Staying healthy. living with stress.
the funny thing about growth is that It doesn’t feel like growth when it’s happening
the rider and the elephant
Lets evaluate the analogy of the Rider and the elephant when making lasting behavioral changes.
This theory, originally coined by psychologist Jonathan Haidt, was created while studying behavioral change. He argues that we have 2 minds. The rational, conscious, verbal mind, ‘the rider’, and the unconscious, emotional mind, ‘ the elephant’. The rider is in control only about 1–5% of the time by various estimates and the elephant, in contrast is driving decisions 95–99% of the time.
The people’s healthcare provider
Ever wonder what goes on in medical offices? behind closed doors? A sacred space where people journey. Hopeful to find answers, a cure, relief, connection.
I have spent much of the last ten years inside these spaces. Showing up each morning, armed with a smile and a stethescope, patching together broken hearts, offerring encouragement in moments of darkness, providing medicines to ease pain, and celebrating successes with warriors, mothers, daughters, maybe even you.
