Juliette Roanoke is a registered nurse, writer, editor, and mental health advocate. She blends her career in nursing with her lifelong passion for writing to illuminate issues in healthcare and society. Her focuses include destigmatizing the conversation surrounding mental health issues and standing up against domestic violence in a way only someone who has been there can.
She graduated from the University of West Georgia with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. During nursing school, she clawed her way out of a dangerously abusive marriage and went on to raise her now 15-year-old daughter by herself. She now has 2 children, and much of her writing is based on her personal experiences with parenting, abusive relationships, her own mental health disorders, and healthcare advice from a nurse on the frontlines.
She has twelve years of experience as a nurse, with time split between critical care and case management specialties in the home setting, both Home Health and Hospice. She is equally as proud of working in critical care, from Emory University's Neuroscience Unit to traveling as a Covid ICU nurse throughout the pandemic wherever the need was greatest, as she is now fulfilled by her position as a Home Hospice Nurse Case Manager, as it places her in an invaluable position with incredible opportunities to make a positive impact at the most vulnerable stage of a person's life on a daily basis.
Her lived experiences, knowledge base, and skills set her apart as a writer and advocate. Since 2019, she's used her unique position to reach and help even more people by becoming a contributing writer and editor for Medium's biggest Mental Health publication,Invisible Illness, which has grown to have more than 55,000 followers. There, she curates and coaches new writers to ensure their stories are polished and offer the best reader experience possible. She strongly believes that everyone has a voice worth listening to and important stories to share—stories that, collectively, can save lives just by sharing. She believes such platforms are necessary avenues to further reduce the stigma around behavioral health issues by increasing communication and, ultimately, building understanding.
