Style series: If I were going to a work event

Happy #fashionFriday!

Starting a new series: “If I were going to...” 👠 (cuz with numbers on the rise and twindemic season upon us, we surely aren’t going much of anywhere right now... 💔) Sometimes a girl needs to dress up, even if just for a Tiktok. 😅

If I were going to... a WORK EVENT. Missing and can’t wait to get back our in person happy hours and style/skincare socials! 🥂 For now, dressed up from the waist up zooms will have to do...! 😅

#liveVICTORIOUS✌🏼

coat: Zara/ dress: AUxNuuly/ bodysuit: Amazon/ shoes: Enrico Cuini/ bag Celine

myopic progression in children

Did you know that the prevalence of myopia, or nearsightedness, is on the rise in school aged children?

Refractive error (aka need for glasses) is typically determined by genetics - a myopic eye is long, while a hyperopic or farsightedness eye is short. The exact etiology for this rise in myopia is still to be determined. Possible factors could be the increase near work or decreased outdoor time over recent decades.

Treatments for myopia include glasses or contacts - but while they can help clear vision in the short term, they don’t really slow down the progression. And methods to slow down progression like prescription eye drops can further blur children’s vision.

Given that my husband and I are both nearsighted, it will be just a matter of time before our children will have these issues.

But good news! The FDA has recently approved CooperVisionUSA’s MiSight 1 day soft contact lenses that can do both - help vision immediately AND slow down progression. Ask your optometrist for more information!

You can call me Doctor…

When I first posted this video on TikTok, I got lots of comments - mostly supportive, but some not so much:

"So do you expect your friends to call you Doctor too? Ha ha."
"You are so uptight."
"Sometimes I just forget, no big deal."

I hear you, but I wonder: Would you respond to a male doctor this way? If he introduced himself as "Doctor" - Would you make fun of him too? Would you also call him uptight? Would you tell him it's no big deal? No, my bets are that you wouldn't.

And that's kinda the whole point.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival

Yesterday was the mid Autumn Festival (中秋节), or Harvest Moon Festival. It is celebrated in many Asian countries - including China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines - on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month (which usually falls in late September or early October).

The full moon on this night is said to be the brightest of the year 🌝, and traditions include lighting of lanterns 🏮, lion dancing, and sharing of mooncakes.

The mid-Autumn Festival is actually the second most important holiday in Chinese culture (behind Lunar New Year 🧧) and is much like Thanksgiving here in the U.S. - a time when families reunite and gather together. Obviously, with COVID, we were not able to celebrate as we usually do with extended family - but it is a reminder of all we do have and can be grateful for. 🙏🏼

The Truth about fake news

Have you ever read a headline or heard an audio clip circulating on social media and thought, "That can't be true!" Well, it probably isn't.

In 2018 MIT did a study looking at "news" posts on social media and found that false news was 70% more likely to be reposted and travelled 6 times faster than the truth. ‼️

In short, this means that that viral post you're seeing on your feed is most likely FALSE. ❌

Some food for thought and a reminder to do your own independent research as we head into flu/twindemic season and get closer to election day.

Letting go of the Mom GUilt

I tend to feel #momguilt a lot...

- for not being more present at home 👧🏻👦🏻
- for not working more 🥼
- for yelling too much at the kids
- for giving in and spoiling them
- for needing alone time
- for saying no
- for asking for help
- for spending too much 🛍
- for being too stingy...

Why? Because I have an image in my head of what an ideal mother, doctor, wife, friend, person SHOULD be. And any time I fall short, I feel the guilt. 💔

But the truth is - NO ONE can live up to an ideal. Certainly not all the things all at the same time.

So I've realized that I need to make the choices that are best for ME, not what I (or others) think I SHOULD do or be.

So if I need some alone time, get some extra help with the kids, or say no to a friend, so be it. And I need to learn not to feel bad and let the guilt get to me...

#liveVICTORIOUS✌🏼