Tag: mental-health
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The Hardest Decision I’ve Made
The hardest decision I have ever made was walking away from a career I had spent decades building—at what many would call the very top of my game. For years, I was a college professor and department chair in the medical sciences. I had the titles, the respect, the security. I was trusted with students’…
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Missing My Chaos Crew
The Sound of (Too Much) Silence There’s a strange kind of silence that follows you when you’re away from your family. It’s not peaceful. Oh no, it’s too quiet. The kind of quiet that feels like the calm before a storm or, worse, the calm after A-bomb* has pulled the plug on the TV because…