by André | Aug 11, 2026 | Personal Growth, Stress
At 2 a.m., staring at a stack trace that refused to make sense, I only ever had one move as an engineer: keep tracing the error backward until I found the actual line of code that broke, not the symptom that showed up on the screen three functions later. That habit...
by André | Jul 29, 2026 | Bodywork, Energy
John Amaral, DC, is a chiropractor-turned-energy practitioner known for the Energy Flow Formula, decades of work with high-profile clients, and a 2020 appearance on Netflix’s The Goop Lab that introduced millions of people to energy healing for the first time....
by André | Jul 26, 2026 | Bodywork, Energy
Somatic awareness isn’t a mood or a mindset. It’s a specific, learnable skill, the ability to actually sense and interact with your own body, on purpose, instead of just carrying it around from meeting to meeting. Most people never build this skill. They...
by André | Jul 23, 2026 | Meditation, Stress
Almost everyone who finds their way to me has already tried meditation for stress and anxiety. Some of them can’t do it — they sit down, close their eyes, and their mind runs faster than before they started. Others do it right, technique and all, and still...
by André | Jul 19, 2026 | Personal Growth, Stress
I spent years in therapy. Real therapy, with a real therapist, doing real work. By the end of it, I understood my situation better than I ever had — I could name the pattern, trace where it started, explain it clearly to anyone who asked. And the thoughts were still...
by André | Jul 16, 2026 | Letting Go
I’ve had several clients come to me after they’d already done years of therapy. Many of them had also gone through the whole alternative-wellness list on top of it: meditation, red light therapy, sauna, EMDR, etc. I personally know people who have been in...
by André | Jul 14, 2026 | Personal Growth, Stress
Most of the people I work with have already done the obvious thing about their stress. They’ve exercised it out, talked it out in therapy, meditated at it, maybe medicated it. And they’ll tell me, almost apologetically, that it helped a little and then...
by André | Jul 12, 2026 | Meditation, Personal Growth, Stress
I remember sitting on my hands in my desk chair, headphones in, trying not to move so I could actually focus on my breath. That was me learning to meditate, and it took a long time before I could sit still long enough to explore my own inner world at all. Once I...
by André | Jul 11, 2026 | Bodywork, Stress
I’ve had a few reiki sessions myself, back before I found somatic work. I remember lying there, hands hovering over me, and feeling…something. A slight buzz. A little warmth. Enough that I couldn’t say nothing happened. Not enough that I could say...
by André | Jul 9, 2026 | Personal Growth, Stress
He’s up at 5am. There’s a cold plunge, then a supplement stack lined up on the counter like a checklist. He’s at the gym by 6, his calendar is blocked into 90-minute sprints, and there’s a stack of books on discipline and leadership that...
