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Hello, everybody. It's Reed Tracy. Welcome back to The You Can Heal Your Life podcast. Today's

guest is Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. And she wrote a book 12, I guess 12 years ago called My

Stroke of Insight, which was a huge bestseller. And she had the first ever viral TED video. And

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

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

years? You know, it's, my stroke of insight was all about my experience with losing my left

hemisphere and having to, within the course of four hours, I had become an infant. And I could

not walk talk, read right or recall any of my life. And 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 key

noting at different kinds of organizations and corporations. And I realized that the general

public understands the neurological language now of the amygdala and the hippocampi. But they

didn't realize that we have two. We have two amygdala, one in each hemisphere and two hippocampi,

one in each hemisphere. And when I realized that, I realized that our perception as the general

public and how we think about the brain is that we have an emotional system. And then we have

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