Thank you for joining us for episode 376 of Live Happy Now.

Bullying is a huge issue for kids today, and as we go back to school, many children are

dreading having to face that challenge every day.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm having a very important conversation with

Jennifer Fraser, author of the powerful new book, The Bullied Brain.

Jennifer is an award-winning educator whose online courses and workshops teach the impact

of neuroscience on personal development and culture change.

In her latest book, she breaks down how bullying affects our brains,

and more importantly, she tells us how to help heal our brains from that trauma. Jennifer,

thank you so much for being a guest on Live Happy Now. I'm so happy to be here, Paula. Thanks for

having me. We are kicking off our eighth season today, and I thought

this is absolutely the way we need to start this new season out, because this is such an important

topic. Everyone has dealt with it or is dealing with it on some level. So as we look at bullying,

let's go back and start about what made you so interested in learning what bullying

does to our brains. I'm an academic. So I have a PhD in comparative literature. And we are

trained when we do compilet, we call it. When we're trained to do it, the idea is you take different

discourses, different languages even in cultures and ways of thinking, lenses on the world,

and you take them out of their silos. So you pull out all this expert knowledge, you put into the

arena and you see how it changes the conversation by having this kind of a dialogue.

So that's my training, my mentality, it's what I do. And I was teaching at a private school in Canada,

and I heard directly from a parent. And then I ultimately was asked by the headmaster of the

school to take student testimonies about how they were being treated. Because there was all kinds

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