August 2021

The following is a social media post from August 14, 2021. I’m heading back to work tonight as an emergency medicine physician after 3 weeks of vacation. It wasn’t the vacation I had hoped for (we were supposed to be on safari in South Africa), but it was the vacation I needed. I’m going to […]

Step 5: Process Your Anxiety This is the final installment in my series on how to reduce your anxiety.  Up to this point, I’ve talked about things you can stop doing or possibly start doing to help you feel less anxiety on a day-to-day basis.  This week, however, things are going to be a little

Step 4: Move Your Body In A Loving Way Hopefully after last week’s blog you have a little better idea of what your schedule looks like and you have developed a more realistic plan for how to spend your time and better understand your expectations of yourself.  Take a moment now and look at your

Step 3: Stop Overscheduling Yourself In the first 2 weeks of this series, I gave you two suggestions to help you reduce your anxiety. The first one, trying a news fast, hopefully freed up some time in your schedule so that you could fit in the second one, meditation.  This week, however, we’re going to

Step 2: Try Meditation Last week I started my 5-part series on practical tips you can start today to reduce your overall anxiety.  Did you try a news fast?  If so, did you notice any difference in your overall mental state? I regularly participate in news fasts and I find that during these times I’m