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Journaling is not the glamorous habit I make it out to be in my mind. I envision luxe hard-bound volumes full of pristine, poetic calligraphy written by candlelight before dawn. Reality finds me sitting sleepily in a robe, writing nonsense into spiral-bound notebooks until my coffee kicks in. My initial plan for a consistent hour of cataloging my deepest thoughts has turned i...

There’s a particular kind of exhaustion I came to know in my own life before I ever had a name for it. Three kids, a business I’m continually building, a relationship I genuinely wanted to keep showing up for — and somewhere in the middle of all of it, a blunt realization that I was doing everything and feeling almost nothing.

“I lay awake in the dark wondering whe...

There are moments in medicine that stay with you.

I think of the patient who finally comes in after months of telling herself she was “just tired,” only to discover there was something much bigger beneath the surface. Or the woman who noticed a lump but kept hoping it would go away before scheduling her mammogram. Or the person who has quietly adapted to years of br...

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