Beth Rica­nati, MD, is a board-cer­ti­fied internist and author of the mul­ti-award-win­ning mem­oir Braid­ed: A Jour­ney of a Thou­sand Chal­lahs. She has spent her career focused on improv­ing the well-being of her patients’ lives in tra­di­tion­al med­ical clin­ics and well­ness pro­grams, and now also as an author/​speaker. She resides in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia with her family.