Ep 134: Breaking the Doom Loop with Dr. Daniel Amen
Move With Heart
Melissa Wood-Tepperberg
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful conversation, Melissa sits down with renowned brain health expert, Dr. Daniel Amen, to explore how our thoughts, habits, and daily choices shape the way we feel and live. Dr. Amen breaks down the concept of the “doom loop,” explaining how it forms and why it’s so easy to get trapped in. He shares what allows him to live pain-free at 70 and explains how aging can be accelerated or slowed based on the choices we make. They explore the supplements he recommends for foundational brain health, how to support family members who may be living with darkness, and why cultivating positivity is essential for a healthy brain. Dr. Amen also shares a simple daily practice including beginning the morning by asking what he’s excited about and ending the day by reflecting on what went well. This conversation is full of insight, compassion, and practical tools for anyone looking to create a healthier, more grounded, and empowered life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Move with Heart podcast. I am your host, Melissa Wood-Teperberg, and I am so |
| 0:09.7 | honored to have you here to have these enlightening conversations to help you see the power |
| 0:18.7 | within yourself, this magnificence that we all hold. |
| 0:23.6 | We just have to stay devoted with our practice and doing the work and open our hearts |
| 0:29.6 | and our minds to the infinite power of possibilities. |
| 0:36.6 | Wait, do we have the camera on, guys? |
| 0:39.5 | I feel like we should just, okay, good, because I'm like, that's what happens with me. |
| 0:43.8 | As soon as I sit down, I can't not dive right in. |
| 0:46.7 | Like, I'm like, let's just go there. |
| 0:49.6 | How are you? |
| 0:50.6 | I'm so good. |
| 0:52.0 | I want to dive deeper on that because in my family, everyone has a chronic neck, back pain. |
| 1:01.0 | I've dealt with certain things and I've definitely noticed according to like certain workouts |
| 1:07.2 | and that was a lot of what moved me into low impact movements but I really had this wake me up |
| 1:14.6 | this year where I was like oh hold on a second this is actually like deep rooted emotional pain |
| 1:21.1 | that's showing up in my body and like banging on the door I feel like the banging really starts as you're getting, |
| 1:31.2 | like I'm in my 40s now, so it's like you can't not listen to the things that start to creak in, |
| 1:38.3 | right? |
| 1:39.2 | Right. |
| 1:39.4 | Because then it's, it turns into a disaster. |
| 1:44.5 | And then you're just working on fixing. |
| 1:47.8 | You create the doom loop. |
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