psychology – PK Health and Performance https://pkhealth.ca A principles-based approach to sustained wellness and pain-free performance Wed, 01 Nov 2023 22:32:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Unstiffen yourself (Part 2) https://pkhealth.ca/unstiffen-yourself-part-2/ https://pkhealth.ca/unstiffen-yourself-part-2/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:42:07 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5818 To move well and get out of pain, you must unstiffen yourself. If you’re stiff, you’ll move like a robot. And subsequently, your robot-like lack of physical freedom will put undue strain on the structures of your body that are chronically achy. I don’t want you to be chronically achy anymore. So please… unstiffen yourself. In the present article – the second in a 2-part…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/unstiffen-yourself-part-2/feed/ 2 You Don’t Have Insomnia https://pkhealth.ca/you-dont-have-insomnia/ https://pkhealth.ca/you-dont-have-insomnia/#respond Tue, 21 Sep 2021 20:15:30 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5803 Well, maybe you do. Maybe you do in fact have insomnia in the same way that a person with obesity who fails to eat well and move often has a “slow metabolism”. Yeah… now that I think about it, maybe you do have a unique case of incurable insomnia. Similar to how someone with back pain who fails to clean up their movement quality might chalk it up to having a “bad back”, you…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/you-dont-have-insomnia/feed/ 0 Unstiffen Yourself (Part 1) https://pkhealth.ca/unstiffen-yourself-part-1/ https://pkhealth.ca/unstiffen-yourself-part-1/#respond Tue, 27 Jul 2021 23:14:14 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5796 Stiffness is, in all likelihood, the root cause of your chronic pain. It could be as straightforward as having a stiff lower back from sedentary living. We could take it one step further, where for example a stiff foot may be causing too much strain to be put on the knees. We could even go down the psychosomatic rabbit hole and see that for instance, a stiff mind may be causing…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/unstiffen-yourself-part-1/feed/ 0 No Homo (Sapiens) https://pkhealth.ca/no-homo-sapiens/ https://pkhealth.ca/no-homo-sapiens/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2021 21:26:13 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5771 Life expectancy is the highest it’s ever been in human history but rates of chronic disease and mental illness are skyrocketing. 1 in 3 Canadians now report having a chronic disease such as diabetes or hypertension, and in any given year 1 in 5 Canadians experience mental illness; by the time Canadians reach 40 years of age, 1 in 2 will have or have had mental illness.

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/no-homo-sapiens/feed/ 2 Near-Death is Psychedelic https://pkhealth.ca/near-death-is-psychedelic/ https://pkhealth.ca/near-death-is-psychedelic/#respond Tue, 15 Jun 2021 23:28:58 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5751 I’ve been regularly exploring psychedelic drugs since I was 14. Aaaaaaabsolutely love it. It helps me think outside the box, it makes things that I’m interested in even more interesting, and it allows me to call myself out on my own bullshit. To sum up the benefits of psychedelics in one sentence: It enhances my life by shifting my perspective. What’s even more interesting than mushrooms…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/near-death-is-psychedelic/feed/ 0 Write Your Way to Better Health https://pkhealth.ca/write-your-way-to-better-health/ https://pkhealth.ca/write-your-way-to-better-health/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2021 21:03:33 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5735 Most of us go through life in an abnormally chronic state of low-grade panic. Not severe enough to be labelled as clinical anxiety, but uncomfortable and ever-present enough to create a feeling of general fatigue and unease that colours our daily living. Left unchecked, this barely-perceptible background noise of mental dis-ease will drive addictive behaviour1, 2 in all its forms…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/write-your-way-to-better-health/feed/ 1 How to Make Journaling Not Suck https://pkhealth.ca/how-to-make-journaling-not-suck/ https://pkhealth.ca/how-to-make-journaling-not-suck/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2021 23:45:50 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5728 Journaling is therapy. It’s self reflection. It’s you coaching yourself out of poor behaviour and nudging yourself towards the righteously impossible goal of self-actualization. As far as I’m aware, the majority of us want to feel stronger and happier. And between the clinical psychologists, counsellors, coaches, and even the poorly-educated but well-intentioned Instagram “biohackers”…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/how-to-make-journaling-not-suck/feed/ 2 Social Media Harm Reduction https://pkhealth.ca/social-media-harm-reduction/ https://pkhealth.ca/social-media-harm-reduction/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:21:19 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5720 Drugs can be useful and fun, but chronic use will ultimately ruin you. Social media is exactly the same. Let me explain. Last week I spent five days away from screens and social media. Actually… that’s a bit of a lie. I still answered emails everyday and at one point even watched an episode of Love on Netflix (it wasn’t good), but the goal was to stay off all messaging platforms…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/social-media-harm-reduction/feed/ 1 The Adult Pacifier https://pkhealth.ca/the-adult-pacifier/ https://pkhealth.ca/the-adult-pacifier/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:32:47 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5680 The artificial world of likes and followers is, for the most part, a very very bad thing: Machiavellianism, screen addiction, unchecked social comparison, and mindlessness are a few examples of the consequences that arise from unconscious social media use. With that being said, I still make the conscious (and to be completely transparent with you, sometimes painful) choice to use Facebook and…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/the-adult-pacifier/feed/ 1 A User’s Guide to Rest https://pkhealth.ca/a-users-guide-to-rest/ https://pkhealth.ca/a-users-guide-to-rest/#respond Fri, 15 Jan 2021 19:19:33 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5670 2020 swept me into a violent, exhilarating hurricane of growth and productivity. All of this culminated in the busiest month of the year in December. While the world was fulfilling the quasi-religious societal expectation of relaxation and gluttony, I was pushing to finish strong. Really strong – like this guy. It’s January 12th now. I’m foooooooking exhausted. So next week I’m planning…

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