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Dr. Anna Yusim is a Board-Certified, Stanford -and Yale-educated Psychiatrist | Executive Coach | Bestselling Author of Fulfilled | Keynote Speaker | Co-Founder, Yale University Mental Health & Spirituality Center Dr. Anna Yusim is an internationally-recognized, award-winning Board-Certified, Stanford- and Yale-educated Psychiatrist & Executive Coach with private practices in New York City and Connecticut. She is a best-selling author of "Fulfilled - How the Science of Spirituality Helps You Live a Happier, More Meaningful Life" and clinical faculty member at Yale Medical School, where she is currently working to establish a Spirituality & Mental Health Center.

What happens when leadership becomes an inner practice?I’m in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina at EnLightEn fo...
10/06/2026

What happens when leadership becomes an inner practice?

I’m in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina at EnLightEn for Leading from the Mystic Core, an extraordinary gathering led by my friend and colleague Hitendra Wadhwa, whose work at Columbia Business School has long explored the intersection of leadership, human flourishing and our inner lives.

The room itself is remarkable. Leaders from business, medicine, academia and spiritual traditions have come together around a question I care deeply about: Where are we leading from?

Among the people here are Anna Pavlick, Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical Center, whose work in melanoma has contributed to advances that changed survival from less than 5% to well over 65%; Charlotte Jordan, CEO of Coaching.com; Mikko Leskelä, CEO of Thinkers50; Aditi Sethi, Founder & Executive Director, Center for Conscious Living and Dying; Laura Tuach, former Associate Dean of Harvard Divinity School, alongside monastics from the Self-Realization Fellowship and an extraordinary community of thinkers and practitioners.

There is something powerful about taking conversations about leadership out of the boardroom and into the mountains.
Because the quality of what we create in the world is intimately connected to the place within us from which we create it. More from the Blue Ridge Mountains soon!

10/03/2026

Purpose rarely arrives as a fully formed answer.

More often, it is shaped in the ordinary moments: what you give your time to, what you decline, what you stay devoted to when the outcome is uncertain. Over time, those choices become a pattern. That pattern becomes a life.

Meaning deepens when ambition is guided by service, integrity, and what feels most true within you. A useful question to ask is: Do your daily decisions reflect the life you want to stand for?

Some of the most important conversations in medicine are still treated as peripheral: spirituality, meaning, identity, a...
10/01/2026

Some of the most important conversations in medicine are still treated as peripheral: spirituality, meaning, identity, and the inner life of the person receiving care

Yet these questions often shape outcomes more than we acknowledge. Patients do not arrive as symptoms alone. They arrive with beliefs, grief, values, relationships, and experiences that influence how they heal, what they fear, and what helps them feel safe enough to engage in treatment

Modern care is strongest when scientific rigor and human depth are allowed to coexist. What might change if medicine made more room for both?

09/29/2026

As this month comes to a close, one idea feels worth carrying forward: wholeness is not created by tending to one part of life while neglecting the rest. Purpose deepens when the inner life is nourished. Healing becomes more possible when the nervous system has care, the spirit has room to breathe, and relationships offer steadiness rather than strain.

Wise leadership grows from the same ground. It is shaped not only by vision and effort, but by the quality of our connection to ourselves, to other people, and to the environments we move through each day. Nature can restore perspective. Community can soften isolation. Spiritual life can help us remember meaning when productivity alone cannot.

What part of your life is asking to be included more fully in your understanding of what it means to be well?

Leadership is physiological as well as strategic. Before a word is spoken, people are often reading pace, tone, facial e...
09/28/2026

Leadership is physiological as well as strategic. Before a word is spoken, people are often reading pace, tone, facial expression, and whether the room feels settled or braced for impact.

A regulated leader does more than manage tasks well. That presence can increase clarity, trust, steadiness, and the capacity for more ethical decision-making under pressure. In this sense, leadership is not only what is said or decided, but what is transmitted. What emotional climate does your presence create when the stakes are high?

Depleted environments can place a quiet but meaningful load on the nervous system. Chronic noise, poor air quality, exce...
09/27/2026

Depleted environments can place a quiet but meaningful load on the nervous system. Chronic noise, poor air quality, excessive heat, harsh artificial light, limited green space, or constant sensory input can keep the body in a more activated state than it was designed to sustain. Over time, that may look less like a dramatic crisis and more like irritability, fatigue, poor concentration, hypervigilance, or a persistent sense of depletion.

This is not about blaming the environment for every symptom, and it is not a character issue. Clinical work often involves looking beyond the individual to the conditions shaping daily regulation. Sometimes what appears to be low frustration tolerance or reduced resilience is also a physiologic response to an environment asking the body to stay on guard.

Purpose isn't found. It's built.The founders and builders I respect most do not wait for one defining moment of clarity....
09/26/2026

Purpose isn't found. It's built.

The founders and builders I respect most do not wait for one defining moment of clarity. They shape purpose through repeated choices: what they say yes to, what they decline, what they keep improving, and who their work is meant to serve.

For ambitious leaders, meaning is rarely a lightning strike. It is formed through experimentation, sharpened by service, and protected by integrity. Over time, purpose becomes less about a perfect answer and more about a consistent way of building.

Restorative natural environments do more than feel pleasant. Research suggests they can lower physiological stress, impr...
09/25/2026

Restorative natural environments do more than feel pleasant. Research suggests they can lower physiological stress, improve mood, support attention, and help the body shift out of a prolonged state of vigilance.

This is not only about "getting fresh air." Time in green space has been associated with lower cortisol, reduced mental fatigue, better concentration, and more efficient recovery after stress. Even brief exposure to trees, water, or natural light can give the brain fewer competing demands, which helps attention reset and the nervous system settle.

For many people, this means that a walk through a park, sitting near water, or even 10 quiet minutes under a canopy of trees is not indulgent. It is a practical way to support regulation. Sometimes the most useful question is simple: what changes in your mind and body when you spend time in a place that asks less of your system?

Time in green space can be a meaningful support for mental health, not as a cure-all, but as part of how we help the bra...
09/24/2026

Time in green space can be a meaningful support for mental health, not as a cure-all, but as part of how we help the brain and body recover from strain. Clinically, natural settings are associated with improved mood, better attention, lower stress load, and a gentler shift out of prolonged vigilance.

One reason may be that the mind has fewer competing demands there. Looking at trees, water, sky, or natural patterns can reduce mental fatigue and give attention a chance to reset. For many people, this also creates conditions that feel more settling to the nervous system, which can make it easier to breathe more deeply, think more clearly, and come back into the present.

This does not have to mean a weekend away. A walk in a park, ten quiet minutes under trees, or sitting near water without multitasking can be enough to notice a difference. What kind of natural setting helps your system feel most restored?

Psychiatry, spirituality, leadership, and planetary health belong in the same conversation because human wellbeing is ne...
09/23/2026

Psychiatry, spirituality, leadership, and planetary health belong in the same conversation because human wellbeing is never shaped by biology alone. It is shaped by meaning, by relationships, by the systems we participate in, and by the environments that teach the body whether to brace or to trust.

When these domains are kept separate, we miss something essential. A leader can look successful and still feel internally fragmented. A patient can reduce symptoms and still struggle with emptiness. A culture can reward productivity while quietly eroding the conditions that support attention, connection, and care.

Purpose is not something we passively find. It is something we build through how we live, how we lead, and what we help create around us. This is why healing is not only personal work. It is also a clinical, spiritual, and collective conversation.

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