We are a group of clinical and research psychologists from the University of Toronto and McGill who are distributing tools that will improve psychological and physical health to interested individuals everywhere.

• Dr. Jordan B Peterson,  Professor, University of Toronto
• Dr. Daniel M Higgins,  Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
• Dr. Robert O Pihl,  Professor, McGill University

Dr. Raymond Mar, Professor at York University, Dr. Dominique Morisano, Supervising Psychologist at The Child and Family Institute at St. Luke's Hospital Center in New York, Dr. Bruce Shore at McGill, and Dr. Jacob Hirsh at the University of Toronto helped with the scientific validation and research. 

Our research team has produced more than four hundred published scientific papers on topics as diverse as personality theory, clinical psychology, psychology of religion, aggression, alcohol and drug abuse, anxiety, intelligence,  psychopharmacology, prefrontal function, behavioral economics,  and academic and business performance prediction.

We believe that writing exercises such as those presented on this website can help people confront their past, understand and improve their personalities in the present, and increase the chances that their futures will be meaningful, productive and healthy.

Careful writing is a form of complex thinking, and thinking about your experiences, past, present and future, helps eliminate uncertainty and increase promise and hope.

This is of vital importance, because uncertainty triggers emergency mental and bodily responses, particularly through the action of the stress hormone cortisol, and chronic cortisol overproduction can increase the risk of cancer, heart disease, obesity, anxiety, depression and infection. Such overproduction is a major cause of mental degeneration, as well, and contributes to rapid aging.

It is not good for your mind and body to be reacting to your life as if it were an ongoing emergency.

Coming to terms with the past, improving the present, and planning the future can help you remove unnecessary stress from your life.