5 Things I Shared With My Patients That They Found Helpful
One The capacity to make mindful choices for our sleep, nutrition, exercise and movement, work-life balance, resilient relationship building and maintenance every single day is neither realistic nor natural, especially in this modern era. Pick one category and start with a simple, extremely easy and doable habit that you commit to maintain irrespective of the
Perinatal Depression (A Poem)
You see her eyes laced with exhaustionHer chest clutched onto a torn tapestryThe mouth she feeds bleeds in her armsDisappearing sand through her fingertips Their touch burns fissures in her fleshWith muted eyes and a deaf screamWho is she?Shhhhhh, the footsteps are fadingWho is she, again? She buries her feet in the caves of existenceOnce,
Suffering To Healing: Connecting Via Stories
Bustan (2015) Psychophysics […] suffering [involves] long-term implications of pain associated with threat, loss, potential damage, and impending harm for the self [and is] the combined display of several distinctive negative emotions. Cassell (1982) Medical ethics […] suffering can be defined as the state of severe distress associated with events that threaten the intactness of
Exploring The Reasons Why Some Women Reject Breast Cancer Screening
Breast cancer awareness month is October. I decided to take this opportunity to discuss the factors why some women do not get their mammograms done and subsequently present with cancerous lumps at a much later stage of the disease. I have found them and their family members to share guilt and shame regarding the very
Urinary Symptoms In Women Are Not Always A Bladder Infection
Women are far more susceptible to urinary symptoms than men. We do not usually have clear information available to the public that helps them to identify the differences between some of these conditions which are often lumped under the possibility of a UTI (urinary tract infection). A UTI could be a bladder infection or it
Understanding Menstrual Cycles And Conditions Affecting Them
On average, 10 in 100 women have heavy menstrual bleeding, which is more than 80ml of blood in the entire menstrual cycle. 80ml equals 1/3rd of a cup or more than 5 tablespoons. Flooding = Leaking through despite using a tampon or pad Clots = Clumps of blood and lining tissue The average menstrual cycle