I want to be careful about how I describe this, because the concept has been so thoroughly colonised by the wellness industry that it is now very hard to discuss without sounding like a brand campaign. But the practice is real, it is daily, and the effect on my functioning — and on the skin of my patients, which I can examine objectively — is clinically significant. What I do: […]

I finished my last Hyrox event six minutes slower than I wanted to. I know exactly where the time went: the sled push in the second half, where my hips protested more than I’d anticipated and I had to reduce push pace to manage the load. I walked out of the event genuinely frustrated. Then I drove home, showered, and sat with it for a while. And what settled was […]

The first thing I do after waking at 5:30 is nothing. I lie still for approximately two minutes. Not meditating — just allowing the transition from sleep to waking without immediately reaching for my phone or assembling the day’s agenda in my head. This is not instinct. It is deliberate, and it is the result of several years of paying attention to what the first ten minutes of the day […]