In this narrative medicine essay, a third-year family medicine resident on the threshold of his career meditates on the systemic racial inequities that stymie h
down, this real decline, as if it s a plane that is landing with a very gentle arc, is what we mean. we need to protect ourselves from all of the overstimulation and cognitive load that we get from strains, work, people. and we must have at least an hour to have a ban on stressful things, discussions about work. and making a list before bed, organizing us for tomorrow. mondays are rough transitions for a lot of people. and doing something calm before going to bed, as rhonda talked about, deep breathing, stretching, and also thinking of something you grateful for from this whole day that you ve had, just one thing. and that can really reframe things to help us feel content and bees and ease. and that is happiness, and it is available to us right now. so, rhonda, i want to ask you, what makes this moment so different from previous years? and how can people do exactly