Author: Jasmine Sharma

  • Embrace the Goodbye at the Door

    I want to start off by disclosing that I am no longer using ChatGPT to generate the images for this blog due to the political ties that it has. Bear with me as I try to figure out how best to create images, and I will take any suggestions! ⚬──────────✧──────────⚬ Our bags are packed and…

  • Embrace the Two Brains

    Last night, while the kids were in the bath, I ran downstairs to start a load of laundry. The daily laundry that is always being done in our house. Just one of those ordinary, forgettable moments in the evening routine. Next will be finishing up bath, putting on PJs and drinking our evening smoothies. While…

  • Embrace the Now

    I recently saw a meme that said, “We are one phone call away from a very different life.” Really important for us to remember that a moment can change the whole trajectory of our lives. This also really reminds us to take care of ourselves as much as we can, because no one can control…

  • Embrace the Tiny Pauses Inside the Marathon

    Man. Dropping all four boys off alone is a marathon. Those mornings are not the easy, instagram worthy mornings. Those are the ‘where did you forget your water bottle’ or tripping over a shoelace kind of morning. Some mornings I truly wish I could wear Google or Meta glasses just to record it. As a…

  • Embrace the Roots That Raised Me

    I have been feeling nostalgic, so I want to share a letter that I am writing to my great-grandmother, my dad’s maternal grandmother. She passed away in 2004, when I was in my senior year of high school. Dearest Mataji, Meri pyaari Mataji, tusi kaisi ho? I miss you dearly. I cannot believe it has…

  • Embrace the Loud

    Last Sunday, my husband was upstairs working. It was 4pm, it had been a long day of surviving with the boys, making their meals for today and for the rest of the week, feeding them, putting them down to nap, getting backpacks ready for the week, and putting away laundry. The kids were in the…

  • Embrace the Healing They Can Feel

    I wrote this post back in December and am now adding to it in the wake of recent events. We are human first and we should feel anger at the state of our current affairs, both here in the US and across the world. That anger is not a flaw, instead, it is a signal…

  • Embrace the Crosswalk

    Every morning Monday through Friday, I walk the older two boys across the crosswalk to school. We park across the street, always hoping for a spot close to the corner! I grab their backpacks and they run over to the corner and wait patiently for the crosswalk signal. It’s a small mundane routine, ordinary in…

  • Embrace the Slip

    This week, I slipped. Over the weekend, on Saturday, I felt triggered, and instead of pausing, I reacted. Quickly. Sharply. I thought briefly in my mind to take a pause, ground myself, walk out of the room to take a break, and in that moment, my work in therapy showed up as I knew I…

  • Embrace the Rainbows

    Happy New Year all! Last week, on New Year’s Day, we piled the kids into the car after I finished rounding in the nursery, and off we went to visit two of our best friends and their kids in Las Vegas. That day, it was raining extremely hard, with flash flood warnings going off on…

  • Embrace the Rest They Need

    Sometimes at family gatherings, when we don’t bring the kids because of their naps or bedtime, we are always asked why we are so rigid with their sleep. Then, an aunty or an uncle will bring up how their kids (those in my generation) would fall asleep on someone’s lap at a wedding, how bed…

  • Embrace the Peace Within

    For most of my life, I thought kindness meant saying yes. That the best version of me was the one who could anticipate everyone else’s needs, smooth over awkward moments, and keep the peace at all costs. I told myself it was empathy, it was maturity, and it was love. But lately I’ve realized it…

  • Embrace the Skin You’re In

    I’ve never been someone who loved looking in the mirror. Walking by a mirror, I never felt the need to look over at it. What for? For years, I couldn’t even glance without feeling that familiar pang, that quiet discomfort in my own skin. I never felt happy with what I would see in that…

  • Embrace the Unmade Meal

    Growing up, my grandma and mom were forces in the kitchen. They made all our meals, even if that wasn’t what I wanted. Breakfast? Eggs or cereal. Lunch? Quick vegetable noodles if we were lucky. Dinner? Fresh roti, daal, and some sabzi at minimum. It was like a full-time restaurant that never closed. And me?…

  • Embrace the Golden Hour

    There’s a certain magic in the golden hour, that brief window when the world slows down, the sun softens, and everything seems to be wrapped in a warm light. Lately, my boys have been noticing it too, and to them, every color feels like a discovery. With the time change recently, the sun sets right…

  • Embrace the Boredom Before the Magic

    If you’ve ever heard the words “I’m bored” on repeat (pronounced “I’m booooooooored“), you know it’s both a declaration of war (on you) and a promise of creativity (by the kids). In our house, those two words echo right before something wild happens. Imagine this scenario. You just settle down to sit on the couch…

  • Embrace the Quiet Light

    Diwali is coming up this weekend, and this year, for some reasons related to family, it’s going to be a quiet one in our household. No big celebrations, no over-the-top lights, no matching outfits. As much as I used to enjoy all of that, honestly, it feels nice this year. Life can be overwhelming sometimes,…

  • Embrace the Creator and Destroyer

    Dear Uterus, Though this letter is about my own journey with you, I also want to hold space for all those whose stories with their uterus are different, for those who’ve wanted children but couldn’t, for those who’ve chosen not to, for those whose uterus causes only pain, or for those who have none at…

  • Embrace the Imperfect Standard

    Medicine in general has an objective standard, and although each patient has their nuanced diagnoses, overall there are guidelines and algorithms to base your exams off of. I may not always have the perfect answer, but I know I am practicing to the best of my ability, guided by training, evidence, and mainly, the responsibility…

  • Embrace yourself

    Last week, I traveled to Portugal with my husband for a cousin’s wedding without the kids, and it was exactly what I needed: a chance to recharge. And honestly? I need to do that more often. We fully expected for everyone to give us grief about not bringing the kids to a family wedding, for…