Welcome! I can’t explain how thrilled I am to have you join me here. I’ll be honest: I resisted having a newsletter for a long time, because I kind of had my hands full… Between being a full-time practicing Gynecologist and Gyn surgeon, creating content for TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, writing my book (It’s Not Hysteria - coming out in spring 2024, stay tuned!) and trying to parent 3 kids and occasionally talk to my husband, I was already a smidge busy. Plus, I’m personally constantly battling against the ridiculous number of spam emails that flood my inbox, and I figured people wouldn’t be interested in *yet another* email to delete.
But then I realized that most of my followers weren’t even seeing some of my posts, depending on the whims of the dreaded algorithms. If TikTok felt like changing their algorithm one day: too bad, so sad, no one will ever see this educational video that I spent an hour producing. And followers would comment things like, “I hadn’t seen you on my For You Page in a while, I didn’t know you’d made all these posts!”
So I’m wrestling back control from the algorithms with my tiny but mighty little surgeon hands. I wanted to give followers regular, consolidated access to my educational (and hopefully also entertaining) content so that they could be sure that they wouldn’t miss anything valuable. I promise to not spam your inbox - I couldn’t even if I wanted to, because I’m so busy, I’ll be pumped to successfully get a newsletter out once a week.
I’ll also post podcast versions of my YouTube videos on this Substack, if you’re a cool podcast person and prefer audio! This is a new format for me, so please be kind as I work out the kinks.
Finally, I’ll use this newsletter to send out updates as we get closer to the launch of my book, to let you know about appearances and book tour info! (Related note: pleeeassse follow public health mitigation practices so that we don’t have any further COVID, monkeypox, yet to come global pandemics that will put your health at risk, but also less importantly, shut down my future book tour, THANK YOU)
In addition to future email updates, you can also log in to the website to read the full archives and other posts as they are published. Let me know in the comments if you have requests for topics to cover, but please remember that doctors can’t give medical advice on social media, so no personal information or questions about your specific medical situation!
So here we go! Thank you again so much for joining me - I’m beyond excited to have you here!
You are right, you needed the newsletter! Despite all of your outlets, this is my first time running across your content! So thanks for pulling the trigger!
You are beyond amazing! I wish your social media sites had been available when I was still an admin of a (very liberal and progressive) school! I love all you do and what you stand for!❤️