I write in cafés all over the world about mastering your time, mind and sleep. As a Café Person since 11, I’ve christened my blog The Neo Café— for your dose of Mastering Your Psychological Capital, my signature blend of cutting-edge neuroscience, psychology and ancient wisdom– in plain English for busy high-performers like yourself who want quick and thorough solutions. My work’s available in 43 languages, and here’s how we can partner together.
Whenever people learn that I coach high performers remotely, they assume this has to do with the Zoom exodus and mental health since the COVID pandemic. Except that, my global boutique practice precedes this by 6 years, when I qualified from my Doctorate in…
Quite a few years ago, British television presenter Piers Morgan dismissed Lady Gaga’s Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). He said that only if you’ve been to war, that you’re allowed to use that term. As a psychologist, I affirmatively call bullshit on that.
Trauma doesn’t only…
What a delight to chat with Dr Angela Phillips & Allison Walsh at The Recovery Village on their podcast #dearmindyoumatter. Pet topics such as overcommitting, boundary-setting and why you can’t mantra it all away, bespoke for my fellow Type A+++s. . . and what…
Admittedly, it was a strange question. “Can I give you toilet paper”, I asked. “Why are you giving me toilet paper”, came the suspicious reply. “Because. . I bought the wrong one. I need space for 4ply”, I said. “Okkk. You do know it’s…
Some of us love certainty. We plan, a little too much as some say. And we love templates for what to do. If someone could point out “If X, do Y; if A, do B”, we’d be elated. A high need for certainty is…
The adults had it all together, I thought. I assumed it’d be a magical biological switch, and that one day, my life would be put together. As a millennial, #adulting is something we throw about, almost as a lament about the rude shock of…
Seth widened his eyes. “You have ZERO emails!?”
“Yes, across all three accounts!”, I replied.
But once upon a time, I had about 6000 emails in my inbox. Never mind if Gmail puts them into different ‘boxes’ like Social, Promotions, Updates and Forums.
You know those pictures…