Originally published 10 October 2021 in observance of #WorldMentalHealthDay2021 at https://www.nicoletetreault.com/single-post/7-ways-to-manage-stress-and-improve-your-mental-health There are 7.8 billion people in the world, each of us with our very own imprint. Based on our genetics and environment, we are uniquely wired. We have close to 60K thoughts a day, and if our thoughts and…

Excerpted from Insight into a Bright Mind: A Neuroscientist’s Personal Stories of Unique Thinking, by Nicole A. Tetreault, PhD, Gifted Unlimited LLC, 2021. I was at the peak of the mountain Kalinchowk in Nepal when I made a commitment to complete this book, to rewrite, reinvent, and rebirth the story…

It begins with systemic change where all people in America have equal opportunity. It begins by breaking the cycle of poverty. By breaking the cycle of violence. The cycle of sex trafficking. It begins by stopping systemic racism and the oppression of black and brown women. By addressing the trauma…

Gifted individuals exhibit increased brain processing, receptivity, and behaviors for intellectual, emotional, sensory, creative, and motor functioning supported by many neuroscience studies. Several studies report increased brain volumes, efficiency of processing in brain networks, and utilization of different brain networks of high IQ (gifted) individuals as a core feature of…

Caltech Alumni Association — “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” ― Maya Angelou In the middle of March 2020, life changed as each of us faced the COVID-19 global pandemic. Slowly, emails filled my inbox: stores closing, news reports of people on ventilators, and the death toll swarmed the airwaves as we reached record levels of unemployment. …

Nicole Tetreault (PhD ‘13) “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” — Mother Teresa Every January, I kick off the year with a vision board that maps out my goals and intentions. In 2019, I taped clippings of the Milton & Rosalind Chang Career Exploration Prize in the lower left…

Learn more at https://www.beyondthecell.org/ I am excited to announce the launch of Beyond the Cell! Beyond the Cell is a transformative program dedicated to educating and empowering incarcerated women.​ Beyond the Cell aims to heal the scars of trauma, stigma, bullying, social isolation, and exclusion by employing specific education strategies…