Health & Wellness
Let this be the year when you prioritize your well-being, both physically and mentally. Here you can find a wealth of information provided by our expert contributors to help you lead a healthier and happier life. Explore articles on nutrition and food to fuel your body, fitness routines to keep you active and learn about the importance of sleep and how to improve it. Delve into mental health topics to support your emotional well-being, get tailored advice on female health and find effective strategies for weight loss. The articles also cover therapy options, mindfulness and meditation practices, and ways to manage burnout and stress.
Nutritional Investments – How to Spend Wisely and Eat for Brain Health
It is the start of a new year and potentially the springboard for new resolutions and health’spirations. If your aspirations centre around health, and most particularly brain health, here are four ideas on...
Macros Made Simple – The Easiest Way to Balance Protein, Carbs, and Fats
When it comes to nutrition, nothing confuses people faster than macros. You’ve probably heard someone say they’re “counting macros,” but what does that even mean? And more importantly, do you need to?
The Power of Protein and Why Women Should Prioritize It
Protein has been trending on the wellness front for good reason. Let’s uncover what all the hype is about, starting with a closer look at what it is and does. Protein is one of the 3 macronutrients...
Beyond Baby Food – Designing Cognitive Nutrition for the Developing Brain
A baby’s brain is the most exquisite construction project on Earth. During early childhood, the brain is in a state of radical expansion, up to one million neural connections form every second. Synapses...
Twelve Nutr’isms of Christmas – 12 Ways to Health-Up Your Christmas Meals
The holiday season is rich with celebration, flavour, and tradition, but it can also be a time when our eating habits drift far from what the brain and body truly need. In this article, discover 12...
Your Body is Begging for Colour, and You’re Ignoring It
Look, I’m going to be real with you. You’re tired. Like bone-deep exhausted. You’ve tried the coffee, the supplements, the productivity hacks. You drag yourself through days that feel like they’re...
From Sea to Table – How a Galley Taught Me What Really Matters
When I stepped into a sailboat's tiny kitchen, the galley, with limited storage, unpredictable ingredients, and the daily task of cooking for ten guests, I discovered something unexpected.
Emotional Wounds Are No Different From Physical Wounds
What if I told you that the pain you can’t see, the ache in your chest after betrayal, the heavy fog of grief, the relentless loop of fear, cuts just as deeply as a knife? Left unattended, these...
Why Diabetes Is Really a Broken Heart Waiting to Happen
Do you personally know someone living with diabetes? A parent, a sibling, a close friend, or even yourself? For so many families, especially across Indo-Caribbean and South Asian communities, diabetes...
How Caregivers Can Truly Heal After the Goodbye – Trauma-Informed Support That Works
Have you ever stood in the quiet that falls after caregiving ends, not knowing who you are or how to move forward? Maybe you felt the world shift on without you, while your heart lagged in a silence that nobody...
Algorithms of Desire – Swipe, Reject, Repeat and The Psychology of Love and Lust in the Age of Dating Apps
You are desired. And yet, in the next moment, that desire evaporates. A message goes unanswered. A match disappears. Someone newer, brighter, instantly available replaces them. In the endless scroll of...
Why Relief Doesn’t Last for High-Functioning People
Many high-functioning people experience brief relief after therapy, retreats, or time away, only to feel anxiety or overwhelm return days or weeks later. This cycle isn’t a failure of effort or insight.
When the Values You Were Raised With No Longer Match the Life You’re Living
For a long time, I thought I knew exactly what my family stood for. I believed we shared the same values, the ones repeated in stories, in traditions, in the quiet expectations that shape a childhood.
From Japan to the Caribbean – Ancient Wisdom, Modern Minds, and the Psychology of Sustainable Living
At 28 years old, my life did not shift because of a casual decision or a passing curiosity. The change happened when I won a scholarship to Japan. This gave me the chance to live, study, and fully...
Your Brain on Yoga Nidra – What Neuroscience Actually Reveals
Yoga Nidra, often marketed as ‘non-sleep deep rest,’ is more than just a relaxation technique. Across brain imaging, EEG, and clinical studies, a pattern emerges: Yoga Nidra helps the brain organize...
Sleep Better, Stress Less – 5 Surprising Reasons to Try Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra is more than solely a bedtime ritual or a Sunday reset. It is a path to regulate your nervous system in the middle of real life. Whether you are rushing out the door, learning something...
The Paradox of Rest and Awakening – The Philosophy of Yoga Nidra
I first came to Yoga Nidra out of fascination. Something about it captured me. The way it wove between waking and dreaming, how it could open doorways into lucid states of consciousness, and how...
Falling Back Without Falling Apart – Why Time Changes Hit ADHD Brains Hard
Good news: You’re about to get an extra hour of sleep when the clocks “fall back.” Bad news: Your ADHD brain is already panicking about what time it really is. If you’re finding yourself moodier...
The Science of Softening – Yoga Nidra, Interoception and Chronic Pain Recovery
There was a season in life when hospital ceilings became my sky. Spinal taps. Bone grafts. The clinical chill of a room where time moved in drips. Afterward, my body buzzed with pain, part ache, part fear...
How to Use Yogic Breathing to Reduce Stress, Balance Your Energy, and Sleep Better
Feeling wired, tired, or both? Yogic breathing (pranayama) is a fast, natural way to steer your autonomic nervous system on purpose. In this guide, you’ll learn three evidence-informed breath...
When the Body Says Enough – Rethinking Performance, Sleep, and Recovery
When the body finally says “enough,” it forces us to confront truths we often ignore: performance without recovery is unsustainable. From the collapse of elite athletes under the spotlight to the quiet...
Why So Many Women Over 30 Feel Constantly Overwhelmed, Even When Life Looks Fine
Many women reach their thirties and beyond, believing that feeling overwhelmed is simply part of adulthood. Life may appear stable on the surface with a family, responsibilities and a job.
How Chronic Stress and PMS Are Connected to Your Nervous System and Why Most Women Are Never Told
If you’ve ever felt like PMS, anxiety, irritability, and emotional overwhelm are just separate battles you have to fight, you’re not alone. Most of us are told to simply manage, endure, or push through. But...
A New Kind of Resolution – Working with Your Mind, Body, and Gut for Better Health
Every January, we make resolutions about what we want to change on the outside, our weight, our productivity, our habits, our appearance. But after decades of working with the gut and watching thousands...
Protein, Women, and Our Complicated Relationship with Food
Women have had a complicated relationship with food for as long as we can remember. We love food, yet we have been told for decades to eat less, stay small, suck in our stomachs, and chase a “flat”...
A Calm Gut for Christmas – Enjoy the Festivities Without the Flare-Ups
For many women, Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy, connection, and celebration. Yet for countless women in their 40s and 50s, it has quietly become a season of discomfort, anxiety, and...
How Hypnotherapy Can Help Ease You Through Peri-Menopause & Menopause
For many women, peri-menopause and menopause arrive at a time when life already feels incredibly, overwhelmingly full. Careers, relationships, children, ageing parents, expectations- and then suddenly...
This Midlife Breakdown You’re Living? It’s the Threshold Before Your Becoming
Midlife women are not broken – we are becoming. Menopause is initiation into sovereignty, sensuality and legacy. In Childless Menopause - Embodying the Matriarch Beyond Biology, I invited women to see...
Why Fitness Habits Fail at the Start of the Year and Six Neuroscience-Based Solutions
At the beginning of the year, fitness and health are often framed as a test of discipline: do more, push harder, be consistent. The collective energy of January reinforces the idea that change should...
How to Get Abs Without Starving Yourself – Fat Loss Guide
Most men think getting visible abs requires extreme dieting. Constant hunger. Aggressive calorie cuts. Endless willpower. That belief is exactly why most men fail to lose belly fat, and why those who...
7 Tips on How to Reduce Bloating Naturally
Bloating is a common digestive complaint that many people experience at some point, yet it is often misunderstood. That uncomfortable feeling of fullness, tightness, or swelling in the abdomen can affect...
Assessment – The Missing Link in Movement Therapies
I am writing this article to expand the consciousness and use of the many movement therapies that exist that people rely upon for health and wellness. Let me state from the outset that this is not a...
Mature Athletes – Your Fitness and Sports Skills Programs are at War and Here’s the Peace Plan
Most training plans for over 50 athletes fail for one simple reason: they pit fitness and sports skills against each other instead of aligning them. This is the most common and most damaging, albeit...
Your Body’s Communication – Are You Listening?
If the human body were a workplace environment, it would be an open-plan office where everyone is trying to do their job while yelling messages at you. The muscles are over in the corner, filing...
Not All Qigong Systems Are Created Equal
Qigong has become a popular exercise for health and wellness, but few understand its origins or the history behind it. Qi is synonymous with blood flow or life force energy. Gong means mastery or skill...
Top 7 Myths About the Cause of Type 2 Diabetes Debunked
Type 2 diabetes is a raging epidemic. It is sweeping up more victims each year. The CDC says that about 19 percent of adults (or about 1 in 5) aged 45-64 in the USA have type 2 diabetes.
Why Can't I Focus Anymore? Reasons You're Losing Concentration and How to Get It Back
Every week during my live podcast sessions, I watch the same pattern unfold. People join with genuine interest, but within minutes, they're gone, most likely toggling to other tabs or mentally drifting.
Designing AI That Respects the Realities of Trauma Recovery
AI is being positioned as the future of trauma recovery, but trauma recovery is not an efficiency problem. It is a continuity problem.
Why Talk Therapy Doesn’t Heal Anxiety and What Actually Does
For years, I sat in therapy offices trying to “understand” my anxiety into submission. And for years, I walked out with clarity, but not relief.
The Elimination of Pain and the Stabilization of Symptoms – It’s Not Helping People Heal
The entire model of Western Medicine is built upon a platform of medicating the hurt, stabilizing the symptoms, and eliminating the pain that persons who abuse drugs and alcohol are experiencing.
Self-Prescribed Medicine – Chasing Peace and Belonging
The world views addiction as a simple list of bad choices, a headline about a crisis. But when you grow up inside of it, the story changes. It becomes a deeply felt, intimate theory about the human heart...
How to Stop Treating Life in Pieces and Start Healing in Alignment
Wellness is often reduced to habits, routines, or quick fixes, but true well-being is far more complex and interconnected. Living in 8D invites you to look beyond fragmented approaches to health and...
How to Ground Yourself After a Shamanic Journey
Welcome, dear readers, to my sixth article, part four of my articles on this ancient spiritual practice called shamanism. If you haven’t read my first article, I would encourage you to at least do that...
5 Reasons You Need to Stop Making New Year’s Resolutions – Unless You Do This
Every January, people write resolutions with the best intentions: lose weight, save money, meditate more, exercise, drink less, advance their career, so they can “create a better life.” But by February, most...
Reach for Wonder This New Year – 7 Anecdotes and Life Lessons from Costa Rica
I hope you feel like a giant in the stars. Completely captivated by the sky. I yelled, this is incredible, with awe and wonder. I ask myself, how does this work? Standing on the night beach, hands pinched...
From Wounds to Scars – Understanding Trauma’s Five Voices and the Language of Healing
What is trauma? Trauma is often an invisible wound, a psychological injury that never fully heals. Like a bone that is set incorrectly, it quietly shapes how we move through the world, how we relate to ourselves...
The Quiet Power of Kindness – How Small Acts Shape a Softer World
In a season of reflection, small, intentional acts can gently reshape the world around us. This piece explores how kindness, practised within and shared with others, can make a lasting difference.
A Mindful Merry Christmas – How to Stay Present, Grateful, and Grounded During the Holidays
At its core, mindfulness is about purposefully focusing your awareness on the present moment. It involves mental training and impacts how we interact with the world around us. It cultivates awareness to...
Longevity Through Breath – The Ancient Practice of Ankhing
For thousands of years, the ancient Egyptians guarded a breath-centered practice said to restore vitality, nourish the soul, and support physical and emotional well-being. Today, as science begins to...
The Winter Reset – How Slowed Metabolism and Stress Impact Women’s Health
“Winter isn’t a setback, it’s an invitation. Slow down, warm up, listen inward…and watch your body heal in ways rush never allowed.”
How to Retrain Your Appetite for Sustainable Weight Loss That Lasts, Without Using Medication
Why does eating less feel so hard, even when we want to lose weight? This article reveals how your appetite actually works, why dieting often backfires, and how to retrain your hunger signals gently...
Why Your Healthy Diet Might Be Keeping You Bloated
You eat clean. You read every label. You’ve tried cutting out gluten, dairy, sugar, maybe even coffee. You meal prep, drink green juice, and take probiotics because everyone says they’re good for your gut.
What Really Drives Weight Loss
When we talk about transformation, whether it’s reshaping our bodies, improving relationships, advancing careers, or redesigning the way we live, there’s one essential truth that rarely makes the conversation.
The Psychology of Fat Loss – Why Your Mindset Matters More Than Your Diet
When most people think of fat loss, they picture strict diets, endless cardio, or cutting out their favorite foods. Yet the reality is sobering, studies show that 80 to 95 percent of people who lose...
Is It Really Possible to Burn Fat From Just One Area?
Whenever I have an initial consultation, there’s always one goal that pops up: “I just want to lose belly fat.” Sometimes it even comes with a confession: “I bought a fat burner, but clearly it doesn't...
Could Quitting Social Media Be the Secret to Losing Weight?
Remember when fad diets dominated magazine covers? One month it was the Atkins diet, the next it was the Cabbage Soup Diet, then something else entirely. Today, social media has taken that chaos to...
Why Doing the Work Isn’t Always Working
Personal growth and healing have never been more popular. More people than ever are looking for ways to improve their lives, understand themselves better, and feel more at ease in their own skin.
Why Nurse Burnout Isn’t a Personal Failure – It’s a System Warning
Nurse burnout has been discussed for years, yet it continues to be misunderstood. Too often, it is framed as an individual issue, something nurses are expected to manage with better boundaries, improved...
Does Chronic Stress Increase the Risk of Autoimmune Disease? What Leaders Need to Know
Leadership often demands resilience under pressure. Tight deadlines, constant decision-making, and high expectations are frequently treated as the price of success. But an important question...
The Grief No One Sees – Emotional Labor and the Invisible Weight of Caregiving (Part 2)
Beyond the logistics and responsibilities lies an invisible emotional workload that quietly shapes daily life. This emotional labor is rarely acknowledged, yet it demands constant energy and presence.
The Body Recalibrates Through Proximity Before Techniques Can Work
Calm is easy to access in stillness. The challenge is carrying it into the moments that actually matter. It’s at the dinner table when emotions are running high, or that meeting when everyone is looking...
The Silent Second Shift – How Caregiving Redefines Identity and Fuels Burnout (Part 1)
For many professional women, caregiving does not arrive with a plan. It arrives with a phone call. A diagnosis. A realization that “helping for now” has quietly become a permanent role. One moment...
Can You Be Burnt Out Even If You’re Still Performing Well?
Burnout doesn’t always look like a breakdown. For many capable, committed professionals, it shows up as continued performance, emotional distance, and quiet exhaustion. This article examines why burnout...
Your Thoughts Are Either Healing You or Destroying You – The Science of How Your Mind Shapes Reality
Here’s something I wish schools taught us. Your thoughts aren’t just floating around in your head. They are powerful enough to change your body at a cellular level, like yours are right this second...
The Untapped Potential – Seaweed Remedies in Homeopathy
I live on Vancouver Island’s west coast, where I forage seaweed, consult with patients at Intuitive Movement Clinic, and research seaweed’s therapeutic potential. Recently, I presented this very topic...
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Breath and Vibration
Most of us regard breath as a passive necessity, but the vibrations it creates are a silent force with remarkable healing potential. Just as a cat’s purr can mend bones and soothe muscles through...
BioHacking Wellness & Recovery Centers – Why They're Becoming Preventive Medicine Hubs of the Future
In recent years, the global health and wellness industry has undergone a decisive shift from reactive care to proactive optimization. At the forefront of this transformation are Biohacking Wellness...
Epigenetics – How Your Mind Can Reprogram Your Genes
What if the greatest laboratory for genetic transformation isn’t your DNA, but your mind? What if your thoughts, emotions, and inner environment were switching your genes on and off, every single day...
Longevity-Focused Eating – 4 Ways to Design Your Health from the Inside Out
From the ages of 18 to 23, I was bedridden with eight chronic illnesses. I had chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, arthritis, tinnitus, gout in my feet, IBS, extreme anxiety, depression, vertigo...
The Metabolic Highway – A Simple Understanding of Nutritional Health
I'm not a bad driver, I promise. It's just that I've gotten two speeding tickets in the past year, and it's made me realize some things about myself. First, even if I'm not the fastest one on the road, I will get...
A Yogi’s Guide to Mercury Retrograde – How to Harness the Power of a Cosmic Pause
Spiritual believers, truth seekers, and yoga practitioners love to talk about all things woo-woo, right? But don’t you find that there is always a look of fear or trepidation on our friends’ faces...
Why Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Is a Powerful Treatment for Complex Trauma
When you live with complex trauma or chronic PTSD, you don’t just “have bad memories.” Your nervous system, your relationships, and even your sense of self are shaped by what happened. Talking about the...
5 Golden Keys for Aligning Head and Heart
In today’s world of fast, chaotic change, navigation tools are essential for settling the mind. Whether you are managing anxiety personally or professionally, your superpower is your heart. In this guide...
Being Comfortable with the Uncomfortable – A Personal Journey of Inner Awakening
There have been many moments on this yogic path, and in life, where I’ve felt like running (and did run at times): from difficult situations, from uncomfortable feelings, from certain postures on the mat.
The Gap Between Knowing and Doing – Why Your Body Can't Access What Your Mind Already Knows
As a psychotherapist, I've witnessed a pattern that repeats across boardrooms, therapy sessions, and leadership teams. Intelligent, capable people who know exactly what they should do in moments of...
The Therapeutic Power of Yin Yoga for Emotional Healing After Heartbreak
As nice as it would feel to escape to an exotic island after a breakup, not even the healing waters of Fiji could mend a broken heart overnight. The truth is, moving on takes time, and going through the pain...
Sensing the Sacred – A Yogic Invitation to Honour All Six Senses
Pause for a moment. Notice the sound around you, not just the loud ones, but the soft ones: your breath, the subtle hum of life. Let your gaze soften, take in not just what you see, but how you see...
Male Health
Christmas Cheer On Its Way
Christmas is coming, and with it, for many, the endless pre-Christmas parties to attend, followed by Christmas festivities, a few days of “rest” if you are lucky, and then straight into the repeat cycle for New Year’s Eve.
Why a Construction Expo Is Leading One of the Most Important Mental Health Conversations of Our Time
Every three years, more than 130,000 people descend on Las Vegas for CONEXPO, the largest construction trade show in North America. It’s a sprawling, high-energy world, miles of heavy equipment...
Which of Your Hormones Is the Real Issue?
Low testosterone is now getting a lot of press. Is that a good thing? The answer to that is, it depends. It is good to make people aware of the issue, but is the solution being provided the solution to the...
Breaking the Silence – MENtal Health Anthology Launches, Giving Voice to Men’s Untold Stories
Mental health is often a quiet crisis, and for men, it can be deafeningly silent. From childhood, boys are taught to “man up,” to suppress their pain, and to measure their strength by how well they can control...
The Greatest Threat to Men Today Is Not Weakness but Disconnection
Imagine living in a world where you can reach anyone at the touch of a button, yet feel like you have no one to call when it matters most. That's the strange reality for countless men today. Our lives...
Is Your Coffee Killing You?
It’s a common question, and everyone has an opinion, from the pure addict (my wife) to the health nut who won’t touch it. So what's my point of view? I believe you should do what you enjoy and...
The Silent Cry of Adolescent Boys and Their Mental Health Struggles
Adolescence is a time of discovery, growth, and new opportunities. But for many boys, it is also a time of silent struggle. Behind the laughter, sports, and schoolwork, some boys are quietly battling...
Stuck in Your Escape Room?
The holiday season often brings people together for fun and laughter, but for some, it’s also a reminder of the heavy weight of depression. Much like the challenge of an escape room, depression...
How to Deal With Estrangement During the Festive Season
As the festive season approaches, the world seems wrapped in golden lights, joyful music, and images of perfect families smiling around overflowing tables. For many, this is a time of warmth and reunion.
Different Dimensions of Depression
Depression can often feel like a dark cloud, a persistent and overwhelming sense of sadness, emptiness, and hopelessness that lasts for weeks, months, or even years, making daily life feel extremely...
Ending Grief – Spiritual and Emotional Intelligence
Grief is a wound that requires acknowledgement, expression, and patience. This article offers a compassionate approach to navigating loss, unpacking hidden emotions, releasing guilt and anger, and...
How to Cope with Grief and Loss as a Migrant
Grief has no borders, yet it is deeply shaped by where we stand when it finds us. For many migrants, loss is not confined to death alone, it is the quiet ache of distance, the disconnection from familiar...
Psychedelics vs Antidepressants – What Your Doctor Won’t or Can't Tell You
Millions of people take antidepressants every day, often without ever questioning how these medications actually work, or how effective they really are. At the same time, psychedelics are making...
How Spravato Therapy Supports Mental Health and Peak Performance
High-performing professionals are great at pushing past obstacles until depression shows up and refuses to move. For some, no amount of grit, gym time, or green smoothies is enough to break through...
How Does Menopause Affect Sleep and What Can Women Do to Fix It
Sleep problems during menopause aren’t just frustrating, they’re biological. In this insightful article, Dr. Nelum Dharmapriya, GP and founder of Whole Food Revolution, explains how fluctuating hormones...
Why Menopause Is the Perfect Time to Go Vegan
Have you been interested in veganism but putting it off until you are “ready”? Menopause is a time of transformation, which can mean making lifestyle changes that matter, such as embracing a plant-based diet.
Your Guide to Managing Menopause with Confidence
The BBC Breakfast recently highlighted and brought to the forefront everything related to menopause and peri-menopause...
Mindful Eating for Weight Loss During Menopause
Menopause brings many changes, from hot flashes to hormonal fluctuations, and one of the most significant shifts for many women is how...
How The Holiday Season Impacts Menopause Symptoms And Tips For Thriving Through It
The holiday season is a time of joy, connection, and celebration, but for many women navigating perimenopause or menopause, it may...
What Causes Weight Gain In Menopause And How To Combat It
Menopause can really throw us off, especially when it comes to changes we've never had to deal with before. You might notice weight...
Embracing The Spiritual Side Of Menopause
Welcome to a powerful chapter in the journey of womanhood—menopause-a period of profound transformation that promises profound wisdom...
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