*This is the last blog post in this space. I will continue writing on my new website. I hope you will follow me there. Aloha, Last year, in the middle of the Pandemic, I decided to start a podcast about living our best life every single day. It was also about having better end of life conversations. It has been so much fun to create this podcast for you. When I was putting the podcast together, someone asked me: What…
“When seeking out on a Journey, do not seek out the advice from those who have never left home.” RUMI This is a tough entry for me. Having realized that, I know that I want to write about it so here it goes. I have been working as a palliative care doctor in times of COVID for the last year now. I have seen it all. Patients dying alone in ICUs. Families having to say good bye via phone, skype,…
What is Toxic Positivity? Have you heard of it? We live in a society that wants to feel good all the time, and it wants to feel good right now. We watch movies that end well to such an extent that market research of a movie release comes from how the test audience liked the ending. If they don’t like it, they will make an alternate ending. What are we doing to ourselves? Where in life do we get second…
Some of you may know that I have a coaching program. It includes two weekly live yoga sessions. This is not with just any instructor I could find. They are the best yoga teachers I have ever worked with in the past 30 years that I have been practicing yoga. Last week, I had the opportunity to log in and attend one of those live sessions myself. It was out of this world. That particular session was taught by Ami….
So, it’s Valentine’s Day today. I don’t know where you are located. I have subscribers all over the world. It is always fun for me to see people subscribing from cities that I have never visited, I would love to see all the places that people are logging in from to read what I have to share with them. Valentine’s Day is a big deal here in the US. About a month leading up to it, you see stores filled…
Today is February 7th. It’s sort of a big deal. It is the day that my husband and I celebrate with a special dinner. It’s kind of our valentine’s day and it is truly very meaningful. Valentine’s day means nothing to me. Today means the world to me. See, my husband grew up in France. Smoking was very common practice back then in the 1980s. He would buy loose tobacco and roll his own cigarettes and smoke like so many…
Happy February! Just like that, January is gone and behind us. How is that even possible? We were still talking about the drama and the trauma of 2020 to our collective consciousness. Now, 1/12 of the new year is behind us. It feels like a fog to me. As we are getting vaccinated and the borders are opening up slowly, I have had the pleasure of hosting family again. My niece came for a visit this past month. It was…
You may know that I am a Palliative Care Physician. You also may know that last year I decided to become a Life Coach and make an impact on the living, not just the dying patients. This year I started a year long coaching program called “Living Intentionally”. While I have one on one clients that I see separately, I am really loving the people who have signed up to be part of this journey with me. Part of getting…
“You can do a lot, but you cannot do everything.Forgive yourself.” -Me to my kids We are coming to the end of the year. What a year it has been. I think even with early stay home orders in March we had some high hopes, didn’t we? Maybe this will be the year that I will brush up on my Japanese? I always wanted to get back to learning the piano. I was even tempted to try the ever popular…
“I heard this story about a fish, he swims up to an older fish and says:“I’m trying to find this thing they call the ocean.”“The ocean?” the older fish says, “that’s what you’re in right now.”“This”, says the young fish, “this is water. What I want is the ocean!” “Soul” from Pixar Movie This is something that I come back to over and over again. We are all in this thing together. This thing called life. One big ocean. If…