New Sleep Research

Most of the sleep research I come across generally focuses on outliers and extremes, but this new study published in the journal Sleep is applicable to the average person living in Victoria today. In this study, participants were assigned to groups and forced to get...

Protect Your Mood This Fall/Winter

For many people, their mood and energy drop with the turning and falling of the Autumn leaves, and as I write this, wind and rain are lashing my window here in beautiful Victoria, B.C. If you are someone who has experience with this pattern, it can be difficult to...

Incident Based Trauma

This Pique Post is a story from my life about an incident based trauma that I think really illustrates the far reaching effects it can have in a person’s life, and how these event(s) can be resolved through somatic therapy. There was a flash of white and I was sliding...

Harnessing The Gift Of ADD/ADHD

We live in a society where many behaviours and natural variations of human experience are pathologized, so it was refreshing for me to come across an Opinion piece by Richard Friedman in the New York Times (November 16, 2014) that spoke of the benefits of ADD/ADHD. As...