Read

If a sentence
moved you.

If a line of writing stayed with you, this is where it comes from, and what to read next.

Sunrise on the Maine coast
The Bountiful Path
Newsletter
A newsletter on medicine, art, and seasonal wisdom.
Essays organized around four pillars: story, system, self, and seasonality. The Bountiful Path is the writing home: longer pieces, lighter pieces, and recurring features that take the work into the week and the year.
Visit Bountiful Path → Read the newsletter →
Recent essays
Loading recent posts…
View all essays →
Memoir in progress
Memoir
Daughter, Doctor, Mom.
A memoir centered on Lisa’s relationship with her late father, Charles Belisle, MD, who practiced for nearly fifty years at Maine Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency Program. The book moves through clinical practice, childhood, and the particular inheritance of being raised by a country doctor.
Dr. Charles Belisle, Dr. Lisa Belisle, and Dr. Campbell Belisle Haley at the Maine Medical Center Wall of Honor
Dr. Charles Belisle (left), honored at the Maine Medical Center Wall of Honor for nearly fifty years of service, with his daughter Dr. Lisa Belisle and his grandson Dr. Campbell Belisle Haley.
Companions to the work

Tools and teachings that take the writing from the page into daily practice. The full catalog and downloads live at bountifulpath.com/companions.

Reflection toolkit
Your Seasonal Wellness Companion
A field-guide PDF paired with a companion app, organized around the Five Phases of Chinese medicine. Spring is available now.
Get the Spring toolkit →
Companion app
The Shape of Your Days
A gentle reflection tool for seeing the patterns already present in your life. For Bountiful Path subscribers.
Explore the app →
Course
The Life That’s Asking to Be Lived
Five self-paced lessons for anyone who senses something more is possible. Grounded in medicine and seasonal wisdom.
Be notified when it opens →
Our Daily Tread: Thoughts for an Inspired Life
A founding project  ·  Nonprofit philanthropy
Our Daily Tread:
Thoughts for an Inspired Life
Editor  ·  Aerie River Press, 2008

This perpetual calendar of quotations, essays, and photographs was born from a friendship. Hanley Denning, a Bowdoin classmate and Maine native, moved to Guatemala City and founded Safe Passage, a nonprofit dedicated to serving children and families living beside the city garbage dump. Her life’s work there became the foundation for this project.

Lisa brought together a community of supporters, gathering images, words, and stories to create a book that could serve as a fundraiser for Safe Passage. The result was a collection that reflected the breadth of people moved by Hanley’s mission. Safe Passage continues that work today.

Learn about Safe Passage →
Beyond the newsletter

Peer-reviewed articles, essays, and other writing from across a career in medicine, leadership, and the arts. Published in Doximity Op Med, the Health Care Administration, Leadership and Management Journal, and elsewhere.

Explore the archive →