As an emergency doctor who faces stress every day in the ER, I thought I had stress figured out. After a deployment to Afghanistan with a Shock Trauma Platoon I felt pretty confident that I could take whatever life threw at me.

Then it all came crashing down- the world that is! As I was about to walk down the aisle as a bridesmaid, I was ordered to leave the wedding immediately and go into quarantine. I was one of the first healthcare workers in my state to be exposed to the coronavirus! Missing out and feeling guilty for maybe exposing my best friend and her family, I retreated into my coping strategies built up over decades.

I quickly realized I had developed an arsenal of tools for stress relief over time and I had never shared it with the world! Once I started sharing, people kept begging for more. No one had ever seen all of these practical, scientifically backed techniques that had been tried and tested in the ER environment all together in one place!