Mohini Dasari, MD

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Excited to share my children's book! Whether your little one is scared of the dark or you are in need of some light in these dark times, I hope this can bring some 💡 into your life
Inspired by parenting & navigating bedtime routine/fear of the dark

#writing #childrensbooks

Swallowing the mom guilt and going on the work trip and enjoying oneself while away is… hard but possible. Important. Do the thing, it’s good to be a real person sometimes outside of parenting responsibilities. San Diego you’re lovely 🌴

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#grateful for my anesthesiologist, circulating RN and scrub being the hype fam I never knew I needed, talking about how they’re excited to support me and buy my fiction book coming out later this year… work fam goals 😍🫶🏽
#SurgSky #MedSky #Writing

#writingsky #pregnancy #pregnancyloss #miscarriage #motherhood #writing #nonfiction #shortstory

But the whole reason I wrote this piece is because miscarriage is common, and it's just as much a part of the narrative of pregnancy and family growth-- even if it's not a happy ending.
This is dedicated to anyone who has experienced, directly or indirectly, any form of loss

CW: pregnancy loss
It feels strange posting about this, a it's something I've tried to actively not think about since it happened for the first time last summer, and then again just before Christmas.

Empty Black Circle | Creative Nonfiction by Mohini Dasari in the February 11, 2025 issue of The Write Launch I feel as hollow as the empty black circle staring at me from the screen. The nurse practitioner is quiet as she scans my uterus. A push to the left, a push to the right. Left, right, left, right. I g...

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3/ Without letting go and resting, hard work alone is not the way to happiness or inner peace.

Reminding myself to find my place in mental Savasana more often 🪷
#yoga #mindfulness #mentalhealth #awareness

2/ "You all are really good at doing hard things. That's why you're here" (we all laugh)

But can you be as good at letting you and resting, as you are at doing the poses?

Silence...
It's golden advice.

1/ Pearls from yoga class...
In between the poses in my Hatha yoga class that I went to this morning, we do Savasana
The teacher is really good about emphasizing the importance of rest as equally, if not more important, than the asanas themselves

The result? I can feel the creativity, self-love and excitement for life coming back, after all the years I tried to fit a mold that didn't serve me

#selfgrowth #selfdiscovery #mindfulness #growthmindset #medicine #MedSky #surgery #careers #writing #creativity

The possibilities are endless; everything you start doesn't have to finish. That doesn't mean it didn't do something for you, teach you something, or serve some purpose in your life
Medicine attracts & retains perfectionists
So now I'm learning to free myself from expectations that do not serve me

I'm working on a nonfiction book, a poetry collection, publishing a fiction book I've been sitting on since my 20s, and starting a new fiction book... all things that bring me joy, and do not necessarily fit in with what I have been doing for the last 15+ years

Almost two years ago I made a major career change
It's take a long time to figure out who I am again, and I won't even pretend that I've gotten to the bottom of it
But I'm rediscovering who I am and what I love outside of medicine

🌙 Monday Manifestation ☀️:
My career doesn’t define me.
I can switch gears and be constantly changing, evolving, learning, experiencing 🍃
Growth is an infinite process

#medsky #surgsky #mindfulness #growth #awareness #career

Managed to squeeze in a 50 min Pilates reformer workout while on weekend call without my pager going off… feelin some kind of way 🤩🤩💫👌🏽💯
Aka thank you pager gods for this little grace— makes a huge difference

#MedSky #SurgSky #selfcare

When a postop patient held my hands
And told me
“You have golden hands
Which in my language means
Your hands do what they were made to do well”
I felt my restlessness melt
And I smiled in gratitude behind my mask
Her words healing me as well
🙏🏽
#medsky #surgsky #poetry #healthcare

Here. On the floor. Playing in her room.
The simplicity is haunting as I know it’ll be gone far too soon
I’m trying to slow down, sit down, and cherish each moment I can be
Fully present
In her sweet room

#poem #pause #parenting #mindfulness #poetrysky #parentingsky #mothersky #writingsky

Me trying to play with ZZ at the end of a long day
Hearts full but proverbial tanks on empty
I wish our lives didn’t move so fast— the demands of our jobs, our obligations, our health— taking us directly away from where we need to be:

Monday musings 🌙

January has been eventful so far, in good and hard ways.
Journaling more and enjoying the introspection and self-time that it brings ❣️🙏🏽
Writing is medicine for the soul ✍🏽 💫

#writing #journaling #mindfulness #selflove #writingsky #writersky #MedSky #selfcare #mentalhealth

Digging up words I wrote years ago, this is 2016…
2025 is a year for self renewal, self rediscovery 🌙

#reflection #mindfulness #poetry #poems #writing

Note to Fellow Insecure Writers Don’t shy away from writing. That’s your only hope.

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If you’ve ever struggled to put yourself out there, your words, your art, your soul… this one’s for you ❣️🎈🌙 #insecurity #confidence #mindfulness #writing

2025 intentions: staying present & remembering to laugh even when things are hard

And 🤞🏽 publishing the book for her that I started last year ✍🏽

#medsky #surgsky #momsky #writing #poetry #writers #mindfulness #parenting #motherhood #growth

The Antidote to Perfectionism What is it? It’s action.

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For all my fellow (recovering or ongoing) perfectionists out there… be kind to yourself 🎀

#perfectionism #writers #introspection #mindfulness #awareness

Just a little non-haiku I wrote (because apparently diary has three syllables not two 😝)

#poetry #shortpoems #writing #writers #inspiration #mindfulness

Close the Tabs Do you ever feel like there’s so much you want to do and can’t ever get it all done?

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Anyone else feel perpetually overwhelmed, even by what should be fun— like creating?
Try closing some tabs- I’ve found it so helpful & hope you might too 🙏🏽

#writers #writing #creativity #art #MedSky #simplify #mindfulness

Self-expression at work 🥳

#SurgSky #MedSky #ilooklikeasurgeon

Woke up the last two days 30 mins earlier than usual to try to write before work and my daughter like clockwork woke up before I could sit down to write. HOW do people with little ones get up early and write? I swear the little ones have an internal alarm 😂
#writers #writing #momlife #parenting

You’re More Than Your Depression Depression throws a dark, doubtful shadow over most things: situations, relationships, opportunities and — most damagingly— self-esteem. It can feel so overwhelming and at the same time so subtle…

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Inspired by A Charlie Brown Christmas 🎄

#mentalhealth #depression #mentalhealthawareness #writing #observing #mindfulness

The Enigma of Boundaries It’s hard to know how to set boundaries as an adult when “boundaries” wasn’t really a concept for you for the first 2–3 decades of your…

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Why are boundaries so hard?!

How we were raised, self-imposed standards for pleasing others, cultural settings & perfectionist tendencies may have something to do with it ;)

#selfawareness #mindfulness #boundaries #mentalhealth #peoplepleasing #introspection #MedSky