The Great Unlearning: A New Beginning

I’ve spent most of my life trying to do everything right.
Work hard. Be the good doctor. The good mother. The good wife.

For a while, I thought I was living the dream—delivering babies, caring for families, and balancing my career in family medicine with raising two amazing daughters. But what happens when doing everything right brings you to your knees? When the system you’ve trusted turns against you? When the life you’ve built, brick by brick, suddenly crumbles beneath you?

I’m a family medicine physician, telemedicine leader, coach, and mother. Those titles only tell part of my story. I went to hell and back through burnout, betrayal, NPI fraud, and loss to find the woman I forgot I was.

When the System Breaks You

For years I lived what many would call a successful medical life. Then one day, a letter arrived—the kind of letter that stops your heart. My National Provider Identifier (NPI) had been used to commit Medicare fraud across multiple states. I was accused of things I didn’t do and investigated for millions in fraudulent billing I never authorized.

The experience was devastating—emotionally, financially, and spiritually. I lost income, spent tens of thousands on legal fees, and nearly lost my medical license. There were moments I truly didn’t know if I’d survive it.

That nightmare revealed how broken our healthcare system really is. Not just for patients, but for the healers who serve them. Doctors are expected to shoulder impossible responsibility with almost no protection or education about the systems that control their professional identities.

I was left asking, How many more of us have to break before something changes?

Collapse to Clarity

Somewhere in the chaos, I began to rebuild. Slowly, painfully, deliberately. I returned to my roots in telemedicine, a field I had helped shape years earlier, and found healing in the freedom it offered.

Telemedicine allowed me to design a career that aligned with my values. It gave me space to breathe, to reconnect with my daughters, and to rediscover the spiritual grounding I had lost somewhere between residency and survival.

Alongside my clinical work, I began coaching other physicians—helping them transition into virtual medicine, reclaim their autonomy, and heal from the invisible wounds of burnout. In guiding others, I found myself again.

This became more than a career pivot. It became a calling.

The Bridge Between Worlds

My journey through medicine, motherhood, loss, and rebirth has taught me that true healing happens at the intersection of science and soul.

I entered osteopathic medical school wanting to merge Eastern and Western medicine, but somewhere along the way the system squeezed out that vision. It took years of unraveling, and more pain than I could have imagined, to find my way back to it.

Today, I guide other physicians who are ready to cross that same bridge. From exhaustion to alignment, from burnout to sovereignty, from merely surviving to remembering who they are.

This space, this blog, is for them and for you.

What You’ll Find Here

In these pages, you’ll find stories, reflections, and tools for your own unlearning.

You’ll read about:

• What it means to practice medicine without losing yourself
  
• How to build a career that honors your humanity as much as your credentials
  
• The real cost of silence and the power of reclaiming your voice
  
• Healing through spirituality, integrative medicine, and self-trust
  
• Lessons I learned from NPI fraud, divorce, motherhood, and rebirth
  

I write not as a victim, but as a survivor and as a physician who still believes in this profession enough to help reimagine it.

A New Kind of Healing

Medicine doesn’t have to break us.
We can choose to unlearn the patterns that keep us small, question the systems that silence us, and rebuild a way of practicing that is rooted in wholeness, not burnout.

If you’ve ever looked at your life and thought, This isn’t what I signed up for, you’re not alone.
You can heal. You can rebuild. You can remember.

Join Me

This is the beginning of a new chapter, not just for me, but for every physician who’s ready to live and practice on their own terms.