A Happy Vet

01/28/2025

I never thought about it this way. I will appreciate the sunset more now. What everyday thing seems like a gift to you?

1. My favorite movie coming on TV. Even with commercials and the DVD sitting in my room I still watch it.
2. Birds visiting my garden
3. Sleeping in

The sunset is life’s way of saying, “Good job. You survived today. Here’s something pretty.”

Image: During sunset, glowing peaks and cliffs at Grand Canyon National Park stand out against the shadowed depths of a vast canyon landscape. NPS/M.Quinn

01/26/2025

Self care isn't always massages and long baths. It can be a few deep breaths before you take action. It can be turning off your phone for 5 minutes, a few hours, the day or more. It can be staying in bed when you can't or don't want to get up. One of my favorite self care things to do is taking things off my plate. It's not my job to fix everything for everyone. Letting other capable people figure some things out for themselves is a superpower.

01/23/2025

Hopefully some helpful words for anyone struggling with NAVLE results. It's ok. You're ok. This is a test. You can try again.

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01/01/2025

You are a lot. You are enough. Here’s to being good to yourself in 2025 💙

On the stroke of midnight tonight, you can resolve to be better, if you like…
to be fitter,
to eat cleaner,
to work harder.

On the stroke of midnight tonight,
you can resolve to become a whole new you,
if you so choose.

Or, you can take a moment to acknowledge
all you already are.
Because it’s a lot.
You’re a lot.

And you deserve to be commended.

On the stroke of midnight tonight, perhaps you could congratulate yourself, for coping.
For breaking, again,
and for rebuilding, again.

For catching the stones life has thrown at you,
and using them to build your castle that little bit stronger.

You have endured, my friend.

And I don’t see the need to resolve to become a whole new you,
when you are already so very much indeed.

Happy new year.

You made it.

Now let us face another 365 day-turn, arms wide,
accepting, embracing and ‘seeing’ each other,
for all we are..

Donna Ashworth

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ART by Sherine Tolba

12/28/2024

For those looking to be kinder to themselves in the new year. I took one of her courses and it got me on the path to being healthier and loving myself more.

12/24/2024

It’s ok. No matter what anyone else says. Spend the holidays taking the best care of yourself that you can 💙

12/21/2024

The Quality Control Wieners and I feel very seen.

12/20/2024

Fascinating!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/geneticists-solve-the-mystery-of-why-some-cats-are-orange-and-why-they-tend-to-be-males-180985619/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3mBlYaaJDYMYvR21hquyIJrJg07oZO39MO-Pp7a8s6mZmiPZciW9RdOGw_aem_s6UhFhyrIqcoIQ6BeQhrxQ

Two new, preliminary papers identify a gene related to a cat’s coloration. The work also explains why tortoiseshell and calico cats tend to be females

12/10/2024

Just like us, anxiety can be an overachiever. Sometimes acknowledgement and some time off can help. Fighting against anxiety has never once helped me. Accepting and acknowledging while also giving it permission to rest has been useful. This doesn’t work (for me) for justified or extreme anxiety. But that vague anxiety that can be intense but doesn’t seem to have a source really responds. I also find asking myself where I’m feeling it in my body or what it could be coming from helps. Have any of you tried this? It’s been amazing for my pre-work/commute anxiety.

12/08/2024

When I stared seeing my therapist in 2021 I was in big trouble. Now I go because she is someone I can talk to about anything and she held his me accountable for what I tell her I want out of my life. She is always in my corner and that is HUGE.

12/02/2024

Self-compassion: a superpower.

11/30/2024

11/25/2024

There is no reason we have to work like this. If you are working everyone to exhaustion every day, something will fail.

One of my most crushing failures as a vet came one Friday when I was scheduled to work at a tiny satellite clinic with only a single young veterinary technician. It was my first year in practice and I dreamed of being a great doctor to patients, a great champion for staff, and a great investment for

11/23/2024

Practice - boundaries don't come naturally. They are worth the work.

11/19/2024

The most important person to be nice to.