Embrace Your Brain
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
171 episodes
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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11:30
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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6:32
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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4:04
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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6:11
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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9:23
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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8:10
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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8:50
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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12:22
LIES, LOYALTY, BOASTS AND BORDERS
There's one brain app that triggers all these behaviors. It's an ancient design that worked for 200 million years. But it wasn't meant for humans!
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10:34
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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5:52
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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10:13
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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8:38
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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8:39
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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12:01
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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8:21
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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12:28
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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10:13
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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8:20
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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9:43
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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8:32
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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9:16
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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9:49
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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9:43