<p>Leave me alone!</p> <p>Stop picking on me!</p> <p>If only I 'coulda-woulda-shoulda' expressed my anger.</p> <p>I was a skinny kid.</p> <p>With huge hair.</p> <p>Buck teeth.</p> <p>Scrawny.</p> <p>Easy target.</p> <p>Like an archery target for bul...

<p>I was lost and couldn't find my way home.</p> <p>Where was I?</p> <p>No GPS for the soul.</p> <p>Vulnerable.</p> <p>Off-course.</p> <p>No roadside assistance or AAA (Awesomely Authentic Acceptance).</p> <p>Sent out an SOS.</p> <p>To my heart.</p>...

<p>Jake and I were at each other's throats.</p> <p>You're wrong!</p> <p>No, you are!</p> <p>'Winning' an argument isn't winning at all.</p> <p>If all of life is a game, how do you win?</p> <p>You don't.</p> <p>There is no 'you' winning.</p> <p>Only...

<p>You matter.</p> <p>No matter what.</p> <p>No matter what's going on at this moment.</p> <p>You matter right here, right now.</p> <p>You being here.</p> <p>For me.</p> <p>You showed up.</p> <p>Regardless of your latest drama.</p> <p>Trust me.</p>...

<p>Sometimes I break the one rule I shouldn't.</p> <p>I stop listening to my body.</p> <p>To its wisdom.</p> <p>When my body hurt, I kept going.</p> <p>Shoulda rested.</p> <p>When my body was tired, I watched another episode of Curb.</p> <p>Shoulda ...

<p>Ah, the lifelong struggle to be the best version of myself.</p> <p>The SuperDuperUltraMegaBodyMindSoul me.</p> <p>Like if Tim Ferriss and Deepak Chopra had a baby.</p> <p>You too?</p> <p>I know you care about your health.</p> <p>All of it.</p> <p...

<p>I've got twenty seconds with you.</p> <p>That's it.</p> <p>After that, nothing matters.</p> <p>You're somewhere else.</p> <p>Your first 20 seconds.</p> <p>You've already decided.</p> <p>Twenty words.</p> <p>Twenty steps.</p> <p>To joy.</p> <p>Her...

<p>I was in a lot of trouble.</p> <p>Without an easy solution.</p> <p>Joy was missing from my medical practice.</p> <p>I was seeing it all wrong.</p> <p>Viewing life from an expert mentality.</p> <p>Like "this is how it has to be."</p> <p>To be acce...

<p><em>Acta non verba</em>.</p> <p>“Actions, not words.”</p> <p>Bill had this tattooed on his arm.</p> <p>He was in the exam room with his wife today.</p> <p>Made me think.</p> <p>All the sh*tty words I've used.</p> <p>"I won't be able to do this."<...

<p>"It's nothing to be ashamed of."</p> <p>My patient told me he was too embarrassed to tell his other doctor.</p> <p>Too mortified to spit it out.</p> <p>"I get that it's embarrassing."</p> <p>"You're human -- we're all embarrassed all the time."</...