Miriam Crawford Grant
Episode 5: Solid Roots - Part 2
This week, Yolande is joined again by Miriam Crawford Grant. Miriam, who is currently pursuing a career as show creator for film, television, and the stage, is also a nurse, actress, writer and former model. In this week's conversation, Miriam and Yolande have an honest discussion about mental health and the role that protection, safety, vulnerability, compassion and empathy play in our resilience, particularly when our mental wellness is challenged.
This week, Yolande is joined again by Miriam Crawford Grant. Miriam, who is currently pursuing a career as show creator for film, television, and the stage, is also a nurse, actress, writer and former model. In this week's conversation, Miriam and Yolande have an honest discussion about mental health and the role that protection, safety, vulnerability, compassion and empathy play in our resilience, particularly when our mental wellness is challenged.
Guest Bio
Miriam Crawford Grant is a 2006 graduate of The Citadel Corps of Cadets. The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, is a public college located in Charleston, South Carolina. Established in 1842, it is one of six United States senior military colleges. Crawford Grant is a nurse, actress, writer, former model, and currently works in the film industry. Crawford Grant worked for the Army Wives production company and appeared in episodes of the show in 2008-2009. She has successfully leveraged her Citadel leadership skills and makes servant leadership a part of her everyday life.
Crawford Grant's short work published in Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose published by Kent State University Press in 2018 talks about her first-day experience as a student nurse in a VA hospital in Charleston. She was recently featured in an article in The Hollywood Reporter in February of 2019. The Hollywood Reporter focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.
Crawford Grant is featured in the article along with American actor Sterling K. Brown, star of This Is Us. Mr. Brown has won 12 awards from 24 nominations in the film and television industry to include his Screen Actors Guild award from last month. The article features 5 major Hollywood stars and their stand-ins over the years. Mr. Brown selected Crawford Grant from their time working on Army Wives when it was filmed in Charleston, SC. Miriam currently works as an encourager, to motivate and inspire others to do their best while she is pursuing the creative arts and film career as show creator, for film, television and the stage, and author.
Crawford Grant's short work published in Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose published by Kent State University Press in 2018 talks about her first-day experience as a student nurse in a VA hospital in Charleston. She was recently featured in an article in The Hollywood Reporter in February of 2019. The Hollywood Reporter focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.
Crawford Grant is featured in the article along with American actor Sterling K. Brown, star of This Is Us. Mr. Brown has won 12 awards from 24 nominations in the film and television industry to include his Screen Actors Guild award from last month. The article features 5 major Hollywood stars and their stand-ins over the years. Mr. Brown selected Crawford Grant from their time working on Army Wives when it was filmed in Charleston, SC. Miriam currently works as an encourager, to motivate and inspire others to do their best while she is pursuing the creative arts and film career as show creator, for film, television and the stage, and author.
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Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose
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What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bed- laughing moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? And how might nurses, looking back, relate these experiences in ways that bring these memories to life again and provide historical context for how nursing education has changed and yet remained the same? In brave, revealing, and often humorous poetry and prose, Learning to Heal explores these questions with contributions by nurses from a variety of social, ethnic, and geographical backgrounds. Readers meet a black nursing student who is surrounded by white teachers and patients in 1940, a mother who rises every morning at 5 A.M. to help her family ready for their day before she herself heads to anatomy class, and an itinerant Jewish teenager who is asked, “What will you become?” These individuals, and many other women and men, share personal stories of finding their way to nursing school, where they begin a long, often wonderful, and sometimes daunting, journey. Many of the nurse-authors are experienced, well- published writers; others are academics, widely known in their fields; but each offers a unique perspective on nursing education. Notably, an essay by Minnie Brown Carter and an interview with Helen L. Albert provide valuable ethnographies of underrepresented voices. Through strong, moving essays and poems that explore various aspects of student nursing and provide historical perspective on nursing and nursing education, all have stories to tell. Learning to Heal tells them in ways that will appeal to many readers, both in and out of the nursing and medical professions, and to educators in the medical humanities. |
This Week's Resources
In this week's episode, Miriam highlighted what it's like being an adult living with ADHD. If you are an adult with ADHD looking for coaching support, please contact Yolande at [email protected] for a consultation. An overview and list of symptoms can be found here.