I wasn’t always a meditation teacher. I didn’t even meditate until 5 years into my career as a hospitalist. I suffered from severe burnout, and I was in desperate need of a change. Once I learned to meditate, everything started to improve. I stopped crying. I stopped...
Aren’t all things better when they’re in balance? That is this year’s theme for International Women’s Day (IWD). IWD will be on March 8th, and this year marks the 118th annual celebration. Since its inception in 1911 in several European countries, IWD marks the...
If you are anything like me, you have a hard time figuring out what to get the special guy in your life for Valentine’s day. How many coffee mugs, neck ties and slippers can a guy receive? We asked the authors of “The Chronicles of Women in White...
“For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.” These are the words of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. By doing so on January 23rd 1849,...
As Co-Editor-in-Chief, of Women in White Coats, a blog dedicated to being THE VOICE of women doctors, I see one topic come up over and over again among writers and members of our tribe and that is burnout. We get submission after submission on this topic each with a...
Sometimes you have the best conversations by chance and at the most unexpected time and place. You know, those conversations where someone says something to you and you feel as if it was God speaking to you through someone else. Recently I had one such conversation in...