If you’ve struggled with health, you’ve likely worked hard to keep your mindset straight that healing is even still possible. I did. I was newly married, sitting on the stairs leading up to the 2nd floor of our then bungalow home, and incredibly sad. The room at the...

I was driving and listening to an online course when I heard from the recording, “if you don’t have any problems, that means you’re dead!” That made me laugh out loud. It’s so obvious, right? Problems are a sign of life – that we’re still alive, still here, growing....

At a personal development event, I opened the workbook to the first page. As I read the poem, The Invitation by Oriah, my eyes popped and jaw dropped – as if TRUTH was staring me smack in the face – urging me to look at myself, honestly. It doesn’t interest me what...

Have you ever caught yourself saying to yourself, “I don’t know?” I discovered I say “I don’t know” to myself ALL day long. As I wash my hands or take out the trash, my mind is working to answer life’s questions, and my immediate knee-jerk response is, “I don’t know.”...

Have you seen the documentary “Introducing, Selma Blair?” I’m a bit biased, as it stars one of my childhood besties, and I’m in it (at her bedside midway through the film – blink, and you’ll miss me! LOL!) The film documents her journey living with MS as a woman,...

Pregnant with my oldest, I hit Einstein Bros Bagels drive-thru on my way home from working out and ordered the usual: an everything bagel with strawberry cream cheese. (Side note: By the end of the pregnancy, I ordered two! So that’s some heavy-duty post-workout...

I write to heal. Often Divine insights for blog posts come when I’m out of my head and moving my body on the bike with Peloton. During one of those rides, the instructor, Christian Vande Velde, said, “release your death grip,” and went on to explain how squeezing the...

Shortly after the pandemic quarantine started, a friend shared Peloton’s free 4-month trial. I jumped on it and quickly became hooked! My favorite cycling instructor is Robin. She’s constantly dropping Divine insights, and this one stopped me: Are you willing to own...

My heart was set on getting out of Michigan for pediatric residency training – somewhere out west, preferably San Francisco! On match day – the day when medical students discover where they’ll train for residency – my girlfriend learned her destination (UCSF...