To all the new moms and dads out there: understanding your child’s executive function (EF) in the brain is the single best way to raise a resilient child. Think of your child’s executive function as the Air…

A Trauma‑Informed, Nervous‑System Perspective The body survives because it remembers harmony. Before story, before diagnosis, before conscious meaning-making, the body learns how to stay alive. Trauma-informed mental health begins here – with the understanding that…

Understanding the Progression of Antisocial Traits When we hear words like psychopath or narcissist, they often come wrapped in media drama, crime documentaries, or pop psychology. But beneath the sensationalism lies a complex web of…

There is something about our modern conversation around relationships that increasingly concerns me. We speak a great deal about boundaries, independence, protecting our peace, cutting ties and removing “toxic” people from our lives. Sometimes those…

In a recent TikTok video, I explored the concept of the trauma brain and how our mental processes are directly reflected in our external environment. I explained how a chaotic or disorganized world can often…

We Don’t Have a Mental-Illness Epidemic — We Have a Psychiatry Epidemic Imagine this.You wake up tired. You scroll through your phone and see ads telling you that if you feel down, it might be…