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Why I Founded Akesa Health

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By Marie

May 12, 2022

My mother died when I was eighteen months and my brother died when I was seven. My father’s coping mechanism was to bury the pain, and I did the same thing. Between the age of seventeen and twenty-one, my grandfather, an uncle, and a cousin committed suicide because of unhealed trauma.

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Columbia University Panel

September 14th, 2023

Marie is on a panel hosted by Columbia University School of Professional Studies on women entrepreneurs and investors. 

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Positive Radio Show

July 10th, 2023

Marie is a guest on KKNW 1150AM Positive Radio Show, to discuss mental health and healing. 

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World Awakenings podcast

March 5th, 2023

Marie is a guest on The Worl Awakenings podcast, with Karl Gruber to talk about mental health and spirituality. 

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EMDR, binaural beats, theta healing, OH MY!

February 23rd, 2023

Marie is a guest on Allison Hare's Culture Changers podcast to talk about mental health, EMDR, therapy, binaural beats, and Akesa. 

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How Purpose And Meaning Get Us Through The Tough Times

February 19th, 2023

Marie is a guest on The Perfect Failure podcast with Paul Padmore to discuss how purpose and meaning get us through tough times. 

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Let's keep it real

February 6th, 2023

Marie is a guest on the Let's Keep I Real podcast, with Sandy Joy.

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Spirituality, mental health, and Akesa

December 20th,, 2022

Marie is a guest on the Low of Attraction, Daily Dose of Happiness, Podcast with Walt Thiessen to talk about mental health, spirituality and dig into Akesa's mechanism. 

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The Importance of Mental Health for Entrepreneurs

December 10th,, 2022

Marie is a guest on the Chasing the Insight podcast with Vince Warnock to talk about the importance of mental health for entrepreneurs. 

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Healing Trauma Through Self-Investment

December 6th,, 2022

Marie is a guest on the Wright Mind podcast to talk about reclaiming one's life and healing trauma through self-investment.

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Akesa Health selected for the Brain Health Pitch Event at HLTH 2022

September 29, 2022

Akesa Health's been selected to pitch at the AgeTech Collaborative from AARP Brain Health Pitch Event at the HLTH 2022 conference in Las Vegas in November.

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Akesa Health amongst the winners of the Center for Advancing Innovation Children Health Challenge

July 26, 2022

The Center for Advancing Innovation selected 15+ start-up companies as winners in its open innovation contest, the Innovate Children’s Health Challenge II...

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Akesa Health secures three pilots during the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Health Equity Challenge

June 23, 2022

Akesa Health secures at least three pilots with locals Kansas organizations during the NXTUS, Inc.’s 2022 NXTSTAGE Community Health & Vibrancy Pilot Competition, presented by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas...

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Akesa Health Finalist of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Health Equity Challenge

June 8,, 2022

Akesa Health is selected as finalist of the NXTUS, Inc.’s 2022 NXTSTAGE Community Health & Vibrancy Pilot Competition, presented by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas...

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It’s Ok Not To Have All The Answers

By Marie

May 26,, 2022

As soon as I decided to coach again, questions started swirling in my mind. Which approach from all the modalities I’d learned should I use? ......

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Why I Love Binaural Beats

By Marie

May 18,, 2022

I have a collection of binaural beats I listen to daily, including now, as I polish this piece. Recently, I shared my favorite beats with friends. Some loved them. Some were skeptical........

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EMDR Saved My Life

By Marie

April 20, 2022

London, September 23rd, 2012. I couldn’t enjoy the glass of wine I was having with my MBA classmates. I’d just pitched a new business. Investors were interested. I must be tired......

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The Healing Power of the Arts

By Marie

May 9, 2022

London, October 2012. I’d just pitched a business at the London Business School, where I was finishing my MBA.

I should have been working. Instead, I was pacing my....  

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The Answer is Within

By Marie

May 5, 2022

I stopped counting two decades ago the number of times I was told I was insane. “You’re insane to go to Singapore to finish your master’s”...

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Theta Healing Helped me Reprogram my Subconscious

By Marie

May 3, 2022

“You’ve got to attend this Theta Healing course,” my friend Chrystel kept telling me five years ago when I was working in Dubai...

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Technology for Traumatic Stress Recovery

April 4, 2022

A panel of experts discusses how technology solutions can be used to help individuals recovering from traumatic stress.

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EMDR, Some Background and Science

By Marie

April 26, 2022

I was skeptical about EMDR before my first session and didn’t bother doing any research. After the third session...

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