Dr Asheena Budhai-Manuel, PhD MBA CPC PCC NBC-HWC

🇿🇦 🇮🇳 🇦🇺 Chemist 👩🏽‍🔬Strategist 👩🏽‍💻 Leadership, Health & Wellness Coach🌱 Founder of @SupaSeed_Ash 🌳

[Dr Asheena Budhai-Manuel, PhD MBA CPC PCC NBC-HWC @Asheena_]

Say after me.

I…
I am…
Flawed but fearless. Vulnerable but undaunted.
Perfectly imperfect.
Powerfully empowered.
I am enough.
I am worth it.

#WednesdayWisdom
#2022Goals

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨 Brown University researchers tested what happens when ChatGPT acts as your therapist. Licensed psychologists reviewed every transcript.

They found 15 ethical violations.

Not 15 small issues. 15 violations of the standards that every human therapist in America is legally required to follow. Standards set by the American Psychological Association. Standards that can end a therapist's career if they break them.

ChatGPT broke all of them.

The researchers tested OpenAI's GPT series, Anthropic's Claude, and Meta's Llama. They had trained counselors use each chatbot as a cognitive behavioral therapist. Then three licensed clinical psychologists reviewed the transcripts and flagged every violation they found.

Here is what they found.

ChatGPT mishandled crisis situations. When users expressed suicidal thoughts, it failed to direct them to appropriate help. It refused to address sensitive issues or responded in ways that could make a crisis worse.

It reinforced harmful beliefs. Instead of challenging distorted thinking, which is the entire point of therapy, it agreed with the distortion.

It showed bias based on gender, culture, and religion. The responses changed depending on who was talking. A therapist would lose their license for this.

And then there is the finding the researchers gave a name: deceptive empathy. ChatGPT says "I see you." It says "I understand." It says "that must be really hard." It uses every phrase a real therapist would use to build trust. But it understands nothing. It comprehends nothing. It is pattern matching on your pain. And it works. People trust it. People open up to it. People believe it cares. It does not.

The lead researcher said it clearly. When a human therapist makes these mistakes, there are governing boards. There is professional liability. There are consequences. When ChatGPT makes these mistakes, there are none.

No regulatory framework. No accountability. No consequences. Nothing.

Right now, millions of people are using ChatGPT as their therapist. They are sharing their darkest thoughts with a product that fakes empathy, reinforces harmful beliefs, and has no idea when someone is in danger.

And nobody is responsible when it goes wrong. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Not Meta. Nobody.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Harvard neuroscience professor who teaches at Harvard Summer School said something that completely changed how I think about memory.

She wasn't talking to journalists. She was answering a student question about why smart people still forget everything they study.

Her name is Dr. Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, and she has spent decades researching how the brain actually encodes and retrieves information.

Here's what she said: "The ultimate litmus test of learning is using the information in a new context, not just remembering it for a test."

That one sentence exposes why most people's study habits are completely broken.

Here's the actual system she teaches Harvard students to retain what they learn.

The first thing she kills immediately is the myth that you have one learning style. The idea that you're a "visual learner" or an "auditory learner" is not supported by modern neuroscience. Your brain wants to learn through as many senses as possible at once, because each sense creates a separate neural pathway to the same knowledge. More pathways means faster and stronger recall.

The second technique is spaced repetition, but she explains the mechanism in a way most people never hear. Every time you retrieve a memory, you physically thicken the myelin sheath around that neural connection, which makes the electrical signal travel faster. You aren't just reviewing information you are literally rewiring your brain to access it more quickly.

The third technique floored me. She tells students to teach what they just learned to someone else within 24 hours, because teaching forces you to find the gaps in your own understanding before the exam does it for you.

The fourth is what she calls "feed-forward" instead of feedback. When you get something wrong, don't treat it as a failure. Ask only one question: what would I do differently next time? That reframe keeps the brain in a learning state instead of a defensive one.

But the most underrated insight she shared was this: the single biggest factor in long-term retention is whether you can make the material personally meaningful to your own life. Your brain prioritizes storing things that feel relevant and discards things that feel abstract.

The students who remember everything aren't studying harder. They're studying in a way that the brain was actually designed to absorb.

[Keith Siau @drkeithsiau]

Drinking caffeinated coffee and tea is associated with a lower risk of dementia, according to this new JAMA study 🧠

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Simplicity isn't the lack of complexity; it's the clarity of understanding.

[IndigenousX @IndigenousX]

Have you ever wondered why Australia is the only country in the world that ignores the United Nations Day dedicated to fighting racism?

[NSW Health @NSWHealth]

NSW Health is advising people in Sydney to be alert for signs and symptoms of measles after being notified of two new confirmed cases who are not known to each other.

One of the cases acquired measles locally.

[Marc Lottering @marclottering]

Not the news I wanted to wake up to!!!!! Crazy.

RIP Soli Philander. Thank you for inspiring me to do what I do.

🙏🏼💜

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.

Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://t.co/1TZ0pwBtMJ

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all."

On 11 February 1990, peace laureate Nelson Mandela was released from prison after being incarcerated for 27 years. Despite his long imprisonment, Mandela rejected hatred and instead embraced reconciliation.

[SupaSeed Leadership & Wellness Coaching @SupaSeed_Ash]

Overworked. Overwhelmed. Overweight. Over it all. ❓
Time to reset, renew & revive. 🌿
#SupaSeed2025WellnessChallenge (26 Sept–12 Dec) with @Asheena_
12 weeks to:
✅ Prioritize your wellness vision
✅ Stay accountable
✅ Build real habits
✅ Enter Dec energized, not exhausted

[Dr Asheena Budhai-Manuel, PhD MBA CPC PCC NBC-HWC @Asheena_]

When people say don’t text and drive, and you think it doesn’t really apply to you 👇🏼

[Catarina Senora Gatita @WyattCatarina]

When you're a nurse practitioner and think u don't have to follow safety rules of the road. 😬😬😬

[Forbes @Forbes]

"Fighting for women's health, that to me seems like a legacy worth leaving."

@halleberry, actress and founder of Respin, shared why she started Respin and began advocating for women's menopausal health. #ForbesOver50
https://t.co/lkKsOHoG0p

[SupaSeed Leadership & Wellness Coaching @SupaSeed_Ash]

5 years ago today, the seed for SupaSeed Leadership & Wellness Coaching was sown—born from my lived experience of transformation.
We help people lead themselves and others with integrity, confidence, and compassion.
I’d be honored to support you.
Let’s keep sowing what matters🌱

[SupaSeed Leadership & Wellness Coaching @SupaSeed_Ash]

#Leadership, particularly #CEOs and #executives are trending (literally—thanks, Google and of course #ColdPlay).
So, is now a good time to talk about my integrity-led executive coaching program built on awareness to improve ethics, confidence and compassion? Asking for a coach.

[SupaSeed Leadership & Wellness Coaching @SupaSeed_Ash]

How to Thrive Through the Power of Self-Awareness:

1. Reflect & Introspect
2. Practice Mindfulness
3. Embark on Self-discovery
4. Get feedback
5. Embrace vulnerabilities

[SupaSeed Leadership & Wellness Coaching @SupaSeed_Ash]

Love can be a catalyst
Love can be the reason
Love can heal
Love can change everything
…I wish you a
Love like no other

#Love #ValentinesDay #Wellbeing #Poetry #NurtureyourBestSelf

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Donald Trump announces 100% tariffs on countries ditching the US dollar as world reserve currency.

[Dr Asheena Budhai-Manuel, PhD MBA CPC PCC NBC-HWC @Asheena_]

@DrMonicaCox Can’t wait to read this. Thank you.

[South African Government @GovernmentZA]

#StatsSA #EndGBVF #StopGBVF #GovZAUpdates #16DaysofActivism2024

[Dr Asheena Budhai-Manuel, PhD MBA CPC PCC NBC-HWC @Asheena_]

Art vs Art. To have a banana and eat it vs to stick it on the wall with duct-tape and let the world discuss it. To have no banana at all to eat vs I can’t do what I like with this banana, so I’ll stick on the wall.

[Dr Asheena Budhai-Manuel, PhD MBA CPC PCC NBC-HWC @Asheena_]

How to torture a banana. #Comedian

[Forbes @Forbes]

Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’ was purchased by crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun at a Sotheby’s contemporary auction for $6.2 million.
Read more: https://t.co/j9I9h6YNBB

[Dr Asheena Budhai-Manuel, PhD MBA CPC PCC NBC-HWC @Asheena_]

I love the absurdity though - reflection of our perceived reality. What is Art? Who is an artist? Who determines what is art? Who determines the value of art?