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Inner Sky

Thursday, September 4, 2025 | Poetry

We walk through oak tree forests

Seek the rise so high

We scramble stones of granite

Find the big blue sky

What wonder pulses in us

Waiting for our eye

To look within and find it

And know the inner sky

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 I am a psychiatrist, researcher, and Director of Health Aging Studies at Mass General Hospital.  I serve on the faculties of Harvard Medical School and MIT.  My passion is to share practices that help people improve happiness through connection, increase empathy, and promote a sense of real wholeness.  I find meaning in seeing patients in clinical practice, making new scientific discoveries, teaching students, and learning more about our world. Read more. 

BOOST YOUR RESILIENCE!

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Resilience is the ability to bounce back stronger in the face of stress.  Life can sometimes (or often!) feel overwhelming.  Here you can receive a video talk that provides tools I have taught on resilience at Harvard Medical School.