If that question lands somewhere in your chest, here is the first thing I tell every survivor who asks it: this is n
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I was standing over my suitcase, holding up several swim suits that I had purchased for my prior trip to Gulf Shores, Alabama. I had been mortified to see how large my right leg was when a friend had taken photos of me c...
As we wind down August which is National Wellness Month, I thought it would be best to provide a recap of the month especially as we approach the last quarter of the year. I used this month to ask you, and myself, the same question a few different ways: who is taking care of you? If you have been r...
A woman I'll call Deidre once sat across from me in an executive health physical. She appeared in a hurry and clearly did not want to be there. She informed me rather curtly that she had several meetings scheduled at her office- which fortunately was a short walk- in less than an hour. The only reas...
National Wellness Month · For Women Over 50
If you've been on social media this month you may have come across several challenges. A 30-day total reset. A friend’s ambitious new workout routine. A promise that in one month, you can lose ha
...National Wellness Month · August
There is a particular high achieving professional woman I think about often. She is the one everyone leans on. She runs everything. But she was quietly last on her own list.
After a failed attempt at co-owning her own private medical practice, she spent the ne
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She found the bottle behind the coffee maker, half full, three weeks after it should have been empty.
Her mother swore she'd been taking it. And she probably believed she had. But somewhere between the summer visitors, the trip to see the grandkids, and the afternoon naps that pushed the eve
...International Self-Care Day · July 24
A new year, a new list of restrictions. Less of this. Stricter about that. Somewhere along the way, I had absorbed the idea that taking care of
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I could have diagnosed it in a patient in ten minutes. In myself, it took months.
My heart would race while I was sitting still. I was tired in a way that sleep never fixed. My weight was drastically dropping in a way I'd never experienced. I
...By now you may have seen the story of Dr. Sandra Lee — known to millions as Dr. Pimple Popper — who shared publicly this spring that she had a stroke while filming her show last November. She was 55 years old. She was working. She was a physician.
When the symp...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. And every year, millions of women are told the same thing:
"You're probably just stressed. Try to rest more. Maybe see a therapist."
That advice isn't wrong. But for women in midlife, it may be dangerously incomplete.
Because what looks exactly like burnout — the b...
For every woman over 50 reading this, this message is for you.Whether you are a mother, a grandmother, an auntie, or simply a woman who has spent decades showing up for everyone else you deserve to be celebrated this Mother's Day week. But more than a bouquet of flowers, more than brunch, more than ...
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