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Alcohol Free for Five Years Today

Mere Mortal MD

Laura said something in the interview about freedom, which I later read in her book I bought online that very same day. After reading Laura’s book I joined her online sobriety support group, The Luckiest Club. It’s that I no longer turn to a toxic substance daily to manage my stress and emotions. I am finally free.

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Be Good. Do Good.

StorytellERdoc

I asked, thinking about how amazing our case managers in our ER were. This connectedness is vital to our continued good mental health. What a great way to nourish our relationships as well as reap the rewards that giving provides. Although I knew a lot of his needs were beyond what I could offer, I still had to ask. "Do

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5 things you can do to improve your health that have nothing to do with dieting

Vida Family Medicine

As a family physician, I spend a lot of time with patients focusing on how to best take care of themselves to prevent or manage chronic disease. Often when I meet a patient who is taking steps to improve their health, the first thing that they do is make changes to what they are eating.

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Episode 309 – Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 23 – Anti-Blackness, Anti-Fatness, and Food Shaming

The Clinical Problem Solvers

She is the author of two award winning books: Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America (James Beard Foundation) and Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power (American Folklore Society); as well as the co-edited Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing Food World. North Atlantic Books.

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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

GeriPal

He studies the mental health system in the ways in which it has failed children and adolescents, and he writes about his experience with cancer in a blog, the Billgardner.substack.com, Billgardner, one word. Today we talk with deep thinkers about this issue. We have a Canadian theme going. We just had Harvey Chochinov on. inaudible].

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare? It’s the relationships to the world.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Jace 29:36 We see higher rates of mental health challenges that I think are due to overcoming adversity. Jace 30:29 For a long caregiver challenges and not, you know, having to go into spaces that are heavily like hetero and cis normative in terms of how they provide services, how they navigate relationships. Eric 29:36 Yeah.