Tonight I had a naked dance party with my toddler and my infant. This is an almost nightly event in our home. Tonight we danced to some Macklemore songs, including "And We Danced." As I jumped around the room, I let everything go. I flung my body intensely and soaked in the moment. It was [...]
Happy World Mental Healthy Day 2020! Do you want to know three EASY, and FREE/CHEAP ways to improve your mental AND physical health EVERY DAY?! Check out my video below to find out! :)
“What day is it?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh.” ― A.A. Milne I have had folks ask me what a holistic psychiatrist actually does every day. So, I'm going to give you a peak into my daily life. Yesterday I took notes on my day, and below is an [...]
"The secret to happiness is letting go." -Buddha I had a wonderful epiphany on my run yesterday but haven't had the time to write about it as a blog post. So, please check out this short Vlog below to hear about what I discovered on my daily morning run!
"Kundalini is your Mother. She has been with you for ages and She has been waiting for this day when you could get your Realization." — Nirmala Srivastava I have been absent from this blog for too long. It is not because things have not been happening in my life, but rather because they have. [...]
"We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are" - Author Unknown "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. - Marcus Aurelius "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau Thought of the Day: On my morning walk around my neighborhood [...]
“Every cloud has a silver lining.” - Source likely John Milton The current COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has cast one of the largest dark clouds our world has ever seen. As of this moment in time, the total number of Coronavirus cases worldwide is 2,199,560 and the death toll is 147,749. One cannot even begin to [...]
The Summer Day Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and [...]
Since starting medical school back in 2006, I have worked through multiple natural disasters and outbreaks. I can't even recall them all, but I remember surviving Hurricane Dean while I was a medical student on the island of Dominica. During my psychiatry residency, I worked in a psychiatric emergency room in Brooklyn during Hurricanes Irene [...]
