In This Issue: (4 min read) Are You Living On Borrowed Energy? The Only Two People In This World That You Need To Make Proud Are You Living On Borrowed Energy? Borrowed energy is the kind of energy that fuels you through sheer willpower, usually driven by fear, duty, or the need to prove yourself. It can look like motivation, but it’s actually survival. You’re running on adrenaline instead of alignment, caffeine instead of clarity. Borrowed energy gets things done, but it costs you. True...
15 days ago • 1 min read
In This Issue: The Secret to Thriving Isn’t in a Protocol The Mediterranean Diet: A Prescription for Longevity Quote Of The Issue The Secret to Thriving Isn’t in a Protocol I was mindfully scrolling the other day (see what I did there? 😆) when I came across psychologist Amanda Hanson sharing that her secret to thriving has nothing to do with biohacking, supplements, or strict routines. She doesn’t obsess over food or data points, because true health isn’t achieved through controlling the...
22 days ago • 1 min read
In This Issue: (5 minute read) What My Almost-Cold Sore Taught Me About Control Your Future Self Isn't Going To Save You What My Almost-Cold Sore Taught Me About Control I want to share a recent personal experience - an almost-cold sore - and what it revealed about control, agency, and emotion.I’ve had cold sores for as long as I can remember. If you lined up my school photos from junior kindergarten onward, you’d see a recurring guest star: me, with a cold sore on my lip. They’ve always been...
29 days ago • 2 min read
Dans ce numéro: Pourquoi le confort nous coûte Quand le futur semble hors de portée Choisissez votre affirmation Pourquoi le confort nous coûte Nous vivons une crise du confort. Encore et encore, nous choisissons la facilité immédiate : faire défiler son écran au lieu de se reposer, grignoter au lieu de se nourrir, se couper de nos sensations au lieu de les ressentir. Ces choix apportent un soulagement immédiat, mais ils nous volent notre énergie et notre vitalité futures. Ce n’est pas une...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
In This Issue (4 min): Why Comfort Is Costing Us When the Future Feels Out of Reach Choose Your Affirmation Why Comfort Is Costing Us We are living in a comfort crisis, where we consistently choose immediate ease and avoidance of discomfort in the present, even when doing so creates bigger problems or suffering in the future. It’s the idea that by prioritizing comfort now, we trade away long-term ease, health, growth, and vitality. Again and again, we choose short-term ease - scrolling...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
In This Issue: Permission to Ease In (Summer’s Not Over) (<30 sec) The Viral Skipping Trend Really Works! (< 30 sec) Quote Of The Issue Permission to Ease In (Summer’s Not Over) As September rolls in, many of us feel that old cultural pull: shake off the “lazy days” of summer and launch into Fall at full throttle. But pause for a moment: who really benefits from that frenzy? A frantic, anxious person is the perfect consumer. The truth is, this urgency is manufactured. Nature never rushes its...
2 months ago • 1 min read
In This Issue (< 4 min): We Have Become Hormonally Modified Why Being Told What to Do Rarely Works A Mindful Pause We Have Become Hormonally Modified Here we are, we do our very best to avoid foods with added hormones or genetic modification. And yet, without realizing it, we’ve become hormonally modified ourselves. The combination of processed foods, chronic stress (causing stress hyperglycaemia), sedentary lifestyles and food consumption patterns (e.g. overeating, frequent snacking, eating...
2 months ago • 2 min read
In This Issue (< 4 min): The Secret Healthy People Aren’t Telling You I Met My Edge And I Liked It Quote Of The Issue The Secret Healthy People Aren’t Telling You We’ve been taught to reverse-engineer health, as if forcing ourselves to eat kale and hitting the gym three times a week will make us healthy. But true health doesn’t start on the plate or at the gym.It begins in the mind.When you know yourself really well and know how to attend to your thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations -...
3 months ago • 2 min read
In This Issue (~4 min): I Don’t Care About Your Diagnosis Getting 10,000 Steps A Day? Not If You’re Just Circling the Kitchen Quote Of The Issue I Don’t Care About Your Diagnosis That’s right. I don’t care about your diagnosis, at least not the way most of medicine does. Your diagnosis is a name. A label. A summary of symptoms. A pattern your body has been running, maybe for years. What I do care about is what happened before the diagnosis. What shaped you. What you came to believe about...
4 months ago • 1 min read