Category: Doctor’s Thoughts

I recently was home alone for a week– the rest of my family was somewhere else. Pretty much everyone I talked to before they left

I was going to write this week about sitting with difficult feelings that come up– I even had a draft written. The reason that I

When we travel to another country, we expect to have difficulty communicating: the language is different. This is so obvious that it feels idiotic to

When we think about habits, we usually think about things like exercise, diet, or when we wake up in the morning. We do not often

Think about the last time someone started a sentence to you (or you started by telling someone else), “I have to be honest with you…”

I was recently talking to a patient who had picked up smoking again after successfully quitting. He was off cigarettes for a while, and then

I’ve written before how the way we define the opposite of something defines the thing itself. When we hear that we need to be more accepting

When we talk about distilling something down, we’re talking about reducing it to its essence. We take something made up of many constituent parts and

At some point, all of us have done things that we are ashamed or embarrassed of. More than tripping on the sidewalk in front of