Apathy is feeling indifferent about what is going around you.  It can often travel with depression, but apathy does not include feelings of hopelessness, sadness and chronic emptiness.  Apathy is a lack of motivation.  The very first place to go is inside, to accurately name the truer, deeper feeling one may be experiencing.   Doing this...Read More

I have to let winter be winter.  I recently learned that my cousin ended his own life.  This brought on a wide range of difficult and conflicting feelings all in the same hour: bewilderment, guilt, anger, grief, powerlessness, nostalgia, blame.  I am guessing he was at first reluctant to be here, then decisive–he could not...Read More

One Person’s Experience with Integrity Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life. –Shell Silverstein A colleague of mine accepted a senior clinical position at a large research hospital She quickly saw that the culture was focused on conducting research, with attention to patients as a secondary priority....Read More

At some point in an adult life, a sense of mission drift can take root. Somewhere the life and the work we love takes a wrong turn, and we end up in a bad neighborhood. This sense of feeling lost can present itself as a frenzied desire to escape, or a sense of dread in...Read More