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Self-Compassion as a New Curricular Subject for Life

Self-Compassion as a New Curricular Subject for Life

May 16, 2023
By: Kaethe Weingarten
I don’t know what research study could affirm or deny this proposition, but what if it were true that what all humans have most in common is our vulnerability? What might change in our…
The Connection Between Apologies and Kindness

The Connection Between Apologies and Kindness

Apr 4, 2023
By: Kaethe Weingarten
I have been interested in apologies and kindness for quite a while but today is the first day it occurred to me to ask if they are related. I am glad I did. My answer is a pretty simple one: if a…
Relationship and Connection Aren’t Just for Lovers. Consider Co-Regulation with Pets and Nature

Relationship and Connection Aren’t Just for Lovers. Consider Co-Regulation with Pets and Nature

Feb 14, 2023
By: Kaethe Weingarten
In the United States, stores have been filled with heart-shaped chocolate boxes, red plastic roses, and teddy bears since the first week in January – signals that Valentine’s Day, celebrated on…
Some Tips to Handle Watching or Listening to Disturbing Material

Some Tips to Handle Watching or Listening to Disturbing Material

Jan 28, 2023
By: Kaethe Weingarten
We are all very often in the position of witnessing terrible events. Sometimes we have control of whether we listen or watch something disturbing, and sometimes witnessing is thrust upon us. In…
Health Needs after Senseless Violence: MCN Response to Half Moon Bay Farmworker Shootings

Health Needs after Senseless Violence: MCN Response to Half Moon Bay Farmworker Shootings

Jan 24, 2023
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Yesterday, a farmworker allegedly opened fire on his coworkers in the greenhouses and farmworker housing of a mushroom farm in Half Moon Bay, a small coastal town not far from San Francisco,…
Take Down the Old and Ring In the New

Take Down the Old and Ring in the New

Jan 5, 2023
By: Kaethe Weingarten
For many people, the winter holidays are a time when they put up special decorations – like a tree adorned with lights, sparkly tinsel, and ornaments; or lighted manger scenes on their mantels or…
Holiday Survival Guide: How to Respond to Illness, Loneliness, Division, & Grief

Holiday Survival Guide: How to Respond to Illness, Loneliness, Division, & Grief

Dec 8, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
Thanksgiving has come and gone, and across the US, people had very different holiday experiences. Some had a lovely, large dinner with relatives and friends; others' dinners were disrupted by…
Immigrant Farmers Encounter Stressors, Obstacles, Isolation – A New Spanish-Language Hotline Connects Them to Resources

Immigrant Farmers Encounter Stressors, Obstacles, Isolation – A New Spanish-Language Hotline Connects Them to Resources

Nov 30, 2022
By: Jessica Calderón
Over the course of the pandemic, I was reminded, like many other people, of the importance of having good quality food. And I’m referring to the quality of the taste and the health benefits of…
Can We Befriend Nature After An Extreme Weather Event?

Can We Befriend Nature After An Extreme Weather Event?

Nov 17, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
Recently, after climate-fueled hurricanes Fiona and Ian hit Puerto Rico and the southeastern United States, I was thinking about the conundrum of how to befriend “nature” and all its wonders when…
World Kindness Day: Practicing Kindness Whenever Possible

World Kindness Day: Practicing Kindness Whenever Possible

Nov 13, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
World Kindness Day, November 13, is an international holiday first introduced in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement. “The holiday is devoted to promoting kindness throughout the world and…
New Comic, Helping the Helpers, Gives Clinicians Strategies for Self-Care

New Comic, Helping the Helpers, Gives Clinicians Strategies for Self-Care

Oct 12, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Clinicians focused on migrant, immigrant, and other underserved patients must balance personal and professional stressors for their entire careers – but the pandemic added new weight and complexity…
After Fiona, Some Reminders to Take Care of Yourself

After Fiona, Some Reminders to Take Care of Yourself

Sep 27, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
It’s hard to fathom the misfortune of enduring a hurricane on the fifth anniversary of another devastating one, but that is what happened to those living in Puerto Rico this past week. Hurricane…
The Latest in Suicide Prevention: Resources, Risk Factors, Warning Signs, and a New Stage Theory

The Latest in Suicide Prevention: Resources, Risk Factors, Warning Signs, and a New Stage Theory

Aug 18, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
It is a sign of significant progress that we now have a dedicated number to call in case of mental health crises. People experiencing a mental health crisis can call or text the numbers 9-8-8.…
Charlas entre mujeres: Building Connection, Conveying Trusted Health Information to Latinas

Charlas entre mujeres: Building Connection, Conveying Trusted Health Information to Latinas

Aug 12, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Thousands of Mexican nationals living in the United States head to their local Mexican Consulate for administrative support every year. Taking advantage of this, the Mexican government has…
Understanding the Impact of Long COVID on Disenfranchised Communities

Understanding the Impact of Long COVID on Disenfranchised Communities

Aug 4, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Long COVID’s impact can span across many areas of a sufferer's life, affecting their physical abilities, mental health, work, and interpersonal relationships. Yet for disenfranchised populations,…
When Mental Health Medications Meet Paxlovid: Choosing Between Treating the Body or Managing the Mind

When Mental Health Medications Meet Paxlovid: Choosing Between Treating the Body or Managing the Mind

Aug 3, 2022
By: Ashley-Michelle Papon
Mental health has long been a taboo topic in my life. I am the daughter of Baby Boomers, one of whom belongs to the Blackfoot Nation, and discretion has always been valued: that is, no one airs out…
Coping Strategies: Reflecting on (and Chatting with) Newly Formed Habits, Plus Five Tips to Break the Ones You Don’t Want

Coping Strategies: Reflecting on (and Chatting with) Newly Formed Habits, Plus Five Tips to Break the Ones You Don’t Want

Jul 21, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
I’m 75 years old and I cannot remember a period of time as packed with big changes out in the world I live in as those of the past seven years. The gut-wrenching, nerve-wracking, upsetting,…
Some Ideas For Offering Comfort When A Person Is Ill Or Grieving

Some Ideas For Offering Comfort When A Person Is Ill Or Grieving

Jun 23, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
When I was a freshman in college, the father of a friend with whom I had gone to elementary school died. My mother wrote me a letter – parents wrote letters to their children when they lived away…
Six-Episode Podcast, Now Available In Full, Explores “Doing Hope” To Support Clinician Well-Being

Six-Episode Podcast, Now Available In Full, Explores “Doing Hope” To Support Clinician Well-Being

Jun 8, 2022
By: Robert Kinnaird
What does it mean to “do hope?” What if hope were a verb, not a noun? We Do Hope, a six-episode podcast that releases its final installment today, embraces that idea. Hope is not just something you…
Mass Shootings: From Grief and Outrage to Activism and Action

Mass Shootings: From Grief and Outrage to Activism and Action

Jun 6, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
May we not just grieve, but give: May we not just ache, but act; Amanda Gorman, “Hymn for the Hurting” On May 14th and 28th, two eighteen-year-old males massacred 31 people and injured many…
Chronic Sorrow: The Case for Turning Individual Grief to Collective Caring

Chronic Sorrow: The Case for Turning Individual Grief to Collective Caring

May 26, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
The impact of the pandemic on so many people in so many different communities has been immense. I wrote about grief in a blog in May 2021 and, a year later, the need to attend to the subject…
Doing Hope Together as Available Consolation Now

Doing Hope Together as Available Consolation Now

May 25, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
Yesterday’s tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas has left most people heartbroken. The shooting was the 27th school shooting so far in the 19 weeks of 2022; there have been at least 212 other mass…
Clinicians standing together

When A Helper Needs Help: Caring for Health Care Workers During COVID

Apr 27, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
The last few months have seen a flurry, almost a blizzard, of articles on the pandemic’s toll on health care workers, in the form of research, newspaper articles, TV coverage, social media…
People pushing a van out of a rut

I’m in a Rut. What Can I do About It?

Mar 17, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
What exactly is a rut? A rut is a pattern of behavior or of the fabric of one’s life that is so familiar that it feels boring and unproductive. Many people have started to feel – or have been…
Attendees at the Photovoice Exhibit

Women’s Voices Matter. MCN’s Photovoice Project Is Dedicated to Them.

Mar 8, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Today is International Women's Day. Across the world, numerous countries will recognize the contributions of women across cultural, economic, political, and social spheres. The roots of this…
A clinician wearing ppe in the hospital

We Hear You: Opening Ourselves to What Health Care Workers Are Feeling Now

Feb 17, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
At the end of last year, Dr. Nirav Shah, the Director of Maine’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, mentioned a cartoon he had seen of a patient in a hospital bed being kept afloat by a…