If you feel stuck, down, or hopeless, it’s time to get up! Here are some ideas to help you find a path forward into the life God wants you to have. It’s not easy, and it takes self-brain surgery, but you CAN become healthier, feel better, and be happier. You just have to change your mind. The good news is, you can start today. (Adapted from Season 7, Episode 39) Book mentioned: Lent for Non-Lent People by Jon Swanson Scriptures: Psalm 103:2-5, John 10:10, Psalm 139:23-24, Matthew 16:24-26 Suppor...
Dec 17, 2023•34 min•Season 7Ep. 39
It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! The problem with trying to change our minds is that when life stresses us, it's so easy to fall back into old thinking patterns. Here's a plan to help us perform better under pressure. Scripture : II Corinthians 10:5, I Corinthians 10:13, Ephesians 5:18, Psalm 104:14-15, Proverbs 31:6-7 Book Mentioned : How to Pray by Pete Greig Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune syste...
Dec 16, 2023•34 min•Season 9Ep. 77
It's Frontal Lobe Friday! Understanding the diagnosis, prognosis, and prescription to apply to your thinking, and discerning the nature of a thought is the key to being able to engage your frontal lobes. This allows you to use the gift of selective attention to transform your thinking and change your life. Scripture : II Kings 6:17, Ephesians 6:10-18, Hebrews 4:12, II Timothy 1:7 Book Mentioned : How to Pray by Pete Greig Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at c...
Dec 15, 2023•28 min•Season 9Ep. 76
Get a Good Theology Around Suffering When hard times come, you will be overwhelmed with doubt, fear, and you'll be unsure of what to do next. Unless, that is, you have a good theology in place to answer the inevitable "why" questions. This episode will help you get your head on straight when life hurts. Scripture : Psalm 139, Psalm 121, Psalm 29, Pslm 143 Music by Tommy Walker (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Sup...
Dec 14, 2023•34 min•Season 9Ep. 75
Frustrated? Stuck? Feel Like God Expects You to be More Squared Away? Here are some thoughts about how God rejoices when we start today. Music by Patty Loveless (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Scripture : Zechariah 4:10 Book Mentioned : A Great Work by Jon Swanson Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect ...
Dec 13, 2023•12 min•Season 9Ep. 74
It's Tuesdays with Tata! Today, a look at the little book of Jonah from the Old Testament, and some surprising lessons. It's not all about the "whale," but this talk with Tata has a lot for us to learn! Scripture : The book of Jonah Book Mentioned : The Prodigal Prophet by Timothy Keller Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots m...
Dec 12, 2023•30 min•Season 9Ep. 73
It's Mind Change Monday! Cancer often starts with one cell mutation. If the body fails to detect and eliminate the mutated cell, then it can grow from that single cell into a disease that can kill us. Thoughts work the same way. In this episode, we discuss the importance of taking our thoughts captive, interpersonal neurobiology and limbic resonance, and a method for you to perform self-brain surgery to prevent these thought cancers from wrecking your life. Scripture : II Corinthians 10:5, Phili...
Dec 11, 2023•20 min•Season 9Ep. 72
It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! You have an incredible gift: you can choose to think about what you think about. The question is, what will you do with that gift? In this episode, we learn the self-brain surgery of calming our minds and learning to direct the show of what happens in our thought life. You get this right, and you'll become healthier, feel better, and be happier. If you don't, you'll bounce around from circumstance to circumstance, and they will lead you into a progressively more...
Dec 09, 2023•36 min•Season 9Ep. 71
It's Frontal Lobe Friday! Today, we talk about how going through hard things makes us more resilient, increases character, and produces hope. Faith and neuroscience smash together hard here, and show us the path forward when life brings us pain. Scriptures: Deuteronomy 22:22, Hosea 2:15, Romans 5:3-4, Proverbs 4:26, Hebrews 12:13 Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pi...
Dec 08, 2023•26 min•Season 9Ep. 70
A New Definition of H.O.P.E. Today, we talk about two Hebrew words for hope, a great song from our Hope Is the First Dose playlist. (Computer crash this morning kept me from recording today's episode. Tomorrow we'll be back with "You Can Do Hard Things, Part 2"!) Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! You can becom...
Dec 07, 2023•16 min•Season 8Ep. 25
This time of year can be hard. But hey- you can do hard things! You can! Today, we go back a bit to learn the art of looking hard at our internal stories, and tomorrow we'll have a good talk about how our brains are wired to help us do hard things, and even grow from them! Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! This episode includes material from October 16, Look ...
Dec 06, 2023•43 min•Season 9Ep. 69
It's Tuesdays with Tata! Today, a great talk about agriculture, reaping what we sow, and lessons from the Old Testament book of Hosea. Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here. Click here to access the H...
Dec 05, 2023•29 min•Season 9Ep. 68
It's Mind Change Monday! Your hippocampus is a seahorse-shaped area in the middle of your limbic system. It's involved in emotional regulation, learning new things, and determining whether something is a threat. Today, we're going to learn how to take the long path to peace, train our limbic systems to help us instead of hurt us, and feed those hungry, hungry hippocampi better stuff to help us become healthier, feel better, and be happier. Book mentioned: Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodel...
Dec 04, 2023•38 min•Season 9Ep. 67
Your facial nerve allows you to close your eyes when you need to. And so does hope. Good morning my friend! Today’s dose of hope is a story from my new book, Hope Is the First Dose . Click on the button above to hear the audio version. Paid subscribers can also check your email for a video version of the episode. If you don’t like to listen, here’s a link to the PDF transcript you can read. (Note: these transcripts are computer generated and aren’t perfect. I noticed it transcribed Kearney, Nebr...
Dec 03, 2023•28 min•Season 8Ep. 42
It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! Today, a look at why it's normal and okay to feel sad sometimes, but we don't have to be stuck there. Check out the great weekly newsletter at Renovarè! Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more ...
Dec 02, 2023•36 min•Season 9Ep. 66
It's Frontal Lobe Friday! Today, we start new, and then go back in time to the very first Frontal Lobe Friday! We have brand new episodes coming back tomorrow, but here's a new twist on my favorite part of your brain, the frontal lobe! Flashback to the first episode in a new series about how to get the different parts of your brain working in the way they're designed to take control of your thinking, change your mind, and change your life! Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRL...
Dec 01, 2023•22 min•Season 9Ep. 65
If you’re stuck, you need a plan. (Short sabbatical while updating the studio!) And the plan you need starts with hope. But my friend: what got you here won’t get you there . Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check o...
Nov 30, 2023•30 min•Season 8Ep. 40
It's Wildcard Wednesday! Today, a quick look at three different levels of self-brain surgery to help you become healthier, feel better, and be happier no matter what happens. Scripture: I Thessalonians 5:16-19 Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful...
Nov 29, 2023•17 min•Season 9Ep. 64
Two Songs, Two Books, Two Movies, and Two Thoughts for Tuesday! Here's a bunch of uplifting and helpful things for you today. Scriptures: 2 Timothy 1:6-8, Acts 17:26-28, Matthew 5:44-46 Books Mentioned: Because of Bethlehem: Love Is Born, Hope Is Here by Max Lucado and Forgive: Why Should I and How Can I? by Timothy Keller Movies Mentioned: The Book of John in Song Kids by Tommy Walker Ministries, and Because of Bethlehem From Tommy Walker Ministries: The Book of John In Song KIDS project is our...
Nov 28, 2023•33 min•Season 9Ep. 63
It's Mind-Change Monday! And today is also DEFAULT MODE MONDAY! Your brain uses the same amount of energy at rest as it does when you're actively thinking about or engaged in a task. We're going to look at the task-positive network and the default mode network today, and learn how to improve our brain's baseline behavior so we can become healthier, feel better, and be happier. Plus: an incredible email from a listener, a new book from Susie Larson, and more! Scriptures: 2 Timothy 1:6-8, Acts 17:...
Nov 27, 2023•45 min•Season 9Ep. 62
When Your Heart is Broken, You Need Brain Surgery Today, a powerful talk about how to use the thought biopsy technique to do self-brain surgery and find the path forward to hope again. Scriptures Mentioned: Isaiah 26:3, Psalm 51:10, Psalm 19:14, Psalm 139:23, Proverbs 3:5, Proverbs 17:27, Philippians 4:6-8, Lamentations 3, John 10:10, John 16:33, Colossians 3:15, Psalm 71:14 Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health,...
Nov 26, 2023•26 min•Season 9Ep. 61
It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! Today, we learn a little operation that will help us escape the inner "Me Show" we all hear in our heads, stop worrying about the suffering of the past or potential problems in the future, and to capture our thoughts so we can be fully present in the now. Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever...
Nov 25, 2023•29 min•Season 9Ep. 60
Granger Smith is a country music star, bestselling author, and bereaved father. We had an incredible Friday Conversation about the massive trauma of losing a child, and how those major losses can wreck our lives. His story is one of hitting rock bottom, learning to surrender, and finding his faith and the path forward to hope again. Granger's story is told beautifully in his new book, Like a River . Check out Granger's apparel company, YeeYee! Music by Granger Smith (Music shared on The Dr. Lee ...
Nov 24, 2023•51 min•Season 9Ep. 59
It’s Thanksgiving Day in the United States Lisa, Tata, and I pray that you’re safe and happy, and surrounded by people you love today. We pray you're well and surrounded by those you love, but also remember that some people are hurting when it’s holiday season. Here are some thoughts on weeping with those who weep, on gratitude, and some worship music for Thanksgiving! Music by Matt Redman , Shane & Shane , Brooke Ligertwood & Brandon Lake, Paul Baloche, and Tommy Walker Scripture: Colos...
Nov 23, 2023•59 min•Season 9Ep. 58
Hope and Help for Families in These Stressful Times! Join me for a great talk with author Kayla Craig about how to build a life that helps ground your kids in their faith, cement them together as a family centered on Jesus, and build them into people who can withstand the pressures of today's hectic life. About Kayla's new book, Every Season Sacred , from Tyndale: What does it look like to live a flourishing, messy, wonderful life together? As parents, we’re tasked with nurturing and guiding our...
Nov 22, 2023•30 min•Season 9Ep. 57
It's Tuesdays with Tata! Today, a look at Exodus 32, and a talk about how Moses changed his mind! Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose ! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on Y...
Nov 21, 2023•24 min•Season 9Ep. 56
How do we glorify God and help others when we're exhausted and our lives seem impossibly busy? Today we have a great conversation with writer and editor Drew Dyck about how just showing up is sometimes the most important thing we can do. This powerful talk will encourage you and change your mind about calling and purpose. Book : Just Show Up: How Small Acts of Faithfulness Change Everything (A Guide for Exhausted Christians) by Drew Dyck Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEE...
Nov 20, 2023•34 min•Season 9Ep. 55
It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! Today's operation is The Gratitude Graft. (Originally released in 2022, re-released today in preparation for Thanksgiving, with transcript!) Learning how to be grateful in any situation is a neuroscience superpower that will increase resilience, hope, and happiness. Scriptures: 1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Psalm 118:24 ESV This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and...
Nov 18, 2023•33 min•Season 9Ep. 54
It's Frontal Lobe Friday! A look at how bringing mindfulness into your breathing can get your frontal lobes under control, to help you retake the high mental ground when life throws hard things at you. This is a superpower to help you become healthier, feel better, and be happier! Book Mentioned: Every Season Sacred by Kayla Craig Scripture: Hebrews12:1, Isaiah 43:18-19, Isaiah 14:16 Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gu...
Nov 17, 2023•43 min•Season 9Ep. 53
No matter where you find yourself, or what you're going through, God will be there for you if you ask him to. A quiet time about God’s sovereignty, and how we can trust in it no matter what. Scriptures shared today: Psalm 281 To you, LORD, I call; you are my Rock, do not turn a deaf ear to me.For if you remain silent, I will be like those who go down to the pit.Psalm 139:7-87 Can I go anywhere apart from Your Spirit? Is there anywhere I can go to escape Your watchful presence?8 If I go up into h...
Nov 16, 2023•21 min•Season 8Ep. 46
