Ya know that FULL BODY sensation where you feel your heart rate increase, blood vessels tighten, armpits sweat, breath get shallow, mind begin racing, and judgements start flowing… Yeah, it’d be odd if you didn’t… THIS, is the Fight or Flight Response, or scientifically termed the upregulation of the sympathetic nervous system… Except NOTHING about […]

Venture back to 2002, you just heard Nelly’s provocative hit “Hot in Here” and immediately STOPPED what you were doing to cleanse your ears….. OR find the music video….. Either way, I bet you didn’t realize that this “Piece of Art” was actually just a misunderstood piece of educational content, depicting what happens to our […]

Let me throw a monkey-wrench at your probable perception and common dogma around STRESS…with a poem… Stress can be Good, Stress can be Bad Stress Can be Happy, Stress Can be SAD Stress can mean LIFE, Stress can mean DEATH it’s Context-Dependent… Just Like the Rest… I just either made my high school poetry teacher […]

How many times have you scrolled past the phrase “What Doesn’t Kill You, Makes You Stronger” on your Instagram feed over the last year? Don’t Worry… I’ll Wait. Well… There happens to be quite a bit of Biological truth to this. Like literal Harry Potter shit happening inside you every time you say one of […]

A few years back I heard something at a conference that REALLY stuck with me, one of those things that gets the instant “mental post-it note” upon arrival, it helped that my phone was handy too. The context was around professional athletes and what truly makes them stand out from the rest of the (professional) […]