veggie friend eats meat

Originally Posted by 4everLove

thanks for all of your responses! much appreciated! to update everyone she is actually doing better. she seemed to relax somehow. she claims she feels weird and disgusted eating meat.

A true vegetarian would feel disgusted eating flesh. I'm glad she's doing better.

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Tobi,
IMO, and you certainly don't have to agree, it's really about underlying intent. Why am I choosing to do what I do? It takes a whole lot of self honesty sometimes.

She is having this experience for a reason. I believe everything happens for a reason. You don't have to agree with that. In the end, neither you nor I can resolve her anxieties. Only she can do it for herself.

I hope things work out for her. I've had panic attacks and anxiety trouble. It's no fun. That's for sure.

Originally Posted by 4everLove

Any ideas on if eating meat will help her "ground" more? She just freaks out too much. Any advice for empaths?

My wife once worked in nursing homes, made her deeply uncomfortable at first... she eventually learned-her-way-through the challenges... even so far as to work in the state mental hospital around violent older folks with alzheimer's for a year. She doesn't work "bedside" any longer but she appreciated the experience/challenge.

We grow, adapt and overcome when we set our hearts to it.... giving up too early because it's too hard is not a good way to go about life.... (I suspect the chicken issue is an ancillary means of dealing with the primary challenge....)

She'll ground naturally, as she adjusts to the position... :^)

[knightofalbion]

Originally Posted by psychoslice

Your friend may not be suited for the job she does, it seems to be causing her frustration, she may also be fighting the urge to eat a little meat, this would also contribute to her frustration, let her eat what she wants, gee its not the end of the world.

Though it is the end of somebody else's world...

[psychoslice]

Originally Posted by knightofalbion

Though it is the end of somebody else's world...

Its always the end of someone else's world, but is it the end of her world because she eats a bit of meat.

[knightofalbion]

4everlove: I'm sorry to hear about your friend. Though I'm not seeing a connection between her job and her diet. Many nurses are vegetarian because they are at heart caring, compassionate people.

As Robert says, maybe she is just not suited to the job. The caring profession can be very emotionally draining, especially so if 'you' cannot switch off when 'you' are off-duty.
Of course, maybe she just needs a holiday to recharge her batteries?

Originally Posted by knightofalbion

Many nurses are vegetarian because they are at heart caring, compassionate people.

And there are nurses who smoke and eat at McDonalds... and are still heart-caring... to be honest, my wife has never met a vegetarian nurse in her 15 years or so on the job...
edit: I asked her to verify this... she said 20 years as a nurse, and still no vegetarians... it's likely very rare for a nurse to chose this option as a lifestyle...

[knightofalbion]

Originally Posted by StephenK

And there are nurses who smoke and eat at McDonalds...

They ought to know better...

[knightofalbion]

Originally Posted by StephenK

And there are nurses who smoke and eat at McDonalds... and are still heart-caring... to be honest, my wife has never met a vegetarian nurse in her 15 years or so on the job...
edit: I asked her to verify this... she said 20 years as a nurse, and still no vegetarians... it's likely very rare for a nurse to chose this option as a lifestyle...

We have lots of vegetarian nurses here in the UK.

PCRM have a vegetarian nurses network
http://www.pcrm.org/health/healthcar...rition-network

And the allnurses.com website has a 'The Vegetarian Thread' thread on its members forum. Not read it all, it runs to 92 pages, so there's obviously quite a few of them.

Originally Posted by knightofalbion

They ought to know better...

You would think.... :^)

This still doesn't discount their open hearted intent to help others where they can... being veggy or not, when it comes to nurses who care, is a non-issue...