David L Johns LMHC

12/09/2025

6 Ways Music Gives Your Brain a Big Boost https://buff.ly/2N4Kc00

Music really is medicine. Listening to music is one of the few activities that stimulates your whole brain. Science shows that it has many brain benefits for the young and old. Here are six of them.

12/04/2025

Focus Your Mind: 8 Ways to Beat Brain Fog Naturally https://wildheartwellness.com/brain-fog-health-mind-focus/

Brain fog is more than just feeling “a little off.” 🧠

It’s often your brain’s way of sending an SOS — signaling stress, poor sleep, nutritional gaps, or underlying health concerns. Left unaddressed, it can worsen over time and impact memory, focus, and overall mental health. 😵

The good news? Simple, science-backed habits can clear the fog and support sharper focus, stronger energy, and long-term brain health. In our latest blog, we explore:
✔️ Common causes of brain fog
✔️ Lifestyle changes that restore clarity
✔️ How brain-healthy routines protect your cognitive health

When you support your body and mind with evidence-based practices, you can create a foundation for long-term health and reduce brain fog. Call us at (717) 786-3199 or contact us online to begin your personalized wellness journey today. In-person sessions available in Pennsylvania. 👍

11/30/2025

Because your brain is designed to thwart your efforts to override the fear response, changing your relationship to fear isn’t easy, but it can be done.

11/27/2025

11/17/2025

The past is not a compass for your future. Give yourself permission to chart a new course!

11/13/2025

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There are many ways you can calm your body and make your brain feel safer to reduce anxiety and improve your mental health.

11/09/2025

Researchers have shown that writing down simple, specific things you are grateful for every day trains your attention to find more good.
That shift is not just mood fluff. It changes how your brain searches for and rewards positive information.
Start small. Spend ten minutes each evening and list three precise things you noticed that day.
They do not need to be huge. A warm cup of coffee. A text that made you laugh. A moment when you helped someone.
Do this consistently for three weeks, and you will notice your stress ease, your sleep deepen, and your default thoughts tilt toward possibility rather than scarcity.

The mechanism is straightforward. Attention sculpts neural wiring. When you repeatedly focus on positives, the brain strengthens pathways that notice and savor them.
That increases feel-good neurotransmitters and lowers the automatic fight or flight response. It is practical neuroscience, not mysticism.

Try it tonight. Write your three items, no filter, no pressure, just truth. Do it for 21 days and treat the result like an experiment on yourself.

If you want a faster mood reset and a lasting habit, this is the simplest clinical-grade practice I know.
Save this post if you want an easy daily tool to improve focus and calm mornings. Tag someone who should try this for a month.

Verified Sources:
Harvard Medical School.
Nature.
National Institutes of Health.
University of California, Berkeley.