Anna FernandoMD
@annafernandomd.bsky.social
Unfolding...Homeschooling, Investigating HEALING, MINDFULNESS, HUMAN POTENTIAL; Learning from adversities
MD, FM@uOttawa, fmrFM@ClinicOshawa &ICU-RN@SHNcares
Author:
"The Alchemy of Suffering: Wisdom Recipes from a Doctor’s Jungle... https://a.co/d/eliF3Ih
MD, FM@uOttawa, fmrFM@ClinicOshawa &ICU-RN@SHNcares
Author:
"The Alchemy of Suffering: Wisdom Recipes from a Doctor’s Jungle... https://a.co/d/eliF3Ih
Is this true?
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Is this true?
Open your hearts to open the world for yourselves and bring light to others.
#Compassion #LovingKindness #Humanity #Motivation #Inspiration
#Compassion #LovingKindness #Humanity #Motivation #Inspiration
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Open your hearts to open the world for yourselves and bring light to others.
#Compassion #LovingKindness #Humanity #Motivation #Inspiration
#Compassion #LovingKindness #Humanity #Motivation #Inspiration
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
For those who are STRUGGLING. You don't have to pretend you are fine, or fight your suffering to eliminate it entirely. The pain (of all sorts) might never go away; but when we change our relationship with it, it becomes less painful and even useful.
Everyone has different path. Accept yours.
#heal
Everyone has different path. Accept yours.
#heal
July 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
For those who are STRUGGLING. You don't have to pretend you are fine, or fight your suffering to eliminate it entirely. The pain (of all sorts) might never go away; but when we change our relationship with it, it becomes less painful and even useful.
Everyone has different path. Accept yours.
#heal
Everyone has different path. Accept yours.
#heal
I've have been practicing hard core mindfulness using Buddhist texts & Vipassana for many years now. When I arrived to Sri Lanka after burnout, full of unprocessed grief about loss of the unborn baby, postpartum depression (that led to addiction), I had no idea where to begin. I started with
July 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I've have been practicing hard core mindfulness using Buddhist texts & Vipassana for many years now. When I arrived to Sri Lanka after burnout, full of unprocessed grief about loss of the unborn baby, postpartum depression (that led to addiction), I had no idea where to begin. I started with
Do silly things, because they might be not as silly, after all.
#mindfulness
#mindfulness
July 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Do silly things, because they might be not as silly, after all.
#mindfulness
#mindfulness
Has been my experience...Useful meditative/reflecting prompt: What are you RUNNING from? Notice REPETITIVE patterns...They are the CLUES...
#Meditation #Reflection #Authentic #Alchemy #Vipassana
#Meditation #Reflection #Authentic #Alchemy #Vipassana
June 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Has been my experience...Useful meditative/reflecting prompt: What are you RUNNING from? Notice REPETITIVE patterns...They are the CLUES...
#Meditation #Reflection #Authentic #Alchemy #Vipassana
#Meditation #Reflection #Authentic #Alchemy #Vipassana
Sometimes we find ourselves in places LEAST EXPECTED. Yet, those places might bring PRESENTS we'd never discovered anywhere else...
#Opportunity #Authentic #Alchemy #Transformation #Hidden #Potential
#Opportunity #Authentic #Alchemy #Transformation #Hidden #Potential
June 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Sometimes we find ourselves in places LEAST EXPECTED. Yet, those places might bring PRESENTS we'd never discovered anywhere else...
#Opportunity #Authentic #Alchemy #Transformation #Hidden #Potential
#Opportunity #Authentic #Alchemy #Transformation #Hidden #Potential
The Alchemy of Suffering works this way:
June 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Alchemy of Suffering works this way:
May 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
May 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
May 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
When you run out of food ingredients, cook something for the heart and mind instead.
- Doctor stranded in the jungle
#DoctorsWhoCook #MedFoodSky #WritingCommunity #Resilience
- Doctor stranded in the jungle
#DoctorsWhoCook #MedFoodSky #WritingCommunity #Resilience
May 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
When you run out of food ingredients, cook something for the heart and mind instead.
- Doctor stranded in the jungle
#DoctorsWhoCook #MedFoodSky #WritingCommunity #Resilience
- Doctor stranded in the jungle
#DoctorsWhoCook #MedFoodSky #WritingCommunity #Resilience
Has anyone ever published a book from the jungle, using somebody else's account because they have no access to any banking?
That's what I did!
Book is on sale this week. You are welcome to check it out:
a.co/d/enAndlR
That's what I did!
Book is on sale this week. You are welcome to check it out:
a.co/d/enAndlR
March 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Has anyone ever published a book from the jungle, using somebody else's account because they have no access to any banking?
That's what I did!
Book is on sale this week. You are welcome to check it out:
a.co/d/enAndlR
That's what I did!
Book is on sale this week. You are welcome to check it out:
a.co/d/enAndlR
The way to get unstuck:
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The way to get unstuck:
Found this in the bag with my kid's old clothing.
January 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Found this in the bag with my kid's old clothing.
“Do not be afraid of your difficulties.
Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are.
For when you have made the best of an adversity,
it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.”
― Helena Blavatsky
You can call it #GrowthMindset , but it goes deeper than that...
Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are.
For when you have made the best of an adversity,
it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.”
― Helena Blavatsky
You can call it #GrowthMindset , but it goes deeper than that...
January 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“Do not be afraid of your difficulties.
Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are.
For when you have made the best of an adversity,
it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.”
― Helena Blavatsky
You can call it #GrowthMindset , but it goes deeper than that...
Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are.
For when you have made the best of an adversity,
it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.”
― Helena Blavatsky
You can call it #GrowthMindset , but it goes deeper than that...
Lessons from #Buddhism:
Don’t run away from discomfort.
Stay with it, even if just for a moment.
Gradually, increase the time you spend sitting with that discomfort.
“Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you’re letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.”
Don’t run away from discomfort.
Stay with it, even if just for a moment.
Gradually, increase the time you spend sitting with that discomfort.
“Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you’re letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.”
January 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Lessons from #Buddhism:
Don’t run away from discomfort.
Stay with it, even if just for a moment.
Gradually, increase the time you spend sitting with that discomfort.
“Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you’re letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.”
Don’t run away from discomfort.
Stay with it, even if just for a moment.
Gradually, increase the time you spend sitting with that discomfort.
“Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you’re letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.”
“The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others.
The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.”
― Richard Rohr
The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.”
― Richard Rohr
December 21, 2024 at 2:59 PM
“The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others.
The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.”
― Richard Rohr
The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.”
― Richard Rohr
“The essence of warriorship,
or the essence of human bravery,
is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.”
― Chogyam Trungpa
or the essence of human bravery,
is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.”
― Chogyam Trungpa
December 17, 2024 at 4:59 PM
“The essence of warriorship,
or the essence of human bravery,
is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.”
― Chogyam Trungpa
or the essence of human bravery,
is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.”
― Chogyam Trungpa