Swallowing the mom guilt and going on the work trip and enjoying oneself while away is… hard but possible. Important. Do the thing, it’s good to be a real person sometimes outside of parenting responsibilities. San Diego you’re lovely 🌴

@sages.org @womensurgeons.bsky.social

Managed to squeeze in a 50 min Pilates reformer workout while on weekend call without my pager going off… feelin some kind of way 🤩🤩💫👌🏽💯
Aka thank you pager gods for this little grace— makes a huge difference

#MedSky #SurgSky #selfcare

Me trying to play with ZZ at the end of a long day
Hearts full but proverbial tanks on empty
I wish our lives didn’t move so fast— the demands of our jobs, our obligations, our health— taking us directly away from where we need to be:

Monday musings 🌙

January has been eventful so far, in good and hard ways.
Journaling more and enjoying the introspection and self-time that it brings ❣️🙏🏽
Writing is medicine for the soul ✍🏽 💫

#writing #journaling #mindfulness #selflove #writingsky #writersky #MedSky #selfcare #mentalhealth

Digging up words I wrote years ago, this is 2016…
2025 is a year for self renewal, self rediscovery 🌙

#reflection #mindfulness #poetry #poems #writing

2025 intentions: staying present & remembering to laugh even when things are hard

And 🤞🏽 publishing the book for her that I started last year ✍🏽

#medsky #surgsky #momsky #writing #poetry #writers #mindfulness #parenting #motherhood #growth

Just a little non-haiku I wrote (because apparently diary has three syllables not two 😝)

#poetry #shortpoems #writing #writers #inspiration #mindfulness

Self-expression at work 🥳

#SurgSky #MedSky #ilooklikeasurgeon

Woke up the last two days 30 mins earlier than usual to try to write before work and my daughter like clockwork woke up before I could sit down to write. HOW do people with little ones get up early and write? I swear the little ones have an internal alarm 😂
#writers #writing #momlife #parenting

1/ Content warning: Pregnancy, Loss

Only after my miscarriage do I start learning about other women in my life who have had miscarriages. It seems like there were so many women around me for years who suffered in silence.