Although there has been a decline in unintended pregnancies, some populations continue to experience higher rates of unwanted pregnancy.

Aside from individual’s lacking access to healthcare, one of the biggest reasons medicine fails to achieve significant health outcomes is that we do not meet individuals where they are at nor do we fully appreciate what’s going on in their lives—not intentionally, per se, but overlooked none the less.

Try to imagine what it means living with food insecurity as you try to attend classes, study, and function in your day to day routines. Aside from the physical pangs of hunger, fatigue, dwindling energy and the inability to concentrate, that empty, growling feeling within your stomach, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

I couldn’t wait to get to college.

It certainly ranks near the top of one of the best times in my life—socially, athletically, educationally, and culturally—I loved college. After obtaining my “Abitur” and graduating from the German high-school system, my parents put me on a plane to Georgia where I worked odd jobs in preparation for college expenses beyond tuition, room and board.

I like to think and write about the power of small, a power many either disregard or dismiss altogether when it comes to transforming our lives and the world around us.

Loving Kindness gets a bad rap.

Just the term.

Touchy. Feely.

Suggesting to many

Signs of weakness.

Well-worn doormats.

To Err Is Human

So the saying goes. But wisdom handed down through the ages has taught us otherwise: To err is unacceptable, embarrassing, dangerous, humiliating, costly.

Mixed messages if you ask me.

It’s been over two weeks since overturning Roe v Wade. And I’m just not willing to let it go. I don’t even have a uterus or ovaries. I will never carry a pregnancy to term. Yet I find myself thinking about the recent assault on women’s rights on a daily basis—a decision largely driven by personal and religious beliefs, party affiliations and biases.