Resilience isn't built by staying calm. Resilience also doesn't happen by following a script or filling out a worksheet. It's built through rupture, repair, and range. It's about in-the-moment-flexibility, adaptation, and widening our repertoire of strategies and scenarios of what we can handle.   I love leading research teams on enhancing human performance and resilience.  It helps us get clear about what we...

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How does revenge play a role in our world? Neuroscience research shows that its neurological basis plays a deeper, darker role than we might have imagined...   “Behavioral studies from around the world confirm that people who hurt (or kill)...

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Do you have something important to teach others, but they just don’t seem to get it or care? Part of the issue may be that WHAT you’re saying needs to be more compelling, but another issue might be in HOW...

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What if the most powerful leaders are not those who control others, but those who have mastered the art of self-regulation? Not only leaders who can regulate themselves, but those who regulate the nervous systems of those around them.  By...

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Our past experiences are not simply stored in the brain—they are patterns embedded into the circuitry of our brain-body system.     For many people, their history can linger as patterns of dysregulation, stress, or a sense of being "stuck"...

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Memory is not just in the brain. Many of you have heard of the book, The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk. The main idea of the book is that memory is not just something contained in...

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Memory is not just in the brain. Many of you have heard of the book, The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk. The main idea of the book is that memory is not just something contained in...

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What does your mind do when it wanders?  Perhaps you catch yourself getting 'lost in thought'...  moments of daydreaming, wondering, wandering...   Do you believe that those 'lapses in attention' are helpful or hindering?   Without knowing what the brain is...

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“[...] humans, people and knowledge are not only objectively significant: they are by far the most significant phenomena in nature – the only ones whose behaviour cannot be understood without understanding everything of fundamental importance.” ― David Deutsch, The Beginning...

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"It's a blessing to be hidden and a disaster not to be found." - D. W. Winnicott   The labels we assign to ourselves or accept from others can drastically influence our self-perception and motivation. The words we hear about...

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