transformation by creating and inspiring destiny moments because every heartbeat matters... When the Moment chooses you will engage in compassionate courageous conversations with some of the most daring trailblazers and change agents in organizations, corporations and the world who dared to respond to those destiny moments. Listen to new episodes bi-weekly on Sundays anywhere you get your podcasts. You will move from thinking and talking about your dreams….to manifesting the desires of your heart….Be inspired to become the highest expression of yourself. What will you do when the moment chooses you? follow me on social media: whenthemomentchoosesyou Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whenthemomentchoosesyou Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whenthemomentchoosesyou/ Website: coachcharlene.com