Never underestimate the power of changing your environment. Sometimes things seem impossible only because you’re not in a place that supports your potential. Once you’re out of that, so much more can open up for you.
Just so everyone knows, if anyone ever stops speaking like that and freezes, call 911. Don’t mess around. Don’t waste time. That person needs a stat head CT.
If you grew up in a home with constant screaming or yelling, your body remembers. You might startle easily. Or feel like sobbing when someone yells.
How To Heal:
You’re safe.
They’re not mad at you.
You’re not a burden.
These are the stories of your past, not reality.
Your job in life isn’t to make everyone else comfortable.
It’s to be: you.
You’re safe now.
Nurses asking for rationales on med/treatment orders isn’t to undermine you. Sometimes we just want to understand your thought process so that we can make it make sense to ourselves.
To the family member that just came up to me and said “you’re damn good at your job, so keep doing what you’re doing”. Just know you made my entire day 💜🥺
I think one of the hardest parts, mentally, of this pandemic is seeing…. as a person who has dedicated their life to wanting to help others… that a large population of people care about no one but themselves.