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Hi, it's Elise Loonan host of Pulling the Thread.

Today I'm talking to neuroscientist Caroline Leif, who has done extensive research, host of Pulling the thread.

On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here.

My hope is that these conversations spark

moments of resonance and plant tiny seeds of awareness so that we might all collectively learn

and grow. Here is today's guest, Caroline Leaf, on why building a certain kind of 63-second

pause into a moment of overwhelm can create lasting

change in our lives. Around 60-63 seconds, we are able to actually catch ourselves and

start the process of regulating and start the process of standing back and observing ourselves.

But if we don't train ourselves to be aware of that,

we miss those marks. So then we bypass them and we just become toddler driven, as opposed to

toddler and parent. So this book is to teach you how to pay attention to the 63 seconds.

Caroline Leif is a communication pathologist, audiologist, and neuroscientist. She has written so many books. I'll let

Caroline tell you how many in a second. She has also done a ton of research and has created many

mental health resources for people, including her neuropsychel app. But essentially, her work is all

about helping us to understand how our minds work versus the brain.

Her new book is called Help in a Hurry.

Simple tips for finding peace when you're overwhelmed, anxious, or stressed.

It's more or less an intervention for those moments of overwhelm our crisis in our lives

when we're battling an inner critic or contending with unleashed anger or rage

and so on. Caroline has some interesting insights as to why conventional wisdom on building in a

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