Aside from being a mother, being a nurse has been one of the greatest gifts of my lifetime. It was a calling I felt early on to help people. Seemed simple enough. Go to college, get a job helping people and bam, I would be complete. Reality check, nursing is something we do, but not our whole identity.

I spent years unraveling that belief and in 2021, I joined DTFL because I wanted to help my fellow nursing colleagues through some of the hard career identity struggles I experienced. I also wanted to offer a space for intentional peer support & hard conversations that really are best understood through shared experiences of people who have been in the trenches of nursing. 

Nurses are some of the strongest people I know and often the ones who will put anything ahead of themselves to be of service to others. DTFL is here to remind nurses YES, serve others of course. That is what makes nursing one of the most trusted professions

However, in service of others, how can you be nurtured and cared for as well? Nurses are humans, not robots, who also need care but may never ask for it. 

I am fundraising for my fellow nurses, to remind our community, as we take care of you, is there a shared sense of community care we can cultivate by showing just a little love back to the nurses who serve our communities so well? 

We have nurses reach out for peer support who you may never think would need a little extra TLC, but they are brave in asking for time and space to be validated and heard. Please consider donating, every little bit goes directly back to funding sessions for nurses. 

Thank you for your partnership and support! We cannot do this work without the support of others.