Inspiration & Hope
I’m super excited to attend, present, and provide 1:1 consultations at #AAFPFMX this week! 🎉🎉🎉 The Family Medicine Experience (FMX) is a high energy family reunion where family physicians reconnect, learn, and grow together. Can’t wait! This year I will provide 2 sessions on Friday on “Connecting with Your Purpose for Effective Leadership.” Watch the […]
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This week was National Physician Suicide Awareness Day, which provides an opportunity to share information and resources for all physicians to have at their fingertips. This is vital not only for each of us but also to support our colleagues and normalize conversations about our wellbeing … during traumatic experiences like this lingering pandemic, and […]
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I am grateful to the American Medical Association for honoring me this week with the AMA Inspiration Award alongside such brilliant Women in Medicine. The brief video with the award recipients is here. It has been my privilege and a heartwarming blessing to continue to support and advocate for my colleagues throughout the pandemic. I’m […]
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Just as things were starting to get better, the Delta variant changed everything. And this was not the change we were hoping for! Yet, I want us to remember that some things have not changed. Many important things, in fact, remain the same. I believe it will help to recall this when exhaustion hits us […]
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As I think back to previous New Year celebrations, never had I/we needed the hope of a New Year as in 2020. As I note in the next Moment of Wellness, Lessons Learned, the word ‘uncertainty’ describes much of our experience in 2020, and we gained proficiency at balancing life on its shaky ground. Shockingly, […]
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Stirring Hope. Igniting Faith. Inspiring Action. That is the purpose I chose for my original blog, which I started a decade ago. Looking back, it’s amazing how those carefully chosen phrases have fueled my teaching, writing, coaching, speaking, workshops, retreats, and all my work with physicians and medical teams for more than fifteen years. Before […]
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What a month July has been so far, and it’s not even halfway! This weekend has been a blessing, beginning with the first zoom session of our new book study for women physicians of Recapturing Joy in Medicine. We are coming together for mutual support, learning, and to empower one another — and what a […]
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A few weeks ago, I received a message from one of the moms at my children’s school. She wanted me to know her 12-year-old son is 3D-printing “ear savers” for people wearing masks all day, particularly medical professionals and all first responders. From paramedics and firefighters like his cousin to physicians and labor & delivery […]
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Oh my goodness, this video just made my week! Throughout this pandemic, I have seen and heard so many inspiring songs, poems, art, and expressions of courage and love. I am thankful for each of them, and feel like we all need to see or hear at least one a day. Don’t you think? So […]
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