by Dr Chris Pickard | Sep 21, 2026 | Wellness Coaching
I start with tree pose – 30 to 60 seconds on each leg. Then do mountain pose until I feel ready for the next pose. I then do the next pose – to the right, and the left, then ‘resting’ in mountain pose again before continuing to the next. I typically hold each pose for... by Dr Chris Pickard | Aug 31, 2026 | Wellness Coaching
Last month, I wrote about something that has interested me for years: Peace. Not simply peace between nations, but what actually creates—or destroys—peace between human beings. I began with a book I first read several years ago, Peace, They Say by Jay Nordlinger,... by Dr Chris Pickard | Aug 25, 2026 | Wellness Coaching
Why Hope May Be One of Our Most Important Survival Mechanisms By Dr Chris Pickard What if hope isn’t simply a nice feeling? What if it is actually one of the mechanisms that helped life survive? I’ve been interested in hope for years. Long ago, I came across a... by Dr Chris Pickard | Aug 3, 2026 | Wellness Coaching
A few years ago, I read a book about the Nobel Peace Prize. ‘Peace They Say’ by Jay Nordlinger. It was a very interesting and thought provoking read, and I recently decided to pick it up again, and maybe share some of the stories. And maybe give some practical... 
by Dr Chris Pickard | May 3, 2026 | Wellness Coaching
I was sitting in the garden recently, reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius — the Roman emperor many people will know as the older emperor at the beginning of Gladiator. And I came across this passage: “We should remember that even Nature’s inadvertence has its own... 
by Dr Chris Pickard | Mar 23, 2026 | Wellness Coaching
Most people think peace is something that happens “out there.” In governments.In negotiations.In global agreements. But after 30 years in clinical practice, I’ve come to see something very different: Peace is built from the inside out. And one of the clearest ways to... by Dr Chris Pickard | Mar 9, 2026 | Wellness Coaching
Most people today exercise for one of three reasons. To look better.To live longer.Or to outperform someone else. None of those are wrong. But they miss something deeper. More than a century ago, a French naval officer named Georges Hébert offered a radically... 
by Dr Chris Pickard | Jan 25, 2026 | Diet and Nutrition
Summary Type 2 diabetes is not simply a dietary problem. Blood glucose regulation emerges from an integrated system involving stress hormones, hepatic glucose output, skeletal muscle disposal capacity, sleep and circadian timing, and cumulative inflammatory and... by Dr Chris Pickard | Jan 9, 2026 | Wellness Coaching
A Practical Framework for Adaptive Vitality If Adaptive Vitality describes what health truly is —then Integrated Ascent describes how it is built. Most people fail to sustain change not because they lack motivation, discipline, or intelligence, but because they apply... by Dr Chris Pickard | Jan 5, 2026 | Wellness Coaching
How dysregulation at the individual level creates instability at the societal level — and what we can do about it We think peace is a political problem. A failure of diplomacy. A clash of ideologies. A breakdown between nations. But I’ve spent 30 years working... 
