“If we have pen in hand and follow the thread with a playful spirit, new and healing discoveries can emerge as if they were trapped there among the words all along, just waiting for a childlike playfulness to set them free.”   Kevin Anderson, PhD, Psychotherapist and Author

"Intimacy is the willingness to be vulnerable." – Brené Brown

"I contain multitudes." - Walt Whitman, from the poem “Song of Myself, 51”

"The reasonable man [sic] adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." — George Bernard Shaw

“Each of us wants to know that what we do matters …. and that we matter.”  Gary Chapman, PhD and Paul White, PhD, co-authors of the book The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace

“It’s halftime for 2024!” … said July 1st

“You know what everybody needs?… Everybody needs to be understood.”   Sherwin Nuland, MD, surgeon, author, bioethicist

“You just call on me …. when you need a hand.  We all need somebody to lean on.”  Bill Withers, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, from the song “Lean on Me”

“The ultimate touchstone of friendship … is witness.” David Whyte; poet, author, philosopher

"Belonging is being accepted for you. Fitting in is being accepted for being like everyone else." – Anonymous

“Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others’ choices make us.”   Richie Norton, author and podcaster

“Don’t worry! I got your back.” — Anchoring phrase at the 2024 AAFP Physician Well-being Conference

“Saying someone shouldn’t feel sad because someone else may have it worse is like saying someone can't be happy because someone else may have it better.”  Unknown

“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”  Sir William Osler

“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is perhaps the bravest thing we will ever do.”  Brené Brown

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”  ― Warren Buffet

"I have great faith in a seed.... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders." — Henry David Thoreau

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”  William James, MD, considered to be the “Father of American Psychology”

“Perhaps the secret of living well is not having all the answers, but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.”  Rachel Naomi Remen, MD

“Why is it that giving myself a break feels like such a big deal!?” Me