How much do we control? It's an interesting question!

Let’s take a moment to question how much control and freewill we have in our lives and thought process’. TedTalk Radio Hour looks at this sometimes controversy topic.

Robert Sapolsky has a very specific view when it comes to understanding the context of biology of human behaviours.

Moshe Szfy discusses how we can set up a new narrative in relation to our DNA. He believes that positive life experiences can rewrite DNA and improve health.

 Nadine Burke Harris takes the opportunity to explore how negative experiences can impact a person’s health. Many young people that we work with in the Youth AoD sector have histories of trauma. Helping us to understand this better is the study “The Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE)”.  You can learn more about ACE study through their website. The Conversation has an article on How childhood trauma changes our hormones, and thus our mental health into adulthood.

Brian Little explores how much of personality traits are hardwired into us and how we can ‘act out of character’ over a life span. Brian believes that there are 3 things that give us our individuality, traits that come naturally, things that matter to our culture and lastly the personally things we have crafted ourselves.