With the growth of the Love and Science community, it feels like we are always navigating a birthday in the group. This can be fraught with many complexities-- grief for where we thought we would be by now, cognitive dissonance of people wanting to celebrate us when we feel sad and angry, and also the sheer fact that our ovaries are getting older. 

I've known Dr. Jessie Mahoney for a long time, and in fact we are birthday twins. July is our birthday month. We decided to team up and share our wisdom about birthdays so that we, as a community, can try on a different perspective. I look to her for wisdom and guidance, and I'm sure you will feel the depth of her presence when you listen. 

We discuss the following:

• seeing ourselves with our hearts as our primary strategy for approaching our next birthday with grace and self compassion 
• how to acknowledge that birthdays usually don't meet our expectations
• how to see birthdays as a neutral marker and not automatically a negative marker
• how to honor the knowledge and wisdom of the prior year and our lives thus far
• how to look ahead at future ages/birthdays and borrow advice from the future version of ourselves 

Guest Details:

Dr. Jessie Mahoney is a graduate of Dartmouth College and UCSF Medical School. She is also a board-certified Pediatrician, physician wellness expert, triple-certified physician coach, and founder of Pause & Presence. Her mission is to help people who are “successful on the surface yet struggling underneath” find relief, feel better, and discover a more aligned path forward.

www.jessiemahoneymd.com

As always, please keep in mind that this is my perspective and nothing in this podcast is medical advice.

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In Gratitude,

Dr. Erica Bove