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URGENT: The Surprising Thing PMS is Trying to Tell Your Body

URGENT: The Surprising Thing PMS is Trying to Tell Your Body

As a woman, have you ever been asked the question “Is it that time of the month again”? It’s typically asked in a snarky, sarcastic manner, and usually comes from our partner, family members, or close friends. This euphemism actually refers to a woman being on her...

Learn 2 Ways to Reconnect with Your Body As a Woman Doctor

Learn 2 Ways to Reconnect with Your Body As a Woman Doctor

Something happens to doctors in our training process, we stop listening to our bodies. We learn how to disconnect from our bodies. I remember being a 3rd-year medical student scrubbed into an 8-hour vascular case and retracting the body cavity for the surgeon. I was...

How Restorative Rest Can Boost Your Productivity in 3 Simple Ways

How Restorative Rest Can Boost Your Productivity in 3 Simple Ways

As women doctors, we love being productive. Some of us are workaholics. We could even be called high-achievers. Regardless, all of us have a hard time sitting down to relax. I know that’s been the case for me. But I have discovered there are 3 important ways resting...

Go to the Doctor, Doc! How to Navigate Getting Care as a Physician

Go to the Doctor, Doc! How to Navigate Getting Care as a Physician

As an emergency doctor, I find it hard to go to the doctor. After years of work in an emergency department, my first thought is usually this: “the symptoms I’m experiencing are probably minor.” I question whether it requires me, a doctor, to go to another...

Three Things Women Doctors Need To Thrive Right Now

Three Things Women Doctors Need To Thrive Right Now

Spring is in the air, even here in Chicago where I live. When spring rolls around, I always feel a sense of renewal and rebirth. This is the perfect time to reevaluate where we are and what we, as women doctors, need now to succeed and thrive. I believe it comes down...

5 Ways to Create and Plan Your Own Personally Curated Retreat

5 Ways to Create and Plan Your Own Personally Curated Retreat

Think back to the last glorious vacation you took that felt like a retreat. Wouldn’t it be nice to recreate this same uplifting experience close to home? I remember mine - an off-season trip to a Caribbean Island during a time when I was burned out from work. We were...

     

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