nursingforsocialjustice

Do you ever feel like your life is a series of false starts? I feel like this grand idea that I had to impart my nursing wisdom on the world has been brewing for years, and yet I have not been able to build the momentum to get the ball rolling.

I have a lot of ideas when I am driving to work in the morning. By the time I get home in the evening I lose my steam and most of the seemingly great ideas I had in the morning.  This morning I had so so many profound ideas about my work and my life, the ideas continued to flow throughout the day, all the way through the drive home and now that I am home, in a quiet living room, my kids and partner 800km away, I cannot recall any of the profound, life changing ideas I had this morning. And so I won’t be able to change the world today…sorry world. 

Sometimes I think I don’t have full appreciation for the amount of privilege that I have had in my life that has allowed me to have a life where my partner and I are able to make choices like to have four children, or move to the Vancouver area. It was very challenging for my partner to go back to school to pursue his Bachelor of Science in nursing while I was completing my Masters of Nursing, raising a toddler and newborn and also working full time. I was super duper hard, but we made it through. Sometimes I tell people if we can do it then anyone can…but can they? Can everyone succeed if they make the same choices? I think it is much more likely if they have great social support and financial means. I was telling someone today about how one of he things that I disliked about growing up and living in Calgary was that I felt like I was living in a bubble. But is the bubble my worldview? Is it something that is deeply embedded in me that I am not reflective of it?

Do you think it is possible to create a self-brand for the purpose of activism and advocacy? 

Michelle D.