A very happy new year from Kalm Psychiatry!

As we enter 2025, I look back on 2024 with some grief, some happiness, some sense of loss, and some excitement. I cannot but help reflect on the totality of the eventfulness and the uneventfulness of these past 12 months. 

It is amazing how certain irreparable losses in our life transform the meaning of accomplishments, failures, success, and life for us. Priorities change, lives change, dreams change, and the meaning of life changes. 

So, this is what I accomplished in 2024:

-Took many more deep breaths of fresh air, allowed much more sun in my life

-Took longer walks with my husband, made space for deeper conversations and connection

-Spent many more hours in the public library with my kids

-Browsed the beautifully overflowing and unending book shelves there, soaking in the quiet and the peace

-Let more light in and feared the darkness (inside and outside) a little less

-Wrote more, read more 

-Complained less (ok, only marginally)

-Attended more school events; watched my daughter run the turkey trot, watched my son play soccer 

-Added more life to my days, while adding a much smaller number of new bullet points to my CV and amazingly felt good about it

-Took a stand, stood up for my rights, raised my voice against bullying and oppression

-Advocated hard for the veterans I worked with 

-Walked away from toxic situations, things and people draining my cup

-Understood my self-worth and owned it

-Rediscovered my identity and my self, gave myself more grace

-Honored others' humanity and did not apologize for mine

-Built a private psychotherapy-based psychiatry practice, focused on women's mental health, complex trauma, and complex psychopathologies

-Empowering, working with, and facilitate healing in physicians

-I kept swimming, I stopped at times, got stuck at others

-And I know I'll keep swimming, I will stop, I will get stuck, but I know I'll come unstuck and I'll keep swimming. 

I hope 2024 was what you envisioned it to be last year at this exact time! 

A very happy new year from Kalm Psychiatry LLC.