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You Beat Impossible Odds Once. Go Do It Again.
The scientists can argue the exact number, but the probability of you — specifically you, with your exact genetic makeup, born to your exact parents, at your exact moment in history — has been estimated at roughly one in 400 trillion.
Jeffrey Reynolds
May 92 min read


Why I Talk About Cancer
Ask anyone who has worked with me for more than five minutes and they will tell you the same thing. I am direct, move fast in a way that sometimes misses nuances, and I have very little patience for drawn-out meetings that could have been emails or quick conversations.
Jeffrey Reynolds
May 33 min read


If You Have to Ask, You Already Know the Answer. Except When You Don’t.
The willingness to ask — openly, without performance, without already having the answer dressed up as a question — is one of the harder skills to develop and one of the more valuable ones to hold onto.
Jeffrey Reynolds
Apr 183 min read


Comfort Is Killing You
The uncomfortable truth about comfort is that we’ve been promised it as the destination. Get enough of it and you’ll be fine. What we’ve learned — in clinical research, in organizational behavior, in real life — is that the opposite is true.
Jeffrey Reynolds
Apr 113 min read


Spring Cleaning Your Mind
Each spring, people attack their homes with a kind of focused energy that the rest of the year never quite produces. Windows get cleaned. Closets get emptied. Drawers get sorted. The clutter that’s been sitting in the corner of the garage since 2019 finally gets its day. There’s something deeply satisfying and cleansing about the whole exercise - not just the result, but the decisions. This stays. This goes. This no longer belongs here. We do this in our homes as the days get
Jeffrey Reynolds
Mar 213 min read


They're Watching How You Carry It
Nobody told me that when I got my cancer diagnosis, I was also getting a leadership test. I found out on a Thursday. By Friday morning I was back at my desk, fielding calls, running a meeting, making decisions for an organization that serves tens of thousands of people. Not because I was fine. I wasn’t fine. But because I was the CEO, and I had spent thirty years believing — without ever examining the belief — that my job was to project stability regardless of what was happen
Jeffrey Reynolds
Mar 143 min read


The Morning Was Never the Problem
For most of my adult life, I told myself I just wasn’t a morning person. I’d hit snooze. Reach for my phone before my feet hit the floor. Scroll through email, check the news, absorb everyone else’s urgency before I’d had a single intentional thought of my own. By the time I walked into the office, I was already reactive — already behind — already running on someone else’s agenda instead of my own. And I was the CEO of a $28 million organization, responsible for the wellbeing
Jeffrey Reynolds
Mar 82 min read


Chemo Brain: It's Not All in Your Head
About six weeks into my chemotherapy, I sat down to write an email that I had written a hundred times before. A routine “Five Bullet Friday” update to the FCA board. Nothing complicated. I knew exactly what I wanted to cover. And I could not find the words. Not in a poetic, searching-for-the-right-phrase kind of way. In a genuinely frightening, the-cabinet-is-open-and-the-shelf-is-empty kind of way. I sat in front of that screen for ten minutes. I got up. I came back. I tried
Jeffrey Reynolds
Mar 77 min read


Turkey Memes and Gratitude Posts
Real gratitude - the kind that actually sustains you - doesn’t look like the social media version of Thanksgiving.
Jeffrey Reynolds
Nov 27, 20253 min read


What Will You Do With Your Extra Hour?
This extra hour? It’s a microcosm of every choice we make. We can sleepwalk through it or we can be awake. We can drift or we can steer. We can let time happen to us or we can happen to time.
Jeffrey Reynolds
Nov 1, 20253 min read


I Joked About Getting Older Until I Got Cancer
Cancer changes your relationship with time. Before my diagnosis, birthdays marked the passage of years in a vague, abstract way. Sure, I was getting older, but that timeline stretched comfortably into a distant, hazy future. After cancer, each birthday became something more concrete - less a marker of age and more a testament to survival.
Jeffrey Reynolds
Oct 5, 20253 min read


Federal Funding Cuts to Addiction Programs Are Dangerous
Stopping the free flow of fentanyl into our country is important; that's the supply side of the equation. We need to also address the...
Jeffrey Reynolds
Apr 7, 20251 min read


Can Journavx - A New Pain Pill - Offer Relief?
Twenty million Americans suffer from life-altering pain, putting them at risk for depression, suicide and addiction.
Jeffrey Reynolds
Feb 16, 20253 min read


Reflecting on 2024 to Plan for 2025
As we wrap up 2024, it's tempting to start planning for 2025, but you can't do that without reflecting on the year that's about to pass.
Jeffrey Reynolds
Dec 13, 20241 min read


Major Fentanyl Bust on Long Island
Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney announced the arrest of a 43-year-old Bellport man last week and at the same time seized 15...
Jeffrey Reynolds
Oct 16, 20241 min read


Obstacles are Opportunities
Imagine being able to get everything we want, do everything we want and be everything we want without anything or anyone standing in the way
Jeffrey Reynolds
Sep 28, 20241 min read


Babylon Uses Cannabis Tax Revenues Wisely
Dr. Reynolds chatted with Newsday, Fox 5 and WCBS-TV about the Town of Babylon's acceptance of $1.2 million in cannabis tax proceeds.
Jeffrey Reynolds
Aug 18, 20241 min read


My Letter to The New York Times
It's notoriously difficult to get a letter to the editor published in the New York Times, but I got my second letter published this week....
Jeffrey Reynolds
Jun 27, 20241 min read


It Feels a Little Weird to Receive a "Lifetime Achievement Award"
Some days I still feel like the aimless 14-year-old kid trying to navigate junior high school or the wide-eyed Dowling College graduate...
Jeffrey Reynolds
May 25, 20232 min read


9 Things You Should Know About Naloxone or Narcan
1) Recently approved by the federal Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for over-the-counter sale, Naloxone or "Narcan" is not a new drug...
Jeffrey Reynolds
Apr 5, 20232 min read
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