Mama Docs School

Helping Women in Healthcare Go From Overworked & Overwhelmed to Overflowing with Energy and Joy

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Why It’s Your Duty to Have Good Health

As doctors we see first hand the toll illness and disease can take on our patients. 

We see them:

  • missing out on work and income due to chronic pain
  • taking medications with various side...
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How She Loved Herself Down to Her Goal Weight

One of my favorite things to do is celebration calls with my clients when they come to the end of my Mama Docs Weight Loss Accelerator.

While some of the transformations they make on the inside of...

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How I Made Life and Fitness Easy Again

I have had a really long relationship with the word “hard.” It all began when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and I took some standardized admissions tests because my parents wanted to...

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Be the DJ 🎧 of your life : Ever feel like you’re fighting yourself?

I have this rule for when both my kids are in the car and we are driving somewhere. 

I created it because they would often argue about what kind of music should be played.

And, of course,...

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The Surprising Way to Get your Family to Eat Better

Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ever held back on improving your nutrition because of your family? I used to. 

My husband...

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The Great Disconnect: Why Women Doctors Struggle With Weight Loss

Something happens to doctors in our training process, we stop listening to our bodies. We learn how to disconnect from our bodies.

I remember being a 3rd-year medical student scrubbed into an...

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The Bad Eating Habit I Learned in Residency And How it Kept Me Stuck for Years

Stress eating is a learned behavior and is one of four bad habits I picked up when I became an emergency physician that made it hard for me to lose weight and keep it off. 

Whenever the ER...

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I Was Shocked When I Read the Menu : How to Hack the Obesity Trend

I recently went to my mom’s favorite Italian restaurant to celebrate her birthday. I was about to order my usual - eggplant parmesan – when I noticed their updated menus now shared the...

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How Fasting Can Backfire and Cause ‘Revenge Eating’

Ever heard the one about intermittent fasting being the weight loss godsend for busy professionals?

'Skip some meals and melt the fat' is the mantra. If only weight loss was as simple as a catchy...

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The Greatest Gift You Can Give Your Kids

They say that there are three things that change a person forever. One is going to war as a soldier. The second is becoming a doctor, and the third is becoming a parent. 

While I’m not a...

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The Big Reason Personal Trainers Can't Help You Lose Weight

I remember when I got a personal trainer back in residency. I had just gotten married and had gained a bit of weight in the honeymoon phase of marriage and wanted to get back in shape.

So I did...

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Sneaky Ways Confirmation Bias Can Impact Your Personal Life

As a new mother, working in the emergency department made me want to go home and childproof every nook and cranny of our house. On a daily basis at work I would care for children, most often...

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