Hi and welcome to Fit Brain! My name is Tara Perrot and I am the owner and operator of Fit Brain. I have over 30 years of experience within academia, researching and teaching about the factors that contribute to the experience of stress and how to reduce it by learning ways to build resilience. During 25 years as a Professor at Dalhousie University (https://www.scientia.global/professor-tara-perrot-how-the-early-environment-influences-stress-responses-in-adulthood). I interacted with people at various levels but those that left the most impression were the students. Across those 25 years, students seemed to experience increasing levels of stress and anxiety and this left me wondering how I could help. Fit Brain was born out of a desire to let people of all ages know that experiencing stress is normal and unavoidable, but that it doesn’t need to run (or ruin) your life!!! Humans are fully capable of building a toolbox of skills that build and eventually maintain resilience against the negative effects of stress.

As a trained neuroscientist, I know that the connection between the body and the brain is really important. Building resilience against stress requires a healthy brain, which requires a healthy body. Over the last 15 years, I have gained experience and training that I put to good use to educate and guide people to live mindfully. Mindful living is simple - living your life being aware of how you live it and engaging with that awareness. My training as a yoga instructor and my experience with gardening and food production have helped me to come up with offerings that give people real skills to live mindfully, build resilience, and take control of their (sometimes stressful!) lives.