Human nervous systems are constantly teaching each other what to expect from the world. Safety or vigilance. Openness or defensiveness. Curiosity or contraction. And most of that communication happens long before conscious thought catches up. Maybe the deeper question isn’t:...

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When Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Brain Science: Returning to What We Already Know We're drowning in information. Collecting data. Consuming content. And yet, somehow, we're starving for wisdom. There's a particular frequency—I sometimes call it home—where the noise quiets and...

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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...

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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’...

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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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