This week’s episode dives straight into the deep end — grief, birthday parties, musicals, foster parenting, emotional whiplash, and what it really feels like to be the “emotional head of the household.”

It’s one of those episodes that’s tender, hilarious, chaotic, and painfully real… all at the same time.

We talk about the kind of weeks where you go from saying goodbye to a family pet, to running an eight-year-old’s Wicked-themed birthday party. And just when the emotional tank is already blinking “empty,” life asks for more.

This conversation is for anyone who’s ever carried the invisible emotional load at home, for the foster moms and foster-adjacent moms, for the nurses who know that whiplash is sometimes the most accurate emotional diagnosis, and for every parent trying to walk through big emotions with small humans.

We also get into books we’re reading right now, why some writing makes you want to scream into the void, and why not all rom-com audiobooks are created equal.

It’s honest. It’s comforting. It’s a little messy. And it’s exactly the kind of conversation we love to have here at The Nurses’ Station.

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