Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your

host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Carla Lohanthile.

Hello, my chickens. I am super excited for this conversation today. You know that I am

constantly talking about thought work and how to understand our brains and what they're

doing. And of course, I have studied and researched, but also I teach a lot from my experience,

what I observe in my own brain and in my students and my clients' brains. And I will defend

experiential and decentralized learning until my dying day. But it is also super fun and important

to understand some of the science behind what I teach. And so today I'm having a conversation

with Dr. Carolyn Leif, who is a neuroscientist and an amazing researcher and writer and author

and podcaster and educator, who really goes deep into the neurochemistry of thought work.

And what is actually happening in your brain when you use some of these thought work tools?

So Dr. Leif is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscience. She has a master's

and a PhD and she has been researching the mind brain connection since the 1980s. And she

is actually one of the first in her field to study neuroplasticity with what they call

directed mind input. So sort of directed target in neuroplasticity that you are creating

on purpose with what you are trying to teach yourself to think and how to change your

thoughts. So she is an incredible resource and a real pioneer in her field. And I am so

excited to have her on. She's also the best-selling author of Switch on Your Brain, Think, Learn,

and succeed and many other books. So we had an amazing conversation about the neurochemistry

of thought work and I am so excited for you all to hear it. So without further ado, here

we go.

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