Pandemic Front Line Work, PTSD, and Recovery with Samantha Alvarez

The Meaning Movement: Rediscover your Passion, Avoid Burnout, and Do Work You Love.

Samantha Alvarez has done a lot of different work over the course of her career. By her count, she's had 65 jobs.

She also finds herself now pursuing two parallel tracks professional —nursing and sales — along with a few more passion projects that she takes very seriously.

I intended to get into all of that. But this conversation went a surprising and unexpected direction.

Samantha has spent the last 15 months on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, in hospitals and ER's around the united states. I couldn't pass up this opportunity to hear more about that experience, how she's processing it, and how she's moving from it.

This conversation was so fun and unexpected. It definitely wasn't the conversation that I anticipated having, but it was such an exciting and relevant experience to explore that I couldn't help myself.

We'll have Samantha on in our next episode to dig further into her work journey.

In this episode you'll learn:

• What Samantha does
• The four pillars of her life
• How she earns a living
• How she's processing Covid trauma
• How mental health became her fuel in battling pandemic
• The experiences she witnessed in the field
• The stress and trauma a frontline worker experiences everyday
• How to recovery from the trauma of pandemic
• How to fight PTSD while working in the field
• How to manage being workaholic
• What is a "Mind Gap Exercise"
• Tips in managing panic attacks

Show notes at: https://themeaningmovement.com/sam