Dr. Jenna Taglienti

There's no right or wrong playbook here.

Everybody has to figure out for themselves what is meaningful for them, both in life and in medicine, and make sure that they

have all of that.

Yeah, no, I mean, it's yeah, it's vague when I say it like that.

But to get into the nitty gritty, for example, I still don't call myself a writer.

That is something foreign to me.

All right.

So I just by accident realized I can write during this time.

You don't know what talents or what is hiding beneath the surface if you don't

have the time to, to think like we have not a spare moment and we get caught up in just the day to day and getting through the day to day.

Um, what this has showed me is, um, the chance to reflect and think is valuable and it helped me it's helping me get through this.

That's my coping.

skill I learned how to write.

But I would say other people probably have other hidden talents like music or, you know, something else that gives them joy and helps them through difficult moments.

And it's important not to give that up.

I had no idea that I could write until now.

This was just something new.

I just I'm figuring it out.

There's so many things that like, you know, in the moment you're just, you do, you roll your eyes and then, but you, years later, you kind of like, you figure it out that that actually made a difference.

Um, there, my mom always taught me that if you get, um, like