Kiss every inch of the road that brought you to where you are now

How do we nourish what is vital and alive again and again and again?

One can only be as intimate with another to the extent that one is intimate with one’s self.

One amazing Contemplative Medicine Fellow I worked with got so caught up in the idea of being a doctor that during one of our training sessions she realized that she had stopped looking her patients in the eye. 

She realized this habit started in residency. It beg…