by Brian Blem | Nov 4, 2023 | Development
I used to love playing a code-breaking game called ‘Mastermind’. I later studied psychology with the hope of cracking my own code, to better understand myself and live my best life. What I have come to realize is that most of us are slaves, slaves to our...
by Brian Blem | Oct 20, 2023 | Relationships
What the tragic conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza and Israel expose, is how easily manipulated, misinformed, and seemingly powerless we have become as a species. Unfortunately, our limited thinking patterns, borne of deeply conditioned cultural norms and values, predispose...
by Brian Blem | Oct 7, 2023 | Mental Health
The nature versus nurture debate has been around since Plato in the 4th Century BCE. How much of who we are is determined by our nature or genes, and how much by our nurture or the environment? I would suggest that the closer we lived to nature, the more determined we...
by Brian Blem | Sep 15, 2023 | Mental Health
One of the most common indicators for mental and physical illness is the feeling of being overwhelmed by life, and the belief that you cannot cope. Now this is a perfectly understandable response based upon our programming within a patriarchal and material world...
by Brian Blem | Sep 8, 2023 | Mental Health
This is a quote by Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. Having just returned from a 10-day road trip through Albania with my wife, it rings true. It’s a long time since I ventured off the beaten track to a new and unexplored part of the world. Since getting married...
