My personal blog on:
stress, burnout, performance, mental health, well-being and resilience

Welcome to Center for Brain Leadership

I help leaders and employees become more stress positive, resilient and emotionally intelligent

Welcome to Center for Brain Leadership

I help leaders and employees become more stress positive, resilient and emotionally intelligent

Biological and Physiological Stress causes Mental and Emotional Stress

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How you deal with the stress of the outside world is not just connected to your thoughts and emotions but also to the biological resilience that you have inside of you and to how well everything is working.

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Spiritual Health for Nervous System and Stress Regulation. Your sense of purpose. Do you have one? Are you finding meaning in your life or in your work? Are you being your authentic self or have you hidden it to make room for the wrong priorities?

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Progressive Muscle Relaxation to relieve Stress.Why PMR can help you relieve stress and bring more calm to the moment.

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How do you define a burnout? Is it always work related? How do I know that I am in Burnout? I try to address these points in this video about Burnout.

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Cognitive Fusion describes a very human capacity to fully identify with one's thoughts. So much that they become inseparable from our identity. While this is useful in some circumstances, it is not when dealing with thoughts that are encouraging stress.

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Chronic stress and burnout are often the results of our internal programming. The external environment is the trigger but our interpretation of it is based on our internal beliefs and patterns.

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The Positive Stress Mindset: why stress can be good for us. Stress can actually be good for us. The same event can have two profoundly different impact on your health and physiology, and it all has to do with mindset.

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Some of us are suffering from acute or chronic stress, some of us are close to a burnout, and some of us are in a burnout. Depending on the severity of your symptoms, it will obviously take longer to heal.

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The four types are: structural stress mental and emotional stress biological and chemical stress spiritual stress

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The stress continuum model for symptom evaluation. It's a four step four phases process called the stress Continuum. Thriving - Surviving - Struggling - In crisis

This simple tool – tapping – releases stress and negative emotions fast

Tapping releases stress and negative emotions fast. What you do is you tap on your body or you knock on various parts of your body. What it does is activates energy but it also makes energy flow, energy that may have been stuck.

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This tool - a safe space - brings calm and safety and relieves stress. It is used in a lot of therapy work, with people who've experienced trauma.

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How to tone your vagus nerve for stress relief. Ideally if you have a vagus nerve that is as they call it 'toned', It means that you are able to create an effective parasympathetic response. This means that you are able to relax your system.

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If you're experiencing chronic stress or had a burnout or are close to a burnout, you are doing everything too fast. Reduce Stress with 30% Slow Mo

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The breathing method today is called the physiological sigh. It was developed at Stanford and it's used by the military, by soldiers in moments of stress to activate the relaxation response. It provides immediate Stress Relief.

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Neuroplasticity allows us to build new pathways in our brain and to create new responses in our nervous system.

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Stress is a reaction of your nervous system to perceived threats and challenges in your environment and stress is your ability to deal with those threats and challenges in this particular moment.

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Your nervous system is key to how you handle stress. It acts subconsciously and reacts to your environment, sometimes differently to what you may be thinking cognitively.

This method – Havening – can help you relieve stress quickly

Havening is a simple technique that can help you relieve stress and interrupts your stress reaction. It brings you comfort and safety and allows you to re-connect with the present moment.

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Our brain is truly a wonder. A remarkable product of evolution, it allows us to do amazing things, both good and bad.

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Neuroplasticity is real. But how can we deliberately create new pathways in our brain?

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Response flexibility very much depends on your ability to intercept your negative emotion and to give your limbic brain a pause.

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Training your brain is like training any other muscle. You must practice, be patient and be consistent.

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Do you favour system-based change management or do you put people at the center of a transformation? And do you really have to choose?

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How can we down-regulate our emotional response during a conflict?

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The in-out group bias is one of the most powerful biases there is. It has a strong influence on how we manage others and collaborate with them.

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Change management must become more agile and human-centered

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To create new organisational cultures, we must first understand the limitations of the old models.

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Is empathy at work what we need?

Re-wire your brain, re-wire your organisation. Start now!

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My personal blog on:
stress, burnout, performance, mental health, well-being and resilience

Welcome to Center for Brain Leadership

Welcome to Center for Brain Leadership

Biological and Physiological Stress causes Mental and Emotional Stress

Spiritual Health for Nervous System and Stress Regulation

Progressive Muscle Relaxation to relieve Stress

What is a Burnout?

Cognitive Fusion as reason for stress

How ‘internal’ is your burnout? Are you ready to do the work it takes to get out of it?

The Positive Stress Mindset: why stress can be good for us

Why healing from burnout takes time

The four types of stress

The stress continuum model for symptom evaluation

This simple tool – tapping – releases stress and negative emotions fast

This simple tool – a safe space – brings calm and safety and relieves stress quickly

How to tone your vagus nerve for stress relief

Reduce Stress with 30% Slow Mo

This method (physiological sigh) provides immediate Stress Relief

Neuroplasticity is key to burnout recovery

What is stress?

Chronic stress is a nervous system disregulation

This method – Havening – can help you relieve stress quickly

Our wonderful brain

Mindfulness and neuroplasticity

The sacred pause

Cognitive flexibility

System-based or people-based change: let’s settle the debate.

Conflict and the Amygdala

I love you all, but only if you are in my team

Change management is dead. Long live new change management

The evolution of employee experience

How empathic distress differs from compassion

Center for Brain Leadership

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