Self-care with Drs. Sarah
By Self-care with Drs. Sarah
Self-care with Drs. Sarah is a series of conversations between women scientists about navigating and surviving science culture. We (Sarah B. and Sarah R.) are astrophysicists and best friends who went through graduate school together. In some episodes, we chat between the two of us about topics relevant to self-care for women scientists, and in other episodes, we interview our friends and colleagues about how they care for themselves.
Self-care with Drs. SarahNov 10, 2015
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Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Interview with Dr. Anouk Borst
Sarah R. interviews Dr. Anouk Borst about stress paralysis in academic applications, and how friends can help one another when they stumble.
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Apr 09, 201940:51
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Impostor Syndrome 3 Year Anniversary
On our third podcast anniversary here at Sarah HQ, we're revisiting our nemesis. Sarah R. honestly shares the solution to overcoming impostor syndrome at 19:02. Sarah B. makes a joke about MacGyver.
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For more on this episode, please visit: drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/180558019785/episode-27-impostor-syndrome-3-year
Nov 27, 201853:03
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Cognitive Distortions
Your hosts dig into our Greatest Hits Albums of cognitive distortions: on heavy rotation are “All-or-Nothing Thinking,” “Emotional Reasoning,” and “Negative Filtering.” Sarah B. gives a couple examples of IRL painful thoughts she works through, with and then without distortions. Sarah R. hears the unfiltered truth about her talent (it’s true Sarah, and I write these iTunes descriptions so you can’t tell me otherwise).
For more on this episode, please visit: drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/176460795095/episode-26-cognitive-distortions-sarah-b-uses
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Jul 30, 201841:17
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Tanneasha Gordon & Boundaries, Part 2
Sarah R. interviews consultant Tanneasha Gordon on how to maintain healthy personal and professional boundaries, work-life integration, and self-care.
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Jun 25, 201857:36
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Tanneasha Gordon & Boundaries, Part 1
Sarah R. interviews consultant Tanneasha Gordon on how to maintain healthy personal and professional boundaries, work-life integration, and self-care. Tanneasha is a winner of the Rising Star Award from the National Association for Female Executives, among her other accolades.
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Jun 25, 201830:30
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Body Image
Sarah R. and Sarah B. will argue until the heat death of the universe about who is prettier (“no YOU are!”). Sarah R. has a radical proposal about how to best make peace with your body and she can’t recommend it highly enough. Sarah B. sticks to googling things and Instagram for everyday body image malaise. Sarah B. shares a modest proposal. If this podcast ever has merch, the catchphrase on it will be “how about keep it to yourself comma JIM.”
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For more on this episode, please visit: drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/171034861820/episode-23-body-image-sarah-b-doesnt-love-the
Feb 19, 201855:08
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Meltdown
Your hosts are back! Sarah R is cryingunderdesk.gif. Chi squared gives Sarah B a panic attack. Sarah B. cries “what’s to become of me?” at her guitar teacher and collapses tearfully on the bed. When all else fails, what are the instincts that remain? Your hosts talk about tools in times of intense crisis: professional and personal.
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For more on this episode, please see: drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/169762983605/episode-22-meltdown-cryingunderdeskgif-you
Jan 16, 201844:33
Self-Care with Drs. Sarah: Therapy
Your hosts crack into mental health. When it comes to a good therapy match, do you know it when you feel it?
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For more on this episode, please visit: drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/165482070645/episode-21-therapy-depression-treatment-often
Sep 18, 201739:20
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Self-care as an Act of Resistance with Dr. Cabrera Salazar
"Lento, per avanzo." "Slowly, but I advance."
Sarah B. interviews Dr. Nicole Cabrera Salazar on how self-care can be a political act as well as a personal one. Surviving in a space that's hostile to your existence is a radical act. The world's first university, Zapatismo, and more. Hire Dr. Cabrera Salazar to give her workshop in your institution!
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Sarah B. interviews Dr. Nicole Cabrera Salazar on how self-care can be a political act as well as a personal one. Surviving in a space that's hostile to your existence is a radical act. The world's first university, Zapatismo, and more. Hire Dr. Cabrera Salazar to give her workshop in your institution!
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Jul 07, 201741:00
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Jealousy
We're back for Season 2! Jealousy in the academic context is *rough.* The CV is a black hole from which nothing escapes, no matter how much gets accreted. Sarah B. should have a Gmail folder called "Friends Who Achieve Things That I'm Not Achieving", then maybe she'll actually read those emails.
For more on this episode, please visit: drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/160568406290/episode-19-jealousy-were-back-the-sarahs
For more on this episode, please visit: drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/160568406290/episode-19-jealousy-were-back-the-sarahs
May 12, 201731:13
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Productivity
Sarah R. school Sarah B. on how to live her best life. The best strategies for productivity within academia. The contents of Sarah B's wallet.
Oct 10, 201655:25
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Gender Presentation with Dr. Prescod-Weinstein
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and Sarah B. have a conversation about gender presentation within scientific culture: how do we navigate the policing of how we look? For young scientists of color receiving comments about their appearance, "looking like a scientist" is an additionally fraught proposition. Sarah B. advises a young grad student to tape her press release on the mirror, so she can see it when she puts on her bright red lipstick. Chanda says: have people take pictures of you giving talks!!
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Sep 26, 201631:48
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Grief
Sarah R. talks with Dr. Laura Blecha about grieving and loss.
Laura is a friend of the podcast, black hole theorist, prize postdoctoral fellow at Maryland/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ~*soon to be faculty member*~ at University of Florida.
For more on this episode, please visit: drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/150040577195/episode-17-grief-website-of-dr-laura-blecha
Laura is a friend of the podcast, black hole theorist, prize postdoctoral fellow at Maryland/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ~*soon to be faculty member*~ at University of Florida.
For more on this episode, please visit: drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/150040577195/episode-17-grief-website-of-dr-laura-blecha
Sep 06, 201640:56
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Moving
Your humble hosts return to talk about relocating as an academic. Frustration about the assumption that *of course* you'll move yet again for a job, how women disproportionately bear that burden, and how Sarah R.'s life looks like a Lisa Frank binder.
"Really good choices for oneself can be totally dismissed in the common cultural narrative about being a scientist."
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"Really good choices for oneself can be totally dismissed in the common cultural narrative about being a scientist."
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Aug 16, 201639:24
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Dr. Katja Poppenhaeger on Junior Faculty Life
Sarah R. interviews newly minted Prof. Katja Poppenhaeger, junior faculty at Queen's University Belfast. For Katja's secrets on productivity in the midst of the whirlwind schedule of a new faculty member(!), and her own stories from the faculty search process, listen in!
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Apr 26, 201623:24
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Faculty Interviews
Sarah R. and Sarah B. are back after a hiatus for Job Stuff 2k16. Your hosts talk about the emotional roller coaster of faculty interviews, and how they cope with the challenges of projecting Professor Sarah.
“I’m feeling 10 kinda adjectives about this” -- Sarah B.
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“I’m feeling 10 kinda adjectives about this” -- Sarah B.
For more on this episode, please visit: drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/141110690240/episode-14-faculty-interviews-reference-women
Mar 15, 201649:14
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Interview with Nicole Cabrera Part 2
Sarah B. chats with Nicole Cabrera (graduate student in astronomy at Georgia State University) again! Because we just *needed* to chat more with Nicole about all of her cool accomplishments (TED talk!!!) and ideas. Equity work and self-care are intertwined, among other topics.
For more on this episode, please visit: drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/139010021310/episode-13-interview-with-nicole-cabrera-part-2
For more on this episode, please visit: drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/139010021310/episode-13-interview-with-nicole-cabrera-part-2
Feb 09, 201624:11
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Interview with Balanda Atis, head of L'Oreal's Women of Color Lab
Drs. Sarah are joined by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein for an epic interview with Balanda Atis, head of the Women of Color Lab at L'Oreal. Curious about which breakthrough discovery made Balanda famous in Fast Company? Want to know which lipsticks she recommends for imparting true color to darker skin? Want to know why sunscreens are used differently by white women than by women of color? Would you like to know how the head of a lab at a famous cosmetics company treats herself at the end of a tough day? Then, dear listener, this is the podcast for you!
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For more on this episode, please visit: drssarahcare.tumblr.com/post/137110567590/episode-12-interview-with-balanda-atis-head-of
Jan 11, 201639:23
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Interview with Aomawa Shields
Your hosts interview Dr. Aomawa Shields, person extraordinaire. Dr. Shields is an NSF postdoctoral fellow, a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA and Harvard, and a TED fellow. Phew!!
We chat about Aomawa's self-care strategies, impostor syndrome in science versus art, and the power of writing.
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We chat about Aomawa's self-care strategies, impostor syndrome in science versus art, and the power of writing.
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Dec 15, 201547:15
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Interview with Suzanne Vernon
Sarah R. interviews Dr. Suzanne Vernon, a senior expert in infectious disease, about her professional path.
Trigger warning: This interview contains descriptions of sexual harassment.
Trigger warning: This interview contains descriptions of sexual harassment.
Dec 02, 201525:22
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Conferences Part II
Part II! Your hosts Sarah B. & Sarah R. talk about self-care at conferences: from our feelings at our first conferences to coping with them now as seasoned exoplaneteers! Power posing, visualization exercises, and drinking with other astronomers, among other topics.
Nov 10, 201518:05
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Conferences Part I
Your hosts Sarah B. & Sarah R. talk about self-care at conferences: from our feelings at our first conferences to coping with them now as seasoned exoplaneteers! Power posing, visualization exercises, and drinking with other astronomers, among other topics.
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Nov 10, 201523:10
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Makeup Roundtable with Drs. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein & Vaishali Bhardwaj
Sarah B. talks in *~all of the detail*~ about makeup with friends Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist at MIT, and Dr. Vaishali Bhardwaj, specialist in the Lyman alpha forest from the University of Washington. Our favorite products, how our looks have evolved over time, and more!
Share your questions and topics with us! Call (716) SARAH50 to leave us a voicemail or write us at drssarahcare@gmail.com, and we'll try to answer you on a future show!
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Share your questions and topics with us! Call (716) SARAH50 to leave us a voicemail or write us at drssarahcare@gmail.com, and we'll try to answer you on a future show!
For more on this episode (including links to the products mentioned here!) please visit:
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Oct 26, 201501:09:52
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Interview with Alex Gonzales & Navigating the First Year of Grad School
Sarah R. gives a timely preamble about serial sexual harassment in astronomy.
Sarah R. & Sarah B. chat with MIT graduate student Alex Gonzales about navigating the treacherous first year of graduate school. Finding therapy, fostering supportive relationships, grappling with intense change, and more. What is "one Beyonce's worth of grad school"? Find out!!!
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Oct 11, 201543:17
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Interview with Nicole Cabrera
Sarah B. interviews Nicole Cabrera on activist burnout, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and the healing power of Beyonce.
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Sep 29, 201539:32
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Impostor Syndrome Part II
The second half of our two-part episode about the Impostor Syndrome. Sarah R. and Sarah B. share amelioration strategies, including values affirmation practice.
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Sep 14, 201525:23
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Impostor Syndrome Part I
Sarah R. & Sarah B. talk about the Impostor Syndrome and their coping strategies. Part 1 of a two-part episode.
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Sep 01, 201530:17
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Interview with Kennda Lynch
Sarah R. interviews Dr. Kennda Lynch.
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Sep 01, 201529:20
Self-care with Drs. Sarah: Introduction
Welcome!
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Sep 01, 201519:33