I walked to go get my patient from the waiting room.  It was his second visit and his initial evaluation had gone well from a treatment perspective, but not from one of social connection.  After we talked about the weather, we had struggled to reach any common ground for communication. […]

I recently read Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson. I’ll be honest, I was hoping that the book would uncover the hidden solution to better sleep. I expected some exotic tip- one that I would never have thought of on my own and one that would transform the way I sleep. […]

They pulled him aside before the volleyball game started. There was some pointing, nodding, laughing, and then he came back to his seat in the stands. We all looked at him inquisitively. “I’m going to be part of the entertainment between the second and third set,” he stated nonchalantly. At […]

I have a folder titled Unfinished Blog Posts. It contains posts that were started, but not finished. Twenty-seven documents that got my time and energy. Twenty-seven pieces of writing that will probably never be posted. At first, this folder drove me crazy. It was proof of wasted time. It was […]

This blank page has stared back at me for the entire week. Posting has been getting harder and harder over the last month. The ideas have been more difficult to come up with and I seem to be deleting as much as I am writing. I’ve been complaining that I […]

See if this sounds familiar: I think about what I want to accomplish in the coming year. I write my goals down. I am extremely excited about my goals and the early success is exhilarating. I have a few slip ups here and there. I start to lose interest. I […]

This is my final post of 2017. Going into the year, posting weekly was a huge step outside my comfort zone for so many reasons. But, here I am on the last Tuesday of 2017 and have somehow kept the streak alive. A few months ago, I posted on how […]

We stood in line at the deli counter. I had my credit card in hand and I was ready to pay for myself and one of my mentors. I was ready for the argument about who was going to pay as well. The last two times we went to dinner, […]

Starting this blog was a leap outside my comfort zone.  A scary, uneasy, exhilarating, fulfilling leap that I want everyone to experience in 2018.  As I finish the last few posts, I honestly can’t describe this feeling.  So, instead of trying to describe it, I want everyone else to feel […]

I guess third time really is a charm.  This is the third year in a row that I have tried to read fifty-two books in fifty-two weeks.  The first year was no where close, last year somewhat closer, but this year, I finally hit fifty-two. So, here is my final […]