Health and healing are too sacred for this. We need nurses. Women — and girls — need nurses who see trauma for what it is. Nurses who recognize the h
Health and healing are too sacred for this.
We need nurses. Women — and girls — need nurses who see trauma for what it is. Nurses who recognize the histories carried in our bodies. Nurses who treat with dignity, affirmation, and understanding. NCBI+1
We need social workers. We need teachers. Child-care workers. We need institutions that value care work — and human life — over profit. NASW+1
Because right now, too many of the people whose hands cradle the healing, the comfort, the reset — they are underpaid, under-resourced, undervalued. While male CEOs and athletes earn fortunes, whole communities struggle for basic support. That’s backwards. That is inhumane. The horrors that we have seen and lifted our voices against oh, we haven’t seen anything yet.
You must ask yourself……why are all of these people concerned about people having more children in the world, and how many are or are not here if we are bringing them into a world where there aren’t professional nurses, professional teachers, and social workers to address their pain and suffering?
So today, we invite you to hold with us the vision of a world where care is rewarded with equitable currency. Where women — especially Survivors — are met with competence, compassion, and accountability.
I will continue to have high regard, respect, and expectations of medical, teaching, and child care professionals.
As always, we encourage everyone to stay engaged with politics because it stays engaged with you. Demand leaders who represent your concern about this.
Health is sacred. Healing is sacred. We must to put our resources, energy, and time right there.
Takeaway lesson: It is not selfish to put the needs and rights of women front and center in everything we do in society. Even when we are going about our lives and minding our own business, someone is always thinking about what to do with us.
We can NEVER take women’s rights for granted. We can never be casual about it. Ever. Keep demanding change. No cavalry is coming. The rescue we crave lives in our hands, our voices, and our continued refusal to disappear.