“Finding Focus is an essential read for our distracted times. Focus begins with the body—how we eat, sleep and exercise—and Dr. Montminy translates the latest research into practical steps and simple behavioral changes that will empower you to reclaim your attention.”
Mark Hyman, MD, Author of the #1 New York Times best seller, Young Forever
“Zelana put her life's work into creating a comprehensive guide for better living, which is both engaging and enjoyable to read. Her advice covers key aspects of life, including nutrition, sleep, exercise, work, and, most importantly, maintaining focus in a world full of distractions. Her guide is practical and captivating—I read it in one sitting.”
Ayelet Fishbach, PhD, Professor of Behavioral Science, author of Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from The Science of Motivation
"This book is brilliant. Without focus, we can't achieve our goals, or even worse, we set lower goals and achieve them but leave potential on the table. Dr. Zelana gives us the understanding and tools to focus and achieve the life of our dreams."
Ezra Frech, 2x Paralympic Gold Medalist
“Filled with helpful applications and science-packed insights, this practical guide to improving our mental focus empowers us to create real changes in our daily lives that can improve our mental and physical health. Engaging and easy-to-understand-and-implement, the advice in Zelana Montminy’s exciting book provide key steps to enable us to take on the ever-changing challenges of our modern lives with a clear path to resilience.”
Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., Founder of Mindsight Institute and Whole Mind Catalyst, New York Times bestselling author of Aware; Personality and Wholeness in Therapy; and IntraConnected
Love often reveals absence as clearly as it creates connection. This essay explores the quiet grief that lives inside both partnered and unpartnered experiences where longing adapts goes unnamed and settles into the body as fatigue numbness or loneliness. Through a nervous system lens it reframes relational ache not as failure or ingratitude but as awareness of unmet belonging and eroded containers of care in modern life.
Not all grief arrives with a clear event or permission to slow down. Some loss accumulates quietly through changes that were never integrated such as relationships that faded identities that shifted and seasons that ended without acknowledgment. This kind of unrecognized grief does not disappear. It settles into the nervous system as fatigue irritability numbness and overwhelm and naming what changed becomes a necessary step toward steadiness and regulation.
Some grief has no funeral, no rituals, and no clear ending. It comes from loving parents who could not love you in the way you needed. For many adult children of emotionally unavailable or inconsistent parents, this grief lives quietly in the body and nervous system, shaping relationships, boundaries, and self worth. This essay explores the psychology of ambiguous loss, the cost of conditional love, and why distance from parents often feels like betrayal even when it is necessary for healing.
Love often reveals absence as clearly as it creates connection. This essay explores the quiet grief that lives inside both partnered and unpartnered experiences where longing adapts goes unnamed and settles into the body as fatigue numbness or loneliness. Through a nervous system lens it reframes relational ache not as failure or ingratitude but as awareness of unmet belonging and eroded containers of care in modern life.