Juliette Galbraith, MD. Life Coach.

09/19/2024

Exciting News!

I’m thrilled to announce a new venture that I’m embarking on with my dear friend, Dr. Tracy Levitt.

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Tracy and I have poured our hearts into creating this supportive space and we can’t wait to see the positive impact come to life.

We are passionate about boosting the lives of physician moms.
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05/12/2024

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms, moms-to-be, wishing to be moms, grandmoms, and mom-figures out there. You women are inspirational and the reason I do what I do!

03/22/2024

The biggest changes can come from the smallest moments
Mindset work can feel daunting to say the least, but it doesn't need to be!
Start small and practice often!

So, TODAY, challenge yourself to find one brief moment of joy in what might have otherwise passed you by as an "ordinary" moment.
By focusing on the "ordinary", instead of always chasing the "extraordinary", you increase your awareness, gratitude, and joy.

What will it be for you today? You might just surprise yourself by finding joy in something that started out as a "negative".

03/06/2024

What limiting beliefs are you holding on to that are holding you back?
Remember, a belief is just a practiced thought, NOT a fact. The thoughts we choose to practice over and over become our beliefs but they need not be permanent or defining. We can choose differently for ourselves!
The best way to try to identify your limiting beliefs is to ask this poignant question from Eleanor Roosevelt.
What would you choose to be doing if you knew you could not fail??
See where that takes you!!

02/08/2024

We so badly want to take away the pain from those we love when we see them experiencing it. But usually it is to try to treat our own pain at witnessing their suffering, or the pain of feeling powerless to change the situation.
What if we changed the mission?
What if the mission was simply to be there with our loved ones in pain, not to fix, not to "make better"?

When we can make this our mission, we end up giving people what they actually want and need- a witness, a fellow heart, time, space, acknowledgement
And we avoid developing the feelings of guilt and shame for not "succeeding" in taking away their pain. Because that's not the goal!

01/23/2024

Control over others' thoughts and feelings, over outcomes, over circumstances, is an illusion. We hold on to that illusion as a defense against vulnerability and the fear of pain. But the truth is, holding on to that illusion keeps us trapped in the prison of seeking external sources for our peace and joy.

When you realize that your mind is the one thing you can develop control over, and the only thing that actually creates how you feel and act, you unleash your power to move through this world authentically and free from illusions.

Ready to get started??

01/16/2024

Have you ever felt flooded with an emotion while parenting? All of a sudden you hit your wall of tolerance and you feel a rush of agitation, frustration, anger, sadness, overwhelm?
While "time outs" are often used in a punitive way for children, the concept of taking a moment to allow your feelings to be what they are and course through you in an observant but NOT reactive way is one of the greatest things we can do for both ourselves and our children.
When we take a brief "time out" for ourselves, as opposed to "putting" our child in time out, we teach our own minds AND our children that:
- All feelings are okay and have a place in your life
- When we have a rush of emotion, it engages our limbic system in our brain and our executive thinking abilities are diminished
- We can have any feeling that comes to us but we are in control of our thoughts and actions, not the other way around
- We are human and we need time to process and allow our autonomic nervous system to "cool off"
- We love and value ourselves and our loved ones enough to give ourselves the grace and time to feel our feelings without subjecting them to our reactivity

So next time you find yourself flooding with emotions, try telling yourself and your children "Mommy is just having a lot of feelings right now and needs a quick time out to let the feelings settle down and then we can talk again". And if your child is pre-verbal, it is still okay to hand them over to a trusted person or put them in their crib/car seat/etc for a moment to take your time out.

01/09/2024

Is true JOY hard for you to feel? Brene Brown describes joy as the scariest of all emotions because it elicits our vulnerability and fear of losing the joy. I love her description of "shiver of joy" or "quiver of joy".
Where do you feel joy??
I have noticed for myself that the fluttering feeling of joy and the fluttering feeling of anxiety are very similar and it likely has to do with the alarm of "what if this joy is taken away?"
So how can you stay in the moment of joy?
1. Recognize the emotion! This seems simple but many of us aren't familiar with where and how we feel emotions in our body and distinguishing them from each other
2. Acknowledge the emotion- label it as joy!
3. Accept and have compassion for the tendency of your brain to then want to protect against the vulnerability of joy. "I know this is scary to let myself feel this pure joy"
4. Practice gratitude to keep your brain from jumping to the future and anxiety. What are you grateful for in that moment of joy. Be specific! Find the small things, the details. That helps you stay grounded.

And, as always, remember that joy comes in the ordinary moments!!