Mindfulness was developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn. He is a micro-biologist and American Professor who developed Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in 1979. His purpose for doing so was to aid in physical pain management. Kabat-Zinn was inspired by Buddhism and incorporated some of its principles into his practice. In the Buddhist teachings mindfulness translates to a…
I graduated from college with my master’s degree in Applied Social and Community Psychology in 2019. In school I studied mental health and the consequences of various individual interests and influences on organizations. I was straight lace. I wanted to do my part to make sure things were done right, and I wanted to make…
Read this article on Substack! One of the ways you can amplify muscle growth is through mind muscle connection. Mind muscle connection is just as it sounds, it’s your mind being able to effectively identify and isolate a specific muscle. This is usually a more salient experience when the muscle being identified is under some…
I feel like I have a weird relationship with sports. I just finished watching a podcast with Venus and Serena Williams and it made me think about the impact sports has had on my life. Additionally I’m three days into a cut now so this topic is timely and relevant. I say I feel like…
Change is the act or fact of something becoming or being different. At ground level people generally don’t like change. Physiologically and psychologically we want things to stay as close to familiar as possible, with maybe some change on the margins to spice things up. Change is a necessary part of life but sometimes it…
This period of time, late August early September 2025, has been relatively revelatory for me. There are a lot of good things happening right now which I am grateful for. I am also discovering myself in a way that I have my opinions on that I also need to give myself grace for. There are…
Humans make decisions every day. Some decisions may be more impactful than others but all decisions have a cause and effect. When I think about decisions I think about what I would consider a big decision, or one that lingers. Decisions with impacts that linger are more captivating to me because you have to live…
Starting off this week I was enduring an existential crisis. At this point those are relatively common occurrences, so there is no need for me to be ashamed of some of the disintegrated thoughts and moments that I have. That said, I am also arriving at a place where I am beginning to understand and…
Modern Monetary Theory is to economics what post-modernism is to psychology, a nuevo application of rationalities thought to better serve the purpose of the practice, as opposed to its “archaic” predecessors. Inflexible systematology doesn’t lend itself to a practical use of how these respective fields of study have approached their work. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)…
Before civilization and modernization there were humans. A male and a female. They would live in forests, deserts, on beaches, and or other natural habitats. There are humans who still live like this today. These people hunt and gather, build shelters, entertain themselves, so forth and the like. Another thing they do is have children.…