Whole Brain Living with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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#562: In this week's Anxiety Slayer podcast, Shann is speaking with New York Times Best-Selling author, Dr. Jill Taylor Bolte about her new book, Whole Brain Living: The anatomy of choice and the four characters that drive our life. Dr. Jill is a Harvard-trained and published neuroscientist. Her memoir, My Stroke of Insight, documenting her experience with stroke in 1996 causing her to lose the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life and her 8-year recovery, spent 63 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list and is still routinely the #1 book in the category Stroke in the Amazon marketplace. Jill focuses on how we can activate the power of our neuroplasticity to not only recover from neurological trauma, but purposely choose to live a more flexible, resilient, and satisfying life. During these times of increased social and economic distress, many of us are suffering from anxiety and fear that feed so much suffering. Creating our 'new normal’ is all about identifying what is possible. When we understand who we are, we are empowered to make better choices. Topics CoveredWhat is Whole Brain Living? How can we get acquainted with the four characters that drive our lives and how they give us the power of choice to live our best life.How can we plugin to the power of choice to access more peace? Watch The 90-Second reset video and Get a copy of Whole Brain Living at drjilltaylor.com

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan van der Leek and today I'm
0:08.0	speaking with New York Times best-selling author Dr. Jill Bolte
0:12.2	Taylor about her new book Whole Brain Living.
0:16.0	During these times of increased social and economic distress,
0:20.0	many of us are suffering from anxiety and fear that feeds so much suffering.
0:26.0	Creating our new normal is all about identifying what is possible.
0:30.6	And when we understand who we are, we're empowered to make better choices.
0:35.0	Today, Dr. Jill is going to talk about her new book, but also sharing conversation
0:40.0	about so many of the wonderful ways that we can move forward with choice.
0:47.0	Her memoir, My Stroke of Insight, documenting her experience with Stroke in 1996, causing her to lose the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life, and her eight-year recovery, spent 63 weeks on the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list, and is still
1:07.3	routinely the number one book in the category, Stroke in the Amazon Marketplace. Jill focuses on how we can activate the power of our
1:16.0	neuroplasticity to not only recover from neurological trauma but purposely
1:21.9	choose to live a more flexible, resilient, and satisfying life.
1:27.3	Welcome to Anxiety Slayer, Dr. Jill.
1:30.0	Stan, I am so happy to be with you today. Thank you.
1:34.0	I am so happy to be with you today and thanks for the short conversation before our interview.
1:40.0	I appreciate your time so much.
1:42.0	And I just want to dive right in. I appreciate your time so much.
1:42.9	And I just want to dive right in.
1:44.6	Let's talk about what is whole brain living
1:48.4	and the anatomy of choice?
1:50.9	We have this beautiful brain inside of our heads and you know there's this myth that's been going around for over a hundred years that we only use 10% of our brain and that's simply a myth. Every cell that is
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