MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS
That’s not my business. I’ve had to get accustomed to hearing and accepting this phrase from myself since the pandemic began. It’s tempting to think everything I care about it is my business. That mindset rarely serves me. For clarity’s sake, let me state I consider...
BE AWARE OF YOUR LIGHT
Girl, it’s a set up. I find myself telling women friends, mentees and clients some version of this statement pretty regularly. You see women have a slippery slope to navigate in the professional world. It’s a fine balance between exhibiting clear competence and...
A CURIOUS AND HUMBLE HEALER
Much of the work helpers and healers do in the world focuses on mitigating pain. We go into situations where people are hurting or struggling and do what we can to improve it. We can forget that most people live their lives seeking both to mitigate pain and to...
MAKING THE MINDSET SHIFT
As we head into year two of the COVID pandemic overshadowing life in the USA, I have a lot of concern about new attending physicians. Even in an ideal world, maintaining joy in life as a practicing clinician requires much more intention than we are led to believe...
CONSIDERED CONTRADICTORY TO EXCELLENCE
Black excellence exists without proximity to whiteness. This is a truth many Americans have difficulty grasping. Because of the way our society is set up, there tends to be a false cause and effect relationship applied to Black excellence and white presence. There is...
EMPOWER WITH WELL-BEING
As we celebrate Black history this month, I wonder how we can be more intentional about supporting Black well-being. Here are a few basic ways to start. Pay Black people for the extra work you expect them to do. After the George Floyd protests of last summer, there...
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