Veronika Kovacs

Why staying calm all the time isn't the goal—and might actually be keeping you stuck There's this idea floating around in the wellness culture that the goal of life is to have a perfectly regulated nervous system at all times. "Stay calm. Avoid triggers. Cut out anything—or anyone—that disrupts your peace. " And I get the appeal. The world feels like it's constantly on fire. Social media makes it seem like we're personally experiencing every bad thing that's ever happened. The news is a...

I wanted to be a psychologist before I even knew what psychologists actually did. (Well, okay—first I wanted to be a princess. But after that very brief and realistic career aspiration, I decided: psychology.) I was going to understand people. Help them. Make sense of why we do the ridiculous things we do. Spoiler alert: Psychology had no clue either. The Part Where I Spend Five Years Learning Nothing Useful I got into a top-15 university in the Netherlands. Studied my ass off. Got good...

I've studied with a LOT of teachers over the past four years. Breathwork facilitators in Bali. Energy healers who promised transformation. Meditation teachers. Somatic practitioners. Shadow work guides. Each one offered something valuable—a new lens, a different tool, a way of seeing patterns I'd missed. But when I look at the core of how I actually work with clients—the part that creates the deepest, fastest shifts—almost all of it comes from one person: Dr. Jon Connelly, the founder of...