From this To this When I was a little girl, we went to visit my grandparents in another state. While there, I entered a coloring contest at the local shopping mall. I said to my grandmother, "Now grandma, when I win, you can just send me my prize." This prompted laughter from the …
Book Review: Mindset by Carol Dweck
Although I read it a while back, this book cannot escape my mind; I keep seeing it referenced in articles and hearing it talked about in interviews. Seems fitting to share with you! In Mindset - The New Psychology of Success, Carol Dweck identifies two types of predominant patterns of thinking in …
Beating Infertility
As I have discussed many times on this blog, infertility can be a stressful and difficult thing to endure. Infertility is shrouded in shame, and yet it is quite common in our society. As women choose to have children later in life, egg quality diminishes and leads to lower pregnancy rates. In …
A New Kind of Body Confidence
As goal-oriented, driven people who are sometimes prone to perfectionism, body image can be a source of stress for many of us. Leave it to pregnancy to completely change mine! I have always been known for my tall slenderness, a substantial part of my ego (for more on what makes up one's ego and …
When Do You Disclose a Pregnancy?
I was 5 weeks pregnant and working in the spine room. Just as I finished my intubation and secured the airway, I turned to set the ventilator and administer some important medications. The surgery fellow started to position the fluoroscope near the patient's cervical spine, about a foot away from …
Book Review: Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin
"Changing a habit may be simple, but it's not easy, and the more tools used, the better." - Gretchen Rubin, Better Than Before Former New York lawyer turned happiness expert Gretchen Rubin constructed her first book The Happiness Project from blog posts framed around a year-long challenge of …
