*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…
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….
I am someone who… How are you doing? March 1st is here already. How did that go? We talked about not having a new year’s resolution. We talked about trying to give up “self judgement” for lent. This got me thinking. How have you been doing? Are you sticking with your plan of whatever you had conjured up for yourself? My second quarterly program is starting on March 28th. It’s a 12 week program on Time and Clutter management. Like…
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…
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.” In my line of work, which is palliative medicine, we are often the last one to come in contact with the patient. It should not be that way. There is a reason that the patients confuse our service with hospice. It is because we are asked right when what they really need is hospice type care. There is so much confusion regarding what our type of…