Dear Annie: Forgiveness toward toxic family members can create space for peace
Dear Seeking: By forgiving your mother and understanding her pain, you have given yourself the greatest gift of all -- peace ...
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Dear Annie: Finding forgiveness for a parent’s years of toxic behavior
Dear Annie: I grew up with a mother who was an abusive alcoholic and drug addict. She also struggled with anorexia and severe ...
Dear Annie: Struggling with disrespectful patients and finding forgiveness for a toxic parent
I was caring for a patient named “Mr. Thompson,” who had come in with severe back pain. After completing my initial ...
Dear Annie: Understanding my mother’s pain allowed forgiveness
Dear Seeking Peace: By forgiving your mother and understanding her pain, you have given yourself the greatest gift of all -- ...
Dear Annie: Patients and their families need to stop being disrespectful to nurses
It leaves me questioning how society has lost its sense of respect and gratitude for nurses who are just trying to do their ...
Finding forgiveness for a toxic parent
I was caring for a patient named “Mr. Thompson,” who had come in with severe back pain. After completing my initial assessment, his daughter, “Sally,” arrived and immediately demanded that I give her ...
Dear Annie: How can people dealing with abusive or toxic family members work toward understanding?
DEAR ANNIE: I grew up with a mother who was an abusive alcoholic and drug addict. She also struggled with anorexia and severe ...
Dear Annie: My mother was abusive, alcoholic, drug addict. I still forgave her
Dear Annie: I grew up with a mother who was an abusive alcoholic and drug addict. She also struggled with anorexia and severe ...
Dear Annie: Nurse struggles with ungrateful patients' families
"Later, when I stepped away for a moment to grab supplies, she cornered me in the hallway and accused me of ignoring her ...
Dear Annie: How can victims of abuse seek to understand, yet protect themselves from harm?
I grew up with a mother who was an abusive alcoholic and drug addict. She also struggled with anorexia and severe mental ...
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Good-bye to four years of ‘malaise’ and more letters to the editors
In 1979, Jimmy Carter gave a speech about a "crisis of confidence" in America. It became known as his "Malaise" speech, ...
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Dear Annie: I’m a nurse just trying to do my job. I’m tired of being disrespected.
Dear Annie: I grew up with a mother who was an abusive alcoholic and drug addict. She also struggled with anorexia and severe mental illness, which made my childhood incredibly painful and traumatic.