I will let this post get a little personal. In about two months, I will start my fourth and final year of veterinary school. In about two and a half months, I will get married. To prepare, my fianceé and I have been meeting with a married couple to receive pre-marriage counseling. The reason for…
Thank you to the veterinary student members of the UC Davis Health and Wellness Club for giving their time and insights into what makes their club so successful. This club is the result of students seeing a need and doing their best to fulfill it. It looks like they are already making a big difference…
This is a good time of the year. The semester has ended, and we are taking a quick break before we start our next classes. The seasons have just changed over, and with that, many more changes. Perhaps some of us are gearing up for the New Year and the change that it represents. It…
Week 1- sleep | Week 2- do nothing | Week 3- be grateful | Week 4- create margin | Week 5- seek solitude | Week 6- slow down Week 6 Habit: Slow down salmagundi (noun) – a salad consisting of chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, vegetables, and seasoning; a general mixture; a miscellaneous…
Merry Monday! Comment (anonymously) below: Share a healing process that followed a struggle In Madison, Wisconsin, there is a memorial marker for John Nguyen who died saving his friend in a lake. If you want to read more about him, click here and here. The marker has a very important message that…
Week 1- sleep | Week 2- do nothing | Week 3- be grateful | Week 4- create margin | Week 5- seek solitude | Week 6- slow down Week 5 Habit: Seek solitude, either daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or all four Let me start out by saying that solitude is not a…
I am excited to share the second Friday Focus where we spotlight what students at other schools are doing to deal with mental health problems in the veterinary profession and ease the burdens of their classmates. This post comes from Caitlyn Freeny at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine. See what they do at their…
Week 1- sleep | Week 2- do nothing | Week 3- be grateful | Week 4- create margin | Week 5- seek solitude | Week 6- slow down Week 3 Habit: Every day this week, write down what you are grateful for Before you get too far into this post, I must…
Here at Beasts, Unburdened we are starting a new series that aims to continue the mission of the blog. We hope it encourages veterinary students to take care of one another, encourages communication, and builds community. In the past few years as the problems with mental health in veterinary medicine have been brought to light,…
Merry Monday! Comment (anonymously) below: Share with us your summer plans It seems like we just took finals, but here we are again. The seasons are changing from spring to summer, classes are ending, and routines might be totally changed. During this transition, I want to encourage you to take stock, reflecting…
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