This blog post contains excerpts from my book, Own Your Self, now available for order.

Ever look around and feel like we are all either shut-down and depressed, or wired and on edge? Or both? We huma...

I’m sure you’ve heard the spiritual trope — let go of what no longer serves you. 

But does that actually mean anything to you? Do you really have any idea what it would feel like to loosen that toxic...

Summary: This landmark, randomized, controlled clinical trial of our online protocol, Vital Mind Reset, demonstrates the power of lifestyle interventions to significantly relieve depressive symptoms...

SUMMARY: A 38-year old woman with a history of generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, anorexia nervosa, and PTSD, successfully discontinues all medication, and mitigates withdrawal s...

Do you have one or more of the following symptoms?

• Unexplained weight gain or loss
• Swelling, puffiness
• Low energy, depressed mood
• Racing heart, anxiety
• Lethargy, sleeplessness
• Digestive distur
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What Is Depression?

Is depression a flat mood, an inability to participate in ‘normal life activities,’ or unexplained bouts of sadness? In spite of its singular clinical classification, depression l...

We have been conditioned to look upon the tender topic of suicide with horror. Perhaps because it represents a failure of our varied systems of control. Perhaps because we are, collectively, far fro...

One of the primary mythic patterns informing and giving shape to what is collectively playing out on the world stage—as well as within the human psyche—is the archetype of the “wounded healer.” The ar...

It turns out that chronic diseases don't need to be chronic. Medication does not need to be lifelong. Symptoms and struggle don't need to feel oppressive. And you don't need to be dependent on a medic...

Over the past year and a half I’ve shared a lot about what was going on with me in terms of my spiritual and personal growth, but the one thing I didn’t share about publicly was the debilitating burno...

Tracing the Roots of Depression

It was March 23, 2011, about 2:30 in the afternoon, when I noticed my face was swollen. I was just starting a root canal, and my dentist had told me to expect infectio...