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Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Managing Your Mind with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

Disasters, Storytelling, Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Shame, Comedy, Jameela Jamil, Personal Journals, Funny

4.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Caroline Leaf joins Jameela this week to discuss how we can use our minds to detox and grow our brains. We discover we have the ability to manage our minds and by isolating ourselves from triggers, we’re masking our own resilience. They discuss the scale of trauma terminology and microaggressions, the mind-body connection and much more.

Find more information about Dr. Caroline Leaf on her website www.drleaf.com and follow her on Instagram @drcarolineleaf. Dr. Leaf’s latest book is ‘How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess’.

 

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Wrong Turns was created and produced by Jameela Jamil and Stewart Bailey.


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0:30.0

Dr Caroline Leith, hello and welcome to iWay, what an honour to have you here.

0:35.0

Oh, thank you so much, it's an honour to be with you, lovely to meet you.

0:38.3

Oh, thank you so much for making time today. I so appreciate everything that you do and everything

0:44.6

you talk about and it really resonates with me and it's resonated with a lot of people, people

0:49.6

have been sending me your videos and your work for a long time and so it's really nice to have a

0:55.2

chance to kind of explore some of your ideas that I found so inspiring with you today.

1:00.2

First things first, how are you? Oh, I'm good, I'm good, I'm excited to be released on your

1:04.6

book tomorrow and being busy with all kinds of, you know, all the work that you know with

1:08.7

media is like getting everything together so it's been fun. 100%. And how does it feel the

1:15.4

process of trying to put out something that is a relatively like fresh and new idea that

1:21.6

somewhat goes against the grain of current big farmer. Biomedical. I don't know, I mean the biomedical

1:28.4

model, yeah. How does that go for someone? Because I've always wondered what it's like to be

1:33.6

on the receiving end of maybe some scrutiny and doubt. Yeah, you get it, you get people that

1:39.6

will say to you, well, you know, prove that and fortunately I've got the science and

1:44.1

fortunately I publish I can do that. But a lot of people will say things like, well does that mean

1:48.8

that, you know, there's no such thing as ADHD or no such thing as clinical depression?

1:53.4

You know, and I always say to them, well, you know, it's just a way of reframing it. That's

1:57.2

instead of looking at a diagnosis, let's look at it as a description. It's just that people do

2:02.0

challenge, but it's exciting because people are desperate and you know, the situation is

2:06.7

natal health has never been handled very well. But the last 40 years, it's really the way that

2:11.2

it's become a sort of chemical stray jacket and also just a very reduction of sick approach has

2:16.7

not helped anyone, you know, and well, I shouldn't say not helped anyone because some people have

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