Self Care
The Forgotten Question
As someone who spent her youth moving from base to base, living in different countries or states, attending six different schools before seventh grade, not a lot in my life was constant. Change was frequent, and a new adventure was around every corner, especially...
2018: The Year you Create the Outcome you Want
I didn’t create it or think of it, but I do choose to live by it. Instead of naming off three or four resolutions for 2018 that will be broken or forgotten come February, I am adopting a mantra for the year or for the math-minded people (not me!), a formula, to...
More Blessing, Less Stressing
Let’s face it, the holidays are stressful. Like acne producing, can’t fall asleep, list after list, stuff-my-face-with-carbs kind of stressful. There is so much to do, so many people to remember, so much money to spend… so much of everything. It’s overkill and...
Dear Twenty-Year-Old Me
Yesterday I assigned one of my patients the homework of writing to her 20-year-old self. She was struggling and needed to offer the same grace and forgiveness to her young self that she would offer to others. Knowing what I know now, what would I say to...
Embracing our Daughters Begins by Embracing Ourselves First
I remember praying when I was pregnant with our youngest child for a daughter. Of course, we prayed for a healthy child and said the gender didn’t matter, but secretly I was hoping for a girl. I was blessed to have two healthy boys with strong Y genes from the...
I Took Auto-Shop in High School, not Robotics
Dearly beloved, we have gathered here to get through this thing called life. I was in high school during the '80s. A long time ago. To teenagers today, we are old and weathered. They don't know that at one time we were cool, with-it, chic and hip.... at least in...
The Slap
Sitting in yoga class yesterday I heard something profound. It was simple, straightforward and it stuck. Butch, our 70-something year old very hip yoga instructor and cancer survivor, was talking about life and how we tend to drudge through, dragging...
