Welcome to the You Can Heal Your Life Podcast.

Today is the first episode of our three-part, whole-brain living series with Harvard-trained

neuroscientist and stroke survivor, Dr. Jill Bulti-Taylor.

Today, Dr. Jill shares ways to make the most of your mindfulness practices and describes

how your brain's four separate characters influence your life.

If you enjoy today's discussion, we hope you'll join us for Dr. Jill's free virtual event

called Balance Your Brain, Tools to Overcome Anxiety and Fear, from August 24th to 26th.

Visit hayhouse.com-slash-brain to join now.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome back to the You Can Heal Your Life Podcast.

Today's guest is Dr. Jill Bulti-Taylor.

She wrote a book 12 years ago called My Stroke of Insight, which was a huge bestseller.

She had the first ever viral TED video.

Now, after 12 years, she's going to write a brand new book for us here at hayhouse.

I guess I'm going to start off, Jill, just asking, why did you decide to write a book after 12 years?

My stroke of insight was all about my experience with losing my left hemisphere.

Within the course of four hours, I had become an infant.

I could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of my life.

Then that book came out of what did I learn about the brain through the eyes of a neuroscientist

about recovery and the ability to heal from the inside out.

And over the course of the last 10 years, I have done a lot of keynoting at different kinds of organizations and corporations.

And I realized that the general public understands the neurological language now of the amygdala in the hippocampi,

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