by dmackinnon | Jul 23, 2019 | Whole Healer
One of the stories that has haunted me since medical school didn’t even happen to me. It happened to my good friend Ben, a tall man with a sweet smile and a gentle manner. We were doing our surgery rotation at a private hospital in Brooklyn and the chief resident, Dr....
by dmackinnon | Jun 28, 2019 | Healing Choices, Process
I read a great post by Seth Godin earlier this year; in it he said if something is important, you create a system for it.
Right after I read that blog post, there was a morning when I got my son to school late. I realized we didn’t really have a good system for...
by dmackinnon | May 15, 2019 | Healing Choices, Process
A friend who has been seeing a therapist recently told me she wanted to change her appointments with her therapist to once a month but the therapist “talked her into” changing to every other week. When she said that, it reminded me of a time when I hired a therapist...
by dmackinnon | Apr 24, 2019 | Healing Choices, Mindset
I think I’ve finally learned that when I screw up, it doesn’t mean “quit,” or “I can’t do it,” it just means, “try again.” When I go to my Toastmasters meetings, I usually volunteer for Table Topics. That means you volunteer to speak, get up in front of...
by dmackinnon | Mar 26, 2019 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
No one can set boundaries for you. It’s like work: your boss is not going to call you one day and tell you you’re working too hard and you should take a vacation. No one in your life is going to say, “You really go above and beyond, you need to start taking care of...
