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Vaccines are indisputable in reducing the rate, severity and need for hospitalisation. Getting your vaccination is vitally important, yet it isn't the holy grail for preventing and treating COVID
Vaccines are not going to rid the world of the virus, create herd immunity or end the...
It was Monday evening, 11th October 2021 when I noticed that my left hand was feeling stiff, as if I had arthritis. I wondered if I was developing carpal tunnel syndrome like my dad. I thought it odd that my hand was hurting, but didn't really think anything of it
Tuesday arrived and it was...
Trauma doesn't care about your colour, race, gender, ethnicity, size or age. We will all experience trauma at some stage in our lives. However, the earlier it occurs, the more damaging it can be.
Why?
Because like a seed, when planted in the fertile soil of a young child's mind, the trauma will...
To help someone effectively recover from a trauma, it's important to not only understand the four basic elements that resulted in a trauma being encoded in their mind, but also how they responded to it.
This is really important as once you understand the inputs and outputs of the...
A lot of people talk about two types of trauma - big Trauma and little trauma. The truth is, size doesn't matter when it comes to trauma.
Trauma doesn't care about your age, colour, size, shape, gender bias, ethnicity. Trauma is trauma, irrespective of how long ago it happened.
If...
When crisis strikes, some people can get quickly overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. This is really common when there's a high degree of uncertainty in terms of the outcome.
There's a lot of unknowns associated with this crisis, which is typical in the times that we are in. For some...
Our mental clarity and performance in today's world is significantly less than it was 20 to 30 years ago.
This is being driven by the age of digitalization, the constant distractions that we're experiencing in today's world through social media, the news, that desire to always be on never be...
Many people who are struggling at the top of their game with brain fog and lethargy are turning to quick fixes such as sleeping pills or medication to help them show up as their best self.
Yet the consequences are not only short term in terms of them not really addressing the underlying...
When we talk about mental health, we typically tend to label the person as having the problem. When we talk about brain health, we look at this system that is causing the problem.
A lot of people ask me, what is the difference between mental health and brain health? Mental health is...
When it comes to the winter, the sun sets a lot earlier and the time we spend outside during the day diminishes. We can notice a shift in either our mood or the mood of the people within our household, including our children.
Quite often, we don't make that connection with the change in...
A lot of business leaders are struggling. They're at the top of their game, but they're too afraid to admit that they have a problem.
They're in the land of overwhelm. Overwhelmed with the pressures of work. Overwhelmed with the current situation. Overwhelmed with the volume of...
