PODCAST · education
Embrace Your Brain
by Dr. Dee Joy Coulter
To buy Dee's book Original Mind: uncovering your natural brilliance, on Amazon at a special discount CLICK HERE. In these podcasts, Dr. Dee Coulter shares a lifetime of insights about the brain, how it works and how we can support it. She draws on five decades of teaching and scholarly studies. Her passion led to a doctorate in neurological studies early on, and still inspires her to keep scouring brain research for the newest discoveries. For the past few years, she has focused on exploring the exciting ways the mind can continue to grow and transform in the upper decades. She's calling this series Embracing the Mature Mind.
Episodes
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What’s holding you back?
Wanted: courageous elders to step up!! Society has plenty of information and expert minds. But it lacks the wisdom and creative openness of wise elders.
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Becoming a wise elder-Gateways to creativity
When our creative energy flows, it's great. We become better mentors and more interesting people. But there are several key ways it can be blocked!
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Becoming a Wise Elder: Exertion without Effort
We lean on our strong suits. In time we become too focused and tight or too laid back and loose. One secret to balancing? Exertion without Effort.
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Becoming a wise elder: basic training
The world desperately needs a vast army of wise elders. BUT the brain change from knowledge to wisdom won't happen by itself! It's going to take work!
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If I were a virus...
...I'd be thrilled. Listen in as Bucky Bacteria and Cyrus the Virus explore the politics and brain science behind their good fortune.
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Lies, Loyalty, Boasts and Borders
Is there an instinct driving the brutality toward migrants, the focus on revenge and the attacks on valued programs? Is our anxiety one of the goals?
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Cognitive Patterns in Todays Politics
Cognitive neuroscience can shed some light on Trump's and Musk's minds. If you like this fresh lens for tracking the chaos, I hope you'll pass it on.
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Checking the truth of connections we make
To test plumbing connections, we turn on the faucet. But how do we test the truth of thought connections? Is it just a storyline or is it real wisdom?
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Rebooting our truth detecting skills
When is the media speaking the truth? For that matter, when is our own mind able to tell what’s true? First, let’s look at how flashes of intuition work.
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Accessing your best brain states
As adults, our brains could find the brain states to do whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted. But the aging brain takes more skill to operate well!
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A FRESH LOOK AT GIVING UP
We all give up sometimes. But if you are caught in anxiety or despair, one or more brain layers has shut down, and another is running the show.
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Can Brain Layers Work Together?
Our brain layers don't have to fight for dominance. They can rise above that and become a dream team! Here's how.
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An Imaginary Interview with our Brain Layers
Despair and apathy suggest one or more brain layers has given in to "learned helplessness". What are these layers? Next time we'll explore remedies.
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Coming to Terms with Dread
Today may be ok, but do you still live under a cloud of dread? Is your mind filled with negative storylines about tomorrow? What's going on?
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What's Taking Her So Long?
I've been exploring rage behavior, and my quest just kept growing. It even connects to suicide and eating disorders! Finally, I'm ready to begin.
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Becoming the Gesture
To let the outside world come to us, we must awaken our bodies to help us get the message. These messages come in as gestures!! Here’s how it works!
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A meeting ground for gridlocked mindsets
Faith-based literalists and reason-based pragmatists need a third place to stand. Let's consider a higher ground that asks each of them to stretch.
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Two Mindsets Caught at an Impasse
As stress levels rise, communications can break down. Let's look at the gridlock two key mindsets are facing today. Then we can look for a solution.
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Understanding and overcoming apathy
When giving up moves beyond depression and anxiety, it can settle into apathy. Why is that so hard to shake? And how can we stop it from spreading?
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Unlearning helplessness
When we feel helpless, it can trigger depression, anxiety, or apathy. Learn some remedies for depression and anxiety. Next podcast looks at apathy.
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What Your Lists Are Telling You
Are you a list maker? Is it a mix of important, trivial, easy and dreaded tasks? Lists can run our lives if we let them. Here's how to take charge.
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Backward Bios 4 – Becoming The Gesture
We can choose to play or to think in metaphors. Then we feel those gestures. But some gestures originate from within and seem to choose us.
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Backward Bios 3 – Remembering Thought Gestures
Think back from 12th to 1st grade. Did your education include teaching your mind to play with gestures? Are you still using those gestures today?
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Backward Bios 2 – remembering play gestures
Think about the motions involved in your favorite play activities. Those motions may have influenced how your mind plays now.
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Backward biographies – exploring the ground
Typical biographies tell it forward and track what we have DONE in life. But only looking backward can we tell the story of what we have BECOME.
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When new learning seems hopeless
Even great teachers can have a rare student that just shuts down. Offering micro-steps without novelty may succeed when all else fails. But why?
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Can we stop emotional brushfires?
Society seems as likely to become enflamed and our planet has. Can we learn to lower our emotional temperature and interrupt our explosive emotions?
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Chronic pain – the search for miracles
When disruptive events knock us down, we usually recover easily.But sometimes the illness, grief or chronic pain needs a miracle to stop spiraling.
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Regulation – even worms do it
What does it mean to go too far, to go past the tipping point. And what does that have to do with spiraling? Can that lead to our chronic pain?
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Chasing the mystery of chronic pain
What drives chronic pain? Why does it happen to some of us? Is there any way to break that cruel pattern once it starts?
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Life as Seven Year Cycles
It’s only one lens for looking at life’s journey but it’s a remarkable one. Here’s a first look at these 7 year milestones and how to track them.
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Flipping our brains onto manual control
Our brain automatically switches connections as we take on different tasks. As we age, this can break down. But we can shift onto manual control.
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Has it happened yet?
Aging well can mean getting wiser, until it doesn’t. Sooner or later the deficit view can creep in, throwing our competency into question. See the handout for this podcast here.
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Drop it; then see what arises
Ever wonder where new ideas come from and how to invite them? One great way is to “drop it” – to erase the blackboard in your mind, and just wait.
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Why showing up isn’t easy!
Has your life become a race against time? Is it harder to truly enjoy being with friends? Let’s look at how we can really show up more often.
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Unpacking the mystery of co-regulation!
We’ve been exploring co-regulation for decades and just didn’t know it! Now that we have the science to document it, let’s see what it can explain!
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Covid kids: What did they miss? Part 3
We’ll explore the dramatic impacts of puberty on thinking and feeling. And we’ll discuss why some subject areas backslide so much more than others.
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Covid kids — what did they miss? Part 2
Between first and sixth grade, kids go through two major brain changes. If they miss out on school during one of those times, it’s quite a setback.
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Covid kids – what did they miss? Part 1
What did they need during those two years? The brain, body and social growth have different timelines. Let’s track those timelines from birth to 7.
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Dissolving ignorance – some small practices
Some call ignorance a poison! Can we push it so far that it runs away with us? How can we dissolve ignorance when we discover we’re caught in it?
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Checking our Brakes
Do frustrating situations get the best of you? How about temptations? You may have faulty brakes. And that could lead to a big problem— looping!
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Time for a New Kind of Resume
Resumes are all about doing – our work life and credentials. In the upper decades, we need one about being—what we have become and what shaped us.
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Four Gateways to Creative Living
We can all become everyday creatives. But we may not face the same challenges to getting there! Our personal temperament may explain why that is.
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Mature mind, Creative mind
Mature thinkers can invite a new wave of creative thinking in their upper decades. Creativity can become an everyday way of being, and great fun too!
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Just How Big Is Your View?
In troubling times, we tend to narrow our awareness to witness less suffering. But we can choose to open our view and be useful instead. Here’s how.
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Combing Out Calendar Snarls
Are most of your days a nice balance of fulfilling work, friends, chores and rest? Or are they often too full? Combing your calendar can help.
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Some Memories Never Fade
Are there folks you cherish? Are there moments with them you can remember vividly? Those are a special kind of memory. We’ll talk about them today. More about dear Bretta here.
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What Your Lists Are Telling You
Do your lists drive your life? We can get back in charge. If a task is work doing, we can match it to our brain states, our moods and our stamina.
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Grace and a Fresh Question
More insights about our current quest –the nature of grace. New Question: Does your mind simmer ideas for you? Can you coax it to deliver?
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Bookmarks, Motivation and Grace
Discover how praise can actually smother interest and passion. And yet, a well presented challenge can often inspire amazing growth and commitment.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
To buy Dee's book Original Mind: uncovering your natural brilliance, on Amazon at a special discount CLICK HERE.
In these podcasts, Dr. Dee Coulter shares a lifetime of insights about the brain, how it works and how we can support it. She draws on five decades of teaching and scholarly studies. Her passion led to a doctorate in neurological studies early on, and still inspires her to keep scouring brain research for the newest discoveries. For the past few years, she has focused on exploring the exciting ways the mind can continue to grow and transform in the upper decades. She's calling this series Embracing the Mature Mind.
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Dr. Dee Joy Coulter
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