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3 Lessons From My 60-Year-Old Client That Many Fitness Programmes Ignore
In a recent session with one of my clients, she told me her smart scale showed that, since we began training together, she’s lost 3lb of fat but gained 4lb of muscle. For someone in her 60s, this is...
7 days ago4 min read


What Great Leadership Teams Need to Unlearn to Evolve
We often expect people to lead differently as they become more senior: to step back, ask rather than answer, and see beyond the immediate problem. Yet the behaviours that made them valuable are often...
7 days ago5 min read


How to Trust Yourself Again After Years of Second-Guessing
You make the decision. Then your brain calls an emergency meeting. Was that the right choice? Should I change my mind? What if I regret it? Maybe I should ask someone. Before long, a decision that felt...
7 days ago5 min read


Are You an Inclusive Leader? How to Reshape Your Workplace Culture
Take a close look at your team. Is anyone having their ideas brushed off or ignored? Always the butt of the office joke? Sitting alone in a room full of colleagues? In today’s world, an inclusive...
7 days ago5 min read


How Embracing Imperfection Can Transform Your Life
Vulnerability is not weakness, but a courageous willingness to be seen, embrace imperfection, and live in alignment with your truth. Through personal stories, reflections, and practical steps, this...
7 days ago8 min read


Full Oval, a Farewell to Sacramento and Return to LA
Every city leaves a distinct color on the palate of memory. In 2026, my life underwent a seismic shift across California’s golden landscape, a transition measured not just in miles from North to South...
7 days ago8 min read


The Support You Cannot See
People often tell me they do not know how I do it all. They see the magazine, the events, the newsletter landing in fifteen thousand inboxes, the interviews, the community that keeps growing. They...
7 days ago7 min read


Why Positive Thinking Wasn’t Enough and the Real Work Behind Healing
I prayed every day. I read the books. I kept a smile on my face and told myself to stay positive, and inside I still felt completely empty. It took me years to understand that the emptiness wasn’t proof I...
7 days ago6 min read


Stop Trying to Regulate Your Nervous System All the Time and Discover What Healing Is Really About
We have more tools than ever for calming ourselves, grounding ourselves, and regulating our nervous systems. But what happens when regulation becomes another thing we believe we should...
7 days ago8 min read


The Life You Didn't Decide to Live
It is 6:37 on Sunday evening. You're 47 years old, and you've had a perfectly nice weekend. Nothing spectacular happened, but nothing terrible happened either. A few jobs around the house got done.
7 days ago9 min read


How Eco-Anxiety Can Become the Sustainability Skill We Need Most
Have you ever felt emotionally exhausted by the state of the world? It is as if no matter how much you recycle, reduce your waste, care deeply, or try to make better choices, it still does not feel like...
7 days ago6 min read


How to Live Fully When Cancer Has Taken Away Your Sense of Certainty
Finishing breast cancer treatment is supposed to be one of the happiest moments of the journey. For months, sometimes years, so much of life has revolved around cancer, hospital appointments...
7 days ago7 min read


24 Lymphatic Congestion Symptoms – Is This the Common Denominator for Disease?
Headaches, fatigue, brain fog, and swelling can feel like separate problems, but they may leave you wondering whether something connects them. The lymphatic system helps manage fluid balance and supports immune...
7 days ago5 min read


What Persistent Concussion Symptoms May Be Telling Us – An Interview with Lindsay Marie Branton
Lindsay Branton is a Registered Kinesiologist and Director of Brain Health and Concussion Care at EPIC Health and Movement, where she works with people experiencing persistent and complex concussion symptoms.
7 days ago9 min read


Emotions Are the Data That Direct Us Back Home to Ourselves
When coming into therapy, the idea of having to “feel” emotions or “talk” about emotions can be a big barrier, prompting us to steer clear of mental health services, especially when many of us have been taught...
7 days ago4 min read


5 Essential Steps for Leadership Growth
Leadership isn't simply a title you are given. Leadership is something you grow into, develop, and intentionally choose every day. Whether you're stepping into your first leadership role, leading a team, building...
Sep 285 min read


4 Reasons Why Optimism is Your Greatest Act of Defiance – Part 1
Do you often find yourself overwhelmed by problems, worrying about your future or about events that you know you have very little to no influence over? If you do, you are not an exception. In fact, you are...
Sep 2812 min read


How to Build a Strong and Intimate Relationship
What does it really take to build a strong and intimate relationship? Our expert panelists share their best advice on creating a deeper connection, strengthening trust, and maintaining a healthy, lasting bond with your partner.
Sep 284 min read


Do You Remember When You Believed in Father Christmas?
For a while, he was the centre of your world. Not a small part of it, the whole architecture. Whether he was coming. What he'd bring, based on how good you'd been. You didn't need any other explanation...
Sep 283 min read


Nourish, Don't Punish and Why Eating Less Stopped Working
There’s a reflex almost everyone has when they decide to lose weight. Eat less. Cut something out. Go without. It feels like the right instinct because it feels like penance, as though the weight is...
Sep 274 min read


Merula Manifesto V: A Caring Mother, a Loving Partner, and a Fair Game – Three Things I Never Had
Abuse can reshape our understanding of love, safety, identity, and even ourselves, making chaos feel familiar and peace feel foreign. This deeply personal journey explores the hidden patterns of trauma...
Sep 2710 min read


When Rock Bottom Became Reality, but Faith and Vision Were My Fuel
I remember sitting in my car in a Bank of America parking lot, tears streaming down my face, feeling like a complete failure. My family didn't deserve what I was putting them through. For the first...
Sep 275 min read


Noel Massie Releases 'Congrats! You've Been Promoted' – An Essential Guide for New Leaders and Teams
A promotion can open the door to leadership, but it does not automatically prepare you to lead. The journey from being a high performer to becoming an effective leader requires new skills, self-awareness, and a commitment to helping others grow.
Sep 277 min read


Why Leadership Decisions Can End Before the Pressure Does
There were decisions I made during my years in senior leadership that were finished long before I stopped carrying them. The meeting was over. The decision had been communicated. Everyone had gone back...
Sep 277 min read
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