Harvard-trained psychologist. Ph.D. @UTAustin. Mental health is wealth. My threads help you build financial success, become fearless, and destroy anxiety.
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Feb 1 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
This man who heals what doctors can't:
Jiddu Krishnamurti.
It's impossible to be psychologically trapped, stressed, or anxious after understanding his teachings.
Here's his 5-step approach to unlocking mental freedom:
Even the Dalai Lama of Tibet agreed, Krishnamurti knows how to heal anxiety and overthinking like no other great being.
Jan 27 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
This man cures what therapists can't:
Fritz Perls.
It's impossible to be psychologically trapped, stressed, or anxious after understanding his teachings.
Here's his story and 4-step approach to unlocking mental freedom:🧵
Born in 1893 in Berlin, Fritz Perls lived under crushing parental expectations.
His father called him a "good-for-nothing."
However, this early struggle later fueled his revolutionary ideas about self-acceptance and authenticity.
The trauma shaped his entire philosophy.
Jan 26 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
This is the story of how American psychology lost its soul.
It's complicated and involves one particular man few have heard of...
B.F. Skinner
Here's the biggest untold story about your mental health...A THREAD
Psychology literally means psyche (soul) + logos (study).
The early psychologists were soul-seekers, exploring the vast inner landscape of human experience.
William James--the father of American psychology- wrote on mystical states, consciousness, and the varieties of religious experience.
Jan 23 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
The most dangerous pandemics in the modern world aren’t:
Cocaine, depression, or obesity.
Something 10x worse affects 6.5 million children worldwide and 1 out of every 10 children in the US.
Here’s what it is (and how to break free)--THREAD
ADHD is the #1 silent pandemic.
Everyone thinks it’s a disorder, feel scared and take pills.
But physician Gabor Mate says you need to harness its power to become hyper-focused.
What is ADHD, really?
Jan 19 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
The most dangerous modern diseases aren't:
Obesity. Depression. Alzheimer.
This one silent pandemic is the worst.
And it worsens the three above.
Here it is and how to cure yourself (according to a Harvard psychologist):
Loneliness is one of the most terrifying epidemic in the 21st century...
• 60% of adults rarely feel connected. And, increasing!
• Teens spend 70% less time with friends than 20 years ago.
• Men with no close friends have gone from 3% to 15% since 1990.
Why does this matter?
Jan 16 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
I'm 63.
When I was young...
My mind was a prison.
I made terrible decisions.
Anxiety crippled me for years.
Then I discovered Carl Jung's Archetypes and 7 laws of finding purpose.🧵
Here's how to use your shadow to find your true self.
Jung said much of the shadow is connected to the collective unconscious. It lies deep below the surface of the mind.
Hidden archetypes form our collective unconscious.
They're universal life patterns we all share.
Jan 12 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
The most taboo, weirdly romanticized, yet misunderstood topic of 2025:
Childhood trauma.
Dr. Jordan Peterson says it's why your Dad left, why your Mom cried alone, and why you're always anxious...
Here's how to reverse its damage naturally: 🧵
Dr. Peterson says memories older than 18 months still stirring up emotions are a red flag of trauma that needs unpacking.
1st understand trauma happens in 2 stages:
1. Embodied terror 2. Conceptual processing
Dec 30, 2024 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
Your doctor won't tell you this about anxiety, stress, and depression...
They are not a brain problem. It's not a mental health issue.
It's your GUT-MIND connection.
Here are 7 ways to stop your gut from sabotaging your mental health (backed by science): 🧵
First, meet your "second brain":
Your gut contains 100 million nerve cells - as many as your spinal cord.
This massive neural network controls not just digestion, but your emotions, stress levels, and even decision-making.
Scientists call it your "enteric nervous system."
Dec 23, 2024 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
For centuries, the most powerful healing method was hidden by Native Americans.
A therapist named Ron Kurtz discovered it in the 1970s.
Now the Hakomi method is healing anxiety, depression, and trauma without drugs.
Big Pharma won't want you to know this: 🧵
Most doctors today prescribe pills for anxiety, fear, and overthinking.
But in the 1970s, one man discovered something profound:
Dec 20, 2024 • 22 tweets • 7 min read
I'm 63.
When I was young...
• My mind was a prison.
• I made terrible decisions.
• Anxiety crippled me for years.
Then I found Carl Jung's 7 psychological laws and my life changed forever...(THREAD)🧵
Our minds operate on hidden laws that control our anxiety, decisions, and actions.
After experiencing Jung's transformation, I've helped thousands of others do the same.
I've also upgraded Jung's methods by incorporating neuroscience.
Here are the 7 psychological laws:
Dec 17, 2024 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
The man who heals what therapy can't:
Ramana Maharshi.
At 16, he discovered a method so simple yet profound that anxiety, depression, and suffering vanish when you truly understand it.
Here's his 5-step approach to absolute inner peace: 🧵
At age 16, he was a normal teenager in South India when something extraordinary happened:
A sudden, intense fear of death gripped him.
Instead of running from it, he did something that would change the course of spiritual psychology forever...
Dec 9, 2024 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
This man cures what therapists can't:
Fritz Perls.
It's impossible to be psychologically trapped, stressed, or anxious after understanding his teachings.
Here's his story and 4-step approach to unlocking mental freedom: 🧵
Born in 1893 in Berlin, Fritz Perls lived under crushing parental expectations.
His father called him a "good-for-nothing."
However, this early struggle later fueled his revolutionary ideas about self-acceptance and authenticity.
The trauma shaped his entire philosophy.
Dec 2, 2024 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
This man who heals what doctors can't:
Jiddu Krishnamurti.
It's impossible to be psychologically trapped, stressed, or anxious after understanding his teachings.
Here's his 5-step approach to unlocking mental freedom: 🧵
At age 14, the Theosophical Society declared Krishnamurti the next World Teacher.
By 27, he was set to lead one of the largest spiritual organizations in the world.
Then he did something that shocked everyone...
Nov 26, 2024 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
As a Harvard psychiatrist who worked with the Dalai Lama, I discovered…
Why despite horrendous traumas, the Tibetans were immune to anxiety, chronic stress and the depression epidemics
Here's the ancient wisdom Western medicine is hiding from you: 🧵
Mental health illness is a silent killer in Western society:
• 78% report daily anxiety
• 1 in 3 are chronically lonely
• Depression doubled since 2020
I spent 4 years as Harvard's lead psychologist studying Tibetan refugees, working directly with the Dalai Lama.
Here's what we found:
Nov 22, 2024 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
I'm 63.
Stress and anxiety controlled me for years and I regret wasting my life making poor decisions...
Then I discovered Carl Jung’s Archetypes and his 7 Laws of Finding Purpose.
Here's how to use your shadow to find your true self: 🧵
Carl Jung was called the greatest psychologist in history.
He famously called the dark side of our personality the "shadow."
The shadow holds forgotten and repressed memories that lock our hidden strengths…
Nov 16, 2024 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
The most dangerous pandemics in the modern world aren’t:
Cocaine, depression, or obesity.
Something 10x worse affects 6.5 million children worldwide and 1 out of every 10 children in the US.
Here’s what it is (and how to break free) 🧵
ADHD is the #1 silent pandemic.
Everyone thinks it’s a disorder, feel scared and take pills.
But physician Gabor Mate says you need to harness its power to become hyper-focused.
A thread to turn your anxious ADHD mind into a superpower:
Nov 13, 2024 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
🚨 MIND-BENDING 🚨
In 1967, psychiatrist R.D. Laing's ran an experiment and discovered the secret behind:
- stress
- anxiety
- feeling alienated from reality
This took me 20 years to understand, I'll explain in a few minutes.
Here's what it's (and how to break free): 🧵
Your anxiety isn't a clinical condition—it's a natural response to an insane world. Hypersanity isn't aimed at 'fitting in' better but seeing clearly what others are afraid to face.
The key to becoming hypersane is to get creative and curious about your world. Not to be fearful and shut down.
Let me explain...
Nov 2, 2024 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
The most taboo, weirdly romanticized, yet misunderstood topic of 2024:
Childhood Trauma.
Dr. Jordan Peterson says it's why your dad left, why your mom cried alone, and why you're always anxious…
Here's how to reverse its damage naturally:
Dr. Peterson says memories older than 18 months still stirring up emotions are a red flag of trauma that needs unpacking.
First understand trauma happens in 2 stages:
1. Embodied terror 2. Conceptual processing
Oct 28, 2024 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
This man was the most legendary holocaust survivor ever.
Surviving 3 years in 4 camps, including Auschwitz.
His message? When we can no longer change a situation, change ourselves.
As a psychologist, if you're feeling lost in life, open this:
It’s an understatement that Frankl went through horrors in Nazi concentration camps.
He lost his wife, mother, father & brother.
He witnessed executions and brutal deaths daily.
Oct 23, 2024 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
I'm 56.
Anxiety controlled me for years and I regret wasting my life making poor decisions...
Then I discovered Carl Jung’s Archetypes and 7 Laws of Finding Purpose.
Here's how to use your shadow to find your true self: 🧵
Carl Jung was called the greatest psychologist in history.
He famously called the dark side of our personality the "shadow."
The shadow holds forgotten and repressed memories that lock our hidden strengths…
Oct 15, 2024 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote…
"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."
11 things I learned from one of the greatest philosophers of all time:🧵
"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison." - Dostoevsky
• In Notes from Underground, the narrator is trapped in a prison of his own mind
• He's a bitter 40-year-old living a secluded life in St. Petersburg in the 1860s
• His self-imposed isolation stems from his hyper-consciousness & doubt