It comes in waves: COVID PTSD with RN Tay Lautner
The WoMed
Podcast Nation
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
TW: anxiety, depression, PTSD
This week, your hosts welcome Tay Lautner, an RN who became a nurse during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tay opens up about the anxiety, depression, and PTSD she suffers with as a result of her time nursing, and how that inspired her to start her blog, non-profit, and now, podcast. Tay also talks about her marriage to actor Taylor Lautner, how she got into nursing, and what nursing feels like for her now that she's removed from the work. She shares when she knew her career was impacting her mental health and the heartbreaking moment she was asked by a patient if they were going to live or die. Tay talks about the memory loss she experiences as a result of her PTSD, the biggest barrier she had to overcome in starting to speak about her experience, and what her healing journey looks like now. Plus, she has joined our network, Podcast Nation, and has launched a new podcast, The Squeeze, with the same mission as her foundation: to build a community that supports and encourages those struggling with their mental health, providing a place to share resources along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:18.7 | Jack, I feel like I just made it back here in time to record today. |
| 0:23.5 | What do you mean? |
| 0:24.4 | I feel like I've been just kind of going nonstop and like trying to get everything done today on this like day off. |
| 0:32.3 | And I've been like looking at apartments and I've been interviewing for jobs. |
| 0:35.9 | And I was like, oh my God, I need groceries. And I know if I go after we're done recording, I'm going to just get like everything |
| 0:42.2 | and it's not going to be good. So like I went grocery shopping right before this. And I feel like |
| 0:47.3 | I have to ask you before I tell you what I like super guiltily have been indulging on. |
| 0:53.0 | What is your like super guilty food indulgence? |
| 0:58.1 | Like sweet treat. |
| 0:59.7 | Like that I keep in the house? |
| 1:01.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.4 | That I keep in the house. |
| 1:03.8 | Okay. |
| 1:04.7 | I really try to not keep a ton of this stuff in the house because like it just won't |
| 1:09.4 | last. |
| 1:10.1 | And I love to. |
| 1:10.6 | Do you keep it in your car as car snacks? Because I did that now too because, like, it just won't last. And I love to walk. Do you keep it |
| 1:10.8 | in your car as car snacks? Because I did that now, too, because you get, you yell at me every time I get |
| 1:15.2 | angry. So now I have food on hand at all times. Oh my God. That's, you know what? Thank you for, |
| 1:22.4 | thank you for taking my feelings into it. You do at all times. You are constantly on my brain and my heart. |
| 1:29.5 | helps our friendship a lot. I mean, we're matching. Guilty things. I know. We literally are like on the |
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