Reduce stress, be healthier.
Understand and manage stress
Understanding stress is the first step to managing it.
Understanding how stress affects your body and brain gives you control over your response to potentially stressful situations. We offer practical tools for controlling stress backed up by easy to digest evidence-based information.
Control over stress eventually builds resilience - the ability to bounce back from tough situations.
Our goal is to help you control stress, build resilience, and live a better life.
for youth
Workshops and day camps tailored for different age groups. Activity-based and fun-filled, we sneak in useful information for ways to manage stress and tools for building resilience.
for parents / adults
Future offerings providing science-backed information and tools, intended for a general adult audience. Topics include the stress response, the gut-brain connection, among others.
Some offerings delve deeper into the information and tools introduced in our youth workshops so that parents can continue the stress managing and resilience building at home. Others are geared toward prenatal health for those planning pregnancy.
yoga classes
Limited in-person offerings will be held on the South Shore of Nova Scotia beginning in January, 2025.
Please check back here often.
Did You Know?
The brain develops rapidly during the first 1000 days of life (from conception to ~2 years) and forges life-long connections with other bodily systems. Many aspects of adult health and disease can be traced back to events during the first 1000 days. Exposure to excess stress is one of the most well-documented early life events with long-term consequences for adult ill-health.
invest in your future
At Fit Brain, we offer workshops and other events that teach you the basic science of developmental programming with no need for you to be a scientist. Integrated into the offerings are tools designed specifically for managing stress during the important periods -prenatal, pregnancy and infant hood. Infant hood and prenatal offerings are included under Parent/Adult.
Please check back regularly as we are just getting these up and running!! Thanks for your patience.
during pregnancy
Pregnancy is a unique life stage during which the physiology of the mother directly impacts the growing fetus. Managing stress during pregnancy, for one/both partners can exert life-long benefits for your infant.
did you know ?
Humans are connected to all other species and in some cases, our health and well-being is intimately tied to them. From plants that provide all of the carbohydrates (food) that animals use to bacteria that colonize our skin, our gut, and other areas of our body to play important and beneficial roles in health and well-being. We truly are one species among many and our lives are enriched by knowing that and appreciating it.
one species among many (OSAM)
OSAM offerings (coming soon) will combine education and fun skills-based activities for all ages to encourage feelings of kinship with other species. By fostering our connections to the natural world we can reduce stress and find peace and joy in the simple things.
Please check back for future offerings.