Catherine Bell, a pediatric ER nurse, explains why you attract difficult people and situations. She frames it as emotional baggage you're carrying, and describes clearing it as taking out the trash to protect yourself from further harm.
The moral of the story is that when my buddy said to me, he says, Tommy, do I attract garbage? No, God just gives you the ability to take it out. And so these are the opportunities to take out the trash. So again, I deal with this bullshit because I have the ability to, not because I'm a bad person. And so God surrounds me with people that need that protection. Okay. I feel like when I was working in the ER and I was a pediatric emergency room nurse, certified pediatric emergency room nurse. By default. Like, literally, they were like, anybody want to volunteer for the pediatric department? And I thought, that's super easy. I was the only one that volunteered. I don't know why anybody else didn't. I was like, kids, they're fun, come on. You always get dead babies, burnt babies, broke babies. You get every baby that comes in. It's just heartbreaking, every single one of
