Worry and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can both fill your mind with endless “what if?” questions, but just having these thoughts does not show which issue you are facing. The best clue is what you feel...

Movement is not the enemy. The compulsion to keep moving is the question. Blue light radiates perpetually from skyscrapers and screens, pervading our minds. Highways pulse with cars, Ubers, buses, and...

When life becomes frightening or uncertain, we are often told to “stay positive”. It is usually said with love, but when you are facing cancer, grief, trauma or another life-changing experience, positivity...

Have you ever looked around and felt like everyone else's life is moving forward while yours is falling apart? Maybe you've failed at something important. Maybe your relationship ended. Maybe...

Wondering why your heartbreak is hard to heal? In this article, a Chinese medicine practitioner introduces practical steps for reconnecting with your whole heart. This pathway explores how to use...

University lecturers are telling allied health and healthcare students to prepare to burn out, as if it's simply part of the job. It's not true, and telling anyone that burnout is inevitable is doing real harm.

As women move through their 40s, 50s, 60s, and beyond, maintaining muscle strength, bone health, balance, and mobility becomes increasingly important. One fitness tool receiving more attention...

When people think about childhood sexual trauma, they often focus on the event itself. They think about what happened, when it happened and whether the abuse eventually stopped. What many people do...

Of all the questions I am asked in nearly 30 years of clinical practice, one sits underneath almost every parent consultation I have, whether it is spoken aloud or not: why does my child react the way...

Two months after I turned 21, I was suddenly hit head-on by a drunk driver while driving home from a friend’s house. A few injuries and a small surgery left me with a new pharmacy cabinet full of...

One of the questions we get asked increasingly is, “I like the look of STAIT, but I am on TRT. Can I use both?” The following answer is not medical advice, as we are not qualified to provide that...

Food does more than nourish the body. It connects our health to the soil, climate, biodiversity, and communities that sustain us. This article explores how healthier food choices and more sustainable food systems ...

Neuromuscular massage therapy involves working on trigger points and assessing alignment and posture. Your posture and movement patterns can contribute to the formation of trigger points and may need...

High blood pressure affects 1.3 billion people worldwide and is known as the "silent killer." It's the single leading risk factor for early death across the globe. The standard answer for high blood pressure...

I've been wondering when we became so comfortable telling other people how to live. Everywhere we turn, someone is ready with an opinion about what we should be doing, thinking, or striving for. Eat this.

What happens when metabolic health, hormonal transitions, and skin biology intersect? The term “Ozempic face” has become increasingly common in aesthetics. It is often used to describe facial hollowing...

Your friend steps out of an ice bath looking annoyingly refreshed. You step out, wondering why on earth you voluntarily paid to be refrigerated. Same cold plunge. Very different response. This is where biohacking...

At the beginning of this writing journey, I thought I was writing about burnout. I thought I was exploring why I felt overwhelmed, why I struggled to slow down, and why serving others sometimes felt heavier...

Back pain, joint problems, bloating, fatigue, exhaustion, and the feeling that your body simply cannot keep up the way it used to. These are challenges that an increasing number of people experience today...

Menopause has a meaningful purpose. It’s not just nature playing a tough trick on women. In fact, it’s an amazing evolutionary advantage given only to women. It represents our brain evolving us for the...

Grief isn’t only about death. A relationship ends. A career shifts. We grow older. We move countries, outgrow identities, recover from illness, experience hormonal shifts, or unlearn patterns that once...

A company can have a wellness programme, an Employee Assistance Programme, mental health talks, gym memberships and even a beautifully written wellbeing policy and still have an unhealthy or underdeveloped...

When a sociopathic, narcissistic mother raises you, you grow up entirely devoid of an identity. “You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me!” (Taylor, please, I just started typing, but you go, girl!).

If you've been stretching for years but your tightness keeps coming back, your body may not need more stretching–it may need more stability. After years of stretching my own body, I began to question...