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The God who created me is loving, caring and accepting — the kind of God I’d actually want to share heaven with someday.
Looking back now, I can see how absurd and surreal it all was, but at the time, I was too scared to laugh. https://nurseblake.com/ Thanks for listening!
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It’s honest talk from people who have been there and know their stuff.In addition to his comedy videos and current tour, Blake is the creator of NurseCon at Sea, one of the largest and most popular nursing conferences, the author of bestselling children’s books “I Want To Be a Nurse When I Grow Up” and “Santa Sent to the E.R.” From 2023 to 2024, Blake embarked on his 150-city “Shock Advised” comedy tour across the U.S.
and select cities in Australia and New Zealand. I appreciate every listener, but I have a lot of other exciting things planned for 2022. To wrap up I am reading a BUNCH of shout outs, thank you all for your submissions! I’m sad.
Daniel was my first boyfriend. I’d made it past their fictional prophecy.
Even after I left conversion therapy, the shame stayed with me like a second skin.
It took years before I could even say the words “conversion therapy” out loud.
The next morning, my parents showed up at my school, cleaned out my locker, and brought me straight to a counselor’s office — a pastor who said he could help me “change.” That first appointment was the gateway into what would become three years of conversion therapy.
For 36 months, I sat in fluorescent-lit rooms with strangers who promised that if I prayed hard enough, journaled enough, cried enough, I could become someone else.
But I quickly learned that healing doesn’t come from ignoring what we’ve experienced, it comes from facing it head-on, and from letting other people see the scars.
To blow off steam from an incredibly stressful profession, professional nurse Blake Lynch started putting together little comedy videos on social media as “Nurse Blake”.
I share my favorite thing this week, which is artificial turf for my pups! But it wasn’t a phase. The first time someone messaged me saying, “I thought I was the only one who went through that,” I realized laughter could be medicine, too.
And that’s the thing about healing: It doesn’t look like a Hallmark movie. Then you’ll love John’s book, The Hilarious World of Depression.
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With over 4 million followers across social media, Nurse Blake is a former surgical ICU nurse, content creator, internationally touring comedian, health care advocate, keynote speaker, and children’s book author. I was single for the first time in my adult life, and I didn’t realize how much conversion therapy had scarred me until one night, about two years ago, when I completely broke down in my condo.
The God they used to justify conversion therapy is not the God I know. They finally agreed. It wasn’t in the “your arm is broken, let’s get you a cast” way, or the “you’ll grow out of it” kind of way. At home, I lived under my parents’ roof while being sent to large and small gay conversion therapy groups in Orlando, Florida, and I even had phone sessions with people like Richard A.
Cohen, author of “Coming Out Straight.”
I still have my journal from that time. And slowly, I began to understand just how much that so-called therapy had taken from me.
My parents were the ones who forced me into those programs. I’ve been “no contact” with them for years, and while that’s painful, it’s also freeing.