Anxiety is now the leading mental health epidemic. Surpassing even depression, anxiety has become the most prevalent mental condition in the United States. It’s estimated that approximately 10 percent…
We tend to lump stress into one big “bad” category. But in actuality, stress comes in many shapes and sizes and is not all bad. Stress can often…
You get a glowing performance review from your boss, but you replay the few constructive criticisms over and over in your head. Even though a first date was…
There’s only one guarantee in life and that is that you will die one day. Nobody likes to talk about death. It makes people squirm, avoid eye contact,…
Meditation can change lives and brains for the better. Fairly quickly, it can produce beneficial results for many mental health challenges, ranging from depression and anxiety to age-related…
Your brain is neuroplastic which means it changes its physical form and function based on the input it receives over your lifetime. Your experiences, behaviors and even thoughts literally…
Your mind has a mind of its own and races around at one hundred miles an hour jumping from one thing to the next. Sometimes, the random thoughts…
To ensure survival, your ancestors’ brains developed a prickly awareness: always on the lookout for danger, zooming in on any potential threat, being super sensitive to painful experiences and…
Whether you know it or not, many of your decisions and actions are the result of a tiny part of your brain called the amygdala. Your amygdala are very small…
Homo sapiens emerged about 200,000 years ago living in small hunting-and-gathering communities. Because they rarely ran into other bands of people and it was often dangerous when they…
Stress is the new norm. With the growth of the infinite internet, 500 channel 24-hour television, and mobile phones that are really little computers, you are now bombarded…