This post follows on from Part 1 - On 21st Century Excesses & Deficiencies. You'll hear my thoughts on how to restore yourself to your most optimal level of wellbeing after physical and mental health difficulties, using a range of nutritional and lifestyle interventions. 

There seems to be none more insidious a mis-match in our 21st century than that of the interaction between our brains learning and reward centre and the modern environment we now contend with.

The age-old "how did you sleep last night" question is one we commonly ask each other, but do we ever ask each other: "how have you lived your day to optimise your sleep tonight?"

In the same week that I was speaking at the Australasian Turf-grass Growers Conference on rethinking mental health, with my nutrition colleague Jamie Scott, we happened to be interviewed by Press writer John McCrone.

I am a clinical psychologist in private practice in Wellington where I work with adult clients using a nutritional and lifestyle approach

An introductory blog discussing the rationale for a nutritional and lifestyle approach within clinical psychology.

This talk was written for men and it was given in the context of several other complimentary talks by my Ancestral Health Society colleagues Jamie Scott, Phil Becker, Andrew Dickson and my co-presenter Felicity Leahy.

This talk was a collaboration between Felicity Leahy (Naturopath and Clinical Herbalist) and I, as we’ve been working with many clients with a dual approach over the past year or so.

Recent science tells us that food does affect mood, and a healthy diet can help treat depression.

It has recently been discussed in the media, that the former president of the World Mental Health Foundation believes our public mental health system is broken and at a crisis point.

The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5) is the most current edition of the guidebook for psychiatrists and psychologists who follow a diagnostic framework.

Attachment is the process of human emotional, relational, and brain development through which we learn how to relate to ourselves, others, and the world around us.