Building You Up

May I saddle you with this thought?

"Be kind to yourself!"
(You expected something in the "wow-zer" category didn't you?)

My son taught me this a few weeks ago.

Reflecting on how to move on from the guilt of a mistake.

Hear me out...please.

In conversations with my patients I hear the unkindness.

I ask ..say you were seated on the chair next to me and you were to advise yourself by stepping outside of yourself...

What would “you” say to you?

This month

Be kind to yourself.

Say words that lift your spirits up...that build you up.

Even if you don't believe it.

Say it.

In time, said enough and eventually acted out...

You'll live out the impossible.

What do you have to lose?

I'm rooting for you!

I'm praying for you!

In health,
Dr O

Author

Dr. Tolulope Olabintan MD, AAHIVS, FAAFP, dipABLM Dr. Tolulope Olabintan is the Co-Founder and Medical Director of Livingspring Family Medical Center. She is a Christian, Family Physician, writer, mentor, mother and wife. She takes joy in empowering her patients and readers to live their fullest lives possible. She helps patients live long and well as she believes that the quality of life is just as important as the quantity of life. She is also a foodie and loves the colors teal and orange. Dr. Olabintan completed her medical degree at UMDNJ Rutgers Medical School in 2007. Dr. O went on to finish her Family Medicine Residency from Albert Einstein College of Medicine Family Medicine residency where she also served as a Chief Resident. She then went on to complete a women’s health/surgical obstetrics fellowship at St Francis hospital in 2011. She is a board-certified Family Physician, Lifestyle Medicine, a HIV specialist and a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.