Happy holidays! What are you up to this winter? I'm finishing up the first draft of my book (out Spring 2023), and I'm about to complete my 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification. Blending both these endeavors into my personal balance of outdoor time, family time, and work time has made for …
How to Deal With Impostor Syndrome
How impostor syndrome came up for me recently, and what I did to deal with it I pulled up to the big hospital near downtown in the dark of the early morning. Six police cars surrounded the yellow-taped entrance to the ER. After parking, I filed through the main entrance. This involved a bag …
What to Think About When Purchasing Land
Have you ever thought about making a life change by moving somewhere with a slower pace? What would it feel like to have a place in nature that's just for you to get away? Having traveled to so many beautiful wilderness places to rock climb, my husband and I have always wanted a piece of …
The End* of My Fertility Journey
The Backstory My family knows, friends close to me know, and some colleagues know. People who happen to catch random posts on the internet know. For the past couple years, we’ve been trying to have another child through surrogacy. After complications I suffered at the end of my pregnancy with …
An Appeal to Physicians to Normalize Infertility
I've talked a fair amount about infertility on this site. But how does it dovetail with designing your ideal work life balance? Physicians (and other professionals, for that matter) are conditioned to put our heads down and keep working. To not appear weak. To not ever get sick. But the reality …
Learning Lessons From Nature
There’s this noxious weed called thistle all over our property. It’s comprised of a thick stalk, often topped with a venus flytrap-looking purple flower. The oily, spiky leaves poke and sting as you brush by, and although some stalks are eyesores as tall as 4 feet, the small ones will surprise …