by André | Aug 26, 2026 | Personal Growth, Stress
A client came to me a while back with a heart rate variability reading in the single digits. If you’re not familiar with HRV, it’s a simple way to measure how much give your nervous system has between heartbeats. A resilient, well-regulated system speeds...
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 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 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 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...
