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...

In March 2020 just as the country was about to go into lockdown for the first time, I produced this video to help people focus on the proactive steps they can take to boost their immune system and fight infection.

This video is still as relevant now in January 2021 as it was then. Perhaps in fact more so as we continue to wait for effective vaccines to be developed for all strains of the...

When you spend your time stuck in your past pain, you can’t fully embrace the beauty and the opportunity of the present moment.

We all experience trauma at some point in our lives, whether that’s during our childhood, teenage years or adulthood. How we view that trauma and how much we hold onto the emotions, the feelings, the responses tied into that trauma in our present day...

People don't take the time to manage their stress bucket until it's actually overflowing and all that stress starts leaking out from an emotional or physical and mental or a spiritual perspective. 

Does this sound like you?

What is stress and how does it affect us?

Stress stacks. The stresses that we experience in our life layer like a cake. The more stress you have over time, the...