Suicide rates are increasing across all populations. I talk about this regularly with clients, and in each and every class I teach...

Retail clinics are controversial in healthcare. Physicians want more control over an industry almost entirely dominated by nurse...

One-third of all pediatric outpatient visits in the United States is for compliant of #fever. Providers throughout primary care, as well...

When I began my #doctorate degree, one of my mentors, Kathryn Osborne, shared that as we start to work through our doctoral programs, we...

The Moon has a powerful and magical influence over many aspects of life here on this amazing planet. We don't like to lean into this much...

It seems to me that many #midwives are impacted personally by breast cancer. I am not sure if its because we tend to become a bit...

Visiting family over the holidays was quite wonderful, allowed me some self-reflection, and reminded me that I should probably...

These muscles are really catching my attention more recently, maybe because I've been sitting for longer stints at a time driving to...

It is a little bit wild to think I haven't written about #domesticviolence before. It is a very intimate discussion for me; one I am...

Every single class I teach, either at the graduate level or within the undergraduate #nursing program, the issue of burn out comes up...

As we age, our ovarian function declines naturally. We produce less estrogen and progesterone, and we stop ovulating. This decline begins...

I've shared previously that a few years ago I did a little work with the Mind Body Institute, in which we learned about ancestral cell...

When I was in my family nurse practitioner training, women presenting with #trichotillomania was not an uncommon finding. I can't say...

It isn't clear what initiates these growths in our uterus. Maybe they are the superhero uterine cells that simply overwork themselves,...

Cannabis, also called #marijuana, is the third most commonly used psychoactive substance worldwide, after alcohol and tobacco (Gorelick,...

You're probably familiar with the BMI or the body mass index, for which clinicians or even your employer's wellness program or life...

My first childbirth experience was really tough and a lot went wrong. My daughter was in the NICU on a ventilator for quite some time. I...

My memory, I am learning more and more, is not typical in that I can remember my childhood like it was last week. I don't have a few...

Much of my work, it seems, is helping people tune into themselves. We are so busy, so overwhelmed, living in fight-or-flight, that we...

One in ten women are impacted by endometriosis ( Zondervan et al., 2018 & Coxon et al., 2018 ), or maybe I should be more clear; more...