Autor/-in: Md Wadhwa

Dr. Devina Wadhwa, BSC(Pharm), MD, FRCPC, is a psychiatrist, writer, educator and photographer whose work explores grief, meaning, and the quiet ways loss reshapes how we live and love. Her perspective has been shaped by years of caring for others across different stages of her life and training, deepening her understanding of how the mind, body, and nervous system carryexperience long before it can be put into words. Alongside her clinical work, she has trained as a yoga teacher, an experience that deepened her understanding of stillness, breath, and the body's role in carrying emotion. Together with photography, this practice has influenced how she listens and how she sees-attentive to what is present, what is unspoken, and what unfolds without force. Her writing draws from both professional experience and personal loss, offering language for emotions that are often carried in silence. Rather than seeking to explain grief or move it along, she creates space for it-honoring its complexity, its tenderness, and its enduring connection to love. Rather than offering answers or prescriptions, she writes to create space for reflection, honesty, and permission to grieve without urgency. Her work sits at the intersection of medicine, mindfulness, and humanity, and speaks to anyone who has loved deeply and lived through change. She lives and works in Canada, where she continues to practice psychiatry, write, and photograph. What Lives Through Loss is her first book.