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Nothing on this blog is sponsored, and no clinic pays for a mention. The collaborations below are the few places where the work has been read, tested or discussed with people outside my own desk, and they are listed here so you can see who has looked at the material and what they said about it.
Reading group
A weekly meetup that ran the two-minute reframe drill for eight sessions and sent back notes on which prompts worked in a room full of people and which ones stalled.
Peer review
Three registered counsellors in Gauteng read the sleep and stress drafts before publishing and flagged two passages where the wording drifted closer to advice than it should have.
Reader panel
Readers who tracked their own focus logs for six weeks and shared the raw pages, including the weeks where the routine fell apart and the log stayed empty.
Library
Two undergraduate psychology tutors in South Africa added the beginner series to optional reading for students who wanted plain language before the textbooks.
Workshops
Small teams in Durban and Johannesburg used the attention training notes as a starting point for lunchtime sessions, then reported back on which exercises survived a busy week.
Corrections
Every factual correction sent in by a reader is dated and noted at the foot of the post it belongs to, rather than quietly edited out.
If you work in mental health, teaching or habit research and want to review a draft, write to info@adjustingyourbrain.com. Reviews are unpaid and credited by name unless you ask otherwise.
Plenty of places will sell you a five-step system and a promise. This blog does something narrower: it shows the working. Drills that were run for weeks before they were written up, exercises that got dropped, and the honest gap between what a technique claims and what it did on a Tuesday afternoon.
Every reframing drill, focus log and journaling prompt here has been used first. You get the version that survived contact with a real week, including the parts that felt awkward or took longer than expected.
Neuroplasticity basics get explained in ordinary sentences. If a term needs a definition, it gets one. If a claim rests on thin evidence, that gets said out loud instead of dressed up as settled science.
Self-directed work has a ceiling. Posts name the point where looping thoughts, broken sleep or a routine that starts to feel like punishment means it is time for a psychologist or counsellor, not another exercise.
Most habit and attention advice is written to sound impressive. These notes are written to be checkable. Experiments are tracked over weeks and the log format is published alongside the conclusion, so you can see what the data actually showed and where a pattern was just wishful thinking.
Nothing here is presented as a substitute for care from a qualified professional. The aim is a working notebook for people in South Africa and elsewhere who want to understand their own attention and stress patterns before deciding what to do next.
New here? The beginner series walks through the basics first, and the habit library is where the daily exercises live. If you want to see how the routines are structured before committing to one, the weekly routine outlines are a reasonable next stop, or start from the front page to see what is currently being tracked.