Podcast appearances and mentions of Daniel G Amen

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Renowned brain health expert Dr. Daniel G. Amen reveals transformative insights into optimizing brain function, no matter its current state. Our conversation takes you through Dr. Amen's groundbreaking findings, highlighting the often-overlooked consequences of mild traumatic brain injuries and the limitations of traditional psychiatry in neglecting the brain's physical condition. With a deep dive into the distinctions between physical and emotional trauma, Dr. Amen provides a crucial understanding of how these factors affect brain activity, offering a nuanced perspective for addressing mental health challenges effectively. Explore the intricate relationship between lifestyle choices and brain health with us. Drawing from my upcoming book, "The End of Mental Illness," Dr. Amen and I discuss how common dependencies on caffeine, alcohol, and sugar can severely impact mental well-being. We delve into the addictive nature of sugar and its potential role in depression and dementia, all while emphasizing the need for fostering healthier relationships with food and substances. Learn about the fascinating insights gained from brain scans and discover a free online test that can help you better understand your brain type, ultimately enabling a more personalized approach to mental health. We also address the potential health risks of electromagnetic frequencies from devices like cell phones and emerging technologies like 5G. Dr. Amen discusses the alarming rise in deaths related to drugs, alcohol, and suicide, suggesting a paradigm shift in viewing these issues as brain illnesses. The conversation explores the impact of physical health on brain function, and we touch on the transformative power of music in enhancing creativity, mood stabilization, and relaxation. Listen in as we discuss the importance of aligning lifestyle choices with natural rhythms and explore alternative mental health treatments like diet, exercise, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). ------------------ Dr. Daniel G. Amen believes that brain health is central to all health and success. When your brain works right, he says, you work right; and when your brain is troubled you are much more likely to have trouble in your life. His work is dedicated to helping people have better brains and better lives. The Washington Post called Dr. Amen the most popular psychiatrist in America and Sharecare named him the web's #1 most influential expert and advocate on mental health. Dr. Amen is a physician, double board certified psychiatrist, television producer and ten-time New York Times bestselling author. He is the Founder and Medical Director of Amen Clinics across the US. Amen Clinics have the world's largest database of functional brain scans relating to behavior, totaling more than 125,000 scans on patients from 111 countries. Dr. Amen is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the highest award given to members, and is the lead researcher on the world's largest brain imaging and rehabilitation study on professional football players. His research has not only demonstrated high levels of brain damage in players, he also showed the possibility of significant recovery for many with the principles that underlie his work. Together with Pastor Rick Warren and Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Amen is also one of the chief architects on Saddleback Church's “Daniel Plan,” a program to get the world healthy through religious organizations. Dr. Amen has written, produced and hosted 11 popular shows about the brain for public television, which have been aired more than 100,000 times across North America. Dr. Amen is the author or co-author of 70 professional articles, seven book chapters, and over 30 books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller The Daniel Plan and Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Magnificent Mind At Any Age, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, Use Your Brain to Change Your Age, Unleash the Power of the Female Brain and Healing ADD.  --------- EPISODE CHAPTERS --------- (0:00:01) - Mastering the Brain With Dr. Amon (0:05:19) - Balancing Brain Health and Behavior (0:20:17) - Revolution in Brain Health (0:26:56) - Optimizing Brain Function Through Lifestyle --------- EPISODE CHAPTERS WITH SHORT KEY POINTS --------- (0:00:01) - Mastering the Brain With Dr. Amon Dr. Daniel G. Amen's insights on brain health, including the impact of trauma and the shortcomings of traditional psychiatry. (0:05:19) - Balancing Brain Health and Behavior Daily habits and mental health are impacted by caffeine, alcohol, and sugar, as discussed in "The End of Mental Illness" book. (0:20:17) - Revolution in Brain Health Cell phone health risks, mental health and brain function, brainwave frequencies, and music's transformative power. (0:26:56) - Optimizing Brain Function Through Lifestyle Music genres' impact on brain function, genetic and developmental factors in sleep patterns, concerns over substance use for mental health, and small choices for brain health. --------- EPISODE CHAPTERS WITH FULL SUMMARIES --------- (0:00:01) - Mastering the Brain With Dr. Amon (5 Minutes) This chapter focuses on the remarkable insights of Dr. Daniel G. Amen regarding brain health and optimization. We explore Dr. Amen's groundbreaking discoveries, including the ability to improve brain function regardless of its current state, the profound impact of mild traumatic brain injuries that often go unnoticed, and the shortcomings of traditional psychiatry that overlooks the brain's physical state. Dr. Amen distinguishes between physical and emotional trauma, highlighting how each affects brain activity differently. He shares how physical trauma can lead to decreased brain activity, while emotional trauma can cause heightened activity in the limbic system, which is crucial for understanding how to appropriately treat various mental health challenges. Understanding these differences is essential to either calming or repairing the brain effectively. (0:05:19) - Balancing Brain Health and Behavior (15 Minutes) This chapter focuses on the relationship between daily habits and mental health, specifically discussing the impacts of caffeine, alcohol, and sugar on the brain. I share insights from my upcoming book, "The End of Mental Illness," where I discuss how society's dependency on coffee to wake up and alcohol to sleep can contribute to mental health issues. By gradually reducing caffeine and alcohol intake, individuals can improve their energy levels and sleep quality without withdrawal symptoms. The conversation highlights the addictive and inflammatory nature of sugar, its role in depression and dementia, and its negative effects on brain healing and function. The importance of maintaining healthy relationships with food and substances is emphasized, suggesting that food should "love you back." Finally, we touch on the insights gained from brain scans regarding personality and behavior, introducing a free online test to help people understand their brain types. (0:20:17) - Revolution in Brain Health (7 Minutes) This chapter addresses concerns about the pervasive use of cell phones and the potential health risks associated with electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs) and radiation exposure from devices like microwaves and the emerging 5G technology. The discussion touches on the alarming rise in deaths from drugs, alcohol, and suicide, linking them to broader mental health issues and suggesting a shift from viewing these as mental illnesses to brain illnesses. Highlighting Dr. Amen's work, we explore the impact of weight and physical health on brain function, emphasizing the importance of preventing or treating risk factors like low blood flow and diabesity, as outlined in the "Bright Minds" mnemonic. We also discuss the influence of brainwave frequencies and cognition enhancers, sharing insights on brain-enhancing music's potential to improve mental health and function, reflecting on the transformative power of music in promoting creativity, mood stabilization, and relaxation. (0:26:56) - Optimizing Brain Function Through Lifestyle (9 Minutes) This chapter focuses on the impact of different music genres on brain function and the individual variability in optimal brain rhythms, discussing a personal study comparing rock, country, classical, and heavy metal music on memory. I also explore the genetic and developmental factors influencing whether someone is a morning or night person and emphasize the importance of aligning one's lifestyle with their natural rhythms. We address the growing interest in using substances like MDMA, ketamine, and DMT for mental health treatment, while highlighting concerns over their use and advocating for alternatives such as diet, exercise, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Finally, I share insights on making small, informed choices to improve brain health, encouraging listeners to consider whether their daily actions are beneficial for their brains.

Happy Throwback Thursday Heal Squad! This week, we wanted to bring back the amazing episode with brain expert, Dr. Daniel Amen - founder of Amen Clinic, BrainHealthMD, and Amen University. Just a gentle reminder for the squad that although you may be going through challenging times, there are still so many reasons to be happy, and Dr. Amen is here to help you with that. He shares the science behind what creates happiness in the brain with the 7 neuroscience secrets to feeling your happiest self and teaches us the techniques to reduce anxiety- the best part, is they are NATURAL and FREE!  Buckle up and grab your notebooks because as Dr. Amen says, ‘transform your brain to transform your life,' and this episode will give you the steps to do exactly that! You don't want to miss this one. Healers & Heal-Liners The foundational secret to happiness that nobody talks about is the physical functioning of your brain. When it works properly, you tend to be happier. We need to take the steps to make sure our brain is healthy for a happier life! Negative beliefs that are mostly not true damage your life. When negative thoughts arise, ask yourself: “Is this 100% true?” If not, you can start to move through these thoughts easier and only focus on the positive. Medicine changes your brain to need it to feel normal and does not heal symptoms in all situations. If you want to listen to pat 2, click HERE! HEAL SQUAD SOCIALS IG: https://www.instagram.com/healsquad/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@healsquadxmaria HEAL SQUAD RESOURCES: Heal Squad Website: https://www.healsquad.com/ Maria Menounos Website: https://www.mariamenounos.com My Curated Macy's Page: Shop my Macy's Wishlist OUAI: https://theouai.com/ use promo code: HEALSQUAD for 15% off Wonderful Pistachios: http://www.wonderfulpistachios.com/   Learn More About Dr. Daniel Amen: Dr. Daniel G. Amen's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doc_amen/?hl=en Dr. Daniel G. Amen's Website: www.brainmd.com   Buy Your Copy of ‘You, Happier' https://www.amazon.com/You-Happier-Neuroscience-Secrets-Feeling/dp/1496454529 ABOUT MARIA MENOUNOS: Emmy Award-winning journalist, TV personality, actress, 2x NYT best-selling author, former pro-wrestler and brain tumor survivor, Maria Menounos' passion is to see others heal and to get better in all areas of life. ABOUT HEAL SQUAD x MARIA MENOUNOS: A daily digital talk-show that brings you the world's leading healers, experts, and celebrities to share groundbreaking secrets and tips to getting better in all areas of life. DISCLAIMER: This Podcast and all related content ( published or distributed by or on behalf of Maria Menounos or Mariamenounos.com and healsquad.com ) is for informational purposes only and may include information that is general in nature and that is not specific to you. Any information or opinions provided by guest experts or hosts featured within website or on Company's Podcast are their own; not those of Maria Menounos or the Company. Accordingly, Maria Menounos and the Company cannot be responsible for any results or consequences or actions you may take based on such information or opinions. This podcast is presented for exploratory purposes only. Published content is not intended to be used for preventing, diagnosing, or treating a specific illness. If you have, or suspect you may have, a health-care emergency, please contact a qualified health care professional for treatment.

Hello friends, welcome to an exciting episode of Thrive Beyond Size. It's exciting because if you've been listening for a while, you know I love anything related to the brain. Brain science, neuroscience, neuropsychology, it all fascinates me because we can use the brain to get us closer to our goals and I found an expert in all things brain and science-related, Dominika Staniewicz. Dominika, or Coach D, is a dual elite neuro encoding specialist, Brain Health Coach at Dr. Amen, and author of the No. 1 Kindle release “The Magic of Dreaming Big, Acting Small, and Achieving Success”. I talked with Dominika about the science behind the brain, everything from how it can regenerate itself to the science behind intuition and everything in between. This conversation is full of so many great insights and actionable advice, and I'm so excited to share it with you!Dominika talks about the science behind meditation and breathwork, activities people dismiss as ‘crazy' but which have a lot of science behind them. One of the things she stresses is how to treat our brains right and that includes letting our brain soak up the outdoors, morning light, and no less than 7.5 hours of sleep per night for optimal functioning. We talk about the mirror exercise and why it works, why our culture is a quick-fix one and dismisses natural healing like exercise and the outdoors to aid in alleviating depression, and why coaching fulfills her. Our brains have an amazing ability to help us if we help them first and Dominika is so good at explaining the scientific why and how of the brain's ability. She explains how to make affirmations and meditation work for our brains, and how to train brains into positive thinking, and I just know you'll get so much out of our conversation.__About Dominika Staniewicz:Dominika Staniewicz M.S, a dual elite Neuroencoding specialist, Brain Health Coach at Dr. Amen, and author of the No. 1 Kindle Release "The Magic of Dreaming Big, Acting Small, and Achieving Success." Coach D transcends the ordinary life coaching realm, wielding neuroscience prowess with actionable Neuroencoding strategies. Picture firecracker charisma fused with scientific wisdom. On top of that she is a Founder member of the Neuroencoding Institute, she's advised the Polish president and taken part in national labor negotiations. A Shadow Cabinet Member at the Business Center Club, University Adjunct for 11+ years, and speaker on European Union and US stages, she's earned accolades like Woman Entrepreneur of the Year. Coach D, will help you eliminate, anxiety, depression, overwhelm, and self-loathing head-on. She is the proud mom of 24-year-old twin girls.__Resources mentioned in this episode: “Unleashing the Power of the Female Brain: Supercharging Yours for Better Health, Energy, Mood, Focus, and Sex” by Daniel G. Amen, MD__Learn more about Dominika Staniewicz:Website: YourBrainCoachD.comBook: “The Magic of Dreaming BIG, Acting small, and Achieving success” by Dominika D StaniewiczInstagramFacebookYoutubeLinkedInLearn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

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On this episode, Joanna Barnes and Natalie George discuss the dynamic of the type of therapy known as CBT. Your Brain Is Always Listening by Daniel G. Amen, MD The Self-Love Workbook: A Life-Changing Guide to Boost Self-Esteem, Recognize Your Worth and Find Genuine Happiness by Dr. Shainna Ali Master Your Emotions: A Practical Guide to Overcome Negativity and Better Manage Your Feelings by Thibaut Meurisse Why Do I Do That?: Psychological Defense Mechanisms and the Hidden Ways They Shape Our Lives by Joseph Burgo Ph.D. Untangling You: How can I be grateful when I feel so resentful? By Dr Howells Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple: 10 Strategies for Managing Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Panic, and Worry by Seth J. Gillihan PhD The CBT Workbook for Mental Health: Evidence-Based Exercises to Transform Negative Thoughts and Manage Your Well-Being by Simon Rego PsyD Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook For Dummies by Rhena Branch

In this episode, Dr. Axe is joined by Dr. Daniel Amen to discuss brain and neurological health. Daniel G. Amen, MD is a physician, board-certified child and adult psychiatrist, award-winning researcher, 17-time bestselling author, and in-demand speaker. He's Founder and CEO of Amen Clinics, which holds the world's largest database of functional brain scans relating to behavior. He's also the lead researcher on a landmark brain imaging and rehabilitation study on pro football players. His newest book is: Change Your Brain Every Day: Simple Daily Practices to Strengthen Your Mind, Memory, Moods, Focus, Energy, Habits, and Relationships. Topics discussed in this episode:01:46 Phone snubbing and brain health.06:16 The dangers of marijuana.09:53 Top 10 reasons for mental health issues.14:27 Impact of COVID on the brain.17:41 Mental health and antidepressants.23:02 Lack of attention damaging children.25:17 Living in an ADD society.32:41 Low blood flow and brain.35:11 Blood flow and brain health.38:12 Psilocybin and microdosing mushrooms.43:40 Nutritional IVs and their benefits.47:41 Mental health during COVID.50:17 Brain health recommendations.Discover the Nutrition, Lifestyle, & Fitness Plan that Works Best with Your Body with InsideTracker! Get 20% off at INSIDETRACKER.COM/AXE20 Follow Dr. Amen on Instagram: @doc_amen Amenclinics.comBrainmd.comFollow @healthinstitute on Instagram! www.instagram.com/healthinstitute Join our Newsletter! www.thehealthinstitute.com/wellness-weekly Follow our Hosts in Instagram: @drjoshaxe, @organic_blondie, and @doctormotley on Instagram!

In today's Heroic Chat, we are joined by Dr. Daniel Amen. Dr. Daniel G. Amen is a physician, double board certified psychiatrist and nine-time 'New York Times' bestselling author. He is the Founder and CEO of Amen Clinics in Costa Mesa and San Francisco, California, Bellevue, Washington, Reston, Virginia, Atlanta, Georgia and New York City. He is also the author of 'Change Your Brain, Change Your Life' and 'The Brain Warrior's Way'. Get the full show notes here: https://www.heroic.us/optimize/heroic-chat-dr-daniel-amen   Move from Theory to Practice to Mastery:   Pre-Order 'Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential' today: https://www.heroic.us/book Listen to the first 45+ minutes of the audiobook here: https://www.heroic.us/optimize/the-book/audiobook-preview Join over 13,000+ people from 115+ countries who have answered the call to their Heroic quests: https://heroic.us/coach   More goodness:   Download the Heroic app: http://heroic.us/app-download Grab some Heroic swag: https://store-heroic.myshopify.com/ Become a Heroic Ambassador: http://heroic.us/ambassador   -   Get in touch:   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HeroicBrian LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heroicbrian/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/heroicbrian Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heroicbrian Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heroicbrian/ Email: support@heroic.us

Bu bölümde, Psikiyatr Dr. Daniel G. Amen'in 'Happier, You' kitabında bahsettiği beş beyin tipini ve mutluluğun bahsedilen beyin tiplerine göre nasıl şekillendiği üzerine konuşuyoruz. Bölümde bahsedilen test: https://brainhealthassessment.com/

Music soothes the very soul, especially with kids. Learn about music's ability to help children. What does Mozart have to do with your child's development. Find out today with Gina and Don #musicforkidsdevelopment #musicbraindevelopment #learningwithmusic #growthandmusic #childrenbraindevelopment #kidsbraindevelopment Ref: “Change Your Brain, Change Your Life” by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

In this moment, the celebrity psychiatrist and brain disorder specialist, Dr Daniel G Amen breaks down the most important tricks for a healthy and powerful brain. According to Dr Amen, while genetics do play a factor in your brain health, what is more important is how you live your life. This can include everything from eating more fish and less red meat, avoiding brain trauma, toxins and even taking better care of your mouth health. However, for Dr Amen, the 2 most important factors for whether you have a healthy or unhealthy brain is: learning and loneliness. By not learning and being lonely, you rapidly decreases your brain's capacity and ability to function, which will then affect every aspect of your life. Listen to the full episode here -  https://g2ul0.app.link/91PsXFzmlCb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Dr Amen: https://www.instagram.com/doc_amen/ https://danielamenmd.com/

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How do you handle change? Transition? A move. First child. Aging transitions? Whether having your first child or putting an aging parent into a facitlity change can be traumatic. Gina and Don are in the middle of selling their house and moving while still raising their child and caregiving for an aging parent. They look at the affects of change and how to handle it. Join them today... #change #transition #changingwhereyoulive #caringforagingparent #seniorcaregiving #handlingchange #anxietywithchange #traumaofchange #movinganxiety “Change Your Brain, Change Your Life” by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

#576: Today we're sitting down again with Dr. Daniel Amen. Dr. Amen is a brain health expert, physician, psychiatrist, and founder of Amen Clinics, the world's largest database of brain scans for psychiatry. Dr. Amen is one of the most visible and influential experts on brain health and mental health with millions of followers on social media & is on a mission to end mental illness by creating a revolution in brain health. Today we're sitting down with Dr. Amen to discuss anything and everything related to our brain, how we've been actively distorting our own thinking & how to stop. He also gets into the facts: the psychological common denominator of people who live the longest, the effects that prescription AND nonprescription drugs have on your brain, commonalities of people with anxiety, and everything you should know about ADD and ADHD. Lastly he gives our audience tangible tips of what people can do to enhance their brain health, eliminate brain fog, enhance mental flexibility, and lower ADD symptoms.   To connect with Dr. Daniel G. Amen click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE Subscribe to our YouTube channel HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) This episode is brought to you by The Skinny Confidential This episode is brought to you by Sakara Sakara delivers science-backed, plant-rich nutrition programs and wellness essentials right to your door.  Go to Sakara.com/skinny or enter code SKINNY at checkout to receive 20% off your first order. This episode is brought to you by Thrive Market Thrive Market is the go-to for all of your grocery and household essentials- and it's all conveniently delivered to your doorstep. Get 30% off your first order, plus a free $60 gift at thrivemarket.com/skinny or use code SKINNY at checkout. This episode is brought to you by Cymbiotika Cymbiotika is a health supplement company, designing sophisticated organic formulations that are scientifically proven to increase vitality and longevity by filling nutritional gaps that result from our modern day diet. Go to cymbiotika.com/SKINNY or use code SKINNY at checkout to get 15% off sitewide. This episode is brought to you by Zoc Doc Zocdoc is the only FREE app that lets you find AND book doctors who are patient-reviewed, take your insurance, are available when you need them and treat almost every condition under the sun. Go to zocdoc.com/skinny to download the app & book with a top-rated doctor today. This episode is brought to you by Wella Wella Professionals just released its most luxurious hair care line; Ultimate Repair. You can purchase The Ultimate Repair Miracle Hair Rescue at Ulta stores, or go to wella.com to learn more. This episode is brought to you Sephora Check out Sephora's wide variety of clean beauty products at sephora.com/clean Produced by Dear Media  

Josh's guests: Jolie Root – Carlson Omega 3's from fish oil make exercise more effective for weight loss. Mars Bonfire - singer/songwriter, Born To Be Wild, a number #1 hit for Steppenwolf, theme song of Easy Rider, the international movie sensation Part 2 of his interview Dr. Daniel G. Amen, MD - author, Change Your Brain Every Day #1 New York Times Bestselling Author find us at: www.HeresToYourHealthWithJoshuaLane.com  

JOLIE ROOT CARLSON Omega 3's from fish oil make exercise more effective for weight loss MARS BONFIRE, singer/songwriter, BORN TO BE WILD, a number #1 hit for STEPPENWOLF, theme song of EASY RIDER, the international movie sensation part 2 of his interview Dr. Daniel G. AMEN, M.D., author, CHANGE YOUR BRAIN EVERY DAY #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

Golden Tate played 12 seasons in the NFL with the Seattle Seahawks, Detroit Lions and the New York Giants. Golden was a 2nd round pick in the 2010 NFL Draft and would go on to become a Pro Bowler and Super Bowl Champion. Today on the show, the guys discuss Golden's success on and off the field, the importance of being intentional with your family and insight on his decison to retire. Other topics include: (2:00-8:00) - Athletic family/siblings. Golden's experience raising kids. (8:00-13:10) - From Tennessee to Notre Dame. (13:10-19:20) - Characteristics of Super Bowl winning teams (19:20-28:40) - Golden's decision to retire. When he knew it was time. (28:40-37:40) - Professional Pickleball dreams And much more. Rate, review and subscribe to the show today! Tackle What's Next is out today! Order a copy of Eric's new book here: https://ericwoodmedia.com/book/ For more information about our sponsors today: https://www.brianjacobsgolf.com/ Founded by the world's leading neuroscientist, Daniel G. Amen, MD, BrainMD chooses smart, necessary and whole ingredients that properly nourish your brain to optimize the whole body. Our supplements are clinically tested and proven to boost brain function. Shop today online at BrainMD.com - use promo code ERIC15 at checkout to get 15% off!

What are the easiest and hardest musical instruments to learn. Dire straits 'Sultans of Swing. Harpo explores the challenge of musical instruments, reflects on the lyrics of Sultans of Swing and talks about the importance of improvised music and clean living. Recommended 'Change your Brain' change your life. by DR Daniel G Amen

What impact do Anxiety and Depression have on a marriage? We hope you will enjoy our interview with the Saville's this week.Scripture: Lamentations 3:19-25Books:Try Softer  by Aundi KoblerHealing Anxiety and Depression by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.Podcasts:"Therapy and Theology"Please reach out if you would like to further this discussion or have questions. marriageunfiltered@yahoo.comFollow us on Instagram marriage_unfiltered_podcast

Today I'm joined with clinical psychologist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Dr. Susana Kugeares. We talked about somatic experiencing and how trauma patterns develop in the body and why when you are working with trauma and the body it's important to go slowly with awareness as opposed to wanting to rush through the healing work. You can find Dr. Kugeares on Psychology Today and LinkedIn. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/susana-kugeares-austin-tx/862681 https://www.linkedin.com/in/susana-kugeares-phd-sep-676a1b9/ Today's episode is sponsored by Tyndale House Publishers. Dr. Daniel G. Amen newest book Change Your Brain Everyday is available for preorder www.tyndale.com/p/change-your-brain-every-day/9781496454577 To find out more about Monique's work www.thehealingtraumapodcast.com/

Today I am joined with a much loved former guest Owen Morgan. Owen is a wellbeing coach and founder of The Awareness Space.  Owen gets real and personal as he shares his recent journey of becoming more and more embodied.  He talks about experiencing emotions he hasn't felt before and that because of early trauma he left his body and began to live mainly from his thinking mind.  To learn more about Owen's work & podcast - https://www.instagram.com/the_awarene... https://www.theawarenessspace.com TRAUMA SUPER CONFERENCE REGISTER HERE xz684.isrefer.com/go/TSCF23/monique/   FEB 13 -19 /2023 Thank you to our sponsor Tyndale House Publishers Company. Dr. Daniel G. Amen newest book Change Your Brain Everyday is available for preorder www.tyndale.com/p/change-your-brain-every-day/9781496454577 More info on Monique's work www.thehealingtraumapodcast.com/

l am joined with Dr. Maureen Gallagher, psychologist, Somatic Experiencing faculty member, and Inner Relationship Focusing Trainer. Maureen is my teacher at S.E and I'm asking her lots of questions to support you in your understanding of what is happening in your body and mind as it relates to trauma.   TRAUMA SUPER CONFERENCE REGISTER HERE https://xz684.isrefer.com/go/TSCF23/monique/ For more information on Maureen's work, visit: https://embodyingpsychotherapy.com/ Thank you to our sponsor Tyndale House Publishers Company. Dr. Daniel G. Amen newest book Change Your Brain Everyday is available for preorder www.tyndale.com/p/change-your-brain-every-day/9781496454577 More info on Monique's work https://www.thehealingtraumapodcast.com/

Charity was raised in an ultra conservative religious community where she experienced developmental and complex trauma. Charity was taught to never question authority or the teachings and interpretations of the religious community.  When she would question, she was told she was being "rebellious". In order to be accepted by her family and community she had to submit with strict adherence. Charity talks about how she is slowly coming to terms with the impact of the trauma and rebuilding a beautiful life of authenticity, grace, faith and freedom. Find Charity on Instagram https://instagram.com/italianontheweekend?igshid=MWI4MTIyMDE= **REGISTER for free TRAUMA SUPER CONFERENCE  starting FEB 13 -19, 2023 https://xz684.isrefer.com/go/TSCF23/monique Thank you to our sponsor Tyndale House Publishers Company. Dr. Daniel G. Amen newest book Change Your Brain Everyday is available for preorder www.tyndale.com/p/change-your-brain-every-day/9781496454577  1:1 Consults with Monique  https://www.thehealingtraumapodcast.com/

In today's conversation, psychologist and author Dr. Hillary McBride joins Monique to talk about trauma healing and embodiment. She is the author of the book, The Wisdom of the Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living. You can find Hillary :https://hillarylmcbride.com/Instagram @hillaryliannamcbride Thank you to our sponsor Tyndale House Publishers Company. Dr. Daniel G. Amen newest book Change Your Brain Everyday is available for preorder www.tyndale.com/p/change-your-brain-every-day/9781496454577  Trauma Recovery Coaching and Resources www.thehealingtraumapodcast.com/

On today's episode I am re-releasing a favorite episode of mine from last year.  Aundi Kolber is trauma therapist & author of the book Try Softer, Aundi Kolber. In the episode, Monique and Aundi talk about the impact of Complex- Trauma on the body, mind and heart. Aundi shares how her own experience as a survivor & therapist helped to shape the book into a source of hope and comfort for others on their healing journey.  Aundi's Website https://aundikolber.com Thank you to our sponsor Tyndale House Publishers Company Dr. Daniel G. Amen newest book Change Your Brain Everyday is available for preorder www.tyndale.com/p/change-your-brain-every-day/9781496454577 Trauma Recovery Coaching and Resources www.thehealingtraumapodcast.com/

Have you believed the myth that passive income will solve everything? In this week's episode, I'm joined by best-selling author and marketing expert Mike Kim as he shares with us a simple and doable way to continually generate income over time.   We talk about: Key practices to make the transition from being just self-employed, to being a business owner (and why that matters) How to develop an income-generating intellectual property piece that doesn't take a lot of time to create Why you have to keep showing up and creating content if your product is going to continue to sell   You'll learn exactly what it takes to launch and market a product that doesn't take much time to create, while still providing value to your audience. This episode will give you the motivation and ideas you need to turn your ideas into income!   About Mike Kim: Mike Kim is a business coach and marketing strategist who specializes in personal branding, product launch strategies, and copywriting. He is the Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author of the book You Are the Brand.   His core philosophy of marketing is this: Marketing isn't about closing a sale, it's about opening a relationship. When we get this part of marketing right, results follow. He has used this same approach to serve today's most influential thought leaders including John Maxwell, Donald Miller, Catalyst, and Daniel G. Amen, MD.   Mike is a sought-after speaker and host of the You Are The Brand Podcast.   Mentioned in this episode:You Are The Brand episode: The Myth of Passive Income and How You Can Still Profit from It *LIMITED TIME OFFER! Exclusive pricing through December 22*CLICK HERE to learn more about becoming a REALIFE Process Certified Facilitator™! Ready to grow your impact and increase your income? Check out how to be certified as a REALIFE Process Facilitator™! Through coaching and training, you'll discover the power of the REALIFE Process® for yourself AND learn how to use it with your clients.   My new book, Do What Matters, is now available! My new book, Do What Matters, is available NOW! Banish busyness and discover a new way of being productive around what truly matters. Learn more at DoWhatMattersBook.com.   FREE Download: 4 Steps to Simplify Your Calendar Ready to uncover more time on your calendar? This FREE download will help you remove what doesn't matter, so you have space for what does. Click here to get this FREE resource!   Join the Community! (Plus Weekly Facebook Lives) Become part of the FREE REALIFE Process® Community! Connect with Teresa and other podcast listeners, plus find additional content to help you discover your best REALIFE. Join us every Wednesday at 11am CT for a Facebook Live to take a deeper dive with the REALIFE Process®!   Check out our YouTube Channel! Prefer to watch AND listen? Check out our YouTube channel for the podcast episode on video! Make sure to subscribe so you get all the latest updates. Connect with your host, Teresa McCloy, on: Facebook - The REALIFE Process® with Teresa McCloy Instagram - teresa.mccloy LinkedIn - teresamccloy   About Teresa McCloy: Teresa McCloy is the creator of the REALIFE Process® and an ACC Certified Leadership & Life Coach through the International Coaching Federation. She partners with her clients as a coach, consultant, and professional speaker to discover how to do what matters in their life and business. Teresa is the author of Do What Matters: Live from Rest, Not Rush, Using the REALIFE Process®.

*Trigger Warning Sensitive Content related to childhood sexual abuse.  The impact of recovering memories that have been completely repressed for years or even decades can be a devastating process. On today's episode, Chandra Moyer shares her personal experience of becoming aware of childhood sexual abuse after more than thirty years of dissociative amnesia. She talks about the impact it had on her and on those around her. She also talks about the support that was helpful for her journey. Chandra Moyer is a sought-after speaker, author, life coach and veteran army officer. For three decades, she has empowered women through conferences, healing retreats, and workshops. Chandra is the recipient of the FBI Director's Community Leadership Award for her child trafficking prevention work.  Visit Chandra's website  Thank you to our sponsor Tyndale House Publishers Company  Dr. Daniel G. Amen newest book Change Your Brain Everyday is available for preorder https://www.tyndale.com/p/change-your-brain-every-day/9781496454577 Trauma Recovery Coaching and Resources https://www.thehealingtraumapodcast.com/

ANTs are Automatic Negative Thoughts and our heads are full of 'em! That is why we need to take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5). We need to examine our thoughts under the light of God's truth and be intentional about which thoughts we allow to be planted in our hearts. It's almost impossible to control our emotions but we CAN control our thoughts and it is our thoughts that often create our emotions, both positive and negative. Better thinking leads to better feeling which leads to better action! Danny Hochstatter helps us defeat our ANTs today with the help of Captain Snout (a children's book by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.).

In this episode I go into detail about about some of the overlooked signs of ADHD what procrastivity is and how to manage it. Email: cdirace@gmail.com book I referenced: happier you, by Daniel G Amen, M.D. INFO source, additude and book referenced. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/authenticallyadhd/message

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/NdaFuJuggxE   What is really happening with addiction and what does recovery actually entail?   How do psychedelics work with addiction, trauma, and mental disorders?   What is the future of addiction treatment and recovery?   Discover these fascinating insights into addiction and trauma and so much more in this powerful episode of Kaleidoscope of Possibilities: Alternative Perspectives on Mental Health in which Dr. Adriana Popescu is joined by addiction treatment pioneer Dr. David Smith. Dr. Smith brings his lifetime of leadership in the field of addiction and recovery and shares his wisdom, experience, strength, and hope.   In this episode: Dr. Smith's history Developing a free medical clinic LSD and psychedelic medicine Psychedelic revolution How psychedelics work Trauma capsule Bad trips Integration of treatment Avery Lane The disease and dysfunctional behaviors of addiction Relapse The neurology of addiction Self-medication TJ Woodward Brainspotting The addictive process Psychedelic-assisted therapies Psilocybin MAT or Medication Assisted Therapies A vision for the future   Resources mentioned in this episode: Dr. Smith's website: http://www.drdave.org/index.html Avery Lane: https://www.averylanewomensrehab.com/ TJ Woodward: https://www.tjwoodward.com/   About Dr. Smith: Dr. David E. Smith is recognized as a national leader in the areas of the treatment of addictive disease, the psychopharmacology of drugs, new research strategies in the management of drug abuse problems, and appropriate prescribing practices for physicians. He is the Founder of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics in San Francisco, which merged with Walden House in mid-2011 to form HealthRIGHT 360, which provides services at multiple sites throughout California. Dr. Smith is currently the Chair of Addiction Medicine for Muir Wood Adolescent and Family Services, a gender-specific residential program for teenagers suffering from substance abuse and co-occurring issues in Petaluma, California. He is also the Medical Director for Center Point, a 6-month residential therapeutic community in San Rafael, California, which provides comprehensive, integrated services to at-risk individuals and families. He also serves as Chief of Addiction Medicine for Alta Mira Recovery Programs in Sausalito, California, a private residential chemical dependency program, and is the Medical Director at Avery Lane in Novato, California, a holistic drug and alcohol rehabilitation center for women with co-occurring substance use and mental disorders and trauma. Dr. Smith has also served as Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Francisco; as Medical Director of the California State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs; and as Medical Director of the California Collaborative Center for Substance Abuse Policy Research. He is a Fellow and Past President of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and of the California Society of Addiction Medicine. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the University of California, San Francisco Medal, the Peter E. Haas Public Service Award from the University of California, Berkeley, the Robert D. Sparks, MD, Leadership Achievement Award of the California Medical Association, and the Annual Award of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Smith is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs and an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Addiction Medicine. In addition, he has authored or co-authored 26 books, written over 350 journal articles, edited 28 journals, and has been the technical consultant for 28 drug abuse-related films. He is the co-author, with Dr. Daniel G. Amen, of Unchain Your Brain: 10 Steps to Breaking the Addictions that Steal Your Life.   “We are in the midst of the biggest drug epidemic in US history and the things that we have learned about how to treat addiction should be available to all people who have addictive disorders.” – Dr. Smith   Would you like to continue this conversation and connect with other people who are interested in exploring these topics? Please join us on our Facebook group! (https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopeofpossibilitiespodcast/)   About your host: Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, author, speaker and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.   For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit: https://adrianapopescu.org/   To learn about her new trauma treatment program Firebird Healing, please visit the website: https://www.firebird-healing.com/   You can also follow her on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrAdrianaPopescu/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dradrianapopescu/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrAdrianaP Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriana-popescu-ph-d-03793 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dradrianapopescu Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCflL0zScRAZI3mEnzb6viVA Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/club/kaleidoscopepossibilities TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dradrianapopescu?   Disclaimer: This podcast represents the opinions of Dr. Adriana Popescu and her guests. The content expressed therein should not be taken as psychological or medical advice. The content here is for informational or entertainment purposes only. Please consult your healthcare professional for any medical or treatment questions.   This website or podcast is not to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever, including but not limited to establishing “standard of care” in any legal sense or as a basis for legal proceedings or expert witness testimony. Listening, reading, emailing, or interacting on social media with our content in no way establishes a client-therapist relationship.

En este episodio les doy la bienvenida a la tercera temporada y hablamos de cómo ser mas feliz alimentando a nuestro cerebro correctamente todo esto inspirado en el libro "You happier" escrito por el neurólogo Daniel G Amen. Espero lo disfruten.

We dive into solution oriented work. It's a taste of what to do when obstacles seem overwhelming. Getting up is the key.  www.healthy-perspectives.com   References: The Race: Life's Greatest Lesson. Dee Groberg published in 2004 Captain Snout and the super power questions. Daniel G. Amen, M.D. published in 2017

I originally interviewed Dr. Amen in partnership with the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce back in May 2021 in a Series called 'Getting Your Spark Back' to support communities with their emotional wellness. With their permission, I am sharing this interview on my personal podcast. You can listen to many leadership interviews from the We Are Business Podcast: Apple: https://apple.co/36W4p0j Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3gM9gqo Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/839797/8513113

Historically, it has been so easy for doctors, educators and parents to miss ADHD in young girls because it can present so differently than in young boys. Academic struggles, self-discipline issues, even people-pleasing can be sure signs to anyone knowledgeable about ADHD, but Lacy's story shows that in middle school and high school, with so many issues at play, ADHD not only can be overlooked, but can also be a huge contributing factor to the struggles we see in young girls struggling with ADHD. Listen to the first part of this two-part episode as Lacy Estelle shares her experience of living with ADHD in middle school and high school. Links & Resources“The Seven Types of ADD”, Daniel G. Amen, MD of the Amen Clinic Reach out to Lacy Estelle via Email: podcast@anaddwoman.com Facebook group: www.facebook.com/anADDwoman Instagram: www.instagram.com/anaddwoman/ Website: www.lacyestelle.com

Seasons of anxiety and depression are difficult but can be even more challenging for the homeschool mother. In this episode Jessica shares her experiences with anxiety, highlighting tips for "emergency-level" anxiety as well as chronic, background anxiety. Host biography Jessica is a wife, homeschool mom of three, author, and blogger. She lives in sunny North Carolina on a big family farm with chickens, goats, cousins, and lots of mud. Resources  20 Things to Do When You're Anxious Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Dr. Daniel G. Amen Calm My Anxious Heart by Linda Dillow Dr. Oz's Anxiety Diet Connect Jessica Smartt | Instagram | Facebook | Website Homeschooling.mom | Instagram | Website Thank you to our sponsors! Medi-Share: an affordable Christian alternative to traditional health insurance Have you joined us at one of the Great Homeschool Conventions?  We hope to see you there! For more encouragement on your homeschooling journey, visit the Homeschooling.mom site, and tune in to our sister podcast The Charlotte Mason Show. View full show notes on the blog.

How do you know if you have ADHD or ADD? Lacy Estelle isn't a doctor (and everything she says in the An ADD Woman podcast is not to be taken as medical advice) but it's fair to say that as a diagnosed woman with ADHD, there are some telltale signs that she might be able to help you recognize … basically, because she has lived with them. Listen as Lacy discusses some of the signs that might point to ADHD and how ADHD brains are just wired differently; not badly, just differently… and in some areas, that wiring might be a strength!  With examples drawn from her growing up, you can navigate the ins and outs of deciding if this might be your struggle, too.  Do they sound familiar to you? Do you feel like you've been at a point in your life where everything has felt hard for so long? Let Lacy start you on the path of possible solutions. Links & Resources American Psychological Association on ADHD, www.apa.org/topics/adhd Daniel G. Amen, MD books: www.amazon.com/s?k=Daniel+G.+Amen Email: podcast@anaddwoman.com Facebook group: www.facebook.com/anADDwoman Instagram: www.instagram.com/anaddwoman/ Website: www.lacyestelle.com

Have you read the book “ magnificent mind at any age by Dr. Daniel G. Amen? Lami shares what she gleaned from the book on the book digest segment of Some People Say podcast. If you have any comments, email us at somesayers@gmail.com Supported by Afrique visions Contact Afrique visions on +233 0268119393/ +15167252469 or visit https://www.instagram.com/afriquevisions/?hl=en Edited by Lilian Moro Music:adobestock.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/somesayers/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/somesayers/support

Dean sits down with the lovely Daniel G. Amen and they speak about his latest book ‘Your brain is always listening' --- Visit Daniel on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/doc_amen/ Visit DLC Anxiety on Instagram at https://instagram.com/dlcanxiety Visit our website at https://dlcanxiety.com --- Music Credit: Happy Excited Intro 19 by TaigaSoundProd Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7822-happy-excited-intro-19 License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Carcia and Telly put their brains to the test using Dr. Daniel G. Amen's brain testing methods for a healthy brain. The siblings go through their results and share discoveries they made about themselves, good and painful. Listen and be inspired to learn more about the person you have to live with for the rest of your life...yourself. Want to build a mindset practice to help you in all aspects of your life? Check out https://www.brightmindsetproject.com/ for our programs, coaching, and freebies! Send us a message or email us (hercastlegirls@hercastlegirls.com, brightmindsetcoaching@gmail.com) to learn more about our coaching programs and upcoming group sessions. Check out Dr. Daniel Amen's Brain Health Assessment (https://brainhealthassessment.com/) and Know Your Dragons (https://knowyourdragons.com/)! Watch us record the podcast here: https://youtu.be/ZllJUWJm74w

Want to learn the best habits to support your brain and overall health? Today we're welcoming Dr. Daniel Amen to the podcast! He is one of the leading psychiatrists and brain health experts in the country. He has authored numerous books including New York Times mega-bestseller Change Your Brain, Change Your Life. His clinics have run over 200k brain SPECT Scans, which measure blood flow and activity in the brain. He has worked with everyone from Justin Bieber, to Miley Cyrus, Raven Symone, Jay Shetty, and more.Dr. Amen joins Lacy to discuss how we can better treat our brains for mental, emotional and physical wellbeing. They also touch on different brain types, the placebo effect, the science and psychology behind brain scans, the best brain diet and a ton of tips and tools that anyone at home can implement!Find the Complete Show Notes Here -> https://tobemagnetic.com/expanded-podcast In This Episode We Talk About:The science and psychology behind brain scans!How anxiety, depression and ADHD occur in the brainThe four main pillars of health and wellnessDifferent brain types and how you can diagnose your ownTips on calming the brain through meditation and reflectionAncestral trauma and how it can be passed down geneticallyTools for achieving happiness and homeostasisHabits and behaviors that increase brain functionThe placebo effect on the brainSocial and spiritual aspects of overall healthHealth benefits of having deeper meaning and purpose in life Resources: The Pathway 2.0 - (12-month commitment) - Looking To Start Your Membership? Use code EXPANDED for $20 off your first month of the Pathway 2.0 or $20 off any 2.0 ala carteA la Carte Workshops 2.0NewsletterText Us: +1-213-423-5226 - (texting is only for US, Canada, & Puerto Rico) In The Episode:BLUBlox - 15% off your purchase with code MAGNETICLumi Clip Sleep+Expanded Ep 72 x Andy Mant of BLUbloxExpanded Ep. 36 x Andy Mant BLUblox Beekeeper's Naturals - 15% off your purchase with code TBMB. Smart Brain FuelExpanded Ep. 137 x Carly Stein of Beekeeper's Naturals Your Brain Is Always Listening - Daniel G. Amen, MDChange Your Brain, Change Your Life - Daniel G. Amen, MDKnow Your Dragons QuizWhat is Your Brain Type QuizExpanded x Ep. 138: Byron Katie on Witnessing Ego & Relieving SufferingExpanded x Ep. 115: Dr. Joe Dispenza on Becoming The Creator of Your LifeBright Minds Program - Amen Clinics Where To Find Dr. Amen!DanielAmenMD.com@Doc_AmenAmenClinics.com Our Offerings:Looking To Start Your Membership? - Use code EXPANDED for $20 off your first month of The Pathway or $20 off any a la carte workshop. A La Carte - Not ready for a membership? Try an individual workshop with 3 months of access.The Basics Bundle - How To Manifest, Unblocked Inner Child & Unblocked ShadowUnblocked Inner Child Unblocked Shadow The Love Bundle - Unblocked Love & Relationships Reflection Mini-WorkshopUnblocked Money The Pathway - 12-month all-access membership includes ALL of our a la cartes + more!How To Manifest, Unblocked Inner Child, Unblocked Shadow, The Love Bundle, Unblocked Money+ The Daily Practice includes our Deep Imagining Library with over 18+ DIs+ Unblocked Boundaries + Unblocked Full Moon+ Uplevel - 3 in 1 includes Rut, Rock Bottom & Next Level workshops+ Monthly Supported Class+ Community Group to connect with fellow manifestors+ Automatic access to any new offering or DI that becomes available as well! Free Offerings to Get You StartedThe MotivationFree Clarity Exercise - Journal prompt + 1 Deep ImaginingExpanded Podcast - Manifestation 101  SubmitSubmit to Be a Process GuestLeave a Review 5-star review for a chance to win a 1-year membership to The Pathway 2.0. Then tune into future episodes to hear your review announced! If you win send us a message on Intercom hi@tobemagnetic.com to claim it.

On this episode of Making Elephants Fly, Terry sits down with Mike Kim. He is a marketing consultant, communications strategist, copywriter, and all-around fine human being. Mike ditched his comfy C-suite marketing job as the CMO of a successful multi-million dollar company near New York City in pursuit of career freedom. He now hosts the #1 ranked podcast on personal branding in iTunes, The Brand You Podcast is designed to help you showcase your unique expertise and build a highly profitable, personally fulfilling business. Mike has crafted the messages and marketing campaigns for some of today's top thought leadership brands including Donald Miller, John Maxwell, Daniel G. Amen, MD, Suzanne Evans, and Catalyst Leadership. Join Mike and Terry as they talk about how to build a business around your ideas, expertise, and message. we Talk through Mike's process of creating a compelling personal brand to build your business around and how the best strategy for success is telling the truth Tune and learn how to use your brand to have the freedom and the impact you long for! Spoiler alert we also announce that Mike will be speaking at The Thing Orlando 2021! Find out more at http://terryweaver.com and join Terry & Mike at the Thing at http://thething.live and use the code PODCAST for a discount.

#133: Are you interested in learning how to create an impactful yet profitable personal brand for your company? In today's world, it seems like there are so many gurus and experts out there telling us how to create or set up our personal brand so that we can make quick money. But that's not the point of a personal brand. Not only is our guest today a Wall Street Journal Best selling author of The Alter Ego Effect and whose latest book, You are the Brand, comes out today. But he is also my coach and I've been honored to be 1 of 12 people taking part in his certification course, because his 8 step process really works. What's really great about this book, especially for Christian entrepreneurs, is how he explains why we can and should stand out in the marketplace without feeling guilty of somehow being arrogant or prideful by promoting ourselves. Additionally, he explains in this episode, how we often overestimate perfection and underestimate the importance of connection when building our personal brands. Mike Kim is a brand strategist for business thought leaders, coaches, and authors who want to create impact with their ideas and get their message heard. Mike's refreshing approach has made him a sought-after speaker, online educator, and consultant for top thought leaders like John Maxwell, Donald Miller, and Daniel G. Amen, MD. Mike's clients include New York Times bestselling authors and other experts featured on PBS, TED, CNN, and Fox. Mike has been featured in and written for Inc., Entrepreneur, and The Huffington Post. He is also host of the top-rated and ranked podcast, The Brand You Podcast. He has spoken at industry leading events including Social Media Marketing World, Tribe Conference, and Podcast Movement. He has been a guest on leading podcasts like Smart Passive Income, Marketing Made Simple, and Read to Lead. He lives in Alexandria, VA. So as you can see, he knows his stuff! In this episode, we delve into his latest book, You Are the Brand, and what sets him apart from others teaching about personal branding. This episode is jam-packed full of great ideas, so let's get to it!  Learn How You Can Build a Profitable, Personally Fulfilling Business... [10:02] Mike details what sets him apart as an expert teaching about personal brands [11:51] 4 things that make up any personal brand [13:53] #1 thing that will help you stand out from everyone else [17:51] How do you build a personal brand without sounding like we're full of ourselves? [23:58] Why you should share what you are doing [26:04] First 3 steps of Mike's 8 step process to building a profitable, personally fulfilling business Important Links & Mentions in this episode:https://mikekim.com/ (Mike's Website) https://youarethebrandbook.com/ (Mike Kim's You are the Brand Book) https://www.powerofoneframework.com/workshop (Position to Thrive Workshop) https://www.love146.org.uk/ (Love146 - Charity to Help End Child Trafficking and Exploitation) https://www.christianceolearninghall.com/ (Learn more about Christian CEO Learning Hall) https://kellybaader.com/review (Subscribe + Review on iTunes) https://kellybaader.com/Spotify (Subscribe + Listen on Spotify)     Remember, YOU Matter! See you in the next episode.   

Personal brand is much bigger and all-encompassing than a logo, a color palette, a nice-looking website, and business cards. Your personal brand is the image you put forth both online and offline. Your values, unique skills, experiences, stories, personality, and image make up who you are and what you stand for. More than ever, people are building thriving businesses around personal brands. Some struggle while others earn 6-or 7-figure incomes. In today's episode, I have a conversation with brand strategist, Mike Kim. Mike outlines some of his 8-step blueprint to showcase your unique expertise and build a highly profitable, personally fulfilling business. The full blueprint is shared in Mike's book “You Are The Brand.” Mike's refreshing approach has made him a sought-after speaker, online educator, and consultant for top rated leaders like John Maxwell, Donald Miller, and Daniel G. Amen, MD. Mike has been featured in and written for Inc., Entrepreneur, and The Huffington Post. He is also host of the top-rated and ranked podcast, The Brand You Podcast. He has spoken at industry leading events including Social Media Marketing World, Tribe Conference, and Podcast Management. He has been a guest on leading podcasts like Smart Passive Income, Marketing Made Simple, and Read to Lead. Connect with Mike Kim: Website: mikekim.com Instagram: instagram.com/mikekimtv LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mikekimtv Additional Resources: You Are The Brand | Mike Kim Brand You Podcast Connect with Gayla: Website: https://www.gaylascrivener.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaylascrivener/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GaylaScrivenerWorkFromAnywhere/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gscrivener/ Content Marketing Resources:  Scrivener Solutions: https://scrivenersolutions.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXn6GdZzFN9Ij9Iqe41heew Free Download: 48 Social Media Post Ideas http://scrivenersolutions.com/48ideas

This episode is part of our special Unstoppable Spotlight Series. Today we're talking with THE brand expert and my friend, Mike Kim! Mike is a personal branding consultant and the host of The Brand You Podcast. I want all of my business ladies to listen up to this one! Mike's giving us a peek into his proven 8-step blueprint that has helped build the brands for some of today's most influential thought leaders. Listen in to hear from the expert himself about the importance of having a well-developed brand, and how it will invite even more success into your life! What To Listen For You need to be fully committed to yourself in order to create a brand! Why this is so true, and how to get there Not everyone makes it in the business world, but here are some tips to ensure you do! Why you need to be “authentic” to grow your business (and what that really means) How we can utilize the ancient art of storytelling Make sure to order Mike's book, You Are The Brand, by clicking the link below! https://youarethebrandbook.com/ Resources Check out our free resources for listeners www.theunstoppablewoman.com/freestuff Schedule a Strategy to Scale Consultation https://theunstoppablewoman.com/nextlevel Join our Facebook Group http://theunstoppablewoman.com/facebookgroup Join the Morning Mindset Club https://theunstoppablewoman.com/mindset About Mike: Mike Kim — a business coach and marketing strategist who specializes in personal branding, product launch strategies, and copywriting. His core philosophy of marketing is this: Marketing isn't about closing a sale, it's about opening a relationship. When we get this part of marketing right, results follow. He has used this same approach to serve today's most influential thought leaders including John Maxwell, Donald Miller, Catalyst, and Daniel G. Amen, MD. Before running his own consulting business, Mike worked for several years as the CMO of a successful multi-million dollar company near New York City. Nowadays you'll find Mike speaking at conferences, looking for the next great place to scuba dive, and occasionally sipping a glass of single malt — all while coaching students, serving clients, and recording his show, the Brand You Podcast — a show dedicated to personal branding. You can find Mike Kim at: Instagram: @mikekimtv LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mikekimtv YouTube: youtube.com/c/MikeKim TikTok: tiktok.com/@mikekimtv Clubhouse: joinclubhouse.com/@mikekimtv Twitter: twitter.com/mikekimtv Pinterest: pinterest.com/mikekimtv Facebook: facebook.com/mikekimtv

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Thinking Big Podcast.  Today I welcome my friend and one of my mentors Mike Kim to the podcast, Mike is the author of the new book “You Are the Brand”: The 8-Step Blueprint to Showcase Your Unique Expertise and Build a Highly Profitable, Personally Fulfilling Business. That is already a best seller! Mike is a brand strategist for business thought leaders, coaches, and authors who want to create an impact with their ideas and get their message heard. Mike’s refreshing approach has made him a sought-after speaker, online educator, and consultant for top thought leaders like John Maxwell, Donald Miller, and Daniel G. Amen, Mike’s clients include New York Times bestselling authors and other experts featured on PBS, TED, CNN, and Fox. Mike has been featured in and written for Inc., Entrepreneur, and The Huffington Post. He is also host of the top-rated and ranked podcast, The Brand You Podcast. He has spoken at industry-leading events including Social Media Marketing World, Tribe Conference, and Podcast Movement, and now he is here with the thinking big tribe. My 3 biggest takeaways from this episode are: The difference between a How-To-Preneur vs. Ideapreneur — I am an Ideapreneur. The three stories every personal brand needs to tell, and how to tell them. THIS IS BIG I can drink wine at Mike’s campfire! The simple “9-Box Grid” that shows you how to price your products and services. OMG   Connect with Mike Kim Book:Book: Youarethebrandbook.com Web: mikekim.com Instagram: instagram.com/mikekimtv LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mikekimtv Twitter: twitter.com/mikekimtv Facebook: facebook.com/mikekimtv YouTube: youtube.com/youarethebrand   Connect with Sean Osborn at Thinking Big Coaching http://www.thinkingbigcoaching.com https://www.instagram.com/thinkingbigcoaching/ https://www.facebook.com/thinkingbigcoaching/

This last Episode for Mother's That Rock Month! This week's guest is Alex and she is someone that I have known for years; like 10 plus years. We old!We dive into mental health and specifically hers. She was diagnosed with a couple mental health issues at a very young age. We chat about her diagnoses, how she has beat the odds for her disorder and how she walks through life with them. We talk a bit about a book called “Change your Brain Change your Life” by Daniel G. Amen, M.D. If you are looking to find ways to help your brain; you can check out www.mybrainfitlife.com Please if you are struggling with mental health; reach out to your family, friends or a professional.If you need help, please call the Canada Suicide Prevention Lifeline at1-833-456-4566 Or the USA National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at1-800-273-8255If you happen to live outside of North America, please look up your lifeline number if you are in need. You can find Alex on Instagram @alexandra.ceci.cookFacebook Alexandra Ceci-CookTik Tok @alexandra.cookxo You can find us at www.abnormaladventures.ca or on Instagram @abnormaladventurespodcastMake sure to Like, Subscribe, Follow and Rate 5 stars.

Explores the incredible power of our brains. Resources mentioned: Change Your Brain Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.; Change Your Brain Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.; The Art of Seeing by Aldous Huxley; Thrilled to Death [how the endless pursuit of pleasure is leaving us numb] by Dr. Archibald D. Hart; "Morning Weight Mastery" meditation and "Unplug Unstress" meditations all on BeachBody on Demand. The background music pulled into this podcast is "Celestial Navigation." It starts off with what sounds like a banjo. I have delightful memories of my Dad playing banjo when I was growing up, though I always liked the sound of him playing guitar better! (Shhh, don't tell him!) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/valerie-dilorenzo/message

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When people think about today’s guest, tenacity is probably the first word that comes to mind. Everything she accomplished today stems from her unwavering self-belief and deep understanding that you must also take care of yourself. Through this perspective, she has taught herself and countless others how to overcome challenges. And like her, we’ve encountered countless adversities. We’ve all been in a place of anger, frustration, guilt or sadness. How do we begin to accept and love ourselves and learn to grow from it? In this week’s episode, Kim Morrison joins us to teach us all about self-love. She shares how she questioned human existence and purpose after a life-changing event and what we should be asking ourselves whenever we go through intense emotions. Kim also tells us how to overcome challenges and trauma, and discusses different helpful processes like hypnosis. If you want to find out how to overcome challenges, achieve self-love and accomplish your goals, then tune in to this episode!   Get Customised Guidance for Your Genetic Make-Up For our epigenetics health program all about optimising your fitness, lifestyle, nutrition and mind performance to your particular genes, go to  https://www.lisatamati.com/page/epigenetics-and-health-coaching/.   Customised Online Coaching for Runners CUSTOMISED RUN COACHING PLANS — How to Run Faster, Be Stronger, Run Longer  Without Burnout & Injuries Have you struggled to fit in training in your busy life? Maybe you don't know where to start, or perhaps you have done a few races but keep having motivation or injury troubles? Do you want to beat last year’s time or finish at the front of the pack? 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If you have a big challenge ahead, are dealing with adversity or are wanting to take your performance to the next level and want to learn how to increase your mental toughness, emotional resilience, foundational health and more, then contact us at support@lisatamati.com.   Order My Books My latest book Relentless chronicles the inspiring journey about how my mother and I defied the odds after an aneurysm left my mum Isobel with massive brain damage at age 74. The medical professionals told me there was absolutely no hope of any quality of life again, but I used every mindset tool, years of research and incredible tenacity to prove them wrong and bring my mother back to full health within 3 years. Get your copy here: https://shop.lisatamati.com/collections/books/products/relentless. 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Manufactured in an ISO9001 certified facility Boost Your NAD+ Levels — Healthy Ageing: Redefined Cellular Health Energy & Focus Bone Density Skin Elasticity DNA Repair Cardiovascular Health Brain Health  Metabolic Health   My  ‘Fierce’ Sports Jewellery Collection For my gorgeous and inspiring sports jewellery collection ‘Fierce’, go to https://shop.lisatamati.com/collections/lisa-tamati-bespoke-jewellery-collection.   Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: Find out how to overcome challenges. Discover the things you need to work on and achieve self-love. Learn about goal setting and the importance of aligning it with your values. Episode Highlights [05:57] A Little Bit About Kim Kim grew up in New Zealand. She’s married to Danny Morrison, a former cricketer and fast-paced bowler. Their world turned upside down when they lost a sister to suicide. They then lost their house and a lot of money that they had invested. Seeing her husband go through a world of emotions made Kim question what makes humans tick and why we struggle and go through such tough times. This led her to write several books around essential oils and started her passion for plants, aromatherapy, and connection to nature.  Lately, she has been interested in mind work like neuro-linguistic programming and hypnosis. [10:09] What She’s Learned in the Past Years You are the result of the five people with whom you spend the most time. We can have a significant event happen in our lives that causes us emotional trauma. Depending on our filter system and body physiology, it then affects our behaviour. A fascinating thing Kim found out is that the meaning we put into our early childhood can then affect what our lives become.  When you have awareness around it, you can undo this. What happens to you does not matter. What matters is your reaction and perception of it. [18:44] How Trauma Affects Us  Humans are made up of 50 trillion cells, and every one of those cells is communicating. Unconsciously, so much is happening in our body because of homeostasis. It takes time, effort, energy and real work on how to overcome challenges presented by trauma. You must seek professional help. There’s also a lot of free services out there.  You need to take the time to take care of yourself. [24:02] How to Overcome Challenges  Most people’s excuses for why they do not work on themselves are time and money, but those are not true. In truth, it is about whether or not you make yourself a priority. Own up to your emotions with power instead of having a victim mentality. To have a friend who is a good listener, or to be that friend, is one of the best fast-track pathways to self-care. Lastly, to learn how to overcome challenges, you need discipline.  Life has its highs and lows, and if we can come to accept that, then that is self-love. To heal, we have to truly feel our emotions. [33:35] The Reticular Activating System and Goal Setting The reticular activating system is a part of our brain that stores memories. It has filters and a whole belief system. We receive 2 million bits of information every day, but we only have access to 136 bits. Sometimes, your goal does not match your value.  You have to have your goal aligned with your top three values. To do this, you need to do some work. What we believe, perceive and focus on is where our energy goes. If our goals aren’t aligned, we look for excuses to not accomplish them.  [43:23] The Hypnosis Process Hypnosis is about tapping directly into the unconscious mind. When someone uses hypnotic language, it puts us into a subconscious trance. Your mind can then go on a journey, and we can tap into the heart space. It allows us to bypass the critical factor and create change. When you come out to the other side, you see possibility and opportunity instead of negativity. Breath is the essence of life. When we go into a state of hypnosis, we are letting go of the breath and accessing our energy. [50:37] Our Perception of the World Everything we have ever experienced is just a belief or a perception; it is never the truth. If we imagine the world from someone else’s perspective, we gain more understanding. Every time you feel yourself going into a place of anger, frustration, guilt, or sadness, ask yourself, ‘For what purpose am I feeling this?’ or simply ask, ‘Why?’ [56:47] On Negative Thoughts As negative thoughts enter your mind, ask seven whys.  We often have two characters in our head, one who is positive and another who is negative.  If you ask the seven why’s to those characters, you will find out that both have the same purpose – to protect you.   Resources Gain exclusive access to premium podcast content and bonuses! Become a Pushing the Limits Patron now! The Art of Self Love by Kim Morrison Self Love Podcast with Kim Morrison Learn with Kim on Kim Morrison Training Join Kim’s Self-Love & Wellness Mentorship program with this special offer! Twenty8 Essentials: Website | Facebook Connect with Kim: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton The Wim Hof Method Breath by James Nestor The Oxygen Advantage by Patrick McKeown Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Dr Daniel G. Amen  The Secret by Rhonda Byrne Pushing the Limits Episode 180 - Breathing as the Key to Better Health with James Nestor Pushing the Limits Episode 182 - Science Behind Nasal Breathing and How to Breathe Better with Patrick McKeown Pushing the Limits Episode 190 - How to Build Resilience and Get Control of Your Biology with Paul Taylor   7 Powerful Quotes from this Episode ‘And the thing I love about it is that when you realise it and have an awareness around who you are and what you've been doing, the world becomes your oyster, and we stop blaming; we stop becoming the victim, we stop being in denial, we stop making excuses for our life. And we actually take accountability, responsibility and ownership for every single thing.’ ‘And I say that with a disclaimer, that it's really important that in these times of worry and fear and stress and overwhelm, that you seek help. If you're feeling like your world is closing in, you're not your own coach; you’re not your own best coach; your partner's not necessarily the best coach or mentor for you through these times, neither are your parents. So sometimes we need professional help.’  ‘Often, as we talk it to someone that's listening, truly listening without trying to fix us. When you're listening, we often talk through the process out loud because I believe all humans have all traits. And all humans have all resources within them to help heal themselves. But sometimes we just need to hear it.’ ‘And if we could just understand that it's at our darkest times, we actually are revealed. Your strength comes through your courage, your determination, your tenacity, your resilience is what shows up.’ ‘So we know that life is ebb and flow, high and low, in and out, dark and light. If we can come to accept that, then that is self-love.’ ‘So the important thing to realise is that you have to have your goal aligned with your top three values. And if it's not aligned with any of your top three values, you're going to need some integration work to bring it up there if it's something you really want. Because otherwise, that's where the excuses come in.’ ‘Just keep your mind stimulated with possibility. Because it's through the possibility we have grown, and through the growth we become way more powerful individuals. And with that, we start to then look at our higher purpose, and what legacy are we going to leave in this life.’    About Kim Kim Morrison is a speaker, author, facilitator, health and lifestyle educator, self-love expert and entrepreneur. She set the world record as the youngest female to run 100 miles in less than 24 hours in 1983. Kim has been an Aromatherapist for 27 years. She has diplomas in Holistic Aromatherapy, Sport and Remedial Therapies, Fitness Leadership and Homeobotanical Therapies in Melbourne and New Zealand. She is also a qualified Personality Trainer and completed studies in nutrition, reflexology and counselling. In 2009, Kim launched her company, Twenty8 Essentials. To learn more about Kim, visit her website. Check out her podcast and connect with her on Instagram as well!   Enjoyed This Podcast? If you did, be sure to subscribe and share it with your friends! Post a review and share it! If you enjoyed tuning in, then leave us a review. You can also share this with your family and friends so they can learn more about how to overcome challenges through self-love. Have any questions? You can contact me through email (support@lisatamati.com) or find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. For more episode updates, visit my website. You may also tune in on Apple Podcasts.   To pushing the limits, Lisa   Full Transcript Of The Podcast Welcome to Pushing The Limits, the show that helps you reach your full potential, with your host Lisa Tamati, brought to you by lisatamati.com. Lisa Tamati: Welcome back to Pushing The Limits with your host Lisa Tamati. Today I have the lovely, dear friend, Kim Morrison, to guest. Kim is an absolute sweetheart. She's a speaker. She's a six-times author, a facilitator, health and lifestyle educator, podcaster herself. She is a self-love expert. And there's so much more to come than meets the eye. She's an absolute gorgeous woman inside and out. Tenacity is probably the first word that comes to mind. In her journey and all she’s accomplished today have all stemmed from her unwavering self-belief and her deep understanding that you must also take care of yourself first and foremost. She recently wrote a book called The Art of Self-Love, which I encourage you to check out after you've listened to this podcast. Kim is also, she’s an entrepreneur, she owns the company Twenty8 Essentials with essential oils. She does a lot of mentoring, especially with women's empowerment. She has her own podcast. She's also a world record holder as the youngest female to run 100 miles in less than, in 24 hours. So she's a very amazing athlete and mother. She's also the wife of Danny Morrison, the famous cricketer, and she's just an absolute legend. She's been through a lot in her life, and she shares in this episode a lot of her learnings along the way so I do hope you enjoy the episode with Kim.  Before I head over to the show, just want to let you guys know we've just launched our premium membership for the podcast. If you love Pushing the Limits, if you love what we stand for, if you'd like to support the show and get a whole lot of extra benefits as premium members, and the list is long on the extra benefits, then I would love you to hop on over to patron.lisatamati.com. That's patron.lisatamati.com and become one of our VIP members. One of our premium members that supports the podcast and the work that we do, and helps us keep getting this great content out there and get a whole lot of benefits, as you know to be a part of this exclusive club. So we're really, really stoked to get that up off the ground and we really appreciate your support. Of course, if you give us a rating and review for the shows too, that would be absolutely fabulous, and share it with your family and friends. We put a lot of effort into this. Sometimes some of the guests we have, top scientists, top doctors and researchers. It takes often many weeks to prepare for an interview and a lot of study, a lot of reading, a lot of books and also chasing celebrity guests and people that are of note that are hard to get hold of. So if you want me to be able to keep doing this work, I’d really appreciate your support over at patron.lisatamati.com. And while we're on that note, if you're into interesting reads, please check out my three books I have Running Hot, Running To Extremes which both chronicle my adventures running around the world doing lots of crazy stuff, succeeding, failing, having lots of fun and experiences and disasters along the way. So if you like a good novel, well, not a novel, they're actually autobiographies. But if you'd like good running stories and adventures then please check those out. And my latest book, Relentless: How a Mother and Daughter Defied the Odds is available on my website as well as on Amazon and IngramSpark and all the audiobooks and all of those sorts of places as well as Book Depository. You name it, it's out there. That one’s called Relentless and it's the story of bringing my mum back after a massive aneurysm left her with hardly any higher brain function, in a diagnosis where the medical professionals were telling me there was no way back for her at the age of 74, the brain damage was just too massive. They were wrong. This book is about empowering people. This is what this whole podcast is about. And what my whole life is about is taking control of your health, being preventative, educating yourself, and looking outside the square and connecting with the right people and, doing all that sort of stuff. So I'd love you to go and grab that book. And please share it too with your friends. If you like the book, get them to buy a copy too and help support the book. Getting it out there, and reviews and ratings for the book are really helpful too on either goodreads.com or you can just email me. I'd also love to hear from you if you are enjoying the podcast. Reach out to us if you've got any questions around any of the topics that we've brought up. We'd love to engage with you on support@lisatamati.com. Right well, now we'll go over to the lovely Kim who I absolutely treasure. She's a wonderful woman. I do hope You enjoy this podcast with Kim Morrison. Lisa: Well, hi everyone and welcome back to pushing the limits. Today I have one of my very dear friends Kim Morrison back on the show. Kim, welcome to Pushing the Limits again. Kim Morrison: Such a treat to be with you, my friend.  Lisa: We're just being ravishing. We couldn't stop talking to actually get the recording done, because we just got so much to like, (blah blah noise). Kim: We almost should have recorded what we just created. Lisa: All the cool people we've got to meet. I've got to introduce you to this person and this person. So yeah, we love swapping and collaborating and doing lots of crazy things.  So Kim, for those of you who don't know, you and most people should because you're world-famous and you're the author of six books. You're a mum, you're—you have your own amazing company. But tell us a little bit about Kim Morrison. Who’s Kim Morrison? Where are you sitting at the moment? Kim: On the Sunshine Coast. World-famous and world tellers is what I’d say. I'm here on the Sunshine Coast. Obviously a kiwi, grew up in New Zealand, married Danny Morrison, a former New Zealand cricketer, fast-paced bowler and we had an incredible life. Then our world got turned upside down when sadly we lost a sister to suicide. And then Danny went through his own world of emotions. And as you can imagine being a top international athlete, to now a father of two, a mortgage, losing a sister, and then we lost our house. Then we lost a whole lot of money that we'd invested. All of a sudden, I think Danny started to question who the frick he was.  To watch that as a wife, a partner and someone that you love kept pushing me further down the rabbit hole and understanding what makes us tick. Why do people struggle? Why do people go through tough times? What is the meaning of it? So that took me on a journey after writing a number of books around essential oils.  My passion was plants and aromatherapy and our connection to nature. And I've really, I've dabbled in a whole lot of things like nutrition and home-botanical therapy. And then lately, in the last few years, probably since writing my book, The Art of Self-Love, it's really been a quest, the last, six to ten years on, again, why do we have to go through tough times? And what does it actually mean? So lately, I've been doing a whole lot of mind work around things like neuro-linguistic programming, hypnosis, and really getting to understand how we tick and what makes us put meaning into life situations which then can calibrate into our physiology, which then calibrates into our immunology, which then calibrates into our health and wellness.  It's been a really cool journey. Lots of ups, lots of downs. I'm not sitting here saying my life's been easy. I've been through a lot of downs myself. And knowing that often hitting the rock bottom parts of life, whilst you're in it, the worst thing is to think that there's a lesson in this. ‘Oh, my gosh, I'm going to be coming out so amazing’ when you're in the throes of it. If someone even suggests that you're going to have come out of– Lisa: Both! Kim: Yeah, exactly. But we all know when we look back on our lives, dear Lisa,  there is always a learning, there is always an opportunity for growth. But you can take it one of two ways you can turn it into a power part of your life or a petty part of your life. You can become the victor or the victim. And that's where I love working with people who choose the victor strategy. How do I learn from this? Lisa: Wow, the victor strategy. You either become a victim or a victor. I love it. It's just so beautifully put. We've both been through rocky roads and most people have, if you get to our age. You've had some shit thrown at you. Some of your own doing some not your own doing. And okay, what can we learn out of this? And how can we grow from this so that we just are able to carry on and we were talking before about the journey I've been on with losing my dad six months ago or seven months ago and how, trying to stand back up from that. Trying to make something positive out of the horrific situation which is still too fresh to fully have that formed. But it will be his legacy. He will have a legacy because of this. And I believe that he's helping me on the other side. I'm pretty damn sure of that.  That he's making things happen and the good time. But we all go through these things and we all go through times where we think ‘I can't get up again'.  So you've written a book called The Art of Self-Love. You do a heck of a lot. You have a podcast all around the space of loving yourself. And this isn't just whoo-whoo stuff. This is real stuff. This is like, how do I accept myself? Love myself? Learn from this? Grow from this? You've had some amazing people on your show, some amazing guests. What are some of the things that you've learned just in the last year working on your podcasts and so on? Kim: It's been phenomenal. I think the biggest thing that I love is you are the result of the five people you spend your most time with. So that includes family, and sometimes that can be tough. Therefore, the most important thing of all is—look, we can have a significant event happen in our lives that can bring us to our knees, which causes a whole lot of emotional trauma. Then we perceive that event. Then depending on our upbringing, our circumstances, our values, our beliefs, our meta-programs. How we generalize, distort and delete things. How we actually filter for what we're thinking of that meaning. Then creates a physiology within the body, which then creates a state, and then our emotions come out, which then drives our behaviour.  So it's fascinating, and the way I can explain this is if you grew up with siblings, and you had the privilege of having, say, the same mom and dad the whole way through. If you asked each of the siblings what they thought of their childhood, you may find a very different perception or meaning of what they've put onto that. And that's based on the filter system.  We all know that between the ages of naught and seven is pretty much the imprinting stage. So whatever happens usually in those naught to seven years, we create meaning. We're an absorber of information. So if you grew up with a mom that was frantic and full-on and was doing the best she could. Let's face it, everybody's done the best they could with the resources they have or don't have. But let's say that you heard, as a little four-year-old girl, your mom and dad fighting one night. They were having an argument, and let's say it was about money. Maybe your dad just lost his job. But as a four-year-old, you don't understand all of this. But you come to the door because you're worried you can hear and it doesn't feel real. And then your dad says to you, ‘Go away. This is not to do with you’. Or says something that you've heard it in a way that now means you'd now go into your room, you calibrate that into your physiology, that the next time a male or a man shouts, you've taken it to mean, perhaps you're not good enough, or it's your fault. Now you can imagine throughout your life now, you start building scenarios. Your reticular activation system is now on alert. That now every time you hear a man or a male, argue, or fight, or scream, or yell or have anger, you’re now drawn to it. So you're now filtering for it. Because on the other side of that, because to have a problem, you also have to not have a problem. Or to have heat, you also have to have cold to understand the polarities of that. You now also know that to look for love in your life, you're now going to look for the polarity opposite of that, which is mean yelling. Or maybe it could be in the form of your boss. It could be in the form of a teacher. It could be in the form of a friend.  Lisa: You're going to be a travel expert.  Kim: So it fascinates me, Lisa, that the meaning we put into our early childhood can then become what our life becomes or doesn't become. Now the cool thing about that is when you have awareness around it, you can also undo this. If you've had the physiology or a life of not having great relationships, and you've never. If we could take you back through hypnosis or through different timeline strategies, and we can get you back to the place where you first put meaning and had a limiting belief around that, then we can easily take the lessons from it, learn it, and undo everything. And it's not about unwinding or stopping those memories. It's not about that. It's just realizing why you've created a certain behaviour to have that result. And the thing I love about it is that when you realize it and have an awareness around who you are and what you've been doing, the world becomes your oyster. And we stop blaming, we stop becoming the victim, we stop being in denial, we stop making excuses for our life. And we actually take accountability, responsibility and ownership for every single thing.  Now that means we're things that happened to us like you just said. So again, it doesn't matter what happens to you. It's your reaction to it that matters. It's how you perceive it that matters. Because we can't control their outside world as much as we've tried to change partners and kids and parents and families and friends. As much as we've tried to change people, do any of us want to be changed or told we're doing it wrong? Probably not. So it actually teaches you a way on how to perceive it in a way that you do it with love. And as far as I'm concerned, I can speak to the biggest scientists on the planet. I can speak to the most intelligent humans on this planet. And ultimately it all comes back to us desiring the ability to love and be loved. Lisa: There is a whole purpose of us being here, I'm pretty damn sure of it. But if, without getting into the whole spiritual silence, what I've been looking at—wWhen you lose a loved one, you start looking at what's on the other side, and what is the reason of life. And I do think it is all connected to love. That is so fascinating.  I just met a Dr Don Ward, who I'm going to introduce you to, who works with trauma, and people who have been through trauma. And he said we have this like—talks about the reticular activating system and how we filter for things. I can so relate to that analogy that you gave there. And he gave a story in his life with his wife who'd had a difficult childhood and a dad who would do a lot of yelling. So then he said his wife was hyper-vigilant to that in his voice, even if he just said, ‘Oh, I don't like that’, and she would immediately be filtering for that. ‘What have I doing wrong’? because of that fear response that was already programmed into her.  He talks about taking these memories. It could be a minor trauma, but it ends up being a big thing that you frame yourself for and limit your beliefs. And I think, like, when you're a child, you don't have that understanding of, mum might have been just a bit stressed and told you ‘you're just a naughty little girl', And then you've just taken that away, and I'm a bad person. Forever and a day, now it's in my life. It can be that simple. And yet it was just mum having a bad day and was a bit stressed and yelled at you, which really shouldn't have had that impact. And as an adult, you wouldn't have taken that. But as a child, you've not been able to filter that.  So what he does, and also with big trauma, he's worked with lots of vets and people that have been blown up and bombs and lost legs and horrible things. He says, you have this memory that is in High Definition movie. And it's trauma, right? And it’s so real and vivid in your memory banks. And anything can trigger it. So it might be a song or smell, a person, an event, and it will just, you're immediately back there in that trauma, and you're reliving it. That creates an emotional response in the body. And what he does through his program is similar to what the hypnosis, I imagine, is take that high definition movie and turn it into a black-and-white picture that's still in your brain, but no longer causes a physiological response because we get stuck in this loop. We're looping around those thoughts and that experience and experiencing it in real-time because your brain doesn't differentiate if this was 20 years ago or it's now. If you think back to a horrible event in your life, that was really traumatic feeling for you, you will have all of those physiological responses in real-time right now because the brain doesn't know. You're actually bringing it out into your body. And this is where the whole thing about psycho-neuro-immunology comes into it. Where everything that's going on in our brain is fixed and is stuck in our biology and expresses through our biology. And you've obviously been deeper into this world than I have of late. I'm really just scratching the surface. But how do you think that affects us from a health perspective? Kim: If you think we are made up of 50 trillion cells, and every one of those cells is communicating and it's got a whole incredible unconscious way of sustaining life. And when we think about it consciously, I mean, you're not thinking about your left finger now growing right now, although you might be now because I brought attention to it. But unconsciously so much is happening because of the programming, because of the ability of the body to do what it does and create what we call homeostasis.  So if you have a traumatic experience, and you get triggered by that, let's say, well, I've got a girlfriend who was in—sadly, her story's amazing, I'll get you to get her on your podcast. But basically, she lost her fiance to suicide. She was so traumatized, but within a year, she just couldn't get over it so she decided, on his one year anniversary, she'd go to Bali to take her life.  She had two girl friends who knew that she wasn't right so they went with her. That night, they went out to the Sari Club, and we all may be aware of the Bali bombings that went off. Now, one minute Karen's thinking of going to Bali to take her life. The next minute she is pushed through a burning wall and running for her life. So her physiology—and by the way, she lost her two friends out of that experience so now she feels responsible for three people stiff.  So you can imagine for her what that meant, and her story is phenomenal as she goes into a world of six years of depression. Now what brings her out of it is obviously a lot of self-work. But her dad talking about, his nickname for her as Buffy. And he says to her, he had her on his knee, she's a woman in her late 30s at this point, and he has her sitting on her knee and says ‘Buffy, we've all got to—some time, the caterpillar has got to go through a transformational process to come out the other side and become the butterfly’. And, for some reason, maybe he’s been saying it for those six years, but for some reason, on that day, she heard it. And she has gone on this exploratory path of what is it that has us physiologically turned into this thing called depression. And these are her words, not mine. She believes depression is a choice. So she says you go to sleep every night, you fall asleep, you might be depressed as you fall asleep but as you go to sleep into the unconscious part of sleep, you are no longer depressed. But the minute, not the minute, the moment you wake up, you're not depressed, until the memory kicks in, of who you are, your story in your life, and now all of a sudden, you're living depression.  I'm not undermining depression for anyone listening. And I'm certainly not an expert in that field. But I found it interesting that she feels depression is a choice. So when you think about that, your biology, and what's happening at a physiological level like you say, at a cell level, if you are believing—and by the way, the reason why I said that is if a balloon popped, or champagne cork went off, the explosion of that triggered her exactly into that time and place. So it takes time, effort and energy and real work on self to overcome these traumas. Now we're not born with a rulebook or a guide book. And our parents aren’t born with a book on how to help us psychologically. We're all traversing this pathway with the best that we possibly can. And so I share that in the hope and realisation that for many of us, suicide is not the answer. And I say that with a disclaimer, that it's really important that in these times of worry and fear and stress and overwhelm, that you seek help if you're feeling like your world is closing in. You're not your own coach. You're not your own best coach. Your partner's not necessarily the best coach or mentor for you through these times. Neither are your parents. So sometimes we need professional help.  And what I love about these days is, if you're seeing a psychologist, in my mom's day, you're seen as a little bit weak. Whereas today, I think you're seen as profoundly intelligent, emotionally intelligent to get that support. So whether it's hypnosis, aroma-therapy, psychology, NLP, getting a coach, getting a mentor, it doesn't matter what it is. And there's a lot of free help out there. If you search it in podcasts like this, that really dive into one realm if you go down the science link, but my real passion sits in the heart space. And if you love who you are, then I believe you have awareness when you're not in love with yourself. And if you take care of yourself, then we know that that helps you one step, one moment, one breath at a time. You're better off, doing something nice for yourself making a green smoothie than you are drinking a bottle of wine. I'm not saying that a bottle of wine with a girl friend and pouring your heart out and having a good cry isn't healthy. But it’s not your crutch. Anything can become a crutch too. Lisa: It’s not to become your crutch, right?  Anything can become an addiction. Kim: An addiction is not a great place to be either. So we know that if you can find a way one step, one breath at a time. Whether it's free, or if you have the money to invest. And let's face it, most people's biggest excuses for why they don't work on themselves is time and money. And I'm here to tell you that I think it's absolute bullshit, that it's not time and money. It's about whether or not you make yourself a priority because we all know if you, let me say this to your listeners. If someone that you loved was hanging off a cliff, and that means that in order to save them you had to have a weekly message until the end of this year. To save them you would find the time and the money to do it. Now that might seem a bit extreme. But I promise you when you are faced like you have been with your mum and your dad, everything goes aside until you put that at the forefront. So it's about prioritization and the moment you–. Lisa: And I’m not even feeling guilty for it.  Kim: Except when we look at guilt, sometimes that, even that emotion of guilt is an interesting one. So we feel guilt because we're doing something for ourselves, which is taking away from something else perhaps. And even that's interesting.  So when I look at the emotion of guilt, it's because we're doing something maybe selfishly. Well, what if we could reframe that into investing in ourselves. As a mum, putting a child into daycare, or having a babysitter every now and again so that you can go out or going for a weekly massage? If we look at that as guilt, if you really look at this—this is something interesting and I just want you to think about this. That lot of guilt is it that we're using that as a frame to hide the fact that some days being a mother is fricking hard work. And some days, we actually may hate it. And some days, maybe we are so exhausted, so mentally, physically, emotionally exhausted that we hate it so much. That we then feel bad because we've yelled, we've screamed, we've not been the best version of ourselves. And then we put it into mother guilt. We frame it in that where some days, we just fricking—we don't like it.  I think if we could own those emotions more and own the fact that it doesn't feel great some days, own up but with power, not victim mentality, then I think we would actually be more honest. And we would actually say, that's when I always say, have a bestie that you can call who's not going to go into the gossip-victim mentality, but the ‘I'm hearing you girlfriend’. And then at the end of that, you say, ‘What do you want to do about it? And what's your purpose for this belief, or this feeling right now? And what can you learn from it’? To have a girlfriend or a mate or partner or a friend who says ‘What can we learn from this’? is one of the best friends you could have in your corner. That is psychotherapy and psychology at its best.  What can you learn from this? And sometimes it's very hard to look at the lessons when you're in the throes of it and when emotions are high, intelligence is very low. So that might not be the question that we ask when someone's highly volatile and emotional. But to be a good listener, to hear someone pour their heart out. Often as we talk it to someone that's listening, truly listening without trying to fix us. When you're listening, we often talk through the process out loud, because I believe all humans have all traits and all humans have all resources within them to help heal themselves. But sometimes we just need to hear it. And I don't know about you, Lisa, but sometimes as I'm talking through my problem, I realize how stupid it is, or how benign it sounds. Or how relatively benign it is compared to what someone else is going through. So to have a good listening friend, or to be that listening friend, is sometimes one of the best fast track pathways into self-care which motorizes you right into the heart of self-love. Here's my third thing. I'm gonna put a caveat on that. That takes discipline. Without discipline, you can care for yourself and go on to the airy fairy land of woe and spirituality, and, oh, my gosh, this is all teaching me lots without responsibility, then that is not serving you. The discipline of waking up every day and physically doing something with that beautiful vehicle of yours with 50 trillion cells. Whether it's five minutes of tricep dips and push-ups just in your bedroom before you get dressed. Whether it's going for a 30-minute walk. Whether it's push and pushing yourself. We know the physiology of pushing the body actually puts you out of your comfort zone, which changes your cell structure. And when you change that, you get more clarity. And when you have more clarity, you make better decisions.  As you get to know yourself more and understand the triggers in your life, your responses, the victim mentality, you start to realize that you don't stop having problems, you just have bigger problems, Lisa. So you might be having a problem that's, ‘I'm not sure whether I should run in the Gold Coast hinterland this weekend because I've got the weekend off’ or whether your problem is trying to emotionally deal with the fact that your father never told you he loved you. Well, they're both problems. But I can tell you which problem I'd rather be traversing and working out. Because I've worked out the fact that maybe, and this isn't me personally, but my dad didn't tell me he loved me or maybe I experienced a very significant abuse. Or maybe I had a traumatic experience that now I'm working on to understand what it means to me. I think you'd agree with me. Every person you've had on your podcast or every person you've ever met, the ones we admire and love the most are the ones that have actually gone to hell and back. But they've found a way out. It's the comeback story. Google and The Hero’s Journey by Joseph Campbell. It's a six minute video to watch. We all go through The Hero's Journey where we want adventure, we want to go out on a limb, we want to do things. But then we find dragons and people putting us down or pulling us out. And then we traverse through that hardship, and we come out battered and beaten and torn and spat out.  But as we come through that we realize the adventure becomes amazing treasure. And through the treasures we find, we expand and evolve. And as we expand and evolve, we become a better human. And we then go on a new adventure. There’s more dragons. There's more people spitting on us and things. But that is the circle of life, right. If we could just understand that it's at our darkest times, we actually are revealed. Your strength comes through, your courage, your determination, your tenacity, your resilience is what shows up. Or you have the potential to discover when we go through it. Because when life's great, it's great. We don't tend to push ourselves so much when it's great. And that's the cool thing, we get to have a rest when life's great. Lisa: I always say this to people when I'm speaking.  Kim: I say this with hand on heart, to those of you going through a tough time I have something for you—this too shall pass. Lisa: One of my favourite sayings of the world. Kim: Absolutely. And then I also say to those of you in a really good place in your life, I've got some advice for you—this too shall pass. So we know that life is ebb and flow, high and low, in and out, dark and light. If we could come to accept that, then that is self-love. That is realising that actually when life's good, I'm going to learn more. I'm going to listen to different podcasts. I'm going to maybe study something. I'm going to read something. And I say read, not on a technology thing, I mean read a book. I’m going to immerse myself. I'm going to go to a retreat or a breakthrough. I'm going to take on coaching and mentoring. Because we don't want to just be great versions of ourselves, we want to be exceptional versions of ourselves.  And to do that, it's great to work on ourselves when life's great. Because then when the life hits us or the storm, or I'll say you either get a tap, a whack or a Mack. You'll get a tap when someone taps you or something upsets you. You'll get a whack when maybe you're thrown off guard or you've lost your job or your relationships over. We get a Mack Truck, major illness, losing someone, and it sideswipes you to the point where you're on your knees and you can't breathe. But if you've got those tools of resilience inside of you, or you know where to go as you breathe through each moment.  And let's face it, in order to heal it, you truly have to feel it. So that means we can't hide the emotions from any of these. Or that we say ‘Oh, everything's great’ when it's fricking not. Owning it with power and not telling your story as a victim is painful. But owning it and then saying but you know what I'm seeing someone or I'm doing this or I'm using my oils or listening to this podcast with Lisa Tamati. And I've literally met this amazing supplement that I think is actually going to work for me right now. Whatever you hear, don't take it for granted. And always trust that what you're hearing in the moment is a beautiful sign. There's always signs and opportunity of growth, passion, love and development. It just means that what your reticular activation system is filtering for. And whether you're looking for the good or more of the shit that you've just been through. Lisa: Explain that RAS, Kim. What is it? Kim: Well, we know there's a part of the brain that has memories. It has filters. It has this whole belief system. But let's look at it this way. What's your favourite car? Or what's a car you dream to own if you don't have it right now? Lisa: Probably… Kim: You’re not really probably not that materialistic. Lisa: I drive around in a 20-year-old car. Let's just say a Ferrari just for the sake of… A red Ferrari. Kim: A red Ferrari. Sometimes we could call that a penis extinction or a mid-life crisis awakening. But anyway, what's a nice car you like? Lisa: Oh, I like Jaguars.  Kim: Jaguars. Let’s go with that. And what colour? Lisa: A wine-coloured one. Kim: Ah, wine-coloured. So that beautiful burgundy wine-coloured Jaguar? Lisa: Yeah, not very common, probably. So probably not a good example. But you know what I mean? Kim: However, it's now in your mindset. It's now in your memory. It's now in your reticular activation system. It's now a part—it’s become out of the 2 million bits of information we receive each day, we actually only have access to 136 bits. So I want you to think about that 2 million bits of information that is coming at you. But we are actually only able to process 136 in our consciousness. Because if you think about it, to access and process 2 million bits we'd be in constant burnout and overwhelm. So those 136 bits now we've just been spoken about a burgundy coloured Jaguar. That's come really close into the forefront of your reticular activation system. So you may find over the next 24 - 48 hours, you might just happen to see one. That's because you're now filtering for it.  You've got 136 bits of that seed. And particularly if we put it to the front of our values, and it became a value. Let's say, car’s not necessarily a high value. But being able to transport yourself or take people to and from places or you love adventure, and travelling. You have a real high value for adventure, a car is part of that. And so now, adventure is one of the highest values on your list of life values. Within that, if we dig deeper is the burgundy-coloured Jaguar. Now you're actually going to see it every time you're thinking of adventure. You might think now, actually ‘Bloody dammit, I've worked really hard, I deserve this’. And now all of a sudden, you start seeing ads for Jaguars or you start thinking. That's what we mean about pulling in the 136 bits of information into the reticular activation system. And now you're seeing it, now you're proving it. Lisa: And this is why goal setting works, isn't it. Because you've set a goal. You've made that as a priority. So it's a scary one. And then everything that will help you get towards your goal, your subconscious is picking up those things and then saying, ‘hey, be aware of this’. So if you decide you want to run a marathon, it's probably a good example with us two crazy runners. Or ex-crazy runners. You start seeing articles about running and videos on running. You'll be aware of runners running around your neighbourhood that you might have ignored before because suddenly this has become a goal.  So your brain is going, ‘Oh, you wanted this? Well, I'm just making you aware. Here's some tools to get there’. So that's a really good example of the RAS selection really. Kim: You got to remember too, and I want to make this really clear, it's something that I've learned just lately. If you have a goal to run a marathon, and it's really high in your priorities. You start off in the first week, and you're doing the pro there's maybe a 12-week program. Maybe they're doing one of your the Neal's program. Maybe they've got one of these things. And they’re in week one. They're highly enthusiastic and excited. Week two, they’re a bit sore. It’s hurting a bit, and they have DOMS setting in and now it's like it's not getting easier. In fact, the more you train, the more you realize that even though you don't realize you're getting better and stronger, you're pushing yourself more. And, so you're feeling worse. So by week three, usually within those 21 days, we're starting to go maybe a marathon isn't the goal at all. Or you still keep saying it's a marathon but now you're not going out for the longer run. Now what's happened is your goal is not matching your value.  Now, this is the real essence of the work. How do we make running a marathon one of your highest values? If I listed all your values, you may find health or adventure or pushing the limits or expanding yourself is number 10 on the list. Lisa: And therefore won't get– Kim: It's not gonna get done. Which is why so many of us, we set New Year's goals.  We join a gym, we go along. And then we basically make a donation to that gym for the rest of the year. So the important thing to realize is that you have to have your goal aligned with your top three values. And if it's not aligned with any of your top three values, you're going to need some integration work to bring it up there if it's something you really want. Because otherwise, that's where the excuses come in or you get an injury. Was it an injury? Or was your subconscious mind delivering you the possibilities that you didn't have to do it? I find health and injuries and disease, and all of those things.  I think if you've read Bruce Lipton's book, The Biology of Belief, you'll know that what we believe we perceive. Where focus goes, energy flows. So if you have all of these things in your mind, if your focus is now on all sore and injury and it's too hard, I don't want to do it. Bang! You're going to find your energy goes that way. It flows that way. And hello, now you've got a reason, an excuse to physically pull out of the marathon. So you know, people would say ‘oh, no, I didn't mean to trip over the washing basket'. Well, how come for the last 365 days, the washing basket could have been there but you never– The unconscious mind is one of the most powerful places to work, which is why I love hypnosis. Which is why I love timeline therapy. Which is why I love getting into. If you look at a mountain, the snow part on the top is your conscious mind. But in fact, everything underneath which is driving your behaviour, is driving your feelings, your beliefs and your values is actually the tip of the iceberg.  That's right 95% of it is definitely coming from the unconscious mind. Lisa: Yeah, and this is why we need to do the deep work. You just reminded me of a couple of things. Everytime that I do a big mess of a race in the past, I would get sick, or I'd have an injury or something would happen. And usually in the week or two weeks before the actual event. It was like my body's going, ‘I'm gonna stop you because I want you’... A part of me doesn't want to do it’. So you’re going to chuck a few obstacles.   You have to understand that when you override that, and you keep going, often that injure or that niggle, whatever that was, disappears. I saw that, firsthand, time and time again. And even when I was running through New Zealand, and I was doing 70Ks a day, and I was getting weaker and sicker and really, just absolutely blown apart after two weeks. And I didn't stop though, because I had an amazing team and I had a big why. Why I was doing this: charities and big responsibilities, so I keep going despite horrific pain and all the rest of it. Then my body went, ‘Oh, it's just not stopping, we better get on board with this’. And it got stronger and stronger. From the two-week point up until the six-week point, I actually got stronger and stronger. And I thought that it's all over. I could have a walking stick. I was walking, I wasn't running. I was having to go down sideways downhills, because my shins were so bad. And when I still kept going, then the brain went, ‘Well, we better get on with it because she's not going to stop, obviously’. And that's a really good example.  One of the other things I wanted to bring up because motivation follows action, not the other way around. So like when you don't feel like going training today, which is pretty much me every day. I don't feel like it, but I take action, I do something I might be just putting on my gym gear. And I've said this before, put on your gear, walk out the door, go to the letterbox and then see. Often, when you've just taken that couple of steps of action, then you're in the movement and you're like, ‘Oh, well, I'm out here, now muscle go’. Then it gets easier and easier and then you're in the flow of it. It's the anticipation, sometimes, that stops you. And when you just get up, doing the press-ups in the morning, before I do anything else. I go and have a cold shower or do my heart rate monitoring my HRV. All the breath-hold techniques, and then I come out of the shower. Then I often do like my press-ups and stuff before I sit down at the computer. Because I've done it and if you have little tiny habits that you build in. It might be just teeny press-ups or teeny sit-ups. Every time you go to the loo. Whatever the case maybe you set these little wee micro-goals that you can't fail it. And that action creates motivation. Because you've actually done a little bit and you're pleased with yourself and that creates its own reward loop type of thing. A lot of what you were saying was just lots. That's exactly what Paul Taylor, I've just had on my show. I'm gonna do Dr Don, would you know. All of this is very, very similar.  So, Kim, I want to go now into hypnosis because this is something that fascinates me. I haven't studied it. I want to, it's on my to-do list at some point in time. Tell me how the heck does that work and what's involved with the hypnosis process?  Kim: It's pretty cool. It's tapping directly into the unconscious mind. And I could use language with us right here and now where I could get us all into a very relaxed state. And every breath that you're taking, we're getting more and more relaxed. And as we relax more, we learn more. And the more we learn, the more we hear. And as we’re hearing new thoughts and opportunities, the more we realize we're capable of everything and anything. That's because we're extraordinary. So as I talk like that, and as I speak to you like that, it's almost putting you into a subconscious trance, which is kind of has your mind scrambling and not having to consciously think. Your mind kind of goes on this beautiful journey. It's in that space, where you, I believe, we tap into the heart space. And when we tap into the heart or the unconscious space, we can put new meanings past the critical factor, past that critical person who knocks you or puts you down all the time. Here’s another question. If you hear yourself knocking yourself, who's talking? If you're listening, who's talking? And if it's you're saying it, who's listening? So I love the rabbit hole of the unconscious mind because it gets you realizing that everything is about programming. Everything is programmed. And so we want to program excellent computers.  Which is why when we watch people who do amazing things, we want to model ourselves off them or we want to learn how they did it. Which is why I love NLP and hypnosis together. But hypnosis really is the ability to tap into the unconscious mind, bypassing the critical factor so that we can get to the heart, the juice, the unconscious mind to create change. So that when you come out the other side, you see possibility and opportunity. Not all the negative shite that you were saying before, we may have had the session.  And I think it's just accessing it. We spend most of our time consciously thinking. Yet as I said at the beginning when was the last time you gave thanks to your fingernail for growing or your digestive juices for doing what they're doing or your hair growing or those bald maybe not growing, but it's a really beautiful thing. And I think things like flotation tank massage. Times when you get to deeply truly relax, when we let go of the physiology of tension around us actually allows the cells to almost breathe. If we breathe, if you followed Wim Hof or any of the amazing work with breath or James Nestor whose book I just—I love James Nestor’s book. Lisa: I’ll introduce you. Kim: Who, James or Wim? Lisa: James. And Patrick McKeown as well. Kim: I love that book Breathe, changed the way I looked at my breathing. I’ve been taping my mouth at night because we can go without food for a month. I've heard of people go a year without food. We can go weeks without water. But we can't go many seconds or many minutes without breath. Breath is the essence of life. And when we go into a state of hypnosis, we are really letting go of the breath. And as we let go of the breath, we actually are able to access the intelligence of the cells. Intelligence of the higher vibration. Without going too wacky, I guess the other way to look at it is that we operate, we're aware that we can measure the speed of light. And I can't remember the exact measurement of it right now but it's bloody fast. But everything below that is all measurable. And from a conscious level, we understand it, you know, we've got vibrational frequency of plants, of oils, of food. We understand that there's a vibrational frequency to all things. But above the speed of light, where we go into the zero point field of quantum physics and true possibility and infinity. That's where the mind just– . It's so big and so bizarre, that you actually can't do anything but surrender to it and feel all possibility.  I guess the way to look at that, to try and bring it into some realm, is if we put one of our blood cells, if we put blood under a microscope, we would go down, and we'd see there's a whole lot of cells. Then we'd go further into the cell and then we'd see a whole cell and within the cell is a whole lot of stuff and life. Proteins and cytoplasm, DNA and RNA. But then if we go right into the DNA and RNA, we go further into that you'll see there's even more microcosms of cells and systems and structure. And if you keep going, the more you go, the more you see. There is nothing but space. Lisa: There is only vibration. Kim: And space. And then there's just the vibration. Lisa: And this is science. There is nothing there. They’re just energy. Kim: And we could do it to the chair you're sitting on. We could slice through a piece of that. And when the more we go into each of the wooden chairs, or this chair that you're sitting on structure, you'll see that that becomes nothing. And we can go the other way where we go up into us, here right now. From our cells into our blood systems, to our body, to our human system, to our environment, to our community, the place we live, into the planet, then we go beyond the planet into the galaxy, and then we realize the galaxies beyond the galaxies, all of a sudden, we're back to nothing. So we can go macro or micro. but the joy of this ride into quantum physics is that it means that everything means nothing, and nothing is no thing and no thing is everything and everything is something.  When I start doing that with my mind, it makes you realize that actually, if I bring it right back into that significant emotional event that occurred when I was a five-year-old girl. I just, through my own filter systems, through my own values, beliefs and upbringing, my personality, all of those meta-programs going on, I made it mean something. And I love this idea. What if life had no meaning? And it had no meaning that it had no meaning. What if we could actually realize that everything we think is true is actually just a limiting belief of perception of our idea of reality. That in fact, the only reality, the only truth I could actually give you right here right now, is that you and I both know, there's two truths, probably. One truth is that the sun will come up tomorrow. Whether we see it or not is another thing but we do know it’s the truth, the sun will come up tomorrow. And the other truth is we will all die at some point. But even that's up for debate because do we die? Or do we go to another realm in which we didn’t have past and future lives and soul journey? So I don't know. Lisa: We could go like a huge, and I’ll be– no, I'm fascinated by quantum physics. And most of it, to be honest, is beyond my grasp, it’s a little brainy. But I know that there’s these bigger things out there and I'd love to riff with you for a couple hours on this subject. But we'd probably, people will be getting ‘what the hell are they talking about’? Kim: What I'd love to say though, is just to finish off there, is just to realize that everything you've ever experienced is just a belief. It's not truth, it's just your perception. So it's never the truth. It's always up for bid, based on how you believe and see and perceive the world. Which is why there's conflict, which is why we have arguments. But wouldn't it be beautiful, if I could just for a minute, put my shoe, try because I never could. But if I put my shoes and feet into your shoes just for a moment, and imagine it from your perception, your beliefs and your reality, I actually have more understanding. Lisa: And more empathy. Kim: I may not agree with it, I may not like it. But, my gosh, it's interesting that it's from your perspective. So every time we feel ourselves triggered, or every time we feel ourselves going into a place of anger or frustration or guilt or sadness or whatever that driving emotion is. Rather than sitting in the whirlpool of mud pit of it, ask yourself this question: For what purpose am I feeling this? Why? Or even just the question why? Why am I sad? Well, I'm sad, because he said that. Why does what he says make you sad? Well, because it's not fear? Why is not fear, not fear? Well, because I don't feel like I'm listened to. Why is it important that you're listened to? Because I feel so alone. Why are you feeling alone? Because I don't love myself.  If you really go to the core of all of it, I promise you, it almost gets back to the fear of not being loved or the fear of not being accepted. That's what everything that drives these emotions in our behaviours comes from. Lisa: Wow, that is just absolutely amazing. And it's all automatic. Like we had these, Dr Daniel Amen talks about these automatic negative thoughts that just pop up all the time. And if we can separate ourselves out from our own brain, our own subconscious, our own programming, and just observe how these automatic thoughts just keep coming at you all the time. And then if you let them go, they'll go again. Kim: Or know that those negative thoughts are part of the human experience. They are actually from an evolutionary, anthropological development point of view. We had to be on alert for the sabre-toothed tiger, we had to be watching our tribe or our kids, we had to be there. But we actually spiked ourselves into sympathetic dominants very quickly with that. Years gone by we also pushed ourselves very quickly back down into parasympathetic place. We had peace just to digest. Years today, we're living in the sympathetic dominant’s world.  So I just say with you, as the negative thought comes in, even ask that question, why am I thinking that and keep doing that? I always say our seven why's, and b

In this episode we explore the work of Dr. Daniel G. Amen from his book Change your Brain Change your Life. He does a great job of explaining automatic negative thoughts - aka ANTS. We figure out how to detect and exterminate these pesky little creatures. 

Your brain is always listening and responding to an incredibly large number of hidden influences, and unless you recognize and deal with them, they can steal your happiness, spoil your relationships, and sabotage your health. My good friend Dr. Daniel Amen calls these influences “dragons” in his new book Your Brain Is Always Listening, and with good reason as he explains. Importantly, this book will teach you to tame the dragons and regain what, for many, has been so elusive, especially these days. Daniel G. Amen, MD is a former US Army infantry medic, physician, double board-certified psychiatrist, twelve-time New York Times bestselling author, and founder and CEO of Amen Clinics, with 9 locations across the United States. Amen Clinics has the world’s largest database of brain scans related to behavior, totaling more than 170,000 scans on patients from 150 countries. Dr. Amen’s research team has published more than 80 scientific articles and Discover Magazine named his research as one of the Top Stories in Science for 2015. Dr. Amen has also written, produced, and hosted 15 national public television shows about the brain that have aired over 125,000 times across North America. As many of you will recognize, I have interviewed Dr. Amen several times in the past. But there is something so much more meaningful in our time together today. Dr. Amen’s book Your Brain Is Always Listening is available to preorder now. Dr. Amen is offering four free gifts for those who preorder the book: Your Brain Is Always Listening Playbook, access to a 2-hour event with Dr. Amen on March 17th, Magnificent Mind with Medical Hypnosis, and a free bottle of Happy Saffron at BrainMD. Your gifts can be claimed by entering your order number here. Discover more from Dr. Amen on his website, and follow him on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

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Tana Amen is a New York Times bestselling author, vice president of the Amen Clinics, a neurosurgical ICU trauma nurse, and a world-renowned health and fitness expert. She has won the hearts of millions with her simple yet effective strategies to help anyone optimize their lifestyle and win the fight for a strong body, mind, and spirit. Tana holds a second-degree black belt in Kenpo Karate and a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Tana and her husband, Dr. Daniel Amen, have four children and five grandchildren.About her upcoming book:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, NEUROSURGICAL ICU TRAUMA NURSE, AND VICE PRESIDENT OF AMEN CLINICS TANA AMEN SHARES HOW OVERCOMING HER TRAUMATIC PAST MADE HER A PASSIONATE CHAMPION FOR OTHERS IN NEED OF HEALING AND HOPE.In The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child, Tana Amen shares her incredible story of transformation—of growing up in poverty, a bullied latch-key kid raised on sugary cereal and junk food, to becoming a world-renowned food and fitness expert.Her challenging past of neglect, poverty, sexual abuse, thyroid cancer, and bouts of anxiety and depression set her on a path to find healing. Through her remarkable journey, we see more clearly the light that can shine through our own broken places and ultimately heal us: body, mind, and soul.At once tragic and heartwarming, Tana’s story integrates cutting-edge psychology and proven wellness techniques from the Amen Clinics in a moving exploration of the healing available to each one of us, no matter the pain in our past.https://www.thomasnelson.com/p/relentless-courage-of-a-scared-child/Amen Clinics is a group of mental and physical health clinics that work on the treatment of mood and behavior disorders. It was founded in 1989 by Daniel G. Amen, a self-help guru and psychiatrist. The clinics perform clinical evaluations and brain SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) imaging to diagnose and treat their patients. Amen Clinics uses SPECT scans, a type of brain-imaging technology, to measure neural activity through blood flow. It has a database of more than 100,000 functional brain scans from patients in 111 countries. https://instagram.com/amen_clinics?ig... https://www.amenclinics.com/ About the founder of Amen Clinics, Dr. Daniel Amen: Daniel Gregory Amen is an American celebrity doctor who practices as a psychiatrist and brain disorder specialist as director of the Amen Clinics. He is a five-times New York Times best-selling author as of 2012. Amen has built a profitable business around the use of SPECT imaging for purported diagnostic purposes. "Our brain-based approach goes beyond traditional psychiatry to give you the answers you want and the results you deserve." -Daniel G. Amen, M.D.- h

Is stress planning your meal? “What you eat impacts more than just your waistline. The quality of your diet directly impacts the quality of your life.” – Daniel G. Amen, MD There is so much information out proclaiming exactly what you should fuel your body with, in order to get the greatest results. Desire to be supported and encourage by other like-minded women? Join us at Women of IMPACT. http://bit.ly/WomenofIMPACT Depending on who you speak with, you could literally have a book of different things to eat when and how much. Suggestions go as far as timing and how many meals in your day. No wonder most are confused and give up before they really even start. So how do you structure the quality of your diet in order to create the quality of your life you desire? The K.I.S.S. ~  Fuel from the ground up! In all the research and studies I've read, along with personal experiments on myself, the best way to eat no matter what diet you want to follow, you must fuel from the ground up. 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APPLY NOW to work with me! https://brookethomas321708.typeform.com/to/cHCppKqW thefaithfreebie.com Join Brooke's mental wellness team: myamareglobal.com/10039/en-US/ Follow Brooke on Social Media brookethomas.com facebook.com/groups/liveoutloudtribe/ instagram.com/liveoutloudbrooke linkedin.com/in/thomasbrooke What would make you feel FREE this Fourth of July? If you feel locked into a life you don't love, it's time to declare your independence and go after what's been in your heart all along. Listen in as Brooke challenges us to surround ourselves with other heart-centered people and start living our dream! In this episode, you will learn about… Brooke's challenge to break up with toxic people How to claim your independence from living someone else's dream Declaring your independence from a bad habit that's pulling you down How to become a reformed people pleaser Why it's crucial to know what you want and set clear goals Giving yourself permission to invest in your dream The value in surrounding yourself with heart-centered people who are honest in love and want you to win Reframing failure as wisdom, depth and growth Show Notes What would make you feel FREE this Fourth of July? If you feel locked into a life you don't love, it's time to declare your independence and go after what's been in your heart all along. So, what can you do to this Independence Day to claim your freedom and start living the dream? On this episode of Inspo Wherever You Are, Brooke challenges us to declare our independence from the toxic people and bad habits that are bringing us down. She describes the danger in living someone else's dream or trying to please other people, reminding us that our liberation begins when we know what we want and chart our own course to get there. Brooke goes on to share the value in skilling up and surrounding ourselves with heart-centered people who want us to win. Listen in for Brooke's insight on reframing failure as an opportunity for growth and get inspired to claim YOUR freedom this Independence Day! Resources Brooke's Network Marketing Team Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen, MD

The Brain Warrior’s Way with Dr. Daniel G. Amen Dr. Daniel G. Amen believes that brain health is central to all health and success. When your brain works right, he says, you work right; and when your brain is troubled you are much more likely to have trouble in your life. His work is dedicated to helping people have better brains and better lives. The Washington Post called Dr. Amen the most popular psychiatrist in America and Sharecare named him the web’s #1 most influential expert and advocate on mental health. Dr. Amen is a physician, double board certified psychiatrist, television producer and ten-time New York Times bestselling author. He is the Founder and Medical Director of Amen Clinics across the US. Amen Clinics have the world’s largest database of functional brain scans relating to behavior, totaling more than 125,000 scans on patients from 111 countries. Dr. Amen is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the highest award given to members, and is the lead researcher on the world’s largest brain imaging and rehabilitation study on professional football players. His research has not only demonstrated high levels of brain damage in players, he also showed the possibility of significant recovery for many with the principles that underlie his work. Together with Pastor Rick Warren and Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Amen is also one of the chief architects on Saddleback Church’s “Daniel Plan,” a program to get the world healthy through religious organizations. Dr. Amen has written, produced and hosted 11 popular shows about the brain for public television, which have been aired more than 100,000 times across North America. Dr. Amen is the author or co-author of 70 professional articles, seven book chapters, and over 30 books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller The Daniel Plan and Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Magnificent Mind At Any Age, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, Use Your Brain to Change Your Age, Unleash the Power of the Female Brain and Healing ADD. Dr. Amen’s published scientific articles have appeared in the prestigious journals of Molecular Psychiatry, PLOS One, Nature’s Translational Psychiatry, Nature’s Obesity, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, Minerva Psichiatrica, Journal of Neurotrauma, American Journal of Psychiatry, Nuclear Medicine Communication, Neurological Research, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Primary Psychiatry, Military Medicine and General Hospital Psychiatry. Dr. Amen has appeared in movies, including After the Last Round and The Crash Reel and has appeared in Emmy winning shows, such as The Truth About Drinking and the Dr. Oz Show. He has also spoken for the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), Harvard’s Learning and the Brain Conference, the Department of the Interior, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the Supreme Courts of Delaware, Ohio and Wyoming. Dr. Amen’s work has been featured in Newsweek, Time, Huffington Post, ABC World News, 20/20, BBC, London Telegraph, Parade Magazine, New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, LA Times, Men’s Health, Bottom Line, and Cosmopolitan. Website Link: 

Today's special guest Jim Karol is living proof that radical life transformation happens when we sharpen our thinking and regain our mental edge. Using daily memory-improvement techniques coupled with lifestyle changes, Jim grew from an unmotivated Pennsylvania steel worker to a “memory phenom” demonstrating his gifts on national media, including The Tonight Show, Ellen, Today, and The Howard Stern Show, among many others. Today, Jim uses his abilities to help professional athletes, business leaders, seniors and anyone else looking to enhance their memory.  He's done presentations at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and works with the USO and other military charities, helping wounded warriors with PTSD and other medical challenges, inspiring them to turn their lives around from surviving to thriving. In his book Ultimate Memory Magic, Jim shares his cutting-edge "Cogmental Intelligence" program for improving memory and other aspects of mental function, at any age. With a foreword from bestselling author and physician Daniel G. Amen, the book will show how anyone can sharpen their thinking and regain their mental edge, rev up energy and self-esteem, build better relationships,and increase creativity and intuition. "The aim of this book," Jim says, "is to help you discover and apply your own potential for a more powerful mind, and at the same time, to help you improve your health, your relationships, your career, and your overall quality of life."  Through practical physical and mental exercises,Ultimate Memory Magic shows how anyone can achieve increased brain power and a more youthful functioning brain, as well as a stronger, healthier body.  

A healthy brain is the key to staying vibrant and alive for a long time, and in "Use Your Brain to Change Your Age", bestselling author Daniel Amen tells us how to keep our precious brains at their best. Music - "Out of the Box" (music only) by Bev and Cliff Nelson, Doak Turner, Dee Briggs.  "We All Fall Down" (whole song) by Bev and Cliff Nelson, Joshua Rush, Dee Briggs.  

How do you respond to the word trauma? Sometimes, those who experienced trauma reject even the term itself. Instead of acknowledging it and starting the healing process, survivors often minimize their experiences. When this happens, sometimes both healthy and unhealthy coping mechanisms are normalized for them, as well. Childhood trauma is specifically difficult to deal with and conquer the lasting effects of. It’s oftentimes buried deep within and oftentimes has a silencing effect on the person and they grow into adulthood. This world of silence inhibits their behavior, mindset, and various aspects of life. This is where therapy is needed. Even if the trauma happened 20 or more years ago, it’s never too late to heal. You can always take steps toward healing that trauma no matter how long ago it was. In this episode, I talk with Amy Van Slambrook. She shares some deep insight into the specific behaviors and tendencies that survivors demonstrate, how to identify them, and how a partner may be able to assist in the healing process. She also shares some beautiful, impactful words of wisdom for any survivors listening to this podcast today. Take a listen to Amy’s moving story and take one step closer toward breaking the silence. About Amy Van Slambrook Amy Van Slambrook is a licensed psychotherapist, certified life and workplace coach, experienced consultant, and writer. She is passionate about the work she does and compassionately interacts with her clients. Amy has overcome significant hurdles in her life—her own journey and healing from real life struggles, wounds, and trauma. She was able to spark the healing process in herself through the best training ground available. This experience is one that solidified her vocational calling: to help others—especially women and couples—experience freedom, heal and gain the power from their past. Some Questions I Ask: How were you drawn to this work? (3:13) Could you share a couple of examples of what trauma looks like? (21:07) What can you see or hear that demonstrates how trauma is impacting relationships? (29:40) How can the partner of a trauma survivor love and support their partner? (36:29) What words of wisdom do you have to offer trauma survivors? (40:22)   In This Episode, You Will Learn: Why trauma survivors minimize experience and normalize their coping behaviors and experiences. (7:25) How childhood trauma ripples to affect adult relationships and behaviors. (12:03) How trauma reveals itself in the body rather than through language. (14:50) Why trauma survivors are generally calm in crises situations. (18:18) Why survivors get stuck in a cycle of trauma. (26:13) How men often suffer in silence as a result of childhood abuse. (39:36)   Resources: Daniel G. Amen The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. Soul-Healing Love by Dr. Tom Rodgers and Dr. Beverly Rodgers   Connect with Amy: Website Facebook Instagram

As Daniel G. Amen, M.D., explains in his brand-new book, Feel Better Fast and Make It Last, optimizing the brain is one of the most effective ways to put yourself on the path to feeling better. In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Amen is joined by his wife Tana for more brain-healthy advice on topics such as getting your important numbers checked, diet, and sleep issues.

In his new book, Feel Better Fast and Make It Last, Daniel G. Amen, M.D., stresses the importance brain health has on your overall well-being. In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Amen and his wife Tana continue with their tips on maximizing your brain to feel better fast, tackling such topics as immunity, infections, mental health issues, and toxins.

In Daniel G. Amen, M.D., new book, Feel Better Fast and Make It Last, he outlines the steps you can take to get yourself feeling right quickly. The first step is all about the brain. In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Amen and his wife Tana give you helpful tips to take better care of your brain.

In his brand-new book, Feel Better Fast and Make It Last, Daniel G. Amen, MD's describes how you can harness your mind to steer your thoughts towards feelings of relaxation and happiness. In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Amen and Tana Amen discuss the amazing ways that meditation, hypnosis, and visualization can cause physical changes that leave you feeling better fast.

In the second episode based on material from Daniel G. Amen MD's new book, Feel Better Fast and Make It Last, Dr. Amen and Tana Amen discuss how our evolutionary fight or flight response can affect our stress levels. They describe how our habits in dealing with this response can lead to unhealthy chronic stress, as well as what you can do to get those feelings under control when they strike unexpectedly.

In anticipation of the release of Daniel G. Amen, MD's new book, Feel Better Fast and Make It Last, Dr. Amen and Tana discuss the importance of making decisions that lead to happiness, in both the short term and the long term. Dr. Amen also introduces us to the mnemonic, “BRAIN XL,” which you can use anytime to help remind you of these helpful principles.

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: There's a Good Chance Your Earliest Memories Are Fake A Marketing Company in the 1990s Tried to Put a 1 Km Square Billboard in Space Here's What Google Says Makes A Great Boss You might encounter memory issues on the other end of your life's journey as well. Dr. Daniel G. Amen's "Memory Rescue" helps address the specter of late-life memory loss. It's free if you're trying Audible for the first time. We handpick reading recommendations we think you may like. If you choose to make a purchase through that link, Curiosity will get a share of the sale. Learn about these topics and more onCuriosity.com, and download our5-star app for Android and iOS. Then, join the conversation onFacebook,Twitter, andInstagram. Plus: Amazon smart speaker users, enable ourAlexa Flash Briefing to learn something new in just a few minutes every day! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

So many of us have turned to alcohol in times where we just want to lose ourselves and escape the pressure and noise.  What can we do to get out of this cycle?  Annie answers this question with some great information and amazing advice. Episode Links: Byron Katie's You Tube Channel Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted by Dr Daniel G. Amen  The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer

Tana Amen, RN, BSN, co-author with her husband, Daniel G. Amen, MD, of "The Brain Warrior’s Way" and "The Brain Warrior’s Way Cookbook." Description: Nurse and author Tana Amen tells how we are being manipulated into eating what isn’t good for us, and provides tips for breaking the chains of addiction and developing healthier eating habits to improve memory, energy, focus, moods and weight. For more information contact: www.amenclinics.com

Did you know that by putting on this spiritual armor we're actually affecting brain health by helping to protect, and perhaps even build, physical brain matter? Maybe you consider yourself a spiritual warrior for God and your kids, but are you also a “brain warrior?” Daniel G. Amen, M.D. is the founder of Amen Clinics, he is a double board-certified psychiatrist, professor, and ten-time New York Times bestselling author. He is one of the world's foremost experts on using brain-imaging tools to help optimize and treat his patients. Amen Clinics have one of the highest published success rates for patients. His research was listed as one of the Top 100 Stories in Science for 2015 by Discover magazine. In addition to being featured on The Dr. Oz Show and Dr. Phil, his work has also been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and Men's Health. Do Parents Put Enough Thought Into Brain Health All parents are concerned about their children's physical health. And for believers, there's an even greater concern about their spiritual health as well. However, with the exception of parents raising kids who've experienced some sort of brain trauma or malady from birth, “brain care,” so to speak, isn't very often on the radar. You don't hear a lot of parents talking to one another about how to protect or build their kids' brains. Certainly, concern over kids wearing helmets while riding their bikes is a big deal today. There's also the recent controversy asking, “should kids be playing football six years out of the womb.” And of course every parent wants their kids to go to school and get good grades. But, those things are not all that I'm talking about here. I think there are a lot of things that are systemic to today's American culture. These things are absolutely devastating, not just to our kids' brains, but to ours as well. I'm talking about things that the good parents of helmet-wearing, straight “A” students are often oblivious to. Let's get into detail on how good or devastating influences can affect brain health as we discuss the following topics: How well the average parent addresses brain health. What does it mean to have a healthy brain? The effects of eating the standard American diet. The effects of not guarding your mind. Areas you should focus on when improving your brain. Why getting a healthy brain will give you a healthy spiritual life. Picture provided by: A Health Blog

Did you know that by putting on this spiritual armor we're actually affecting brain health by helping to protect, and perhaps even build, physical brain matter? Maybe you consider yourself a spiritual warrior for God and your kids, but are you also a “brain warrior?” Daniel G. Amen, M.D. is the founder of Amen Clinics, he is a double board-certified psychiatrist, professor, and ten-time New York Times bestselling author. He is one of the world's foremost experts on using brain-imaging tools to help optimize and treat his patients. Amen Clinics have one of the highest published success rates for patients. His research was listed as one of the Top 100 Stories in Science for 2015 by Discover magazine. In addition to being featured on The Dr. Oz Show and Dr. Phil, his work has also been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and Men's Health. Do Parents Put Enough Thought Into Brain Health All parents are concerned about their children's physical health. And for believers, there's an even greater concern about their spiritual health as well. However, with the exception of parents raising kids who've experienced some sort of brain trauma or malady from birth, “brain care,” so to speak, isn't very often on the radar. You don't hear a lot of parents talking to one another about how to protect or build their kids' brains. Certainly, concern over kids wearing helmets while riding their bikes is a big deal today. There's also the recent controversy asking, “should kids be playing football six years out of the womb.” And of course every parent wants their kids to go to school and get good grades. But, those things are not all that I'm talking about here. I think there are a lot of things that are systemic to today's American culture. These things are absolutely devastating, not just to our kids' brains, but to ours as well. I'm talking about things that the good parents of helmet-wearing, straight “A” students are often oblivious to. Let's get into detail on how good or devastating influences can affect brain health as we discuss the following topics: How well the average parent addresses brain health. What does it mean to have a healthy brain? The effects of eating the standard American diet. The effects of not guarding your mind. Areas you should focus on when improving your brain. Why getting a healthy brain will give you a healthy spiritual life. Picture provided by: A Health Blog

Rusty interviews the authors of a new book about the human brain. And we have a Trending Today USA roundtable. Guests: Dr. Daniel G. Amen, Tana Amen, Josh Manning, Randy DeSoto, Chris Agee. Trending Today USA with Rusty Humphries Hour 1 Segment 2 122016Image credit: shutterstock.com

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Healthy happy eating with The Merrymaker Sisters Kathryn and I first met Emma and Carla when we were attending a business entrepreneurs’ event in the Philippines. Meeting these two vivacious and fun loving entrepreneurs made a mark on both of us. Their joy of life was infectious, and we wanted to know more about them, their journey and what they did. Emma and Carla Papas, known as ‘The Merrymaker Sisters’ are real life sisters who went from being communication professionals to health and happiness advocates and health coaches! They're the founders of themerrymakersisters.com where they inspire hundreds of thousands of Merrymakers around the world with real food recipes and ways to find and follow your bliss! “If we hear ourselves say ‘we want this to happen’, we have to focus some energy on it.” - The Merrymaker Sisters So, what better than to invite them onto episode 97 of The Changeability Podcast laugh and chat healthy happy eating with The Merrymaker Sisters. Packed into this week’s Changeability Podcast Emma and Carla’s inspirational story from food obsessive mindsets to health and wellbeing. Find out what it means to be a ‘merrymaker’ and what it hopefully doesn’t mean! What on earth does Carla and Emma mean when they say ‘follow your bliss’ and why you should consider it? Why you are a hero of your own journey. Where to start with healthier, happier, eating habits. What makes healthy, happy food? The effects of mindful eating. Foods to give up and what we should we have more of. What is a Paleo diet? Why we need to be free of gluten, dairy and refined sugars. What gets in the way or stops you eating healthily, even when you want to? Suggestions for healthier sweet snack options when you get the munchies in the evening. And more laughter and giggling you can cram into a podcast show than is good for you. Plus, don’t miss my blooper at the end of today’s show! “Life is too short to say no to dessert. You just have to make your dessert healthy” – The Merrymaker Sisters  Links mentioned on today’s show: Emma and Carla’s website – themerrymakersisters.com Emma and Carla’s on Instagram – warning: don’t look at this when you’re hungry; it’s yummy-lichiously addictive! Make it Merry: A Healthy Cookbook – by Emma and Carla Papas Dr John Demartini - The Values Factor or The Breakthrough Experience The Paleo Diet – Loren Cordain Change your brain, Change your body – Dr Daniel G. Amen  

Change your brain, revitalise your body – really? Sound too good to be true? We’ve been talking over the last few weeks about how to use the power of your brain to reach your ideal body weight, look younger and boost your energy. And let’s face it, who couldn’t do with a bit of that! As part of our wellness and wellbeing series we’ve explored Dr Daniel Amen’s book, Change your Brain, Change your Body, including 10 brain principles for the body you want and four ways to use your brain to change your weight. Today we conclude our exploration in change your brain, revitalise your body. How your brain can help beautify your body and improve your overall health and well-being. Dr Amen puts forward 6 solutions:  1 - The Skin solution Your skin is directly tied to the health of your brain. People spend a lot of money on skin care products and more. It’s a huge multi-million pound business. From skin-care products to laser treatment, to the plastic surgeon, but Dr Amen argues these are only temporary fixes and the real solution lies in your brain. It’s your brain that tells your skin to produce more or less oil, supervises the production of supportive collagen and is responsible for skin regeneration; so it’s there we need to begin. “The health of your skin is an outside reflection of the health of your brain.” – Dr Daniel G. Amen So what’s bad for our brain (and therefore our skin)? Well it’s the usual suspects: Caffeine, alcohol, smoking, poor diet, too much sugar, yo-yo dieting, inadequate water intake, lack of sleep, lack of exercise, stress, unresolved emotional conflicts or PTSD, hormonal changes, untreated psychiatric conditions, dementia, medications, sun exposure, pollution and environmental toxins, climate. And the solution: Get more sleep, distress, exercise, balance your hormones, have more sex (really), limit caffeine and alcohol, quit smoking, eat a brain healthy diet (more of that next week), maintain a healthy weight, drink more water, balance your sun exposure (some sun is good for your Vitamin D) but not too much which can cause premature aging and sun spots. 20 minutes during the day after which protect yourself with sunscreen. And finally treat mental disorders and memory problems. Plus you can take some supplements, e.g. Vitamin D, fish oil, evening primrose oil and grape seed extract (good antioxidant)  2 - The Hormone solution Did you know your hormones have a huge impact on brain function? When your hormones are balanced you tend to feel happy and energetic. And in contrast Dr Amen cites evidence pointing to low hormonal levels being responsible for amongst other things: low libido, depression, memory problems, midlife crises and divorce. While high hormone levels lead to: hyper competitiveness, acne or aggression. Once again it’s the brain that controls all the hormones in your body. Types of hormonal imbalance include thyroid, adrenal, testosterone, oestrogen, progesterone to name but a few. Different hormones require different treatments but often begin with blood tests depending on the symptoms. 3 - The Focus and Energy solution If you want more energy and focus (and frankly, who doesn’t) then you are probably prey to one or more focus and energy robbers. These fall into different categories including; infectious causes, hormonal issues, low or erratic blood sugar states, anaemia, brain trauma, environmental toxins, inherited brain disorders, medications, chronic stress, untreated past emotional traumas and bad brain habits. So if you find yourself wondering if your lack of focus could be something more that just being disorganised or lacking focus, it might well be. The good news is there’s lots you can do to counteract this. The first step is to get any of those focus and energy robbers treated and at the same time develop and maintain a brain-healthy lifestyle – adequate sleep, a brain-healthy diet, exercise (4-5 times/week), a stress reduction program if chronically stressed, and meditation is a particularly good energy booster too. Plus, certain foods are energy boosters including fruit, veg, beans, and whole grains and protein. 4 - The Sleep solution And then we get to solution 4 – the sleep solution. Always a favourite topic of conversation between us. One of us a night owl who can survive on considerably less than the other. Dr Amen suggests resting your brain for a slimmer shape and smoother skin, pointing to a small study by the University of Chicago which suggests people who are sleep deprived (the test was on 12 healthy men in their twenties who slept only 4 hours a night) were more likely to choose sweets, cookies, and cake over fruit, veg and dairy products. Practical action steps in the sleep solution include: maintaining a regular sleep schedule, avoid exercise close to bed time, and what causes sleep deprivations which includes amongst others medications, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine and a number of others along with these usual suspects. 5 - The Stress solution A little stress can be a good thing but excessive stress both in good and bad forms can spell trouble for your brain and body. Chronic stress affects the flow of blood to the brain, lowering overall brain function and prematurely ageing the brain and can also affect the body making you look older. A 2009 study of 647 women found the physical effects of chronic stress were similar to the effects of smoking, being obese or being 10 years older than their actual age. Techniques to help calm stress and thereby have a better body include: meditation, yoga, learning to delegate, practicing gratitude, getting enough sleep, exercise, soothing music, lavender, rehearsing or practicing situations that cause stress, living in the present (mindfulness), laughing more, seeking help, self-hypnosis and avoiding substances that harm your brain (the aforementioned usual suspects). 6 - The Negative Thoughts solution The last solution is around thinking your way to being thinner, younger and happier through avoiding negative thoughts. Dr Amen cites 9 types of ANTs or Automatic Negative Thoughts that get in the way of your being thinner, feeling and looking younger and being happier. We’ve looked at these and more in a previous post and episode of the Changeability Podcast which you check out at – Episode 39 – 11 Negative thoughts to avoid. And how to swat them. Change your Brain, Change your Body ‘Change your Brain, Change your Body’ is an interesting book that really got me thinking about whether some of the things he talks about, which I’m sometimes frustrated about in my own behaviours – tiredness, fogginess of thinking, could well be around imbalances, or poor dietary considerations and I was left wanting to explore that more. It’s a dense book with many useful actionable steps in it, plenty to ponder and take action on and return to for further reading. It will really make you think about the mind-body connection.  Where to start? Start by changing a few vital habits that will have the maximum impact. That may mean replacing ‘anti-nutrition’ with brain healthy foods, or taking supplements geared to your brain type, or by gradually starting an exercise program, or getting a bit more kip (sleep). Then fine tune your life changes to ramp up your brain and body health. Episode 96 of the Changeability Podcast Hear us talk about all of this and more on episode 96 of the Changeability Podcast on iTunes, Sticher, Tunein or in the podcast player at the top of this post. Links mentioned in the show Vote for our podcast if you appreciate us – finalists for the Audience Appreciation Award What the heck is wellbeing – episode 92 10 brain principles for the body you want – episode 94 How to use your brain to change your weight – episode 95 Change your Brain, Change your Body by Dr Daniel G. Amen Vote for the Changeability Podcast We received some excellent news this week. 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How to use your brain to change your weight This week we’ve gone from consuming 5 course dinners every night in a lovely hotel on holiday in Wales, to thinking about weight and the brain. It’s sweetly ironic and rather timely. As part of our mini series on health and wellbeing, this week we think about weight and if we can use our brains to help us lose weight. Today’s featured author certainly thinks so as Dr Daniel G. Amen devotes the second section of his book, Change your Brain, Change your Body, to the subject. Last week we looked at 10 brain principles for the body you’ve always wanted. Continuing with our exploration of the link between your brain and body and how having a healthy body and making healthy decisions all starts with your brain, we turn to the subject of weight. Weight is an aspect of our bodies that many of us want to do something about.  We might want to change our weight upwards or more commonly downwards, for our health and because we think it will make us feel better about ourselves. So what does Dr Daniel G. Amen say about this?  How can you use your brain to achieve lasting weight loss? Dr Amen, puts forward four major solutions to how to use your brain to change your weight. 1 - The Craving Solution This is about using your brain to increase your willpower and calm the urges that prevent you achieving your goals. How often do we have a day where everything’s going well and then someone offers us a cream cake? In Dr Amen’s case  it was a caramel apple which he resisted it by walking away – but why was everything in him craving it? Essentially, there are centres of the brain responsible for focus, judgment and impulse control – the pre-frontal cortex in the front of your brain – and there is also a pleasure and motivation centre deep within your brain plus we also have emotional memory centres that trigger behaviour.  All this comes together to influence our behaviour. By understanding these brain circuits of willpower and control you can work towards gaining mastery of your brain and body. It starts with our first experiences of pleasure or intense emotional experiences. These first experiences can get locked in the brain and lay down the tracks for later behaviour and addictions, because we want to replicate and repeat what led to our first pleasurable experiences. For Dr Amen it was linked to the pleasure he associated with some of his earliest memories of making fudge with his sweet-maker grandfather. What about you? What are your earliest memories of pleasure or intense emotional experiences? I remember eating ‘milky way’ chocolate bars at my Grandma’s house when I got home from school and my Mother’s sherry trifles were legendry at family parties and celebrations of every kind.   For Julian the stodgy puddings of school dinners and getting enough of it after it had been passed down the table of older children first, loom large in his memory (yes he is that person that loved school dinners)! So going back to the idea there are different centres of the brain responsible for focus, judgment and impulse control plus a pleasure and motivation centre, it’s the relative strength and weakness of each of these brain areas that goes a long way in determining how much control we have over ourselves and how well we are able to stick to our plans. Regaining control of these different centres of the brain depends in part on the area in question but it generally involves balancing your brain systems. If, for example your Prefrontal Cortex is out of balance, you might need to treat any PFC problems that exist but in more general terms you can strengthen this area by: Good sleep Maintaining a healthy blood sugar level Exercise Meditation And creating focused, written goals. All of which are designed to boost activity and blood flow to this area of the brain. (Couldn’t agree more with this and if you want to know more sign up for our Changeability Starter Kit) Solution 2 – The Weight Solution Here, you’re using your brain to achieve your optimal weight. While according to Dr Amen we might exhibit different clinical presentations and brain patterns and require different approaches, he outlines 13 things all of us should do to maintain a healthy weight. Know your brain type – not everyone has the same brain type. There are six main types (detailed in the book) Get a complete physical and focus on having healthy vitamin D, DHEA (a hormone in the body which can become depleted), and thyroid levels Know your BMI and caloric need numbers – the approximate number of calories you need to maintain your current weight. He gives you a formula which you can use to calculate the number of calories you need to maintain your current weight. Know the approximate number of calories you eat a day by keeping a food journal and calorie log and work on getting ‘high-quality calories in versus high-quality energy out’. This is useful because people lie about their food intake, or to put it more kindly, we often underestimate our daily intake and keeping a food journal overcomes this tendency. You start using your brain to become educated about the nutrition you put in your body and can then take control over it. You can not change what you can not measure. Exercise 4-5 times a week, starting with walking fast and light strength training. Optimise your hormone levels Get great sleep Use simple stress-management techniques Stop believing every negative thought that goes through your brain Use hypnosis to keep you slim Take supplements to keep your brain healthy Use the advice in his book, to keep your brain young and active in order to lose 10 pounds (5 kilograms) Take control of your weight and do not let other people make you fat Solution 3 – The Nutrition Solution This involves feeding your brain nutritious foods to look and feel younger, on the basis that we are what we eat, and that the foods we eat affect our moods and our energy levels. We’re constantly getting the wrong or unhelpful messages about food. As a society we’re bombarded with messages encouraging us to adopt bad eating habits. ‘Do you want to supersize that?’, ‘Do you want bread first?’ ‘Do you want a larger drink? It’s a better deal’, the All you can eat buffet! Many of us send out the wrong messages to our children ‘If you’re good, you can have a treat when you get home.’ We use poor nutrition as a reward for good behaviour which later in life translates to us rewarding ourselves with food that is not good for us. To follow the Nutrition Solution of how to use your brain to change your weight: Drink plenty of water, some green tea, and not too many calories Watch your calories Increase good fats (unsaturated fats) and decrease bad ones (saturated and trans fats) Unsaturated good fats include: avocadoes (thought you’d like that one), olive oil, rapeseed oil, peanut oil and nuts such as almonds, cashews and pistachios. Increase good carbs and decrease bad ones. Carbs are a necessary part of a healthy diet, the amount you need depends on your brain type Good carbs are complex carbs which take longer to digest: fruit, veg, beans, pulses and whole grains. Bad carbs or simple carbs are digested quickly and provide little or no nutritional value: e.g. sugar, pastries, sweets, fizzy drinks, fruit juices, doughnuts, white bread, pasta and white rice Dump artificial sweeteners and replace with small amounts of natural sweeteners. Limit caffeine intake to one or two normal cups of coffee or three cups of tea a day. Eat great brain foods, which include Acai berries, blueberries, blackberries, cranberries, strawberries, spinach, raspberries, brussell sprouts, plums, broccoli, beetroot, avocadoes, oranges, red grapes, red peppers, cherries and kiwis Reduce salt intake and increase potassium intake Plan snacks. Interestingly, he says don’t listen to the idea of avoid snacking. Going too long without eating can wreak havoc on your brain function and make your blood sugar levels drop too low. But make them healthy snacks. Take a multivitamin supplement and fish oil Recognise when you or someone you care about has hidden food allergies. Solution 4 – The Exercise Solution Exercise your body to strengthen your brain. “Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” – Edward Stanley We’re becoming more sedentary – driving to work, sitting all day at a desk, lounging on the sofa. This is bad news for our brains, our bellies, our backsides and our backs. Exercise is part of the solution because it: Encourages the growth of new brain cells Enhances cognitive ability at all ages Enhances your mood Helps alleviate depression Calms worries and anxiety And helps us sleep better, amongst other things Episode 95 of the Changeability Podcast Join us to hear us talk about all of this and more in episode 95 of the Changeability Podcast What about you? Is this something you’d like to change – sign up for our free Changeability Starter Kit. Links mentioned in the show: Take our survey. It’s super quick and easy. 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Our thoughts are critical.   “If you realised just how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” - Peace Pilgrim The wrong types of thought, the negative thoughts that often come to mind throughout our day, can make you feel bad and stop you achieving our best. So today we’re thinking about NATS. And we don’t mean those pesky little insects that buzz around you and over your head when you’re enjoying a warm summer’s evening walk or drink outside the pub.  We’re talking Negative Affirming Thoughts (NATs for short). And if you’re not recognising them, then they might just be preventing you living your fullest life now and getting in the way of you achieving your goals or making the changes you want in your life.  “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.” - Eckhart Tolle So today we want to look at the different varieties, or maybe we should say ‘species’ of NATs out there.  Because if you’re aware of them you’re more likely to recognise them and do something about them when you notice yourself thinking them. And sometimes just catching out that thought is enough to dissipate it or stop its influence on your behaviour. Why are these thoughts affirming? You probable think of affirmations as something positive (like those we’ve talked about before) but affirmation just means affirming something, or making it firm, and this can be in a negative way just as much as in a positive way. So with negative thoughts the danger is that you constantly reaffirm or reinforce them until they become the way you think and then get in the way of you doing what you want to do. In his book, Change your Brain, Change your Body Dr Daniel G. Amen puts forward 9 types of negative thought (that he calls ANTs – automatic negative thoughts). David Burns, in Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, outlines 10 common mistakes in thinking, or thinking errors he calls cognitive distortions. NLP has a similar concept so we decided to roll them all into one bundle and somehow we’ve ended up with 11! So here’s all 11, how you can spot them and then swat the little beggars! So go on, see if you’re thinking these thoughts and learn how to stop them before they take a hold (you know you want to!) The 11 Negative Thoughts  1.     All or nothing thoughts This is when you think some is all good or all bad, all black or all white.  You miss a day on your diet - you think you have no self-control and give up.  You’ve given up smoking and then had a quick puff?  Immediately you tell yourself “I can’t do this no-smoking malarkey, I just can’t quit!” It’s all or nothing with you and if you’ve set yourself an aim of doing something, in your eyes you’ve failed. Swatting those NATs: Recognise, one slip up doesn’t mean you’ve given up; it means just that – you’ve had one slip up. 2.     ‘Always’ thinking – overgeneralization Always thinking or overgeneralizing is typically accompanied by words such as always, never, every time, or everyone.  “You never have any respect for my feelings” or “Every time I ask you to do something you always say you’re too busy!”  or indeed “I always mess up!” This kind of thinking makes you feel as if you’ve no control over your actions – and as such it’s disempowering. Swatting those NATs:   Ask yourself. Does this always happen, every single time?  Really? If not then recognise you’re overgeneralizing. Say to yourself – just because one event happened, doesn’t necessarily mean I am permanently this way of being. 3.    Focussing on the negative NAT number 3 sees only the negative in life, even when the positive is staring you in the face. It’s like you have a mental filter that mostly focuses on the negative or upsetting aspects whilst ignoring massive positives. “I set myself a task of losing 10 pounds this month, and I’ve only lost five. I’m a failure.” Focussing on the negative makes you more inclined to give up. Swatting those NATs: Put a positive spin on your thoughts.  “Wow, 5 pounds weight loss, my goal is getting ever nearer.”  This encourages you to keep going and makes you feel better about yourself. Learn to look for the silver lining in every cloud and count your positives rather than your negatives – in other words look for the positives in situations. 4.    Thinking with your feelings or emotional reasoning “I feel like I’m never going to get to grips with my bad back.” Here thoughts occur when you have a feeling about something.  You assume it’s correct and never question it. This species of NAT mixes up and confuses feelings and facts – which leads you to make decisions based on how you feel rather than objective reality. It’s important here to recognise that feelings can lie. Swatting those NATs: Look for evidence to see if it’s really true.  If you feel you’re never going to get a grip with your bad back, then book an appointment with you doctor or physio to see if there’s anything that can be done about it. 5.    Disqualifying the Positive This involves always shooting down good or positive experiences for no real reason – so you can keep a negative belief even though the evidence points to the opposite.  It’s as if the good stuff doesn’t count because everything else is bad about your life. Swatting those NATs: Think about what does count and why. Learn to accept compliments by just saying ‘thank you’ (so when someone compliments you on your new shoes just say thanks instead of – well they were only cheap, or I got them in the sale) Or try bigging yourself up – or bolster your view of yourself by listing your good qualities, skills and accomplishments. 6.    The Guilt Trip or ‘should-ing’ Spotting this one is a cinch.    You’re thinking in words like ‘should’, ‘must’, ‘ought to’ and ‘have to’. “I really should get this job done” or “I feel like watching TV, but I ought tobe doing my gym workout.” Here you’re using guilt to control your behaviour.  And guess what? When you feel obliged to do something, you rebel against it! Swatting those NATs: Although guilt isn’t all bad, don’t use excessive guilt to control your behaviour. Try asking yourself questions like - what is stopping me doing this, or what rule says I should, or simply ask ‘why should I?’ Another technique is to use ‘could’ instead of ‘should’. 7.    Labelling and mislabelling Ever guilty of labelling yourself in some way? Of explaining your behaviours by labelling it? “I’m useless at maths.”  “I’m such a loser.” There’s an error in logic going on here, where you make a leap from a behaviour or action to an identity, so the identity is determined by the behaviour. Guess what?  If you’ve given yourself an all-embracing label it takes away your control over your actions and behaviour.  Now although this might be a good excuse for lack of action on occasions it’s also taking away your control and self-efficacy – which is never a good idea. Swatting those NATs: Ok, so you may not be very good at maths at the moment, but you can’t just give up before you’ve even tried.  That’s just defeatist.  You didn’t say when you were a child “I tried walking once and I was useless at it.”  You didn’t, did you?  OMG! 8.    Magnification and Minimisation This is where you magnify or exaggerate the negatives and minimise or understate the positives – people often do this to themselves. I can also be where you catastrophise – or jump ahead to the worst possible outcome, expecting the worst case scenario to actually happen. Or thinking that a situation is unbearable when it’s just unpleasant; like when you think ‘I  can’t stand this.’ Swatting those NATs: Ask yourself what would happen if you did stand this. Examine exactly how something is so bad – and compared to what. 9.    Fortune telling – jumping to conclusions Here you predict the worst, even though you don’t actually know what will happen. You’re anticipating things will turn out badly, as if your prediction is already a fact. “Whenever I try to give up smoking, I end up giving up!” Fortune telling thinking can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy, i.e. it becomes true. Swatting those NATs: Talk back to those thoughts.  Ask how you know it will turn out this way. Say - Ah, that’s fortune telling thinking –  and tell yourself it doesn’t always have to end that way. 10.Mind reading Another form that jumping to conclusions takes is when you think you know what someone else is thinking even though they haven’t told you. “She’s looking at me strangely, she must think I’m stupid” or “He’s looking at my tummy, he must think I’m fat.” A chance look from someone doesn’t mean they’re judging you.  She/he could like you, or noticed that you’ve spilt something on your top! Swatting those NATs: It ain’t true unless someone actually tells you that’s what they’re thinking.  Examine the evidence – check out the facts and if in doubt ask. And how about letting go of a need for approval because you can’t please everyone all the time.  As to thinking about you, the truth is most people are too busy thinking about themselves to think about you. 11.Blame - In the blame game you blame yourself for situations and others behaviours that are not necessarily directly connected. So for example, your son’s doing badly at school so you think you must be a bad mother. Or you might find yourself saying “I can’t diet because you never support me” or “It’s your fault I’m in this situation.” Blaming others for your own problems and not taking responsibility for your actions is toxic and disempowering. Swatting those NATs: When you find yourself blaming yourself ask how much of this problem is really your responsibility. And quit blaming others and take responsibility for your actions.  If you are smoking, it’s because you choose to and equally, you can choose to quit!  Empowering, isn’t it? And finally. Remember, recognising negative affirming thought patterns is the first step in learning to change them.  Changeability Podcast – Episode 39 Here us talk about all of this and more in episode 39 of the Changeability Podcast.  Listen by clicking above or subscribe to our podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. Resources and links mentioned in Episode 39 Affirmations episodes Episode 19 – Affirmations to manage your mind Episode 18 – How to make affirmations work Episode 17 – The what, why and how of positive affirmations The soundtrack in your head – beliefs and mindset Dr D. Amen - Change your brain, Change your body David Burns, M.D. - Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy    

Look Good! Feel Good! with  Debra Norwood, Laughter Lawyer USA is a program about positive people, places and causes! Today's guest is teacher,counselor and prolific author, Dr. Earl Henslin.  Dr. Henslin brings a message of compassion and hope to all of us who sometimes can do the strangest things to the people we love and just don't know why!  Are you a Scattered Lover? an Over-Focused Lover? Are you in a relationship with a Blue Mood Lover? or an Aggitated Lover?  Are you an Anxious Lover? Do issues  such as  sexuality versus spirituality or hormones, or addictions plague you?   Well, let's look under the hood of your brain and have a neuroscience expert tell us why you may be experiencing trouble and how to to rebuild your relationship.   Dr. Henslin's vast experience includes helping individuals and families in marriage counseling, traumatic stress, addictions, abuse, ADD/ADHD and other issues. He uses an innovative, state of the art, therapeutic approach by integrating brain imaging into the treatment of psychological,physical,and spiritual problems.  Dr.Henslin  has worked closely for 14 years with  brain imaging research pioneer, Dr. Daniel G. Amen. A  Valentine's book filled with hope  that every couple should have: THIS IS YOUR BRAIN IN LOVE by  Dr.Earl Henslin  Order one now, just in time for Valentine's Day! www.drhenslin.com Laughter Lawyer USA uses brain health and therapeutic humor and laughter to help people  develop Peacebuilding skills.   Friend her on Facebook @laughterlawyerusa@yahoo.com Twitter:@laughterlawyeru                

Dr. Daniel G. Amen, founder of Amen Clinics, shares the most important lessons he's learned from the world's largest database of brain scans related to ADD/ADHD, including natural ways to heal the brain.

Dr. Daniel G. Amen, author of Healing ADD, discusses his proposed seven types of attention deficit disorder. Learn which type you or your child may have, and the best way to treat symptoms.

This week's "What's on Your Kindle?" Interview is with Bill Bulger, 74, a legendary Massachusetts politician from South Boston who served 17 years as president of the state Senate and 7 years as president of the University of Massachusetts.  We visited at his home, and afterward his wife, Mary, revealed exactly why she bought her husband a Kindle.  His book is not in Kindle version yet - click on the link to let his publisher know you'd like that changed!   UPDATE: Two items on Bill Bulger's Kindle are Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen and Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard.Kindle News: The financial analyst heard round the Kindlesphere-reverberations from a Citi analyst's doubling of his earlier estimate of Kindle sales this year and NYT perspective here; Amazon adds a way to ping publishers who are not yet on the Kindle train (an item from Cush), and how 17 syllables might win you a Kindle.Tech Tip: Do's and Don'ts with an SD card, including screenshot tip from Stephen Windwalker.  More on using FeedBooks for free RSS feeds.Kindle Quote: from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beacher StoweKindle Comment: Cory in FlaNew contest: the first person whose audio comment I use on the next episode will receive a $10 gift certificate at the Amazon Store.  Phone in your coment to 206-666-2713 or attach an .mp3 file to email to PodChronicles@gmail.com. I also welcome text comments here or at the email address.   Thanks for listening!Special audio extra: Bill Bulger singing a solo with the Boston Symphony.

Today, it's all about the BRAIN, the most important, and probably the most “taken-for-granted organ? in the body. We talk about how to treat, and prevent conditions including Alzheimer's disease, depression, anxiety, ADD, and we'll discuss “brain scanning,? because our guest has compiled the latest database of its type in the world. Daniel G. Amen, M.D., is a world recognized psychiatrist. He's an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He's also the author of 20 books, including his latest Making a Good Brain Great.

Dr. Amen lists specific ways to make a good brain great. How you can take care of, and enhance the most important organ of your body. Our special guest is a world-recognized psychiatrist, a best selling author, a medical school professor, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. For the Amen brain system checklist, go to www.amenclinic.com.