I’ll never forget the way I felt when Aisha/Pema Salem took the stage at SAND. I’d been listening to these boring old white male non-dual teachers all day. I was there with my BFF Dennis, and Dennis kept saying, “Listening to these guys talk about spiritual...
In 2007, after twelve years of training to become a doctor, I left the hospital, only seven years after completing my training. Why? Because, in my estimation, to rise in the medical hierarchy requires trading in empathy and compassion for power- and it’s a bad...
After a week of shocking Epstein revelations, the powers that be are trying to change the subject. I’m no scholar in Middle East politics, so I won’t say anything other than I’m anti-genocide, I’m pro-human rights, and I don’t believe there’s any excuse for mass...
Yesterday, I wrote a Facebook post (you can read it here) about Deepak Chopra and Peter Attia in the Epstein files. It got over 350 comments in less than 24 hours, and so many of them were heartbreaking. The post included disturbing quotes from Epstein files...
Right after finishing my OB/GYN residency at Northwestern, I worked at a public health clinic in San Diego County near Lemon Grove, California, where all of my patients were Somali immigrants and 100% of them had the most severe form of female genital mutilation...
I haven’t written about politics for a while, not because people send me hate mail and unsubscribe from my newsletter list every time I do, not because I lose money in my business from losing those customers and readers, but because I, one of the most verbose...
In this week’s LOVE SCHOOL, one of our students raised her hand and asked for help letting go of the rage she felt towards her ex. She’d been looping stories of how she’d been victimized by her ex and was terrified of even thinking of getting into another...
I have a lot going on in my personal life right now. I’m moving out of the Muir Beach home I’ve inhabited for 17 years of my life, the home where I raised my daughter, who has now left me with an empty nest that is not the home I raised her in....