Why is it worth it? To take the leap of faith? If I'm betting on anything in this world, it's that my cat has the answer. --- Join my weekly newsletter here. Link to the text vision of this essay.
I never denied it. But I never fully accepted it. In the end, this diabetes delusion led me into medical school. And now, finally, into an understanding of who I've always been. --- Essay Link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/08/15/25-years-later-i-accept-my-type-1-diabetes-diagnosis/ Type 1 Diabetes Physiology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfyGv-xwjlI Friday Morning Newsletter Sign-Up (FREE): https://fightmastermd.com/newsletter/
I thought I was fooling people, but I was only fooling myself. Everyone, deep down, knows if we're about it... or not. And I figured out the tell. ---- Join my email newsletter: https://fightmastermd.com/newsletter/ Read this essay on my website: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/07/25/knock-knock-i-wasnt-home/
I thought it best to leave medicine behind me. It was just an eight year chapter that I wished to never repeat, right? Two years of time has revealed a surprising opposite: I can't survive without it. ---- Essay Link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/07/18/cant-live-with-it-cant-live-without-it/ Newsletter Sign-Up: https://fightmastermd.com/newsletter/
Just because you leave an adolescent age (and enter medical school... and become a doctor... then become a psychiatrist), doesn't mean adolescence leaves you. Or so I've lived and understood, only now, at 35 years old. Better late than never. ----- Erikson's Stages of Development Link to this week's essay on FightmasterMD.com Get my 7 Days of Aliveness Course for FREE
When it's all said and done, I hope to own a collection of choices that helped me understand who I am. And I hope I made the right ones because they're going to impact everyone I know. We're all in this together. ... Email me at fightmastermd@gmail.com for your free copy of my audiobook. Essay link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/07/03/the-eternal-impact-of-one-choice/
For the past eight years, I've been afraid to pause, scared to rest, and reticent to enjoy. Unconsciously, I knew I couldn’t bear the risk. But now, I consciously understand I must. ____________ Essay Link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/06/27/a-first-in-many-moons-the-hunt-stops/ Send me an email (fightmastermd@gmail.com) and I'll send you a promo code for a free copy of my audiobook. Only 50 codes left!
We play the game of our life to discover who we are. That and other revelations had while watching my wife's tennis tournament. ... Get my free course here: https://fightmastermd.com/newsletter/ Read this essay on my website: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/06/20/what-does-it-mean-to-lose/
I just understood why I really wrote my first book: to prevent myself from ever making my medicine mistake again. But playing the game not to lose is no way to play the game. To step forward, I remembered a sage piece of little league advice from my dad. ___ Newsletter Sign-up HERE This week's essay HERE
When I look back now, it seems I always meant to be a psychiatrist. Out of necessity. If I wanted to open up a door into a future that wasn't just a replication of my past, becoming a shrink was always the skeleton key. ... Book link: 32 Lessons from 8 Years Lost in Medicine Essay link: Written in the Stars: Psychiatry and Me
They say, "Wherever you go, there you are." I'd like to add, "and so follow your object relations." When I went to medical school for my family, I unwittingly melded medicine and family together. Only after I left, could I see the two as separate, make peace, and gratefully love them both. ----- Got a story of integration yourself? I'd love to connect! Here's my contact page: https://fightmastermd.com/contact/ Essay link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/05/30/infinite-reflections-in-medicines-mirror/ Get free access to my 7 Days of Aliveness Course here: https://fightmastermd.com/newsletter/
Turns out, owning a sense of self kinda matters. Essay Link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/05/23/how-little-everything-else-matters/ 7 Days of Aliveness: https://fightmastermd.com/newsletter/
Life was "... not so clear to me as I have for a long time imagined." Thanks to Rousseau, I've seen my motivations for what they are: obscured by the lies of my whys... until I'm ready to see the truth. Today's essay link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/05/16/all-my-whys-were-lies/ 7 Days of Aliveness Course (FREE): https://fightmastermd.com/newsletter/ My first book on Amazon (32 Lessons from 8 Years Lost in Medicine): https://a.co/d/b8vKVGj
I went to medical school to secure my family's love. I found out what love really is while becoming a psychiatrist. And ultimately, I left medicine to put that love into practice. .... Get free access to Ryan's 7 Days of Aliveness course: https://fightmastermd.com/newsletter/ Link to today's essay: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/05/09/the-hardest-gift-to-give/
Good days deceive. Bad days reveal. Thanks to my dad, I remembered the difference. ----more---- Essay link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/05/02/a-lit-match-away-from-internal-combustion/ Get my free course Seven Days of Aliveness. Linked here: https://fightmastermd.com/newsletter/
The only way to live a life without regrets is to have regrets. Regret is where our story starts... as I came to understand this week by watching The Devil Wears Prada. ----more---- Article Link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/04/25/the-betrayal-the-regret-the-wholeness-deliverance-by-the-devil-wears-prada/ Newsletter Sign-up: https://fightmastermd.com/newsletter/ YouTube Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEccYnOllS_gIJFQ7QCIkrw
Sometimes, I just simply do not know what's best for me. ----more---- Join my weekly newsletter community here. Read today's essay on my website here.
I wasn't one for the jungle gym. I'm a kickball guy. I knew that once, it's just taken me awhile to remember it. ----more---- (Every Friday morning, I write an email of camaraderie, aimed at supporting you to build a life you love. If you'd like to join our community, you can sign up here and receive this week's email.) Essay Link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/04/04/kickball-beats-the-jungle-gym/
To play the game, the battle to figure out who we are, we have to pay the cost of admission. House rules. ----more---- Read this essay: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/03/21/before-i-learned-how-much-i-needed-to-change/ Visit my website: https://fightmastermd.com/ Join my newsletter: https://fightmastermd.com/newsletter/
"Fighty, we're all on the road back to who we were in high school." ----more---- Along with the wrong lessons, I lived out a few of the right ones too. My first book is a summary of all 32 of those lessons, available now on Amazon.