2023 was a heckuva journey. There’s no better word than journey for what the year entailed. Some journeys are coming to an end; some have just started. But they’ve all come together into one comprehensive journey of renewal. The word I chose for 2023 truly shaped the entire year. Renewal results in something new, but it also requires...

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Are you ready? Are. You. READY?This single question has been on my mind for awhile. There are reasons for that and I will talk about them coming up very shortly. But I want to start, instead of thinking about the future, with thinking about the past.Truth is, the concept of readiness is interesting to me. As many of you...

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Tomorrow is my birthday, and I am feeling all sorts of things about it.  See, usually, I'm all about my birthday.  I always have something to look forward to, something to anticipate.  I always try to do *something* special.  Growing up, my birthday was one of three favorite days of the year (Christmas and Halloween were the other...

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I have been away for awhile, and it has been a crazy period of time.  For those of you still following along, here's a real quick, bulleted rundown of what has happened over the last year: I went back to the small hospital I left in 2018 in August of 2019.  That hospital was forced to close in...

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What do you tell yourself? What do you constantly say – and hear – in the spaces where no one else listens? In the breaths between your everyday tasks? In those moments between brushing your teeth and fixing your hair? What does that monologue sound like? What do you truly believe about yourself? Can we do an exercise...

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