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With Harper gone for the month, I had a chance to get away for TWO girls’ weekends and they were just what I needed! From Red Rocks in the low humidity of Colorado to Fenway park and Beacon Hill, it felt so good to spend quality time with a few of my favorites. Book the trip! Take the time off! It’s always worth it.

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👉Postpartum depression affects up to 20% of women after birth. Postpartum anxiety, bipolar, trauma, OCD and psychosis affect even more.

Getting timely, specialized care has always been one of the biggest barriers to recovery. Only 25% of women who screen positive for PPD are able to get connected to treatment ‼️

This piece from Connecticut Public Radio highlights the ACCESS Mental Health & Substance Use for Moms program — a state-funded hotline that connects new mothers and their providers with real-time psychiatric consultation. The number of moms served grew more than fivefold in just two years!!

I’m one of the reproductive psychiatrists who staffs this line. When a provider calls with a struggling mom, we work together in real time to get her the right treatment. It’s one of the most meaningful parts of my work.

I hope you take a few minutes to read this hopeful piece featuring my mentor and our fearless leader, Dr. Ariadna Forray.

Link in bio to read the full story. 🔗

🛑Education only. No advice.

#postpartumdepression #MaternalMentalHealth #perinatal #connecticut #obgyn

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Sometimes you just need a little chaos to get yourself back on track 😅

Training lately? Questionable at best (1–2 runs a week… being very generous). But with two back-to-back half marathons coming up in three weeks, I needed a real long run.

Then yesterday… I find out there’s a half marathon basically in my backyard.

Went to bed debating.
Set the alarm.
Debated some more.
Almost talked myself out of it.

And then… what the heck. Literally rolled out of bed, brushed my teeth and showed up 😂😂. Registered on the spot - with about an hour to the race start time 😳🙄😱😜😜. It was really really really cold windy and miserable at the start. I did not have any wind proof anything and only wore one layer so I was quite miserable.

13.1 miles later — I was so glad I did it.

Even better, I ran into my friend Jane and we run together almost the entire way… until that final very windy mile where she absolutely left me in the dust 😂

Cold, windy shoreline… but also a few perfect moments of sun, buildings blocking the wind. Did I say it was windy, cold and somewhat miserable weather wise? However, the sunrise was absolutely glorious. I saw some run169 friends and Milford road runners. Also met 2 ladies from NC who are 50-staters here to run this race for CT. I didn’t even know this was a known race but it is the second largest marathon in CT or so they said - also CT is a tiny tiny tiny state - and even more so considering the states I’ve lived in - Texas, NC, and Wisconsin.

Oh — and I casually added a new state to my 50-state challenge without even planning it 🤷🏽‍♀️

Half Marathon 62
State 29

Not exactly textbook training… but we’re getting it done.

#HalfMarathonTraining #RunCT #RunHappy #RaceDay #50StatesChallenge

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National Women Physicians Day is celebrated annually on February 3rd, honoring the birthday of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman who earned a medical degree in the U.S. in 1849.

It’s a day to honor women who have shaped medicine while navigating barriers that were never part of the job description.

Today, I’m reflecting on the path that brought me here. This collage shows me as a daughter, sister, mother, wife, friend, student, and doctor—because every part of my identity matters, and every part makes me a better physician.

Like many women physicians, I’ve faced challenges that don’t show up on a CV: childhood adversity, early parental loss and instability, gender bias and sexism, caregiving expectations, structural inequities, and the constant pressure to prove our competence again and again.

Those experiences don’t just test resilience—they shape it.

Many women physicians draw from lived experience—not as a substitute for rigorous training, but as an added layer of insight that deepens care. It informs how we show up for patients, how we teach the next generation, and how we push for systems that are more humane, equitable, and informed.

I’m proud and grateful to be a physician, and be part of a community of women changing medicine from the inside out. 💙

#nationalwomenphysiciansday #WomenPhysicians #femaledoctor #drkatrinafurey #womeninmedicine

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Together for Christmas Eve! 🎄🎅🏽✨

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Brunch with some of my Milford Road Runners crew! Delicious food, great coffee and awesome conversation 🥞🍳☕
WAIT!?!? DID she say pancakes, I didn't see those on the menu 🥞
#brunch #mrr #runningandfood #myrunninggroupisbetterthanyours #pancakes #pumpkinspice #applepay #andriod

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Happy Tuesday.

I wrote on twitter what my therapist explained to me has been wrong with me lately and it resonated with a good deal of folks so I’ll summarize here, too.

When we experience high levels of stress over and over we THINK we r better at dealing w it, but we actually habituated to it emotionally AND physically. It manifests as burnout and fatigue.

If we actually experienced it all at once, instead of a gradual increase we’d be like F NO. THIS IS TOO MUCH.

But, because it was gradual, it’s like stress exposure therapy...and we tolerate it until we r like “hey, why am I SO tired?” Oh you know...just work, advocacy, family, the pandemic, LITERALLY ALL LIFE.

The good news, I’ve been told, is “once there is awareness, empowerment becomes possible.” (Quote my therapist)

Maybe we aren’t just “busy” and “tired” when people ask how we are but if we actually checked in w/ ourselves we would say “I’m feeling checked out, is it possible this is what stress is?” YUP.

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See Also: “Over It” “Seriously?” “F2020”

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I have had some job changes over the pandemic....and it feels a bit like this only behind the door is just a computer and hours of zoom patients.

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Today....only...Fries and McFlurries.

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Happy, happy birthday to my sister who has always had the biggest smile for me! I love you, OABS...to the moon and back 😂 (PS...when your birthday falls on a TBT, look out!)

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Loved having this time with my girl!

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