Doc’s Thoughts Broaden your perspective. Live a happy, healthy, meaningful life. Subscribe to Doc's Thoughts For many people (myself included), we tend to try and organize our lives around goals. When we think about what comes next (or what we hope comes next), what we want to achieve, the things we hope to accomplish, they tend to revolve around things we can check off a list. The goal might be to go to college, graduate from college, become a doctor, achieve a certain level of financial...
8 days ago • 4 min read
Doc’s Thoughts Broaden your perspective. Live a happy, healthy, meaningful life. Subscribe to Doc's Thoughts We all carry a mental image of what it means to be strong. Often, it’s the person who stands tall in the storm, pushes through without complaint, and never asks for help. Society celebrates toughness, control, and confidence—especially in those who endure hardship in silence. We absorb this message early, and it shapes how we measure ourselves and others. The image is compelling, but...
15 days ago • 2 min read
Doc’s Thoughts Broaden your perspective. Live a happy, healthy, meaningful life. Subscribe to Doc's Thoughts You’d be forgiven for thinking that I have a fairly dim view of life. I talk and write about the importance of resilience because fundamentally I do not think it’s possible to avoid hardship. I talk about how important it is to learn how to bounce back because I believe we will get knocked down. I’ve written about how relationships are about rupture and repair– that we will inevitably...
22 days ago • 4 min read
Doc’s Thoughts Broaden your perspective. Live a happy, healthy, meaningful life. Subscribe to Doc's Thoughts This post is a little different than usual, but I thought it would be interesting to write about. About 10 years ago, I stepped into the role of medical director at DYF. The camp (where I spend a lot of time every summer) was started in 1938 for children with type 1 diabetes. Only 17 years after the discovery of insulin, the idea of taking children with type 1 diabetes into the...
29 days ago • 5 min read
Doc’s Thoughts Broaden your perspective. Live a happy, healthy, meaningful life. Subscribe to Doc's Thoughts I’ve been up at Bearskin Meadow Camp– a camp for people living with type 1 diabetes– a lot this summer. One of the things that strikes me about being up here is how many people call this place home. Over and over again, I hear that coming to camp is coming home. It's a remarkable statement given that most people sleep on open-air decks, and almost everything is communal—the bathrooms,...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Doc’s Thoughts Broaden your perspective. Live a happy, healthy, meaningful life. Subscribe to Doc's Thoughts Most of the things that matter deeply to us and that bring us joy are not things that we own. We do not own our marriage, our children, our community, our friendships, our family, or our country. We do not own the air we breathe, the mountains we walk through, or the beaches we lay on. We do not own our religion, our congregation, our faith. We do not even own our health. We have...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Doc’s Thoughts Broaden your perspective. Live a happy, healthy, meaningful life. Subscribe to Doc's Thoughts A lot of people talk to me about an empty feeling they feel inside them. Usually, it's described as a void, a space that needs to be filled. This is not emptiness in the buddhist sense, but emptiness in the sense of missing something, of being incomplete. It is an uncomfortable, restless feeling that cries out to be filled, to be addressed, like a darkness that must be driven out....
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Doc’s Thoughts Broaden your perspective. Live a happy, healthy, meaningful life. Subscribe to Doc's Thoughts As we grow and move into new roles, or step into new situations, it’s common to feel inadequate—like we don’t belong, aren’t ready, or are not up to the task. Imposter syndrome is often the name we give to this feeling– the nagging belief that we’re about to be exposed as a fraud. We doubt ourselves, our accomplishments, or who we are, and feel that we don’t deserve to be where we are....
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Doc’s Thoughts Broaden your perspective. Live a happy, healthy, meaningful life. Subscribe to Doc's Thoughts We spend a lot of time chasing happiness—trying to become more joyful, more fulfilled, more content. We believe we know what stands in the way of our happiness: too much work, too little time, not enough money, family stress. The obstacles feel tangible. But a big obstacle is not actually these identified barriers, but something else– our ability to tolerate contentment. We are so...
2 months ago • 5 min read