Strength


HOPE

Being a medical student has made me realize how much the medical culture needs to redefine strength. There is so much focus on “accomplishments” that many people associate being busy/accomplished to “being strong”. When it feels as though nothing is moving in your life then does that mean that you have not been strong enough?

There was a season in my life when I had no idea what was going on in my life. I can’t even tell you that I still conpletely know, but I thought that strength came from my accomplishments and when I didn’t have anything going on, I was stressed and felt my insecurities creeping in to question my identity. Over the years, I have had to redefine what I believe strength to be.

You see, from the time between not knowing what to do to figuring out the next phase of my life, my true…

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