Paradoxes and Perspectives: On Nursing, Grief, and Grace

What if the biggest truths in life are found in the smallest moments?In this episode of Piece of Work, I do something a little different.I share excerpts from the final chapters of my memoir, written during the earliest days of COVID, when I was in nursing school, working at the hospital, navigating faith, grief, breast cancer recovery, and the strange paradoxes of being alive in such a fragile world.This is an episode about:the tension of living between two faith traditionscaring for dying patients and grieving familiesthe sacred and heartbreaking work of nursinghow birth and death can exist side by sideand the quiet, ordinary moments that shape who we becomeIt’s also about perspective.About how two people can look at the same set of facts and see something completely different. About how life is rarely either/or. And about how resilience is often built not in grand dramatic moments, but in the small things — a hand held, a breath taken, a shift in perspective, a little more love.If you’ve ever felt torn between worlds, overwhelmed by grief, or hungry for meaning in the middle of ordinary life, this one is for you.🎧 In this episode, I read from:ParadoxesandFinal Breaths and Other Small Thingsfrom my memoir Piece of Work. WebsitePiece of Work, a MemoirInstagramFacebookTikTok