January can feel so heavy. Journaling the Good is a simple, neuroscience-informed daily practice I created to support mood, brain & body health, & perspective — esp in long winters. Just 3 mins a day. Learn more: zurl.co/ZLiBs Order here: zurl.co/l0eNU

Yikes! Is my life shrinking? 🤔 When sleep struggles or stress pile up, it’s not just our nights that suffer — our days quietly shrink too. But there is a way out. You can feel better. Read: zurl.co/Ncbql #Sleep #Stress #Relief

With fewer than 100 days left in the year to write, I’ve been reflecting on memoir writing & lessons from Brain Dance. 4 years after publication, it’s still finding readers — something I’m deeply grateful for. The world needs our stories. 🌿 #Memoir #BrainDance #Neuroscience

Sleep is one of the most important things we can do for our mental health. And yet we all know that sometimes it's just not easy. And, these "sometimes" can last too long. Step into my office, learn a little more about challenges and solutions. #sleep zurl.co/NauKx

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Change bends our attention, taxes our energy, and quietly reshuffles our priorities. Read about why procrastination during transitions is often a signal, not a flaw — and 5 steady ways to move forward with more ease. #procrastination #brainhttps://zurl.co/7WQZa

This week reminded me: even in crazy times, there’s beauty, effort, and courage all around us. I wrote a short piece about it, inspired by a young pianist, his teacher, and a candle. Hope it brings some light. 💛 1 minute read: zurl.co/jAa8w

Mindful Moment Gift Day 5 This last picture I'm sharing this week. I couldn't find words I liked to help share this and realized: (see pix) Hope you enjoy some peaceful and quiet time today. ♥️ #mindfulness

Important to celebrate and not to forget. ❤️ #Freedom #Juneteenth

Feed palette 21 second break. 💜 Refreshing, right? 💜 reset your brain.

Hi Everyone! Trying Substack to share some of the insights I'm gathering. Please take a look and let me know what you think below or direct message. May you sleep well tonight 😴. open.substack.com/pub/braincoa...

Let nature nurture you today. See the beauty that surrounds us. It is refuge for the mind and soul even on the busiest days. 💜

“All that I give, I give to myself” ACIM #courage #loveeachother #sacredactivism #🌟💛🌟 #justice #weareone #🔥💛🔥

Look around today. There is so much to see! My favorite tree. Hope you Monday is full of beauty. ♥️

@prisonculture.bsky.social yours is a great page for my friend @tobydorr.bsky.social check this out.

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

Marvelous moments with Mozart. Music makes life so much better, don’t you think? ♥️

I suspect the number is higher because people came out in big and small communities all across this land.

“All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of one candle.” ~Francis of Assisi #shineon #shineyourlight #love #truepower #sacredactivism #🌟💛🌟

Spring. 💙

📘 Shattered Paths is out now! A gripping, emotional novel about children in foster care—trauma, resilience, and the fight to belong Based on real pain, built on hope. 🌍 Available worldwide (Amazon, B&N, Waterstones) 💔 Raw truth. 💥 Powerful voices. 🕊️ Light in the dark. Read Now: geni.us/OEi75Gh

To be clear, there are less than 1.6% college athletes identifying as transgender, but the president deems it necessary to punish the UPenn by withholding $175 million. #cruelintentions #stoptgrmadness

The consequences of devastating US foreign aid: lost surveillance, research, response capacity, more people sick, more people dead. How does abandoning the world make America great? Great if difficult to read piece by @tombollyky.bsky.social & Yanzhong Huang www.foreignaffairs.com/china/coming...

Interested in brain-based signs of #trauma? Listen to my conversation with clinician-extraordinaire Santiago Brand. We talk about #eeg biomarkers that indicate #PTSD. Also, what can be done for to help. Join the conversation: player.captivate.fm/episode/d67e... #PTSD #neurofeedback #biofeedback

If you think you have sleep apnea, get help. My own treatment has been a process but so worth it. It’s easier you might guess and rewards are great. We got this!

Made some tracks on the ableton move #abletonlive #abletonmove #musicsky #musicproducers

I have a new album out today called "Music for Recovery" It's in all of the usual places and some unusual ones I wrote this as a way to help myself handle the stress of the last election cycle Kind of ambient, mostly not Enjoy! 🎧 #ambientmusic #electronicmusic distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

🤍 Rain. My photos are part of my mindfulness practice. Getting out of the head and into the moment, is a humbling challenge. Yet, mindfulness helps us accept life as it is in that moment and even embrace the beauty in it. Hope my photos help you, too.

A highly skilled physician who’s transitioned between two extremely common visas (J1 and H1B) is arbitrarily detained and deported by CBP officers in Boston who appear to deliberately disregard a court order telling them not to. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

"The question the embattled university president asked [me], in effect, was how a university fights an authoritarian regime." "I told him to frame his fight to gain as many allies as he can." Note FIGHT. Universities must act. Keeping their heads down won't work. 1/4 www.chronicle.com/ar...

Love this 💜

Spending the day w Mozart. In a turn of fate, I joined a choral group who is now performing at Carnegie Hall in May. Another unbelievable chapter in my post-injury life. You never know what the Universe has in store for you. #Believe #onlygratitude #brain #somewhatterrified

Seriously??? We're deporting transplant surgeons now??? #MedSky #WomenInMedicine

I think we all need a good Italian opera right now, don’t you? Seeing the opening of La Bohème tonight at the Lyric Opera Chicago. Music helps restore us 💛 Self care is essential right now in these times.

"You get to feel what you are feeling right now. It’s going to be more than some people and less than others. (Also it is ok to find joy in the world right now)."

Impossible to convey how crazy St. Patrick’s Day celebration is in Chicago. Made the mistake of thinking I could go my health club on the other side of the river. Ended up taking lots of pictures for groups and meeting the Wig Girls. 💚 And, how’s your day?! Happy #StPatricksDay2025

- 🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasHowToResist #ExerciseYourRights Protest is protected by US Constitution First Amendment Free Speech right 👀 !! - www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

Look, you’re a human, I’m a human. We’re breathing the same air. We have the same problems. We’re trying to get through our day. Who the fuck are you to throw a log in the road of somebody who has a different set of difficulties in life?” David Letterman

Happy International Women’s Day. One of my great joys this year has been co-mentoring in Chicago Innovation’s mentoring initiative. ‘Learn so much, great energy! Appreciating the strength of all women and gratitude for these wonderful ones in my life.

After 1,000 National Park Service employees were abruptly fired on February 14, staff banded together to signal “dire distress” by draping an upside-down American flag from the 3,000-foot summit of Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan monolith.

The US government will stop sharing air quality data gathered from its embassies and consulates, worrying local scientists and experts who say the effort was vital to monitor global air quality and improve public health.

Lately working virtually a lot. Mindful morning walks are magic. Don’t you love trees? 🖤

Fog on a Chicago morning. ♥️ Beautiful in the moment.

Morning walk and The Golden Tree. Nature blesses us in her own way. 🧡

Clear, honest, straightforward and frightening. Learn from @craigspencer.bsky.social what means for us to support disease prevention like Ebola in other countries.

The day after Elon Musk assured us there was “no interruption” in Ebola prevention the Trump administration cancelled almost all Ebola-related contracts Along with HIV medications for kids And polio vaccines And malaria programs We will regret this www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

To all who celebrate: ♥️ and peace to you and yours.

Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada 👏

If you work virtually, a saving Grace is belonging to cool organizations like @Chicagoinnovation I get to learn from innovation giants, see my mentees and friends and get out of my house ☺️🧡 Join groups!!

Jimmy Carter