Mental health is having a moment right now. The moment us therapists were hoping for. It seems like everyone I know in the past few years has asked me for help in finding a therapist. And then every therapist I know is completely full, completely overwhelmed, and completely burnt out. You know, this is a problem that goes back decades in the making. There are just not enough therapists to meet the demand. And if we could magically double the amount of therapists that are out there in the world, we still wouldn’t come anywhere close to meeting the Mental Health crisis that is in front of us. Here’s the

Now this may not come as a surprise to you, but did you know the average 18 to 25-year-old checks their phone 56 times a day? That’s once every 15 minutes. So what else are you doing when you’re on your phone? Well, nine out of ten young people tell us they’re using their phone when spending quality time with their parents. Seven out of ten are using it when hanging out with friends. Five out of ten when at dinner at a restaurant. Three out of ten when crossing the road. And one in ten are using it when having sex. Statistics like these never fail to impress me

Let’s start with a dirty word, shall we? Pandemic. As we transition out of the last pandemic, we’re entering a new pandemic of addiction that might be the most pervasive addiction in human history. Part of the world has yet to even acknowledge that this addiction exists, despite it being all around us and fueling our current mental health crisis. For today, we turn the tide on this new addiction. What if I were to tell you that in 2007, a new addictive drug came out and it took the world by storm? In less than 15 years, over half of the world’s population was using this drug daily. It

Um, I would like to thank you first of all for allowing me to introduce to you a passion that I have. And, um, allow me to introduce a concept that we call, and you might have heard before, called neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is nothing but the capacity the brain has to be able to adapt based on what we do. So you and I have the ability to change some of the structures that the brain has and also to change some of the processes. And I’m excited about this concept because the reality is that this concept is the basis for achieving optimal mental health. And these eight principles

When I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I was told that the best way to talk about mental health was to say nothing. My psychiatrist in the hospital warned me that I had so much to lose if I told anyone about my experiences. He said, “Dan, the stigma against mental illness is different from the rest. It cuts across race, gender, and sexual orientation. It is unbeatable.” Ooh! What a scary introduction to mental illness. I was 19, and out of nowhere, I had just been hospitalized for my first mania. I hadn’t slept for four straight days. Over that time, I became filled with energy. First, I