The Resource Library

25 years of wellness work. Three years deep in dementia prevention research. Everything
learned and discovered along the way is yours from day one.

Protect Your Brain

Here's what's actually behind cognitive decline, and what you can do about it:

• Learn more about the sources of cognitive decline: metabolic health, hormone health, gut health, sleep apnea, oral health, exercise, long-term stress that shows up in the body, toxic exposures, chronic infections, heart health, hearing loss, depression, vision and eyesight, unresolved emotional trauma, head injuries, and so much more.
• Introduction to the functional (preventive) neurologists and the practitioners who are preventing and reversing cognitive decline.
• Techniques to build your body's ability to handle stress and measurably lower stress. These practical applications are critically important to neurological health, and largely missing from other dementia prevention discussions.
• The Gray Area Drinking–Dementia Connection. Especially significant if you carry the APOE4 variant.

Advocating for a Loved One Shouldn't Come at the Cost of Your Health   

If you're currently advocating for a parent or loved one through their dementia or another brain disease, the chronic stress of fighting the broken "sickcare" machine, making impossible decisions, and absorbing the weight of it all can add another layer of harm to your own health and wellbeing. And that in and of itself can be a risk factor for cognitive decline. Here you'll find:

• Insider knowledge on the best memory care environments, what to ask for, what to avoid if possible, and the information nobody gives you when exploring these options.
• Where to report neglectful care and how to hold administrators, practitioners, and facilities accountable to the standard of care that everyone deserves.
• How to navigate a system, including hospitals, that was never designed for dementia patients and their families.
• Burnout protection — the specific practices that repair your nervous system from long-term caregiving stress.

Holistic and Spiritual End-of-Life Planning For Yourself

We plan holistic births. It’s time we plan and make holistic deaths more commonplace as well. The people taking the most intentional prevention steps are also the ones who want to die well if prevention isn’t enough. Having watched a loved one move through a system that may not have honored who they are, you have a rare and powerful opportunity to plan differently for yourself.

• Creating your health proxy and the full landscape of options to explore with the same rigor you bring to prevention.
• Information you wish someone had told you about before the health crisis hit—VSED, psychedelics, and other options most families never know are available.
• Death doulas, pastoral care, and what it looks like to honor someone with dementia to the very end — drawn in part from John Swinton's remarkable book Dementia: Living in the Memories of God, part of Jolene's curriculum at Duke Divinity School. 
• The conversations to have with your family, your doctors, and most importantly, yourself. How planning well for the end of life frees you to live more fully right now.