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decided to let my family’s form become an evolving ecosystem.
Glennon Doyle • Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Rather than viewing care work as characteristic of the noun “motherhood,” I now see it as the action of mothering, which includes anyone who is engaged in “the practice of creating, nurturing, affirming and supporting life.”
Angela Garbes • Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
You are a flawed and unique human being, with excellent training and an admirable sense of purpose. Your training and sense of purpose will serve you well. Your humanity will serve your patients even better.
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
Jessica Lahey • Jessica Lahey on Parenting, Desirable Difficulties, The Gift of Failure, Self-Efficacy, and The Addiction Inoculation (#553)
Be Kind to Your Parents
Laurence Endersen • Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference
find the veterans, not the celebrities, not the TV stars, but those folks who nobody else knows have lived such magnificent lives. Find them and then sit with them and learn how to ask the right questions so that the opening can take place. I think that this country cannot become its best self until we find ways more effectively of institutionalizi
... See moreKrista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
Butler describes slow medicine as a care approach that involves shared decision-making, a focus on alleviating suffering rather than “fixing an organ or extending a life,” and the acceptance of the reality of terminal illness. Slow medicine is “loving, beautiful, and holy” work.
Amy Wright Glenn • Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go
inspire hope, and other qualities sometimes called “soft skills” (or, more appreciatively, “the art of medicine”) and which are as useful in my practice as antibiotics and MRIs, if not more so. Similarly, when I’ve been a patient myself, or when someone I love has fallen ill, I’ve been struck by the importance of these qualities to healing.