172 - Scientifically-Proven Strategies For Helping Your Children With Their Mental Health with Dr. Caroline Leaf

The Dear Body Podcast

Jessi Jean

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.7 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

If you've have children, are thinking about having children, or have an interest in helping today's kiddos navigate their mental and emotional health - this episode is for you. And man, is it eye-opening. This generation of children are showing more signs of anxiety, depression and mental health challenges and left unaddressed these challenges can impact them the rest of their lives. But fortunately we have some incredible resources and strategies for helping our kids navigate mental health. And to unpack these scienctifacally-proven strategies and steps to help our children, I am joined today by bestselling author and renowned neuroscientist, Dr. Caroline Leaf! Her newest book releasing August 8th: How To Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess is a guide to building resilience and managing mental health. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to help equip their children to build an unshakable foundation for mental health. You can pre-order the book to recieve super-fun exclusive bonus content HERE. Or purchase from your favorite book retailer: Amazon Christian Book Barnes and Noble Books A Million Baker Book House Last time Dr. Caroline Leaf was on the podcast we chatted the neuroscience of healing disordered eating and you guys LOVED it. I have no doubt you will love this episode just as much. We discuss: How our own mental messes from our childhood follow up into adulthood and how those then impact our children AND what we can do about it If we should outright talk about our own mental health struggles with our children How children's mental health has gotten worse over the last 40 years What the neurocycle process is and how we can use to manage our mind and drive neuroplasticity in the right direction How a messy mind leads to a messy life A simple strategy for helping your kids grow in mental and emotional resilience How long it actually takes to reprogram your mind What the mental health warning signals are to be aware of How do we get out of the cycles of self-sabotage Other links: Dr. Caroline Leaf's podcast - Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess The Neurocycle App - a brain detox app to help you manage stress, anxiety, depression and toxic thinking Dr. Caroline Leaf's other book mentioned in the episode - Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show, everyone.
0:11.7	I am beyond excited for what we have in store for you today because the individual
0:16.6	that I have the privilege of talking to today is really one of the world's foremost experts in mental
0:22.0	health. She's a cognitive neuroscientist. She's a best-selling author. You've heard me talk about
0:27.4	her before. Her research, her theories, her teachings have not only really impacted my own
0:33.3	life, but they've helped millions across the world become empowered to clean up their mental
0:39.3	mess, if you will, and help improve their mental health. And what I love about this
0:43.2	individual is, you guys always hear me say knowledge is not power without application and
0:48.1	somebody who is as intellectual and as educated and really, really fascinating as she is with her understanding
1:00.2	of mental health.
1:00.9	She does such a good job of breaking it down and demystifying the process into tangible
1:05.6	tools and techniques that can actually change our lives.
1:09.0	The last time I had her on the show, you guys love the episode because she demystified
1:13.2	this whole process of changing your life by learning how to manage your mind.
1:16.7	So I'm thrilled to have you back.
1:18.5	Dr. Caroline Leaf, welcome to the show.
1:20.6	Oh, thank you so much, Jessie.
1:21.8	Thank you for that lovely intro.
1:23.0	And I enjoyed our last discussion.
1:24.4	So I'm excited to talk to you again today.
1:26.7	Absolutely. You guys, she's the author of a book titled How to Clean Up Your Mental Mess.
1:31.5	And I was just telling her before I hit record that I think she wrote her newest one for me,
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