The Living Experience of Feeling Overwhelmed: A Parse Research Study

The Magic of Surprise

This article explores the concept of Surprisology and the humanuniverse living experience of surprise. Story is used to enhance understanding of a humanbecoming perspective of surprise.

Publishing in the academy: An arts-based, metaphorical reflection towards self-care

Publishing in the academy is a high-stakes activity often used to measure academic staff progress and inform promotion. Many universities have increased pressure on academics, even at the earliest stages of their careers, to publish in high-ranking journals resulting in increased stress and uncertainty. The authors of this paper are members of a writing group in an Australian regional university, established to support each other towards success in quality research and publishing. Over the 2020-2021 summer semester, six members of the group decided to reflect on their experiences, emotions and outcomes throughout the writing process by participating in four reflective arts-based activities. Theoretical frameworks of reflection and metaphor were used to share findings. Strong evidence of having to grapple with meeting university expectations in tension with personal goals and passions was ever-present. The importance of drawing on both personal resources and significant others to manage these tensions through self-care practices was also evident. Implications resulting from this research include recognising the pressures placed on academics to publish only in specifically ranked journals. Overall, the arts-based reflection was critical in uncovering deeper feelings about the pressures of publishing and supporting higher education employees' well-being and self-care during the writing process.

Review of 2007-2020 Humanbecoming Guided Studies and Investigations

The authors in this article provide a review and synthesis of 46 studies and investigations that were published between 2007 to 2020 that were guided by the everchanging humanbecoming paradigm. Moreover, the authors present details and a synthesis of published studies using the Parse research method and humanbecoming hermeneutic method as well as the extant Parsesciencing and humanbecoming hermeneutic sciencing investigations published up to the date of December 31, 2020. The article builds on the previous review conducted by Doucet and Bournes in 2007, which addressed studies conducted from 1985-2006. Newknowings for the enhancement of the everchanging humanbecoming paradigm and the discipline of nursing are provided for scholars to ponder.

Feeling Ashamed: A Parsesciencing Inquiry

The universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling ashamed was explored using the Parsesciencing mode of inquiry. The inquiry stance was: What is the discerning extant moment of the universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling ashamed? Historians were 10 adults living in a community in upstate New York. The major discovery of this Parsesciencing inquiry was the discerning extant moment: Feeling ashamed is penetrating encumbrance with isolating concealment emerging with diverse affiliations.

Conceptual Foreknowings: Integrative Review of Feeling Overwhelmed

Feeling overwhelmed is a universal humanuniverse living experience of living quality. From the humanbecoming perspective, all individuals choose to feel overwhelmed or not as they make choices moment to moment. Thus, it is of importance to understand feeling overwhelmed from divergent perspectives. To achieve this, the author in this article reviews the extant literature on feeling overwhelmed from the disciplines of nursing, business, psychology, philosophy, theology, social work, education, and sociology. Three themes that emerged from the extant literature were (a) feeling overwhelmed arises as an engulfing turbulence, (b) feeling overwhelmed surfaces with disquiet isolation, and (c) feeling overwhelmed emerges with reaching for relief.

Faces of Shame

The author in this article explores the humanbecoming dignity tenet of shame. Shame is examined through an extensive literature review, through storytelling, and through surveying humanbecoming inquiries of sadness, feeling fear, feeling overwhelmed, and feeling disrespected.

A Synopsis of Ricoeur's Phenomenology of the Will: Implications for Nursing Practice, Research, and Education

The will is a word that nurses may use to describe their patients' actions or inactions. This concept has been extensively addressed by religions, psychologists, and philosophers. Ricoeur offered a phenomenology of the will in which three overarching key concepts were uncovered: decision, action, and consent. In this article, Ricoeur's elaborative and exhaustive description of these three concepts is summarized. Examples as to how a phenomenology of the will may guide nurses in their day-to-day clinical practice in caring are provided. In research, Ricoeur's phenomenology of the will may be used as a heuristic to guide phenomenological studies. An introduction to the will may act as a bridge between the art and science of nursing, providing nursing students with a greater understanding of the meaning of and need to provide holistic care.

The Living Experience of Suffering: Lakota Voices

Suffering, as a universal humanuniverse living experience, was explored utilizing the Parsesciencing mode of inquiry. Ten Lakota historians engaged in discussion to answer the question, "What is your experience of suffering?" The discovery revealed the discerning extant moment of suffering as follows: Suffering is burdening anguish amid uplifting aspirations surfacing in persevering with divergent encounters.

The Living Experience of Feeling Surprised

The purpose of this article is to report the finding of a Parse research method study on the universal living experience of feeling surprised. In dialogical engagement with the researcher, eight participants described the experience. The structure of the living experience of feeling surprised was found to be: Feeling surprised is stunning amazement arising with shifting fortunes, as delight amid despair surfaces with diverse involvements.

The Living Experience of Feeling Unsure: A Parsesciencing Inquiry

The purpose of this article is to report the discovery of a Parsesciencing inquiry on the universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling unsure. In discussion with the scholar, 10 historians described their experiences. The discerning extant moment of the living experience of feeling unsure was found to be as follows: Feeling unsure is disquieting trepidation with pursuing endeavors arising with joining with-distancing from affiliations.