Thoughtful conversations with the people of Maine

I'm doing massive weight loss surgery. It's a long day. Those surgeries can take six, eight hours, but the transformation for me, I just feel, you know, I guess so much gratitude that I get to complete their journey. They do all the hard work, the weight loss, going through the surgery, keeping the weight off, doing the exercise, putting in all that effort. And then I get to give them the final result, which is very rewarding.

Our bodies are part of our voice. When the mouth becomes just a conduit from brain to expressed idea, things get rigid and stilted.

I find myself saying, why didn't they teach us this in second grade or when we were five, these sort of basic concepts, and it's not really complicated. I've been working with patients that sometimes like, wow, I think you're not in your body. They're like, oh my gosh, I think you're right. And then when they start to just make that simple connection, they're like, oh, that feels so much better.