Unresolved Trauma in High Performers: Signs, Treatment Options, and Private Paths Forward
Unresolved trauma keeps reshaping work and relationships. Signs, treatment options, and how discreet private engagements work for high performers.
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CEOs Are Stressed. Boards Are Making It Worse
By Lindsay Frost | April 20, 2026 Boards are causing more stress for CEOs than ever before, new research from Boston Consulting Group shows, and that’s leading to tension, burnout and departures. Directors simply have less patience than they used to amid a wave of business disruptions and are demanding more from chief execs. The…
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‘It’s Hot at the Top:’ Burned Out CEOs Cost Companies
By Lindsay Frost September 2, 2025 When Chris Hulls stepped down as the CEO of Life360, a Nasdaq-listed tech company worth $90 billion, earlier this month, he made an unusual admission. In a letter filed with the SEC, Hulls disclosed the “constant weight” of “being the backstop of last resort,” stating there were times when his…
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Bye-O-Hacking Life, Hello Soul Metrics
While the above definition is, well, a little rough in its extreme calling-out of all innovation coined as a neuro or bio hacking device designed to help consumers “track” many markers of their physical life (quality of sleep, steps walked per day, etc.),
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When Thinking Outside the Box is Not Enough: Pseudo-Creative Thinking in Washington DC Politics
Let me warn you, what you’re about to read has little to do with whether you identify as a Republican or a Democrat and yet has everything to do with the true nature of Washington D.C. and the world as we know it.
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Halo Hell: The Hidden Suffering inside Our Self-Loving Selves
The other day I was partaking in one of my regular ass-kicking workouts online, and something started to nag at me. It was more than the noise of my muscles seemingly screaming out loud. It was something that prompted me to do my own sort of “experiment” with each subsequent class and unique instructor I chose.
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Solving the Wrong Problem Really Well
One day I realized something I never really wanted to admit: People in human service roles/professions really don’t know human nature. They know what they want to do with it, what others should do with it, or what’s wrong with what others want to do with it, swapping out their “doing” as better. And so…
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Does marriage counseling work? A candid guide for couples in trouble
Getting married is one of the most committed ways in which we can show our love for someone – but when the honeymoon period is over and reality begins to bite years down the line, doubt can start to creep in. When it’s time to navigate troubled waters with your partner, a private couples therapy…
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The Role of Neuroscience in Psychology
Here at Grey Matters International, we work with people who want real change and keep hitting the limits of talk therapy alone. Understanding the role of neuroscience in psychology helps explain why, because much of what drives behavior lives in the brain’s biology, not just the conscious mind. It’s the science we translate into neuroscience-based…
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Substance Abuse: The Executive Epidemic
Recognizing the high-functioning alcoholic in the corner office — and why stopping the drinking is not the change. The high-functioning alcoholic is the version of the problem nobody screens for. Substance misuse — the harmful or hazardous use of alcohol, drugs or another substance — is still popularly imagined as something that happens to people…
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