Articles & Insights
As Executive Contributors to Brainz Magazine, we share our knowledge and experience to support others on their journey towards recovery, clarity, and lasting transformation.
Personalised Mental Health Treatment: How We Build One Plan Around One Person
Personalised treatment is a phrase you hear everywhere, but it often means very little. Every programme claims it. Most reduce…
High-Functioning Alcohol Dependency: Why Success Can Make the Problem Harder to See
High-functioning alcohol dependency can remain hidden behind a successful career, family responsibilities and an outwardly stable life. Learn how drinking…
Can You Be Successful and Exhausted at the Same Time?
High-Functioning Exhaustion Explained You closed your laptop two hours ago, but your mind is still wide awake. Dinner is finished.…
Why Stopping Drinking Is the Starting Line, Not the Finish Line
Stopping drinking is an important first step, but recovery continues long after the last drink. Melissa Coetzee explores what happens…
You Are Still Performing. That Is the Problem.
High performance can hide burnout for a long time. Dr. Miguel Gonçalves explores why rest alone may not resolve the…
Pleasure fades. Joy stays.
Burnout and addiction may appear different, but both can involve chasing temporary relief from the present. Dr. Miguel Gonçalves explores…
EMDR Is Not Just for Veterans: Why Trauma-Informed Therapy Is the Missing Piece in Executive Mental Health
Trauma-informed treatment does not erase the past. It changes what the nervous system does with it. The event remains part…
The High Performer Who Is Still Delivering Is Often the Last Person Anyone Thinks to Ask
Less than ten per cent of people with alcohol dependency fit the stereotype most people picture. The majority are fully…
Are You Managing Burnout Symptoms While the Real Problem Goes Untreated?
If you are an executive who has tried everything and found that nothing has held, it may not be the…
Melissa Coetzee
