I was supposed to be grieving an empty nest this week. My daughter was supposed to be flying off to her gap year before matriculating at the New York City art school Pratt Institute next fall. I was supposed to be celebrating my daily parts processing partner...
As I wrote in Navigating The Space Between Stories, many of us are experiencing more change, more quickly, with more uncertainty, than we’re used to. To meet this need for support during times of change, Dr. Jeffrey Rediger and I are hosting a live, in person...
Ever since things started opening back up again after the pandemic, I’m very aware of how much change we’re all facing. We are definitely in the “space between stories,” when one story is definitely in its death throes, and the next story...
We can’t read the news these days without reflecting on power and how those who shamelessly abuse power are destroying the world we know. The way I see it when I enter meditative states and vision a future I’d want to leave to my daughter, humans...
For many years, I’ve been reading and resonating with the physician literary magazine PULSE. (You can read it on their site here and subscribe to Pulse here.) Earlier this year, they had a writing contest with the prompt “On Being Different.” I...
Since I’m gearing up to teach the Memoir As Medicine class with Nancy Aronie, I wanted to take a moment to write you all a love story. It’s about my long term friend and now romantic partner, who you all may know from his work as the medical director of...
I used to hate being asked “What do you do?” I learned that if I told people I was an OB/GYN, the next half hour would result in people telling me about how their vagina got ripped all the way open during childbirth or asking me for free medical advice....
Last week, I had the great pleasure of co-teaching with IFS founder and trauma therapist Dick Schwartz, PhD in both our Healing With The Muse community and in our Rebirth 2021 class.