How to turn the science of neuroplasticity into meaningful action through personalized training, purposeful repetition, progressive challenge, and the everyday choices that support recovery. Another...

What surviving multiple traumatic brain injuries taught me about identity, neuroplasticity, personalized rehabilitation, and the role survivors and caregivers can play in creating the conditions for...

Throughout your career, you picked up skills, business cards, and contacts, but when and where did you pick up the idea that compulsive behavior would fix the fears you’re feeling? You weren’t born with ...

A deep sense of longing, loneliness, or not fully belonging can remain even when life looks successful and connected from the outside. For some, exploring the possibility of a lost twin can...

For those of you who have not read my previous articles, I was diagnosed with a mental disorder in 2013, at age 31, but it wasn’t until eight years ago that I really started working on my recovery...

AI chatbots never get tired of answering the same question. For someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), that's the problem. It used to be Google. Before that, it was a parent, a spouse, a...

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...

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...

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...

You can know logically that you are safe and still feel your heart begin to race. A smell, a sound, a hospital corridor, an unexpected comment, or even a date on the calendar can create a physical reaction...

Grief can feel like a wound. It can also be a receipt for love: a reminder that someone or something mattered. I was twelve when I first sat beside someone dying. Years later, I realised that day had...

I can feel the anxious buzzing in my body, and it’s not even 9 am. I sit staring at the computer screen, hands poised on the keyboard, feeling like the most incompetent, failing version of myself I've been...

Anxiety has a way of creeping into the edges of everyday life. Sometimes it arrives quietly: a racing mind, a tight chest, a sense that you are carrying too much. Other times, it hits like a wave...

For thousands of years, humans have lived harmoniously with nature; it’s how we survived. Just like the Sumatran orangutan, which crushes plant sap to treat facial wounds, nature has a cure for every ailment.

There is a question I hear constantly from people living in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), friends, colleagues, clients, strangers in conversation. It comes in many forms, but it always means the...

Is Western medicine not working for you? Do you feel disempowered by your doctors, helplessly being sent to test after test, scan after scan? Are you being prescribed pharmaceutical drugs with...

Communication is not simply a skill you use well or poorly. It is the mechanism through which our core relational needs get met, or go unmet, every day, at home and at work. In 2014, trauma researcher...

Bloomberg recently reported on the increase in workers taking mental health leave and the difficulties employers are experiencing as a result. It's an important conversation, but I think we're starting it...

Lately, I have found myself returning to an unusual image. Perhaps it comes from conversations with patients, perhaps from reading too much news, or simply from living through these curious times.

You booked the massage. You took the bubble bath. You bought the journal with the gold lettering. You carved out 45 minutes on a Sunday morning while your partner handled the baby, and you sat in a...

Most of us meet trauma on two fronts. There is our mind, the memories that replay, the stories we tell ourselves, and the beliefs that subtly wire in. There is our body, a nervous system that learns to be on...

For many years, scientists believed the adult brain was largely fixed. Once we reached a certain age, it was assumed that our brain could no longer change significantly. We now know differently. Neuroplasticity is...

I am going to start with a confession. Before I understood the language of the nervous system, before I knew what somatic meant, before I had any of the frameworks I now work with every day, I was a health...

“I don’t care.” This is often the response I have heard from an elderly parent. It might be in response to a question about what they would like for dinner, where they would like to go for a walk, or...