You made it to the playground. You sat on the bench. You even looked up from your phone a few times. But if someone asked what your daughter said to you on the drive home, you'd have to guess. You were there — technically. Physically. In the geographic sense of the word. But your mind was three charts behind, two emails deep, and already rehearsing tomorrow's differential before your kid finished telling you about the caterpillar she found. If this hits close, you're not

You're in the middle of your workday. Your phone buzzes, it's a text about a family situation that sends a wave of anxiety straight through your chest. Your jaw tightens. Your hands feel shaky. Your stomach drops. And then, like clockwork, you take a breath, silence your phone, and walk into the next patient room with a steady voice and a calm expression. Because that's what you do. That's what you've always done. You learned it somewhere between childhood — when you were tol