The practice of mindfulness is regularly incorporated into what we do at Happy and Healthy Pediatrics. We continually work to develop and share resources with parents and patients. We have collaborated with leaders in the field and are working to further develop our personal expertise. Dr. Rubin is at the forefront of incorporating Mindfulness into pediatric medical practice.

Dr. Rubin began her mindfulness journey many years ago and regularly attends trainings and retreats. She stays completely abreast of the practice and has incorporated into daily life as well as professional practice. Please read some of the letters below that Rd. Rubin has shared with her patients:

One thing I am very open about with the families I care for at Happy and Healthy Pediatrics is how I suffer from anxiety.  I always have been very anxious, and I deeply understand how it effects not only our own well- being, but also the way we parent. I also see so clearly how anxiety is in part, a taught behavior and it carries down from generation to generation. My mom is very anxious, and one of my goals in life is to make sure I don’t pass it along to my own daughters.  I NEED to teach them something better, a higher sense of resilience.  Especially because the world is only going to get harder for our children, not easier.

It is only in the past few years, since I have started practicing mindfulness, that have I seen a dramatic improvement in my anxiety.  In particular, it was the workshops and retreat that I attended with Cory Muscara, the Founder of the Long Island Center for Mindfulness, that really have helped me the most.  I feel that what I have learned from him has brought me more success in dealing with my anxiety than years of therapy.

We live in an anxious world.  Anxiety is really the epidemic that we treat.  And we see it in all forms.  From new parents too anxious to enjoy their newborns, to 8 year olds having panic attacks, to us as physicians unable to sleep at night because we are worried about our patients.  I suffer from anxiety, and I know my parents role modeled those behaviors.   Every day I struggle-not only to be happy, but also to make sure I break the cycle!  I am determined to give my daughters a better life.  So they don't have to struggle.  So that they have better coping strategies.  I see the world getting harder, not easier.  I want them to be resilient.   I want them to be happy.