But as soon as I committed to healing, my world opened up and I discovered passions I didn't know existed, the most important one being a desire to help people find a deep connection to God by loving and nurturing themselves unconditionally.
We observed CRNAs to be an empowered group of nurses and their practices in nurturing themselves stood in stark contrast to our own experiences in nursing, and to our observations at professional meetings and conferences.
They have a strong commitment to nurturing themselves and the next generation of CRNAs through Tending the Flock, which ensures strong and confident practitioners and a powerful professional association.
If they live only in the world of the present, and fail to nurture themselves on the literature of the past, there is an acute sense of loss too: their work remains superficial, rootless, good for a single historical moment only.When Derek Walcott was growing up on the tiny island of St Lucia in the Caribbean during the 1930s, his imagination was pulled in two directions.
Having children is the ultimate joy, and I love my kids, but women have to find time to nurture themselves.
CRNAs also nurture themselves through mentoring future generations of anaesthetists.
Male seahorses take chivalry to the extreme, bearing and nurturing babies themselves instead of burdening their female counterparts.
CRNAs nurture themselves by attending to their own health and the health and future of the profession.
As if stalled every night in the waiting room of the world's slowest doctor, these insomniacs had regularly passed their nights memorizing the arrangement of notes on a guitar fretboard, nurturing grudges, hating themselves, thinking about world peace, pretending to be in a submarine, and worrying, Is it Alzheimer's, or worse?
In their not-so-different ways, these community-emphasising, small-c conservative strands of thought each conjure a vision of village Britain, with a yearning for self-reliant communities, complete in themselves, nurturing and neighbourly, sober, law-abiding, respectable and respectful.
"This is also in particular for the black women... who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves," he said.
