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Solitude and Connection

Solitude and Connection

by Jeremy Topin | Aug 9, 2018 | Balance, Parenting, Teenager, Transformation, Triathlon

Two friends (younger than me by more than two decades) are training for the Ironman and I decided to join them for their first of two 40-mile loops. I had already decided to defer my own race entry to next year due to a combination of aches and pains, along with...
A Family Reunion in Seattle and Newton’s Law of Attraction

A Family Reunion in Seattle and Newton’s Law of Attraction

by Jeremy Topin | Oct 24, 2017 | Balance, Parenting, Teenager

“Doc, I don’t see why I need all these meds. Can’t I stop them? Any of them?” I hear this often from my patients. Sometimes they are right. They are on too many meds and don’t need them all. But sometimes it takes removing a medication for a period of time in order to...
The Ties that Bind and the Weight of Connection

The Ties that Bind and the Weight of Connection

by Jeremy Topin | Mar 18, 2015 | Balance, Parenting, Teenager

Traevelling 30,000 feet above the ground on my way back to Chicago, it’s hard not to think about distance and space. How people in the same room can still feel worlds apart while others can be physically separated by hundreds of miles and still be intimately...

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