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Month: October 2025

Finding Purpose in Life

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Throughout my PA education, I always knew I wanted to work in addiction medicine which was rooted in personal connections to those who battled with addiction.

After graduating, I struggled to find a position in addiction medicine that was open to new grads. I eventually accepted a job in a different specialty, and although I enjoyed the specialty, I felt in my spirit “This is not it.”

I wasn’t passionate and I didn’t feel a sense of fulfillment. I was just going through the motions. Thankfully, a year and a half later, two relocations, and countless moments of uncertainty, I finally found myself back in the work that feeds my spirit.

Recently, I attended a conference that reminded me why I chose this path. I listened to Dr. Stephen Loyd, the addiction medicine king of Tennessee, speak with such raw passion about his journey and the work he does. I left the conference feeling inspired. Inspired to be a better provider, to be a better person. I felt grateful to have found one of my purposes in life —to help marginalized communities and those who often are forgotten by society.

That experience got me thinking…how does one truly find their purpose in life?

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When Your Body Says Slow Down

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Let’s be real, stress has become so normal that many of us barely notice we’re carrying it anymore. We wake up already tense, rush through the day, and fall asleep with our minds still running. We call it “being busy” or “just life,” but if we’re being real, a lot of us are living in survival mode. Also, known as a form of chronic stress.

What Chronic Stress Does to Your Body

Stress in small bursts is helpful. It keeps us alert. It helps us meet deadlines and respond to emergencies. That’s thanks to hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, which give us energy and focus when we need it. However, here’s the problem…our bodies were built for temporary stress, not nonstop pressure. When stress is present for weeks, months, or even years cortisol stays elevated resulting in negative health outcomes.

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Love cannot grow in the soil of codependency
It wilts where validation is currency

Where attention is mistaken for affection
Real love requires wholeness

Two people meeting as equals, not as halves trying to complete each other
But many men have never been taught this
They chase love not to share themselves, but to fill the emptiness within

Mistaking conquest for connection
Approaching love like a mission
Something to win, prove, or possess

The dinners, the compliments, the gestures
They seem kind, but often they’re transactional in measure
An unspoken bargain that says, “If I give, you’ll give back and I’ll finally feel enough.”

But love is not about what you receive, but what you offer freely without needing to be repaid
Love is generosity clothed in quiet authenticity

Selfless giving, unforced and true

When a man’s worth depends on how a woman sees him, his love can never truly reach her
For It will always circle back to his ego…
Hungry, fragile, unfulfilled

Minimalism, the peace in a loud world

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  • Minimalism: a lifestyle involving a reduction or simplification of one’s material possessions that frees one to lead an existence that is more intentional, purposeful, spiritual, etc

I didn’t wake up one day and decided to become a minimalist. It was a gradual unlearning, a slow peeling back of layers of “more.” More clothes. More things. More commitments. More noise. Somewhere along the way, I realized I was craving less: less clutter, less stress, and more space to breathe. I no longer wanted my life to revolve around what I owned, but around the experiences and memories created.

Clarity Over Clutter

Minimalism isn’t about owning the least, but about keeping what adds value. Over time, I noticed how physical clutter mirrored mental clutter. My apartment, my calendar, even social media, it all felt overstimulating. Each unused item and unnecessary “yes” became a quiet source of anxiety.

Life began to feel calmer and less overwhelming once I started letting go of things and in that process I gained something far more valuable: CLARITY.

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