Trust What Healing Knows
A space for reflection, restoration, and the quiet wisdom within.

Before a bent tree belonged to the forest, it belonged to itself, found the light, and grew. Segment 2: Returning to Wholeness Episode 7 You Belong to Yourself Before You Belong Anywhere Else Who you are is not something you earn. It is something you return to. - Dr. Kidi Reflection “They call me Goggles,” she said, almost smiling, as she sat on the exam table. The room was quiet in the way clinics often are. Bright lights. Clean walls. I rolled my chair closer and lowered my

Segment 2: Returning to Wholeness Episode 6: The Sacred No My boundaries will shape the entire course of my life. Yours will too.— Dr. Kidi Reflection: When Yes Becomes Too Much I was determined to finish everything on my to-do list. I woke up early, wrote it all down, and felt that familiar sense of control as I checked off the first few tasks. It looked like a good start. Then the noise began. A text. An email. A quick “Can you…?” from people I cared about. Before I realize

Segment 2: Returning to Wholeness Episode 5: Permission to Rest Your worth was never meant to be earned through exhaustion. - Dr. Kidi Reclaiming Rest During my residency at the University of Southern California, back before there were work- hour regulations for medical residents, it was not uncommon for me to work two days straight. At the end of those shifts, I would gather whatever energy I had left to drive my old red Honda to my sister Guenet’s home in Claremont. There