Category: Being Yourself

In October 2019, The National Academy of Medicine released the widely anticipated report, Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Wellbeing, a culmination of the research conducted by The Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-being and Resilience since 2017. Their findings indicate that more than half of all clinicians, most prevalently nurses and…

I was born in Redding, California. After my parents divorced, my mom moved my sister and me to a small town. Growing up, my sister regularly spoke for both of us. While this played a significant role regarding my shyness, I was invariably a happy kid. After the move, I developed a tight-knit friend group,…

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself – Friedrich Nietzsche. This quote is the proof that you cannot please everyone in…

Primary school wasnt as eventful as it was supposed to be for majority of children, instead it felt like I was drowning in what the world perceived me to be instead of who I wanted to be. As a child growing up, I never really knew who I was and how I should act. All…