Dr. Natasja Menezes would have wished to have more psychological awareness when she was younger. She wishes that she had the ability to press pause instead of pushing through school until there was a breakdown (which happened frequently). She wishes that she had the ability to reflect and realize that sometimes, difficult conversations involving you are not necessarily about you or because of you.

Even after two decades making a living processing difficult conversations, Dr. Menezes can still be viscerally affected by one back in her undergraduate medicine days. In this conversation, Dr. Menezes highlights how helpful hearing different perspectives can be and how she uses that in her roles as a psychiatrist, educator, and researcher.

For more information, please check out our website (www.okanagan.mcmaster.ca/bounce-at-mcmaster) or follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter (@bouncemcmaster)! We would also love to hear from you! Please send us a message on any of our social media accounts or send an email to [email protected]