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Ever feel like you’re living your own version of Groundhog Day? Not the cute furry animal prediction kind, but the Bill Murray movie kind – where the same challenging scenarios keep playing out day after day? As a physician mom, you might be nodding your head right now, thinking about those charts that always seem …
One of the things I hear over and over again is the sense of a feeling of overwhelm and stress in so many people’s lives. We often attribute these feelings to circumstances outside of ourselves that we feel we have little to no control over. The truth is that we have much more control over …
What Does It Mean To Be Human? This question was posed during a podcast I was listening to, Honestly with Bari Weiss, about the famous tech founder, multi-millionaire entrepreneur, and biohacker Bryan Johnson. A similar question was also posed in his new Netflix documentary which I also recently watched called “Don’t Die, The Man Who …
Like many of you, I’ve gone through some tough times in my life, and recently had another one of these seasons. I found it challenging to manage all the different aspects of my life during this period, was riddled with anxiety, and had trouble even getting through the day. When I was in the thick …
So many of us want to change something about ourselves, but don’t do it. We know WHAT to do, but we just can’t seem to DO it. Here are four simple steps to creating real change in your life and a practical example of how to do it. The 4 steps are as follows: Awareness …
After a weekend of political violence with an assassination attempt of a former president and presidential candidate, I can’t think of a more relevant topic than that of peace. What happened is being condemned on both sides of the political spectrum, but it remains clear that the temperature in this country is exceedingly high and …
We just returned from a wonderful Spring Break trip with family and friends. Well it wasn’t all wonderful. Sometimes it was downright exhausting and painful. Put three strong-willed teenage sibling girls together for a week, lots of walking, long car rides, and cramped sleeping arrangements and you set the stage for some not so great …
It is estimated that human beings have somewhere around sixty thousand thoughts per day. According to the National Science Foundation, about 80% of these thoughts are negative and over 90% are repetitive. Since negative thoughts lead to negative feelings, it’s worth noticing which of these repetitive thoughts keep coming up for you as they are …
What is hate? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, hate is “an intense hostility or aversion deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury. Extreme dislike or disgust. To have a strong aversion to: find very distasteful.” Is there anyone in your life you can think of who gives rise to these emotions? Maybe a public …
I’m not much into affirmations or mantras, but sometimes there’s a saying or phrase that plays over and over in your head that you just can’t kick. If something is going to take up that kind of space in your head, it may as well be something that drives your behavior in a super useful …