Neuroplasticity Tools to Change Your (and your kid’s) Brain with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Our thoughts, emotions, and experiences can reshape the very structure of our brains, allowing it to adapt and change over time. This is known as neuroplasticity, and while it’s present throughout our lives the younger we are the more powerful it is. On today’s episode, Dr. Caroline Leaf joins Rick and Forrest to explore how we can harness the power of neuroplasticity to clean up our mental mess…and teach our children to do the same. They detail Dr. Leaf’s five-step Neurocycle process, walk through a practical example, and explain how we can use mind-management tools to reshape our relationship with difficult thoughts and feelings. Dr. Leaf then shares how we can introduce these tools to young people, the importance of nurturing a child's sense of agency, and the power of teaching through modeling.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.
0:10.5	If you're new to the show, thanks for joining us today, and if you've listened before,
0:13.6	welcome back.
0:14.6	I'm here as usual with Dr. Rick Hanson, because a clinical psychologist, a best-selling
0:18.8	author, and he's also my dad, so dad, how are you doing today?
0:22.0	I'm good.
0:23.0	I feel revved up and excited about our guest and our topic.
0:27.5	Very much the same, I've been looking forward to this one for a while, and we're talking
0:30.5	today with Dr. Caroline Leif.
0:32.4	Dr. Leif is a clinical and cognitive neuroscientist who has been researching the mind-brain connection,
0:37.5	the nature of mental health, and the formation of memory for over 40 years.
0:42.2	She's authored an incredible number of books, including Switch on Your Brain, Cleaning
0:45.8	Up Your Mental Mass, and her newest book, How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental
0:50.2	Mass.
0:51.2	She's also the host of the Top Mental Health Podcast by the same name, Cleaning Up The
0:55.4	Mental Mass.
0:56.4	Thank you Dr. Leif.
0:57.4	Thanks for doing this with us today.
0:58.4	How are you doing?
0:59.4	I'm doing so well.
1:00.4	Thank you so much.
1:01.4	So one of the things that I appreciate about your work is that you very much focus on
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