Healthy Within is an Integrative brain health center, experienced in incorporating neurofeedback to
01/29/2026
Self-care isn’t about doing more, it’s about training your brain 💭
When you repeat small, supportive actions, your brain starts to wire them in as habits. Over time, they move from “something I have to remember” to autopilot. That’s neuroscience at work 🧠
✨ Start small
✨ Repeat daily
✨ Choose what actually fits your life
When self-care feels simple and safe, your nervous system stays calm, your brain avoids overwhelm, and mindfulness becomes sustainable, not stressful.
Tiny moments of intention add up to real change 🤍
Save this as a reminder that consistency beats perfection, every time.
01/27/2026
Repeated negative thinking can reinforce stress-based neural pathways, making anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional reactivity feel automatic.
Your thoughts do more than shape your mood!
They shape your brain!
Repeated negative thinking can reinforce stress based neural pathways, making anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional reactivity feel automatic.
In our latest blog, we explain how this happens and how neurofeedback helps by training the brain to shift out of stuck patterns and build healthier, more flexible neural activity over time.
The brain can learn new ways to respond!
That is the power of neuroplasticity!
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“How Negative Thinking Rewires the Brain and Experiences”
01/23/2026
So excited to come talk to your group!!!
01/22/2026
Earlier this month on January 11, Dr. Kakaiya had the opportunity to speak with Teen Volunteers in Action (TVIA) on an important and timely topic:
the challenges boys are facing with the distractions of a digital world and AI.
The conversation explored how screens, gaming, AI chatbots, online content, and other digital influences are impacting boys’ attention, development, mental health, and emotional well-being — and how parents and communities can better support them in today’s rapidly changing world.
Dr. Kakaiya is passionate about having honest, thoughtful conversations around mental health, technology, and brain development, and she loves speaking with schools, parent groups, and community organizations. She can tailor talks to a wide range of mental-health–related topics based on your audience’s needs.
If you’re interested in inviting Dr. Kakaiya to speak at an upcoming event or would like to learn more about availability and pricing, she’d be happy to connect.
Healthy Within is grateful for spaces that make room for these conversations 🤍
01/20/2026
AI is being woven into kids daily lives faster than adults can keep up. What often gets missed is how emotionally powerful these tools can feel to a developing brain.
Children and teens are still learning how to regulate emotions build identity and navigate relationships. When an always available highly validating system steps into that space it can quietly reshape where kids turn when they are stressed lonely or overwhelmed.
The concern is not that AI exists.
The concern is how it is being used and what it replaces.
Human connection builds emotional regulation empathy and resilience. Screens do not. When support becomes transactional instead of relational kids may look calm on the surface while missing the deeper skills that protect long term mental health.
This is why awareness matters. Parents and educators do not need to panic but we do need to stay engaged ask questions and guide kids toward real people when emotions get big.
AI can assist learning.
Mental health requires humans.
Concussions and head injuries don’t just affect one area of the brain; they disrupt communication across the entire nervous system 🧠
Head injuries can lead to headaches, migraines, emotional dysregulation, sleep issues, balance problems, memory changes, and more. That’s because the brain functions as an integrated network, not isolated parts.
Neurofeedback focuses on whole-brain stabilization, helping the brain relearn healthier patterns after injury. By training specific regions involved in executive function, emotional regulation, balance, and cognition, the brain can move toward greater resilience and regulation over time.
Healing the brain is not about “pushing through.”
It’s about restoring balance.
✨ Have questions or want to learn if neurofeedback may be right for you? Contact us to start the conversation.
Clinic moments we love 🤍
Dr. Kakaya in action, guiding a neurofeedback session with our very own tech, Zach. Neurofeedback helps train the brain to function more efficiently, supporting focus, emotional regulation, sleep, and overall mental wellness. We love practicing what we preach and growing together as a team 🧠
01/08/2026
Neurodivergent students aren’t struggling because they lack resilience or emotional regulation. They’re struggling because school environments often place twice the emotional burden on their nervous systems.
The key takeaway?
🧠 The problem is the environment, not the student.
When classrooms are chaotic, inflexible, or dismissive of neurodivergent needs, emotional distress is a predictable brain response, not misbehavior.
Supporting neurodivergent students means:
✔️ Designing flexible environments
✔️ Reducing sensory and social stressors
✔️ Honoring different ways of learning and regulating
When we change the environment, we change outcomes for mental health, learning, and long-term well-being.
Sleep is not a luxury, it’s a biological necessity for brain health 🧠✨
Chronic insomnia doesn’t just affect how you feel the next day. Over time, disrupted sleep impacts memory, emotional regulation, learning, and long-term brain health. Research continues to show that poor sleep is linked to neurodegenerative conditions, while regulated sleep supports healthy brain rhythms like sleep spindles and REM cycles.
Neurofeedback works by helping the brain learn how to downshift out of hypervigilance and into a calmer, more regulated state, supporting both mental and physical sleep onset.
Whether it’s racing thoughts, nighttime anxiety, restless sleep, or frequent awakenings, addressing the brain patterns behind sleep issues can make a meaningful difference.
As we step into the new year, we’re setting intentions around understanding the brain not pushing it harder.
Brain mapping (QEEG) offers a window into how your brain is functioning, where stress may be showing up, and how different regions communicate. With that insight, support becomes more targeted and intentional.
To start 2026, we’re offering a brain mapping special for those who want clarity as they move into the year ahead.
📅 Offer available through January 31, 2026
🧠 Learn more about your brain’s unique patterns
If this aligns with your intentions for the year, we’re here.
12/31/2025
As 2026 begins tomorrow, we’re setting intentions, not resolutions.
Sustainable change starts with a regulated nervous system, not pressure or perfection. When the brain feels supported, intentions like learning, confidence, and self-reflection become easier to maintain.
Here’s to regulated minds and resilient lives in the year ahead. 🧠
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As a parent, it is difficult to watch your child struggle through everyday life with any type of brain condition. You always want what’s best for your child, but sometimes you don’t know what that is!
Our society has become highly skilled at identifying symptoms and making a drug to alleviate them. One in six Americans currently takes psychiatric medication, and the use of these drugs has risen by 65% in the last 15 years. With these statistics, it may seem logical to jump on the prescription bandwagon. However, when Dr. Divya Kakaiya noticed the early signs of ADHD in her son, she sought out a more integrative approach. As a psychologist, neuroscientist, and mom, she saw these staggering statistics related to medication usage and decided she was going to find a better solution - a solution backed by 40 years of research. So Dr. Kakaiya implemented the effective brain regulation of neurofeedback to her psychotherapy practice at Healthy Within.
Dr. Kakaiya established Healthy Within in 1985. In 2009, Healthy Within Brain Health Center began to focus on healing through the practice of “brain fitness” using neurofeedback. What sets Healthy Within apart is that it does not diagnose medical conditions nor use medications; Healthy Within offers a non-medical, noninvasive, drug-free neurofeedback program for adults and children. It offers effective and life-changing treatment options for children, teens, adults, seniors, and military men and women through neurofeedback sessions. Neurofeedback has been changing lives in hospitals, mental health treatment centers, rehabilitation centers, schools, and outpatient centers.
Dr. Kakaiya’s son improved through neurofeedback sessions, and his ability to remain on task, focused, and complete his homework promptly continues to hold up well. 15,000 other clinicians use neurofeedback worldwide with similar positive results. If the field of neurofeedback had even 20% of the ads that are carried by big pharmaceutical companies, more people would be choosing it without a second thought!
Thankfully, the world is beginning to open its eyes to the truth behind the over-prescription of psychiatric medications. The side effects of psychotropic medications are debilitating and severe. Meanwhile, neurofeedback has zero negative side effects. The neurofeedback market is growing enormously with help from those like Dr. Kakaiya who are passionate about helping others. Dr. Kakaiya has opened Healthy Within as a business opportunity for those in the field with the desire to change lives as well!
For more information on how you or your practice can benefit from neurofeedback and be a part of a significant change in delivering services that will improve the lives of your clients, please visit our website at https://healthywithin.com/.
