Tracey Marks, MD

Tracey Marks, MD Removing stigmas related to mental health starts by educating and enhancing one mind at a time. To that end, I create education videos.
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Hi I'm Dr. Tracey Marks and I'm on a mission to make education about mental health accessible to all.

09/04/2026

Early-morning cortisol rise can push a stressed brain past the wake threshold.

It's timing, not truth.

09/03/2026

The gut-brain axis is a real, active conversation.

Your stomach can register a shift before your thoughts catch up.

"Let me go get a pen and paper."That's a real comment from someone watching my Science of Love series on YouTube, and it...
09/02/2026

"Let me go get a pen and paper."
That's a real comment from someone watching my Science of Love series on YouTube, and it's the reason I created this guide.

The Science of Love Playbook is the printed companion to that series: one chapter for every episode, 26 in all. Each one gives you the science in plain language, a diagram to make it click, and two questions that turn it back on your own pattern, with room to write. A QR code in every chapter takes you right back to the episode, so you can watch and write side by side.

Pre-orders are open now. Books ship Monday, September 14, and every order through the 14th ships free. Link is in the first comment.
Swipe through for a look inside, plus the full list of chapters.

Pre-order here: http://tmarks.co/playbook-fb

09/01/2026

Naming an emotion engages language circuits and softens the pure alarm signal.

Specific is easier to work with than unnamed.

Women leaders in the Atlanta and north Georgia area, this one's for you in person.I'm leading a workshop at the Pink Rob...
08/31/2026

Women leaders in the Atlanta and north Georgia area, this one's for you in person.

I'm leading a workshop at the Pink Robe Society Leadership Elevation Summit on Saturday, September 26, at the Dalton Convention Center in Dalton, Georgia. The session is The Mind-Body Edge: How Movement Protects the Executive Brain, and it's for anyone whose work depends on focus, judgment, and follow-through.

The summit is a one-day event for professional women on leadership wholeness: mind, body, and spirit. I'd love to see you there. Details and registration: https://pinkrobesociety.com

08/31/2026

Regulation tools work best when your baseline stress isn’t already maxed out.

On high-load days, lowering the baseline comes before the technique.

08/30/2026

Fight, flight, freeze, and please are learned nervous system patterns, not personality traits.

Noticing the pattern comes before changing it.

08/29/2026

The gap between trigger and reaction is a capacity, not a personality.

When you’re depleted, that gap shrinks.

The meeting is over, but you still can't get back to work. Before you push yourself into the next task, give your brain ...
08/28/2026

The meeting is over, but you still can't get back to work. Before you push yourself into the next task, give your brain a chance to come down from the interaction.

Start with a physical break: stand up, change rooms, put down the phone. Then try a brief reset I call Look Up. Lift your head, look away from the screen, and let your eyes take in more of the room, not looking for anything in particular, just letting your focus widen. Next, write down one sentence, something like "My next task is to finish the first paragraph." Your working memory already has a lot in it, so don't make it carry the whole plan too. Then take the first step: open the document, read the first instruction, and let that be enough for now.

You're keeping the interaction from taking over everything that comes next, not ignoring it. Sometimes 90 seconds is enough.

08/28/2026

When stress is high, reasoning has less influence over alarm.

Logic didn’t fail you; it just isn’t the loudest voice in that moment.

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