Clinical medicine or entrepreneurship often means working through the weekend. I know many high achievers who run the engine 24/7. This one really applies to me. And someone once told me – even high-performance cars take rest – you can’t run the engines hot all the time. Though I would if I could 😜 @drdaltonsmith has […]

When was the last time being in the kitchen felt like fun for you? If you are pausing to think about that, consider making something that you might normally buy that you love 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩. We 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘 making home based berry crisp. Scroll back in time to see old photos. That is a fact. Let’s […]

Curiosity and creativity go hand and hand for me. What is your favorite technique to inspire creativity? 👇🏻 I’ll go first! I love to be in nature. Every time i start to observe the patterns, colors, smells – my inner creative process begins to spark. And as I listen to that voice … a process […]

In the past several days, I have had several conversations with people feeling uncertain about resting. We clearly have an internal dialog that busy = desired state of our lives. Physicians have a constant current of tasks, activities and criteria that keep us in a perpetual state of motion. What if there could be pauses, […]

Vegan “feta/chevre” cherry tomato bake! Share with a friend who has loved the feta tomato pasta challenge. When I saw how popular this was, I really wanted to jump in as well but from a plant-based perspective. It is so exciting to me to get creative and think about how to transform existing knowledge and […]

I have been thinking about affirmations lately … what we are subtly telling ourselves. And I am working on one in more depth, and that is “I love my body”. It is uncomfortable to embrace as I feel like as a child of the 80’s I have heard subtle messages since I was young about […]

Ayurveda is an ancient medical system from India that was developed thousands of years ago through deep meditation and *millions* of case studies. When I first started studying Ayurveda in 1991, I was in my pre-med years at UVa (how did I get this old). Pre-med is a pressure cooker… to say the least. And […]

Celebrating the earth and all her beauty today. I visited Blossoms BioDynamic Farm. There was so much love in the land that I wanted to share a short video with you celebrating how amazing it was. Hope you enjoy these lovely sights as much as I did! Hop onto my Instagram reels to see the […]