257 SelfWork: Is Your Brain Broken When You're Depressed? A Conversation with Dr. Caroline Leaf
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
There are some people who are both humble and brilliant and Dr. Caroline Leaf is one of those people. She's a world renowned Neuroscientist, mental health and mind expert, bestselling author of Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess and host of Cleaning Up The Mental Mess podcast. In this episode, we have a fascinating conversation about the mind-brain connection and how this plays into mental health, how our minds differ from our brains - and why learning the difference is important for self-regulation and SelfWork.
Dr. Leaf also teaches listeners how to foster and cultivate the power of their own thinking and direct their own brain changes by providing a simple five-step roadmap to create sustainable, true change. Her technique, what she calls mind-management, helps facilitate talk between the conscious, the subconscious, and the nonconscious mind. And she’s definitely into “what you can do about it.” Dr. Leaf defines five steps that, when followed closely, can get brainwaves flowing in a healthy way, optimizing brain function.
So, in this episode sponsored by AG1, please sit back and listen in to what I hope will be eye-opening to all of you. Dr. Leaf wants you to know that your brain isn't broken when you're depressed - and it's so important to know that you're not broken either.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Selfwork, and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:14.1 | At Selfwork, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world |
| 0:19.0 | and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Dr. Margaret, and Selfwork is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today |
| 0:26.2 | for your own Selfwork. |
| 0:29.9 | Hello, and welcome to Selfwork. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:33.1 | I'm a clinical psychologist, and I've lived and worked in Favell, Arkansas for about 28 |
| 0:38.0 | years. |
| 0:39.0 | I decided five years ago to reach out to the podcast community. |
| 0:43.7 | I wanted to extend the walls of my practice to those of you who might already be very interested |
| 0:48.3 | in psychology or dealing with emotional or traumatic issues. |
| 0:52.9 | But I also wanted to reach out to those that might have been just diagnosed with depression |
| 0:57.8 | or anxiety or bipolar disorder, or you're having a relationship issue that you just can't |
| 1:02.6 | seem to wrap around. |
| 1:05.0 | But also to a third group of you, to those of you who might tell a friend, I don't understand |
| 1:10.0 | people go to therapy, I think that's weak. |
| 1:12.5 | I really would love for you to listen to Selfwork, because I want to say to you that coming |
| 1:18.6 | into therapy is actually one of the most courageous things that anyone can do. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm so thrilled that we have Dr. Caroline Leif on today. |
| 1:28.7 | She's literally a world-renowned neuroscientist, mental health and mind expert. |
| 1:33.4 | She's written a whole bunch of books. |
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