Mental health. Nursing. Single parenting. Faith. And the occasional unpopular opinion — written by someone who has lived all of it and refuses to pretend otherwise.
Every post is FRIENDS-titled. Because life, like that show, is funnier and sadder and more complex than the episode title suggests.
On moral injury, impossible working conditions, the people we forget are on the front lines too — and why standing up for what you believe in sometimes means leaving a career you love. A nurse's perspective on what it means to advocate, even when it costs you.
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On impossible conditions, moral injury, and what it really means to stand up for what you believe — even when it costs you everything.
"Nurse Your Way Back to Jesus."On leaving nursing, personal medical choice, judgment from colleagues, and how a mental health nurse knows the difference between force and a choice with consequences.
Honest. Unfiltered. Worth reading.On holding nuanced positions in a world that demands you pick a side — you can acknowledge something is wrong without endorsing the alternative. Basic human decency is not a political position.
"You don't always have to pick a side."For the single moms who woke up this morning already exhausted and did it anyway. A letter from someone who has been there — and who believes you are doing better than you think.
Written for you. Specifically.What actually happens when someone you love is brought to an ER psychiatric evaluation — and why families are left standing in hallways terrified and uninformed while the system moves around them.
The gap The Crisis Nurse exists to close.Nursing was built on observation, advocacy, and human dignity. Somewhere it became a revenue line. On moral injury, healthcare vs. sickcare, and why the frameworks belong everywhere.
This is not how she intended it.Mental Health
Education & advocacy
Single Parenting
For the moms doing it alone
Nursing & Healthcare
Moral injury & redefined
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Someone has to say it
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FRIENDS Philosophy
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