Neurosurgeon and award-winning author Dr. W. Lee Warren, MD delivers daily prescriptions from neuroscience, faith, and common sense on how to lead a healthier, better, happier life. You can’t change your life until you change your mind, and Dr. Warren will teach you the art of self brain surgery to get it done. His new book, Hope Is the First Dose, is available everywhere books are sold.
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When life gets hard, does what we think we believe hold us up, or does it crumble under the weight of doubt? I'm your host, Dr. Lee Warren- I'm a brain surgeon, author, and a person who's seen some stuff and wondered where God is in all this mess. This is The Spiritual Brain Surgery podcast, where we'll take a hard look at what we believe, why we believe it, and the neuroscience behind how our minds and our brains can smash together with faith to help us become healthier, feel better, and be ...
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I Don't Want to Have Surgery! (Self-Brain Surgery Saturday)
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It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! Today, we talk about the problem of NOT wanting to have surgery. What happens if you believe that someone else is responsible for your happiness, or that circumstances have to be a particular way for you to be okay? We'll go deep into the science and faith elements of learning that if we don't learn self-brain surg…
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The Blame Ablation (The Fourth Commandment of Self-Brain Surgery)
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Better Beats Blame! A new operation for you, The Blame Ablation. This will help you stop being stuck in the past, and start moving forward towards becoming healthier, feeling better, and being happier. (Placing the Ten Commandments here for your easy reference) Also, an update to the Fourth and Fifth Commandments of Self Brain Surgery! Scripture: J…
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Feel It to Heal It (Frontal Lobe Friday)
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It's Frontal Lobe Friday! Today, a lesson about anesthesia, a review of some of the commandments of Self-Brain Surgery, and a few thoughts about how to heal and move forward in our lives! Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have …
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Two Kinds of Light (Theology Thursday)
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It's Theology Thursday! Today, another look at light, and some surprising lessons from Psalm 119, quantum physics, and 21st-century neuroscience. Check out this video from Tara-Leigh Cobble and The Bible Recap! Check out this article on the two kinds of light mentioned in Psalm 119! Check out this book (specifically chapter 4) to learn more about h…
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Mattie Jackson Smith: 2024 DLW Podcast Award Tournament Rd. 1
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Help Me Pick the Best Podcast Conversation of 2024! Every week for Wildcard Wednesday, I'll give you one of my (and your) top-four favorite interviews for the first quarter of the year. Then we'll have a survey for you to vote and choose a winner to move onto the semi-finals. After next quarter is over, we'll pick a winner from Q2, and then you can…
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Preparing Your Mind (Tuesdays with Tata Classic)
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It's Tuesdays with Tata! (This is a classic episode about being ready for whatever life brings. It's important for me today, as I'm dealing with a big work issue. Back with multiple new episodes later this week!) Today, a great talk about the importance of getting your mind ready for whatever comes along. Does life jump up and knock you out? Or do …
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Default Mode Monday: Become Less Anxious by Increasing This
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An Episode About Anxious Thoughts: It's Default Mode Monday! Today, some compelling research about the connection between the default mode network (DMN) and the Central Executive Network (CEN). We'll learn how thinking more about God trains your brain to ruminate less about past traumas and possible future troubles, and to connect with the present …
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Thoughts Are Not Always True (The Third Commandment of Self-Brain Surgery)
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You have tens of thousands of thoughts per day. Most of them are not true. Today, the third in a series of looking at each of the Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery in more detail. The third commandment is, "I must believe that most of my thoughts are untrue." Here are some tools to challenge bad thoughts, and how to manage them. Scripture: II …
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The Subject-Object Shift (Self-Brain Surgery Saturday)
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It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! (This is a carefully-selected re-release of an episode that will get you ready for next week’s focus on the #1 secret to changing your mind and your life. Even if you’ve heard it before, please check it out and be ready for Mind-Change Monday!) Today, we learn a little operation that will help us escape the inner "…
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It's Frontal Lobe Friday! (Placing the Ten Commandments here for your ease of reference. These episodes played on The Dr. Warren Podcast earlier) Today, the second in a series of looking at each of the Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery in more detail. The second commandment is, "I must recognize that feelings are not facts, they are chemical e…
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Life Can Stress Us to the Point that We Forget It’s Not All Trauma (Classic Episode as I'm on a short sabbatical) Today for Frontal Lobe Friday, a reminder that you’re not always in a fight. If you’re so tired of being so tired, this will help. (Based on Season 8, Episode 45) Scripture: Jeremiah 6:16, Isaiah 43:19, I John 3:8, John 10:10 Leave a vo…
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The Surprising Arrival of Mastery (Theology Thursday)
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If You Keep Trying, It Will Eventually Click For Theology Thursday today, we're going to talk about how to master your mind, overcome negative thinking, structurally improve your brain, and the process of overcoming shame and doubt. When it all clicks, you'll realize that you've become a master self-brain surgeon, but it didn't happen overnight. Th…
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The Neuroscience of Happiness (Wildcard Wednesday Classic)
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It's Wildcard Wednesday! (Still on sabbatical, so here's a classic episode for you, originally a Self-Brain Surgery Saturday operation!) Every week, we'll learn a specific neuroscience operation you can master to change your mind and change your life. Today, we learn the basics, and we start with Self-brain surgery tip #19: “There is almost nothing…
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Let There Be Light (Tuesdays with Tata Classic)
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It’s Tuesdays with Tata! Since we've been talking about light lately, here's a classic Tuesdays with Tata episode in which we talk about a curious passage from Zechariah 8:20-23, and what it means to be the light of the world! Plus, a new Tata-ism, fiat lux (“Let there be light”)! Scriptures: Zechariah 8:20-23, Matthew 5:13-16, John 1:1-5, Titus 2:…
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Light, Purpose, Hope, and How Thoughts Become Things (Mind-Change Monday)
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A Super Weird and Hopeful Episode About Light (Mind-Change Monday) Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podc…
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First No Harm (The 1st Commandment of Self-Brain Surgery)
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Life Is Hard. Here's a Practice to Keep from Making it Unnecessarily Harder Today, the first in a series of looking at each of the Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery in more detail. The first commandment, just like in medical school, is primum non nocere, First No Harm. Self-Brain Surgeons say it like this: "I will relentlessly refuse to partic…
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Four Approaches to Self-Brain Surgery
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It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! Here's a look at four approaches to using self-brain surgery to help us become healthier, feel better, and be happier in our lives. Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Le…
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Frontal Lobe Friday: A Strategy for Handling Anxiety
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Here's a self-brain surgery operation you can learn to deal with anxiety in any situation. It's Frontal Lobe Friday! I have to operate today, so I'm giving you back this important Frontal Lobe Friday episode! Come back tomorrow for an all-new Self-Brain Surgery Saturday operation on how to deal with difficult situations. Today, we develop a strateg…
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Get In the Fight: The Battle of Self-Brain Surgery
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Self-Brain Surgery is a Fight to Become Healthier, Feel Better and Be Happier Here are some thoughts on how you can win. Our guiding principles: Words of my mouth AND the meditation of my heart: Psalm 19:14 Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, strength: Mt 22:37 Every thought captive: II Cor 10:5 Operate out of renewed minds: Romans 12:2 …
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Look for the God Shot, with Tara-Leigh Cobble
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Tara-Leigh Cobble Changed Her Mind About God Today's guest is the host of The Bible Recap Podcast. Tara-Leigh Cobble helps millions of people read, understand, and love the Word of God every day. But before she could do that, she had to change her mind. This is a perfect conversation for self-brain surgeons, because you can't change your life until…
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