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In times of collective stress, your brain runs on old algorithms
There’s a lot happening in the world right now. You can feel it—in the news, in conversations, in the tension that seems to hum beneath even ordinary interactions. Whether it’s in-person exchanges or the charged landscape of online spaces, many…
Reimagining Human Flourishing
How many browser tabs do you have open right now about something you want to ‘eventually integrate’ into your work? How many half-finished courses live in your login history? How many podcasts have you listened to where you thought ‘that…
The Neuroscience of Cognitive Flexibility: Your Gateway to Personal Growth
Have you ever noticed how some people seem to shift and adapt with ease, finding new solutions when life throws a curveball, while others get stuck in the same old patterns? What if the difference isn’t just personality, but a…
Your brain doesn’t do reality – it does probability: And this is how we update the code.
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Most of us walk through the world believing we’re responding to what’s actually happening. But we’re not. We’re responding to a model—a statistical best guess shaped by our history, our nervous system, and even the people who raised us. Here’s…
How uncertainty strengthens your nervous system: complexity without collapsing
The Strength That Was Never Missing There’s a particular kind of anticipation that arrives as we approach the weekend — and for some of us, the holidays. The week’s noise begins to settle. The urgency softens- or sometimes transfers to…
Your brain isn’t confused. It’s computing: what neuroscience reveals about mixed, messy feelings
The seduction of certainty. There’s something comforting about knowing exactly how we feel. I love this. I hate that. This person is good. That situation is bad. I’m right about this. Certainty feels clean. Efficient. It gives us a clear…
The Neuroscience of Thanksgiving: regulation beyond the ritual
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Gratitude – and all of its related rituals – can come across as surface level and performative. But when we can explore it through the lens of neuroscience, we see that it is not just about some frivolous ‘feel-good’…
Your Nervous System’s Secret Language: 5 Neuro-Tools for Vibrational Intelligence
What if resilience is less about executing the ‘right strategy’, and more about a different kind of listening? … a kind of listing that tunes into the continuous stream of intelligence your body is already broadcasting? I call this type…
The Myth of “Acceptable Feelings” (and the science to debunk it)
There’s a story we’ve been told about emotional regulation that doesn’t quite match reality. Somewhere along the way, the narrative became about finding the technique—the breathing pattern, the grounding exercise, the magic formula that would keep us cool, calm, and…
Regulation before revelation: 3 tools for navigating a disconnected world
We are living in an age of hyper-connection that can lead to dysregulating disconnection—from ourselves, from each other, and from the innate wisdom our nervous systems carry. Our ability as a learning, teaching and wisdom-sharing species means that we can…
Wisdom Questions to help your brain: information overwhelm to agency
Information Overload: The Wisdom to Ask Why We Consume We are drowning in information. Every scroll, every notification, every breaking news alert tells us that if we pay attention to them, we’ll be ‘more informed’. But somewhere within ‘being informed’…