Phoenix Rising Family Medicine

09/04/2026

Phoenix Rising Midlife Health Clinic is coming this November.

Danielle is preparing to begin seeing patients through a new model of care built around a simple question:

What do you want the last decades of your life to look like?

Our goal is to move beyond simply treating problems as they arise. We want to help people understand their health today, identify risks early, and intentionally build toward more capable years ahead.

The model brings together comprehensive primary care, preventive health, mental and emotional wellness, and physical healthspan assessment to create an individualized roadmap for what comes next.

Danielle plans to begin seeing patients in November, and her wait list is now open.

To join the wait list:
Visit https://phoenixrisingmidlife.mykajabi.com/ and click “Become a Patient.”

08/08/2026

☀️ PRFM is taking a summer break! ☀️

Phoenix Rising Family Medicine will be closed through August 16 and will reopen Monday, August 17 while our team takes some much-needed time to slow down, soak up the sunshine, and enjoy time with our families. 💛

We hope you’re able to do a little of the same — get outside, enjoy these beautiful summer days, and make some memories with the people you love! 🌻☀️

If you have an urgent medical need that cannot wait until we return, please page the on-call provider. For emergencies, please call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room. Urgent care is also available for concerns that need to be evaluated before we reopen.

Thank you for allowing our little PRFM family some time to recharge. We appreciate you all so much and look forward to seeing you when we’re back! 💛

— The Phoenix Rising Family Medicine Team

07/30/2026

We’re excited to share that Kira Biron, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, has officially earned the designation of Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP)!

This certification is awarded by The Menopause Society, the leading independent organization dedicated to evidence-based menopause care. Earning the MSCP credential requires passing a rigorous competency examination demonstrating current knowledge in perimenopause, menopause, hormone therapy, and women’s midlife health.

Why is this important?

Menopause care has gained tremendous attention over the past several years, which has helped raise awareness—but it has also led to an overwhelming amount of misinformation. Women are often left trying to sort through conflicting advice from social media, podcasts, online forums, and even healthcare providers.

The MSCP certification represents a commitment to practicing according to the best available scientific evidence and established clinical guidelines. It reflects ongoing dedication to understanding the latest research so that treatment recommendations are individualized, safe, and supported by high-quality evidence—not trends, myths, or fear.

At Phoenix Rising Family Medicine, we believe every woman deserves to feel heard, understand what is happening in her body, and receive care that is tailored to her unique symptoms, goals, and medical history. Whether that includes lifestyle changes, hormone therapy, non-hormonal treatment options, or simply education and reassurance, our goal is to help patients make informed decisions with confidence.

We’re grateful for the opportunity to continue learning and growing so we can provide the highest quality, evidence-based care to the women in our community.

06/07/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/thehealthysensitive/p/the-art-of-being-a-curious-rebel?r=69s7dx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

When Dani and I first started working together, we shared an interest in burnout.

05/15/2026

If you’re someone who struggles to make decisions, the answer is not necessarily to “learn to make decisions faster” (not unless you are in true, urgent physical danger).

Some people are simply wired to take longer before pulling the trigger on a decision. For example, highly sensitive people (and sometimes those who have ADHD) often see things from MANY angles. So they reflect longer before making a decision. They also tend to be more sensitive to rejection and may have hold themselves to high standards.

When you’re navigating burnout, it will only make decisions EVEN HARDER because it requires executive functioning (which is the first part of the brain to dim because it’s metabolically expensive)

Instead of judging yourself for this or learning “hacks” to make choices faster - the first step is almost always to relax and say “you know what? I’m someone who prefers to take my time. And that’s okay”

05/12/2026

CORE VALUES + BURNOUT TYPES

Warrior Burnout:Constantly revising values.Always optimizing, improving, pivoting, striving.Growth becomes another form of pressure.

Healing:Slow down.Solidify what truly matters.Stop rebuilding your identity every week.

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Fortress Burnout:Rigid attachment to values.“Protecting peace” becomes isolation, control, and inflexibility.

Healing:Practice openness.Let values guide life instead of becoming walls against it.

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Winging It Burnout:Hasn’t fully stopped to define core values.Life becomes reactive, impulsive, or scattered.

Healing:Slow down enough to ask:“What actually matters to me?”Build structure around those answers.

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Ease & Flow:Values become embodied instead of performative, rigid, or unclear.

You stop:Proving.Protecting.Drifting.

And start living more intentionally.

05/08/2026

05/07/2026

Three big signs you might be a curious rebel:
1) you are a highly sensitive person
2) you are obsessed with self-understanding and personal growth
3) you want to birth something (a book, a partnership, a business, etc) but you want to figure out how to do it without burning yourself out in the process

05/05/2026

If you tend to start out as a rockstar…
highly productive, energized, all in—
and then a year or two later, you’re exhausted, frustrated, and wondering what happened…

You’re not the problem.

You might be a highly sensitive person.

Highly sensitive people process more, feel more, and notice more.
Which means they can often do a lot—and do it really well.

But they also burn through energy faster.

Think of it like this:

Highly sensitive people are like smartphones.
High functionality. High output. Constant processing.

But the problem is—
we expect them to perform like flip phones…
same level of productivity, but somehow on a single charge for a week.

That’s not sustainable.

And that mismatch?
That’s where burnout starts.

The research on highly sensitive people—pioneered by Elaine Aron and expanded by voices like Jenn Granneman—shows this isn’t a flaw. It’s a different nervous system strategy.

So if this resonates with you—
you don’t need to fix yourself.

You need to learn how to recharge differently.

I’m starting a series on this.

05/05/2026

PRFM is Thrilled to support Sprague Activities & Athletics at the 5th Annual Oly Open . Amazing day of fundraising and golf ⛳️ game!
🧡🤍Go Olys! 🖤🧡