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Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist, audiologist, and neuroscientist. She has written SO many books. I’ll let Caroline tell you how many in a second. She’s done a ton of research, and has created many mental health resources for people, including her Neurocycle App. But essentially her work is all about helping us to understand how our minds work.
Her new book is called Help in a Hurry: Simple Tips for Finding Peace When You're Overwhelmed, Anxious, or Stressed. It’s more or less an intervention for those moments of overwhelm or crisis in our lives where we’re battling an inner critic, or contending with unleashed anger or rage, and so on. Caroline has some interesting insights as to why conventional wisdom on building in a basic pause to these moments doesn’t really work. And this is why she’s conceived of her 63-second gap recommendation a bit differently.
We talk about this today, and research on change. How long does it actually take to change a thought, a habit, a pattern? How do our stories, narratives, and memories get stored in the mind, the brain, and the body in the first place? How can we influence this process? How can we rewire the mind and brain? What’s even the difference between the mind and the brain?
There’s a lot here to unpack.
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