The Ancient Brain Newsletter
One weekly email to help you understand why you feel, think, react and get stuck in the patterns you do.
Each week, I write about the hidden psychology beneath modern life: why we avoid, overthink, shut down, people-please, chase achievement, fear rest, lose confidence, or repeat patterns we thought we had outgrown.
Drawing on clinical psychology, performance psychology and over ten years of practice, I explore the ancient instincts still shaping modern life: stress, shame, fear, ambition, identity, connection, rest, relationships and what it means to live, relate and perform well.
Impossible, Until It’s Not: What Rock Climbing Teaches Us About Fear, Failure, and the Limits We Invent
Impossible, Until It's Not: What Rock Climbing Teaches Us About Fear, Failure, and the Limits We Invent
Is It Love or Limerence? How to Tell the Difference
A reader wrote in with a question: how do you tell the difference between love and limerence? Between truly loving someone and simply being unable to stop thinking about them? Drawing on the ancient Greeks, modern neuroscience, and the psychology of desire, this is an exploration of what separates love from obsession and a set of honest questions to help you work out which one you're really feeling.
You Are Really Good At Being Scared
Explore why the human brain is built for threat detection, how fear shapes what we see and hear, and how emotional regulation helps us shift between threat, drive and soothe.
Why You Don’t Hear The World As It Is. You Hear the It As You Are
What we hear is not always what was said. A funny misunderstanding in the park becomes a deeper reflection on perception, emotional state, threat, and the invisible lens through which we interpret other people, ourselves, and the world around us.
The Emotional Promise of Achievement
The Emotional Promise of Achievement. What high performers are really chasing and why it can’t be caught
On Shame pt 2:
a psychological exploration on the origins and developmental process of shame
Panic Attacks Feel Like Something Is Seriously Wrong. Here’s Why
On panic and panic attacks
