by María Perez-Johnson | Apr 20, 2019 | Lifestyle
On this Earth Day, “Nature is my medicine,” writes Sara Moss Wolfe and yes it is mine as well. As Albert Einstein stated, “Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.” Some days that reassurance is all it takes to relax and make things...
by Jill Wener | Mar 25, 2019 | Feature, Lifestyle
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...
by Vanessa Peters | Mar 16, 2019 | Lifestyle
It was a beautiful warm mid-July morning in Minnesota and I was taken by surprise by my feeling of complete and utter contentment. I was with my family bicycling around a lake on a smooth, groomed gravel path surrounded by trees, ferns and so many shades of green my...
by Alana Biggers | Feb 17, 2019 | Lifestyle
It is no secret. Often women are the keepers of their home. And it can drive you CRAZY! How can we keep our sanity? We need to give ourselves a time out and decompress. Decompressing is essential for your mental health. But how can you do that when you have patients...
by Dr. Maria Perez-Johnson | Feb 7, 2019 | Lifestyle
Being a doctor is hard, being a mother is just as hard if not harder; and being both often seems impossible. Looking back at my medical career it is difficult to fathom doing both. I was an older, non-traditional student when I returned back to college to complete my...
by Archana Shrestha | Feb 4, 2019 | Feature, Lifestyle
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...
