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...

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...

Cycle of Life Tour 2015

The Cycle of Life Tour is a 2 day, 200 km fundraising ride for Vancouver Island Hospice. Where this event is different than many is that 100% of money raised goes directly to Hospice- this is key for me. Last year, the 50 riders, of which I was one, raised $63,000, an...

Cycling and ADHD

As a lifelong cyclist with Attention Deficient Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), I was very excited to see some preliminary and promising research examining the effects of cycling on ADHD symptoms. Specialized Bicycle Company sponsored this research, which had 47 middle...