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✉️ A letter to a friend with a new diagnosis ✉️
What I would tell a dear friend who has received life-altering medical news
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☀️ Field Notes: Ologies podcast, 3 shots for fall, Morning Light Week & more ☀️
Join me every morning Oct. 15-22 in viewing sunlight as soon as you wake up
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🐢 🚑 Field Notes: The understudied clitoris, wildly different ambulance bills, taking a fake emotional support turtle to a museum & more
Plus, a reminder that 988 is there for you and all of us day and night. You matter.
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Rewiring our thoughts in a mask-less world
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The smack of a diagnosis
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📖 First Readers: Keep Calm & Query On
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Five ways I enjoy tracking daily life & health
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📖 I'm writing a book! 📖
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How to be a journalist about your illness
It turns out these skills come in handy, and you can use them, too
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🚰 Field Notes: America's groundwater crisis
Plus, "screen apnea," dangers of hair straighteners, talks to have with your middle schoolers, & more
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📖 First Readers: Keep Calm & Query On
Patience and persistence in reaching out to publishing agents and also so many other things
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✨ 🌎 Field Notes: Hopeful & helpful takes on climate change, ultra-processed foods, diabetes, & more
Plus, why doctors should avoid using the word "need" for patients facing acute end-of-life illnesses
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Learning to accept an illness
How can we embrace citizenship in the kingdom of the sick?
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🔬☀️ Field Notes: Long Covid & mitochondria discoveries, facial SBF50 sunscreen, imagining a Perfect Day
Plus, Arnold Schwarzenegger​ writes a sweet newsletter, encouraging all of us regular humans to lift weights: "It's body insurance."
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📖 First Readers: What should I call this book?
Plus, I'm looking for people to interview about their experience with illness
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Odyssey of the Body
Odyssey of the Body
Exploring the journey of our lives, both wellness and illness, and the tools and wisdom that can help
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Field Notes #1
Tomato Egg Drop Soup, Kurt Vonnegut on loneliness, podcast interview with the author of "The Body Keeps the Score"
Field Notes #2
A poem by Naomi Shihab Nye, COVID-19 expert Dr. Eric Topol, & my favorite water filter
Field Notes #3
Carrot Cumin Soup from Smitten Kitchen, Q&A on perimenopause, Blessings from John O’Donohue
Field Notes #4
Five ways I enjoy tracking daily life & health
Field Notes #5
Amanda Palmer on witnessing grief, OWYN Shakes, Solidarity Week for Compassionate Patient Care
Field Notes #6
Emotions as messengers, quick-easy-healthy shakshuka, Dr. Paul Farmer on cynicism
Field Notes #7
Blessing for Ukraine, Good Enough Lent Guide, Exercises for Back Pain
Field Notes #8
Two books I loved: "Four Thousand Weeks" by Oliver Burkeman & “Iceberg," an exquisite memoir by Marion Coutts
Field Notes #9
Suleika Jaouad's Between Two Kingdoms, Isolation Journals, 100-Day Project
Field Notes #10
Alternate-nostril breathing, a framework for leading mindfully, ode to bananas
Field Notes #11
What I'm Reading in Spring 2022
Field Notes #12
Meeting-Free Focus Days, Bear Fruit Rolls, The Healthier Hustle on nudging your negativity bias aside
Field Notes #13
Bittersweet playlist, tick repellent options, Delia Ephron on processing traumatic experiences

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