*Disclaimer* While the scenarios in this reading are true, no names are used and if names are used, they have been changed from the...

When I worked in residential, I had a patient who was the sweetest, caring girl and for the longest time, I wondered why she was even in...

Hello, friends! Welcome back. This weeks post is going to dive in a little deeper into my experience working in pediatric inpatient and...

Hello, all! So I know up until this point, I've been writing in order of my experiences as they've happened in my years of working in...

I wasn't going to write on this, but it's been heavy on my heart and hopefully sharing this short story will shed some light. I recently...

Hello, all!! Before I jump back in to new stories, I wanted to do a recap and provide a little information moving forward, since it's...

Hello, all! Oh my goodness, it has been so long! Apparently when you have two kids, it's really easy for the time to fly by without even...

When I talk to people about mental health, sometimes I hear things like that would never happen to me or how could someone want to hurt...

Hello, all! I wanted to take a break from posting about some of my work experiences and talk about something more personal: my nephew. If...

When I found out I was pregnant with my daughter, it was as if suddenly nothing else in the world mattered. Nothing. My life was now for...

When she first arrived on the unit, we had no idea that she had an eating disorder. She started off by literally hiding in her room. She...

Let’s take a break here and this week, talk about what is going on for us all currently, because we all know it has been an emotional...

Working in residential, I did not have much experience with treating eating disorders. Most people with eating disorders go to a special...

It takes a lot to make me cry. Now that I’ve been in this field for seven years and counting and have seen and heard some of the worst...

I have a million stories I could share about the things I’ve encountered regarding LGBTQ teenagers while working in mental health. I will...

When I had my first day out of orientation on the pediatric inpatient psych unit, I was not surprised when two of my patients from...

There were a lot of reasons why I left my job in residential. Do I regret making the decision to leave? No. I do not. It wasn’t an easy...

One of my favorite parts of working in residential was the amount of training I received in the first few weeks of orientation. I didn’t...

I’ll be honest, it has truly taken me awhile to process through the things that are currently happening in our world. I’ll also be honest...

When working in residential, it was a sort of running joke (that wasn’t funny at all) between the kids, that we weren’t “real nurses.”...