To do our best work, we need to take care of ourselves physically and mentally

Dr. Kathy Anderson, a retired U.S. Air Force Captain with a PhD in computer science, draws upon her personal experiences as a woman in STEMM who has dealt with the challenges of physical and mental illness to stress the importance of taking care of oneself first and foremost. This is a copy of a post published in the Epistimi blog series at: https://www.epistimi.org/blog/to-do-our-best-work-we-need-to-take-care-of-ourselves-physically-and-mentally

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-08-25
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21759207
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Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
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To do our best work, we need to take care of ourselves physically and mentally

Janet Gordon Hering, Patricia Maurice, Kathy Anderson
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To do our best work, we need to take care of ourselves physically and mentally

Janet Gordon Hering, Patricia Maurice, Kathy Anderson
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Abstract

Dr. Kathy Anderson, a retired U.S. Air Force Captain with a PhD in computer science, draws upon her personal experiences as a woman in STEMM who has dealt with the challenges of physical and mental illness to stress the importance of taking care of oneself first and foremost. This is a copy of a post published in the Epistimi blog series at: https://www.epistimi.org/blog/to-do-our-best-work-we-need-to-take-care-of-ourselves-physically-and-mentally

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
University of Notre Dame (US), ETH Zurich (CH), Institute for Forecasting of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH), Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (CH)
Gender equality
Openalex Percentile: Top 7%
Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
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To do our best work, we need to take care of ourselves physically and mentally — Janet Gordon Hering, Patricia Maurice, et al. · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2026) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS