About Mark
I know what it feels like to think you're losing your mind. I was twelve years old when I had my first panic attack. It happened the night before a final exam.
My sister, my best friend, had just left the country to study abroad. I was alone in a way I had never felt before. The pressure to perform, to never disappoint, to always be the best, it had been building for years. And that night, it broke through.
At the time, nobody talked about panic attacks. There was no language for what I was experiencing. I thought something was deeply wrong with me. I was terrified. What I didn't know then was that this moment would quietly shape the next twenty-five years of my life and eventually, the lives of everyone I work with.
I kept going. But the anxiety came with me. I finished school. I excelled in sports. I earned my degrees and eventually became a VP at one of Canada's leading construction companies.
From the outside, I had it together. But underneath, my nervous system was running on high alert for years. I tried everything. Therapy. Medication. Yoga. Plant medicine journeys. Every book I could find. Every Instagram post, every podcast, every tool that promised relief. Some things helped. Nothing lasted. Until I stopped looking for the answer, and started building it.
Over many years, I drew from Zen philosophy, nervous system science, mindfulness practice, and the deepest kind of self-inquiry — the kind that only comes from sitting with your own pain long enough to understand it.
I didn't create this method in a classroom. I created it in the quiet moments between panic and peace. In the years of showing up for myself even when nothing seemed to be working. In the gradual, humbling realization that healing is not an event. It's a practice. What emerged is a four-pillar system that creates lasting, structural change in how you relate to your mind, your body, and yourself. Not a quick fix. A new foundation.
Why I share this. People often tell me I seem calm. Grounded. Like I have it all together. I take that as the greatest compliment because I know exactly how much work it took to feel that way. And I know I'm not unique. The anxiety you're carrying, the exhaustion underneath your success, the feeling that you've tried everything and nothing has stuck. I've been there.
Exactly there. Solham exists so you don't have to spend twenty-five years finding your way out. You deserve to feel safe in your own body. Present in your own life. Free. That's what we build here, together.