What Happened when Tana Found Out She had Cancer
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
After a chance encounter with a photographer for a major magazine, life seemed to be on the upswing for Tana Amen. Then disaster struck. This episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast chronicles a dark chapter in Tana Amen's life, as she tells her story of how she had gotten cancer, not just once, but numerous times. These inspiring snippets are featured at length in Tana's upcoming memoir, "The Reluctant Courage of a Scared Child".
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body. |
| 0:19.0 | The Brain Warriors Way podcast is brought to you by Aemon Clinics, where we have been transforming |
| 0:25.5 | lives for 30 years, using tools like brain-spect imaging to personalize treatment to your |
| 0:32.0 | brain. |
| 0:32.7 | For more information, |
| 0:34.1 | visit Aaman Clinics.com. |
| 0:35.9 | The Brain Warriors Way Podcast is also brought to you |
| 0:38.7 | by Brain MD, where we produce the highest quality |
| 0:41.6 | neutraceuticals to support the health of your brain |
| 0:44.3 | and body. To learn more go to brainMD.com. |
| 0:48.8 | Welcome back. I am here with the world famous Tana. |
| 0:52.4 | Amen. Author. I am here with the world famous Tanna Eman, author, |
| 0:55.0 | neurosurgical ICU nurse, leader |
| 0:58.7 | of the Brain Warriors Way Movement, my best friend, my partner. |
| 1:07.4 | So we sort of leave off at the end of high school |
| 1:11.0 | where you kick your dad to the curb for good reason right I mean it's |
| 1:18.3 | not irrational and and then you do interesting things. |
| 1:25.0 | So for a while life was just sort of |
| 1:29.0 | vanilla, I guess you'd say, but it wasn't bad. |
| 1:32.0 | So, but, you'd say, but it wasn't bad. |
| 1:32.8 | So, but, you know, and it again doesn't take a shrink |
| 1:37.6 | to figure out that, you know, my daddy issues |
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