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Vulnerability Itself
This week I had set out to write a post about vulnerability. But I realized that it was difficult to write about vulnerability…almost as...
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Wide Open Spaces
The other day, a well meaning individual said to me, “I don’t know how you do it all. I know you are really busy. Why don’t you let me...
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Beginning Again
As I look through my blog, I realize that I have written a lot recently about self care. Why it is important, how and why we should do...
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Green Juice and Doughnuts
This past Friday, I had a lovely morning. It had been a hectic week prior, between work, adjusting to the start of school, and other...
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All That Matters
I was driving my kids to school this morning, when I started to feel that familiar feeling creep in around 7:50 am. That inner...
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Turning Ten
Dear Lakshmi, Today, you turn ten years old. You are turning a corner, a decade of life, moving into the double digits. I can’t believe...
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Knowing Pain
Hello pain. It’s me, Monisha. I know. When we think of pain, we think of a difficult thought, situation, feeling, reaction, physical...
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Expanding Time
My patient sat quietly, his hands resting in his lap, gazing out the window. Therapy. We had already covered the major areas of life,...
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A Moment of Gratitude
I have been working hard at gratitude lately. I know that sounds kind of strange to say. I always imagined that being thankful would...
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New Year’s Resolution Part 2
In last week’s post, I shared my intention to bring a little more laughter into my life. It is amazing how something so simple, can...
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My New Year’s Resolution
As I write this, the clock reads 11:37 pm, and it is Friday night. I am sitting in my darkened bedroom, typing as quietly as possible...
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How To Start
An astute reader read my post last week, and wrote to me, “Thank you for sharing the ‘why” of your mindfulness practice…but do you mind...
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Coming Full Circle
About a month ago, I facilitated a mindfulness session for a group of about fifteen people. It was a group of engaged, young...
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Who Am I Without My Labels?
I am so happy to be back after my month long vacation from blogging. This was the first time I had missed a week since starting my blog,...
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Summer Vacation
I think this is one of the more difficult posts I have written over the last couple of years. So I will just put it out there now, to...
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The Path to Worthiness
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about how we are all worthy, independent of what we do, earn, look like, or accomplish. I have been...
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What Mindfulness Isn’t
It is hard to define exactly what mindfulness is…the more I start to delve more deeply into an understanding of what role mindfulness...
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The Three Words Every Child Should Hear
I have been hearing whispers of the same emotion all around me these days. A dear, dear friend, going through a terrible break up,...
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Creating Safe Spaces
Recently I have been exploring the world of online writing groups. My current group is run by a beautiful writer and coach, and consists...
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Starting Over
As a psychiatrist, I spend a great deal of time with my patients examining the past. We reflect on our histories in order to better...