How Stress Affects the Brain

This short video explains how continuous stress can change your brain’s size, structure and how it functions, right down to the level of your genes. It also talks about how movement, meditation and the use of the breath can reduce continuous stress so we can diminish its negative impact on both our body and mind.…

The Odd Couple

This short and touching video reminds me of both the importance of connection and the importance of looking beyond our fear, prejudices and differences to find meaningful and love filled connections. If Tara and Bella can look past their immense differences and create a loving and trust filled relationship, then maybe we can too. All…

Wander with Wonder

In this short video, American author, professor, and philosopher Sam Keen briefly shares his thoughts on the two ways of wandering. One is as lost, which can leave us feeling diminished, desperate and in panic. The other way of wandering is with an outlook of wonder—like an explorer discovering a new territory. In this example,…

You can make a difference!

  This short video talks about how childhood trauma changes the brain. It also talks about how one secure attachment with a daycare provider, preschool teacher, or other adult in a child’s life, even if there are no secure attachments in the home, also changes the brain and can give a child a seed for…

Silence

In this short video, Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist who has spent over thirty years recording the steadily vanishing natural soundscapes, talks about the impact that one square inch of silence can have on nature and the world. After I watched this video, I began to ponder the possible the impact that each of us…