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 shape how that child's brain develops. What neural networks or connections in the brain are...

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 traumatic encoding in that person's mind you can better evaluate their healing journey and seek...

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 you have the four basic elements necessary for a trauma to be encoded in your mind, it doesn't...

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 people their emotional parts of their brain go into overdrive. You go into this fight-flight-freeze...

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 off. To always be accessible and with our mobile phone, being available all the time

All these extra...

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 root cause, but sleeping pills can have long-term consequences on their overall brain health.

When you...

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 very much focused on you having a problem. It is focused on the symptom clusters that lead to a...

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 the mood state - within our home or within our office space, to the reduction in sunlight that we're...

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 responsibility, of putting on a brave face for the people that they serve to lead.

This can cause problems, not...