Publications
May 09, 2017
Wilmot Cancer Institute, National Nurses Week
" . . . Every day as a nurse, I have the opportunity to change a life, while at the same time, changing my own. By recognizing and appreciating the diversity in others, their emotions, coping mechanisms, their idiosyncrasies, my perspective is constantly enhancing. It helps me and every patient I encounter after. Every day, nursing challenges me to understand love, gratitude, and tragedy in new way . . . "
March 09, 2017
Thought Catalog: The Letter I Wish I Received After He Left
" . . . I loved you too much to watch you give me more than I was able to give you. When thinking about our relationship in the present tense, leaving you was the best thing I could have ever done for myself. I was finally free of the all-consuming love I had for you, I was unchained from your brokenness, finally allowed to live for myself . . . "
July 05, 2016
Thought Catalog: Learning To Accept The Love You Deserve Isn’t Easy But It’s Definitely Worth It
" . . . When you really think about it, we can make this whole “love” thing work with anyone – we become trained, wrapped in habit and partnership, we eventually label it “love”. We may have bouts of emotional intensity here and there, and that’s enough of a reason to maintain the relationship . . . "
