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Don’t Fail Because You’ve Drifted Apart
After our honeymoon, we began planning where we would go for our one year anniversary. Due to the stars aligning and some crazy good deals, we ended up in Kauai! It was breathtakingly beautiful!...
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The Terrible Search For What Won’t Fulfill: What Jim Carrey Taught Us About...
If I were asked to give a Ted talk, I have two topics I would choose from. This week, Jim Carrey took 90 seconds to give one of my complete 18 minute talks. “I am two-time Golden Globe winner Jim...
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To the Parents and In-Laws of Physicians in Training
Dear Parents, What an exciting opportunity for you to see your son or daughter progressing in his or her career as a physician! You are the ones that were there, encouraging this process for years:...
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The Way You Tell Your Story Matters
Did you know you can improve the way you feel just by changing the way you talk about your circumstances? Consider the following examples from my own life: We raised four children on a tiny income....
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Medical Marriage Q&A: Balancing Vulnerability with Independence
Question: We are second year medical students. First year medical school was rough–and we have lots of layers to our situation. One of them is that we have two kids under 4-years old and we live...
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10 More Medical Marriage Tips – Guest Post
Guest Post by Maria Eniss After posting Surviving Residency: The 10 Things I Learned While My Husband was a General Surgery Resident, I received an email from a friend of mine and fellow surgeon’s...
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5 Ways to Take Care of You
A few years ago I met with the wife of a urologist who had just started his private practice job. They had three small children and she had chosen to quit her job as an attorney and stay home with...
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When Enough is Enough
Did you know that willpower is a finite resource? It’s true. There comes a point when you can’t just keep telling yourself to keep on. I was reminded of that this week as the stress level at our house...
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What to do when you don’t know what to do
Have you ever felt paralyzed by a decision that feels impossible to make? Or filled with doubt, confusion, and overwhelm–wishing someone would just make the decision for you? Me too. Every time my...
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Making Time for Your Medical Marriage
There have been several studies done trying to understand medical marriages and relationship satisfaction. In one study, researchers found that most partners/spouses (86.8%) were happy and satisfied...
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Finishing Strong: What to do when you hit “the wall”
Often we say it is hard to keep going when you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. But I think it can be harder to keep going when you do see the light and all the exhaustion catches up to...
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How to Live with Greater Abundance: The Five Principles of Being Generous
After hours of working through Quicken and trying to figure out how to make the next month of medical school work, I sat staring at my computer screen–overwhelmed and exhausted. The financial strain...
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Passive Aggression: Poison for Relationships
You’ve heard the term “passive aggression,” but do you really know what it means. Can you accurately identify it in your relationships? In yourself? Do you know how to handle relationships where one...
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What does it take to be good at marriage, when failure is so easy?
In his book, Better, writer, surgeon, and researcher Dr. Atul Gwande asked, “What does it take to be good at something in which failure is so easy, so effortless?” I hear this concern from many...
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If All My Parenting Mistakes Were Headlines
Three-year-old and five-year-old boys drive moving truck into neighbor’s yard barely missing the house. It’s true. Two years ago our boys climbed into the moving truck while we were loading it and...
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2016 Reader Survey
This week, I need your help. Over the last year, the number of people reading my blog has grown substantially. As I move forward, I want to make sure I am writing about topics and providing content...
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What I learned from my 2016 Reader Survey
I want to offer a great big THANK YOU!!! to everyone who took my Reader Survey. I was surprised how many of you responded! Maybe it is the researcher in me, but it was so fun to analyze the results...
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How to Manage a Type A Personality
Who has the Type A personality in your home? Is it you? Your spouse? One of your kids? People with Type A personalities often get a bad rap. That’s because people with Type A personalities are...
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Signs Your Wife is not Getting Enough Attention
The other night my husband and I were out to dinner when I became aware of a young, handsome couple sitting nearby. We were waiting for our food when I began to pick up on the tension from their...
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A Simpler Way to Make Friends as an Adult
Our children are getting ready to start school on Monday. Having just moved to Pennsylvania, they are understandably concerned about making new friends. As we have talked about this the last few...
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