Stress is not only a feeling. In many cases today, it can become a full-system storm, hijacking sleep, elevating cortisol, flattening mood, and scattering focus. What if not doing anything is the...

Mindfulness, everyone is talking about it, so what is it, and how do you achieve it? The best way to explain mindfulness is by using the example of a tropical vacation. There’s a reason we go on vacations...

In a world obsessed with purity and potency, we’ve lost the plot. Essential oils are everywhere, marketed as nature’s cure-all, bottled wellness, and the shortcut to serenity. But behind the seductive...

These days, it feels like trigger warnings are everywhere. Before TV shows, in news articles, on social media posts, or at the start of a university lecture, you’ve probably seen one. They usually come...

For years, my mornings looked the same, wake up early, start my “mom routine,” make breakfast for the household, and get my son ready for school. I did this for 13 years straight. And while it worked for a while...

On paper, her life looked like shit. Two estranged, grown sons. No social life. A completely dysfunctional neighborhood, with neighbors trying to recruit her into their personal vendettas against the...

Anxiety doesn't always show up the way we expect. Sometimes, it hides behind thoughts that feel logical, even helpful, but actually keep us stuck in a stress mode or low mood. These thought patterns are called...

The mental health care system, ideally a safe space for healing, compassion, connection, understanding, and support, is often experienced as hostile, exclusionary, and harmful for countless individuals...

Life’s toughest challenges can become powerful initiations for growth. This article explores how loss, heartbreak, and struggle can awaken us to the truth that we are not defined by inherited beliefs...

In the past decade, the Polyvagal Theory developed by neuroscientist Dr. Stephen Porges has reshaped how we understand stress, safety, and connection. It explains how our autonomic nervous system...

Curiosity often begins in quiet moments. You might notice it when life feels uncertain, during a transition, or while asking yourself questions that logic alone doesn’t seem to answer. These are the times...

Life has a way of surprising us with contrast. One moment, everything feels in alignment, and the next, tragedy strikes, change arrives uninvited, or a challenge shakes the ground beneath us. None of us are immune to these experiences.

Recently, I had a dream that stirred me. When I woke up, I panicked and immediately my mind started spinning in an old, familiar, maddening thought pattern: “Oh no… what did I do wrong? Have I offended God? Am I in trouble? What did that mean?”

Almost everyone faces trauma at some point in life, but many carry its weight without fully realising the impact it has on their thoughts, emotions, and relationships. Healing is possible when we begin...

When most people think of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), they picture an adult struggling with compulsive behaviors. What’s less commonly understood is that OCD doesn’t wait for adulthood, it...

Growing up in a family where chaos, unpredictability, or emotional pain is the norm can feel like navigating a battlefield without a map. For many children in these environments, survival depends on...

For the better part of a decade, I struggled within my own attempt to “recover” from my problematic relationship with drugs. I wanted to get better, to abstain. I truly did. And, I had some periods of...

You’re hit with more advice in a single day than your grandparents received in a year. Everyone’s got a new hack, a miracle method, a silver bullet. But with all that input, why do we still feel so...

Does mindfulness and positive psychology promote brain health? The short answer is yes and no. Let me explain. Controlling our thoughts and living an abundant life, no matter what storm we are going...

Anxiety is defined as persistent worry and fear, a state that, when prolonged, becomes problematic. Most experience anxiety in the form of fleeting nervousness, but persistent anxiety can transform...

Suicidal thoughts can be frightening, confusing, isolating, and overwhelming. People around us may respond to an expression of these thoughts with statements like “but why? You have so much to live for...

We live in a society that rushes to medicate what it doesn’t understand. When anxiety shows up, we call it a disorder. A flaw. A malfunction. But I’ve learned, both in my own healing and in my years...

September 11th is a date etched into the collective memory of the world. For me, it is not only a historical moment but also a deeply personal one. I remember exactly where I was, sitting in class...

This is part two in a short series I’m sharing on leadership and mental health, something I started writing because I’ve seen and lived the quiet cost of trying to hold it all together. In the first piece...