Because this *waves hand across screen* is not that kind of story.
Annoyingly, the internet has a lot of opinions about how to make that happen. And most of them involve starting a side hustle, ditching direct patient care, and slowly shedding your nursing identity (and career) entirely.
And look, I’m not naive… we all know nursing can cause real harm… we experience it day after day… so yah, sometimes leaving absolutely IS the right call (I even left for a little while, too). But I’m also not going to tell you that in order to live the life you want, you’ll HAVE to leave your nursing career behind.
NURSE
as a
LIFE
love
You deserve a career you
and a life you love even more.
adventure time
sunsets to sunrises
That's the soul work we’re here to do together.
Yet, somehow, it still doesn't feel like enough. Admittedly, you’re probably finding that life as a nurse isn’t exactly what you thought it would be: you’re doomscrolling after your twelve-hour shifts, trying not to cry in your car for the umpteenth time, and fully convinced that leaving is the only way forward, amiright?!
But all that hard work wasn’t for nothing… because your nursing career is more versatile, more flexible, and more full of possibilities than you can even imagine… and you DON’T have to completely blow everything up in order to live out your dreams.
Once you start asking yourself the hard questions, healing your overstimulated nervous system, and treating your nursing career as the foundation of the freedom you desire, you can create whatever life you want.
so
YOU WORKED
HARD TO GET THIS FAR.
In fact, I didn’t become a nurse because I had a lifelong "calling" to do so. I became a nurse because it was practical... stable income, job security, and great benefits...
Younger Me was just a girl who wanted a reliable career so she could move out of her hometown and never have to depend on anyone to live the life she wanted.
But surprisingly, after a decade of doing this work… after having life-altering experiences in various patient care settings… after nearly quitting this profession entirely… after witnessing my mom take her final breath… after, well, everything…
I realized I had somehow 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 with my nursing career and built the life I’d always dreamt of living.
Now I’m here, writing it all down in hopes of inspiring nurses like you, so you can see exactly what’s possible when you stop merely surviving your shifts and start building a life that's magical as f*ck.
that's me!
and tbh, I used to think I’d never love nursing.
HEY, I'M
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Ten years in and I unexpectedly fell in love with this career — the long shifts, the moments that bring you to your knees, the ability to pivot on a dime — all of it. Now I’m taking you along for the ride to show you it really is possible to love your career and your life as a nurse.
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