Medicine Is a Tool. Connection Is the Work.

Podcast: Grove: Beyond The Couch · LUKE Media

Opublikowano: 2026-10-31

Vanessa Payne is a psychiatric nurse practitioner, and the moment she knew what she wanted to do with her life happened on a medical surgical floor, sitting with a patient nobody came to visit. She talks with Susan and Melissa about what that taught her, why she thinks of medication as one tool rather than the answer, and why she is drawn to the hardest early days of recovery when most people would rather be anywhere else. There is real warmth here about harm reduction and what it means to count the progress a person actually makes instead of...