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Being a nurse requires you to devote so much time to caring for others that you might forget to take care of yourself. However, no matter what you experience every day, it is important to protect your mental well-being because your job depends on it, and your health is just as precious as anyone else’s. Probably you are wondering…

When hot and handsome Vince Moretti walks into Ashley Santoro's life, she ultimately has to decide if what she has with this star basketball player is true love. Emotionally neglected and abandoned by her mother and father, the Ashley series details a courageous journey of a young adult fielding her way through alcoholism and overeating into her own discovery of how to love and how to be loved. Accused of soliciting three New York Knicks players at a party in Manhattan, Ashley abandons her promising new relationship with Vince, a partnership that she feels she does not deserve.

When hot and handsome Vince Moretti walks into Ashley Santoro's life, she ultimately has to decide whether she will continue to hold onto the bad-girl, biracial routine that has her looking for love in superficial relationships only—or if what she has with this star basketball player is true love. Emotionally neglected and abandoned by her mother and father, Ashley fields her way through alcoholism and overeating into her own discovery of how to love and how to be loved. Caught up in a cycle of self-defeat, will Ashley continue her downward spiral and sabotage her first true love?

Let this story of my journey to healing after abandonment, rejection, and abuse be proof that you can walk through darkness and come out in even a brighter light. Let this be your story of hope, and your flashlight, during those dark moments when you think you can’t make it. You are here because you have been looking for a way out, wondering if here is anything in the world you can do to erase what has happened to you. You wonder if there is a way you can talk to your loved one, and find out why they didn’t protect you or love you as they were supposed to.

In this book, I share my journey and how I moved from being an unfulfilled nurse, experiencing burnout mentally, emotionally, and physically, completely unfit to serve to become a fulfilled, warmhearted nurse, who is mentally fit and emotionally balanced to give the best care. What’s the secret? I learned how respect works and how it doesn’t. This is a record of an authentic journey from feeling disrespected and unworthy to finding my value and feeling worthy. I share the secrets that I have used to become the person I am today. As you will learn, respect is about you, not them.

Molding My Destiny is a touching memoir that will tug at your heartstrings and inspire you to overcome any challenge. With honesty and vulnerability, Patrice Foster shares her journey of overcoming adversity, from the difficulties of growing up in poverty and being abandoned by her father to the challenges of battling depression as a teenager.

This book will usher you into the world of being a male nurse and thriving at it! For a better part of the last decade, nursing has been considered a female domain, with men being looked at as anomalies in the field. The view that men cannot make good nurses has thus led to widespread stereotypes of men who get into the field.