Mindfulness and the moral injury…

Welcome to day one away from the comfy frozenness of the castle in the lovely tropics. To say that this was an easy journey, it is not. PTSD doesn’t pack well and landing in a country where you have a somewhat aversion to the spoken language, because your rapist spoke it, is a tough bug. …

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Where the hell is Nursie poo?

    I took a break, Mark's death took a lot of energy.  I honestly needed to step back from the weirdness of losing a co-worker in such a violent self-inflicted manner. I thought that after I got the story out on the last podcast, I would be good, the catharsis would happen, and I …

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Never read the comments…

Longshot’s 1st rule of the internet never read the comments. Nurseferatu’s First rule of blogging, do not look at site traffic. Both will leave you disappointed and questioning your existence. When Chris and I spoke on the podcast a couple of weeks ago, we talked very candidly about not paying attention to numbers. He has …

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Delirium…

Credit: Nurse.org   As I lay dying… In my travels, Pax and I (Pax is my service dog) went to visit the gang on the old ward and have coffee and deliver an apple crisp the hubby made to a couple of friends. For real these 2 kept me laughing and held me up when …

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