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Rachel Naomi Remen

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A Love Letter To Doctors

 

I have a confession to make. Four years ago, I was calling you the “Pod People,” because I felt so traumatized by the behavior of other doctors. When I quit practicing medicine around that time, I wanted to have nothing to do with doctors. I called myself a “recovering physician” and pretty much avoided doctors like the plague. I came to think of you as a bunch of arrogant, mean-spirited, grumpy, soulless people bent on keeping me in a box and clipping my wings.

 

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Mojo Monday Exercise: Connect Body and Mind Through Sign Dancing



We’ve all heard about the mind/body connection, that thinking a certain way can affect your body. You can visualize your cancer cells getting eaten up, and it works! But did you know it also works the other way around? That you can move your body in a way that affects your mind? Yoga is a great example of this, but there are other movements that can help heal your mind. Today, we’re going to try Sign Dancing.

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Your Life's Purpose: Are You Ready to Follow the Bird?

pinkbirdThis week, Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen turned me on to this amazing poem The Appointment, by Mark Nepo.

What if, on the first sunny day,
On your way to work, a colorful bird
Sweeps in front of you down a
Street you’ve never heard of.


You might pause and smile.

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A Thanksgiving Blessing

dad8I always thought my father was simple. Not in the mentally-handicapped kind of way, but definitely not complicated like me. Sure, we had things in common. Like me, he went to medical school, completed a residency, and practiced as a physician, so I certainly didn’t consider him unintelligent.

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My Owning Pink Manifesta

What does it mean to be Owning Pink? Owning Pink is a perpetual state of being in which women embrace their femaleness, open themselves to creative expression, optimize their health and well-being, grow through communion with other women, and commit themselves to living authentically, never forgetting that, girls, after all, do want to have fun. As an OB/GYN, artist, writer, and teacher, Owning Pink evolved as a way for me to integrate all of my passions in service to others. It took me a long time to figure out how to do that, given that my skills are seemingly disparate.

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Live, Love, Heal

Who’d have thunk that I’d have to study more, after twelve years of medical education? Don’t get me wrong. I knew I’d have to put in my CME hours (continuing medical education). I’d like to say I read all of my journals, but truth be told, I only read some of them, cherry picked for the articles that tickle my fancy of the day. (We do get LOTS of journals).

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