Meet Daisa Smith

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Daisa Smith. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Daisa below.

Hi Daisa, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

I’ve faced challenges as most have during formative years of my life. Changing my view of the way things work and as to how to navigate the challenges before me. When I got accepted into my nursing program the most important person to me passed away. Leaving me to those overwhelming feelings until I got through the program to grieve. As I took my nclex someone else close to me passed. Causing me to repeat the cycle. My coping mechanism was to push things down until I had time to deal with them maybe days to months later. I learned to push through things without processing things that may stall my progression. What I failed to realize that by doing this I was operating as a shell of myself not allowing myself to be open to feeling things in order not to fall apart.
But to answer the question my resilience comes from survival mode but you must learn to use it in a healthy manner. Remaining true to yourself while pushing through. Ensuring to give yourself grace.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

I’m a nurse and a writer/ wellness creator. My content revolves around growth and healing mentally and physically. I use my knowledge and platform to help people heal themselves. And in turn heal other people in their orbit in the process.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

My three most important skills have to be empathy, resilience, and compassion. I would say I always have seen the good in other people even if it wasn’t good that was meant for my consumption.some learn early on that some are there for a reason and others for a season and sometimes both. I believe you can learn so much about yourself from other people just make sure you keep ahold of your identity of yourself. It’s very easy to get caught up in others vision and idea of you, you lose track of who you were to begin with. Empathy is something everyone should have. It’s so important to be able to see outside of yourself through the lens of the world. The world doesn’t have enough empathy these days.

If you knew you only had a decade of life left, how would you spend that decade?

If I had one decade of life left I would stop caring so much. Since a young age I’ve struggled with just “letting things be.” I feel a constant need to help or to make people comfortable or intervene somehow. But I’m learning as I grow older it’s not my job to change outsiders perspective of me. Nor is it my job to make people more comfortable while making myself uncomfortable. Say what you want, do what you want. With no regrets. I’m learning that things done with pure intention don’t require overthinking.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://open.substack.com/pub/herreflections
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daisamarie_?igsh=MWVkY2kxYWc5aDV5YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr