A few years ago I joined the Happiness Science community at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine to find my people and work on integrating positive psychology into medicine. Super...

Hello there! I see a lot of people looking for balance. Many times that sense of needing balance is actually FOMO. It looks like their neighbor or colleague has it...

Every physician that I know locally knew that PeaceHealth wasn’t being entirely truthful with us, the greater physician community, about the Eugene Emergency Physician situation. The federal judge actually stated...

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We are born to move! The American College of Lifestyle Medicine is having a Move in May challenge. It got me thinking about a few things. At one of my...

Earlier this week, I had a fun conversation with someone about people being authentic. At the onset, he didn’t know my business slogan starts with ‘People like to do great...

The Energized Woman Podcast by Tanja Woitasczyk

A few years ago I committed myself to finding people on a like-minded quest to help people build lives of purpose and meaning. One of those people are right here...

My week started with a string of night shifts. For various reasons, I made the transition from practicing at a local hospital to one that is up the road over...

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People crave security. For those familiar with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, safety and security are essential foundations of life. One way civilization has provided that safety and security is by...

You CAN with Candid combines one year of coaching with Dr. Joe with 1 year of lifestyle medicine!

One of the greatest gifts is to have a life full of purpose and meaning along with the health to enjoy that life. Choosing to take care of ourselves is...

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We all know that simple truth about weight loss: to lose weight, we must eat fewer calories than we burn. To achieve this goal, we have all tried the lifehacks...