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The Privilege of Choice
For all of you who are going about your daily business without thinking, without contemplating what you are really doing, saying,...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Sep 2, 20222 min read


Turning Redder
I watched the movie Turning Red the other night. It was disturbing, but not for the obvious reasons. Apparently, some parents haven't...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Mar 15, 20222 min read


Challenge
Skiing is a particularly challenging sport. It requires a tremendous amount of additional effort - effort beyond the actual skiing - to...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Mar 14, 20222 min read


Gratitude
I’m not sure what to say about gratitude. I hope all of you are grateful for just living. To live is a miraculous thing. Not an easy...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Dec 27, 20212 min read


The Pause
Between every breath is space. We forget to stop there, to linger a bit and pay attention to its fullness. It takes a concerted effort to...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Dec 20, 20211 min read


Are We Sane - or Not?
Sanity is “the ability to think and behave in a normal and rational manner; sound mental health; reasonable and rational behavior.” Most...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Oct 18, 20212 min read


Fear? Or Love?
Do you operate out of fear or love? It’s so easy to operate out of fear, it’s the default position we’re born into. And unless we make...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Sep 29, 20211 min read


Autumn
One of the most important things that mortality does is allow us to focus on the present. Mortality is the real reason for mindfulness,...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Sep 24, 20211 min read


The Drip
I’m admittedly passionate about what I do. I know that it bothers me fundamentally to see people suffer in illness. That is why I am a...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Sep 16, 20212 min read


COVID-19: A New Paradigm
Before COVID-19, it was the norm to send our kids to school sick. It was the norm to power through ourselves, to go in sick to work, to...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Aug 31, 20211 min read


COVID-19: The Second Pandemic
We are currently in a second pandemic. Triggered by the first. No, I do not mean the second wave of COVID-19 infections – particularly in...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Aug 19, 20212 min read


COVID-19: "Unvaccinated? You Deserve to Die."
We’re living in self-righteous times. And those who deem themselves the all-knowing experts of this confusing pandemic, quoting what is...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Aug 14, 20213 min read


"Sacred... Not Scary"
I heard the most beautiful expression recently, on Joe Rogan’s podcast funny enough, when he was interviewing a guest, a journalist named...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Aug 13, 20212 min read


Countering Vulnerability
I have discovered we all have a way of reacting when we are embarrassed to feel vulnerable. I identified this phenomenon of “countering...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Aug 8, 20212 min read


You in the Third Person
I was watching a program on NDE (near death experience(s)) and the gentleman speaking who had undergone the NDE said while he was in his...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Jul 31, 20212 min read


Another Platform!
It’s hard to get a message out. Especially one that people don’t feel they need. Mortality is that message. It’s not a message that we...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Jun 29, 20211 min read


6 Ways to Embrace Your Physical Being More
On the journey of mortality we call life, we fixate on our physical being. While some of this is to our benefit, it can easily in this...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Jun 17, 20212 min read


COVID-19: Shame on Gain of Function
I deal daily with death. I can firmly aver that dying is not an easy process. It is an inevitable outcome of the rapid or slow...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Jun 3, 20212 min read


COVID-19: Small Worlds
There are some days when you’re just in your mind. You get done what you have to get done, doing the essentials or more, but you feel the...

Monisha Pujari, MD
May 14, 20212 min read


Why You're Ready for Hospice
1. You don’t want to fight “the fight” anymore. Fighting decline is ultimately a losing battle. With every fight, we need to sense when...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Apr 17, 20212 min read
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