In the realm of fitness, the debate between structured strength training and everyday activities like walking often arises. While both contribute to overall health, understanding the unique benefits of each can help you optimize your fitness journey.

Anxiety can present itself through a broad range of symptoms.  For the majority of the individuals I work with, anxiety can show up as chronic worry, ruminations or obsessive thoughts that interrupts their day-to-day functioning and negatively impacts their lives.

In the realm of fitness, the debate between structured strength training and everyday activities like walking often arises. While both contribute to overall health, understanding the unique benefits of each can help you optimize your fitness journey.

Sometimes, when we experience a confusing situation in our lives—a tricky misunderstanding, a missed flight, a difficult loss, or even positive news we weren't expecting—we can find ourselves in a nagging bind…

Anxiety can present itself through a broad range of symptoms.  For the majority of the individuals I work with, anxiety can show up as chronic worry, ruminations or obsessive thoughts that interrupts their day-to-day functioning and negatively impacts their lives.

As I learned at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America’s conference earlier this year, the parents are also not alright.

As individuals age, maintaining physical strength becomes increasingly crucial for overall health and well-being. For people over 50, engaging in regular strength training offers a multitude of benefits that can enhance quality of life and longevity.

Building strength—particularly in the lower body and core—plays a crucial role in improving stability, coordination, and overall balance.

Whether you’re in your 20s or your 70s, the key is to train in a way that lets you move well for life. As Dr. Attia puts it, “Train today for the life you want to live decades from now.”

The biggest asset you have to offer others is yourself. When you are balanced, that balance is naturally communicated to those you are with.

In my practice I encourage my patients to build their own “tool box” for managing mental health symptoms, and for most of us these tools include some combination of: psychotropic medications; psychotherapy; lifestyle choices (such as exercise /meditation); and social connections / sources of relationship support. However - if there was one fundamental tool I could bestow to all of my patients - it would be the practice of self-compassion.

Sometimes the demands of life feel like more than we can handle. We find that we are stuck in a thought process and don’t know our way out. There is a way through this. We may just need a different approach.