Is Self-Brain Surgery "Real Surgery"?This episode answers that question! (Throwback Thursday for inter-season interlude) Season 11 is coming next week! The season 10 finale will be tomorrow, a final Frontal Lobe Friday to get you ready for the amazing Season 11, which starts 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 whereve...
Jul 18, 2024•26 min
Glioblastoma is the deadliest form of human cancer Today (Wednesday, July 17th) is Glioblastoma Awareness Day. Check out this link from the Brain Tumor Foundation to learn more about this devastating disease. This episode also shares some information about glioblastoma from my perspective, and a little bit about my book, I’ve Seen the End of You, in which I share stories of what I’ve learned from these brave patients and their families. You can also watch this video on YouTube (part of Monday's ...
Jul 17, 2024•49 min
It’s Mind-Change Monday! A new take on the sixth commandment of Self-Brain Surgery, "I must not make an operation out of everything." Announcement:Wednesday, July 17th is Glioblastoma Awareness Day. Check out this link from the Brain Tumor Foundation to learn more about this devastating disease. This episode also shares some information about glioblastoma from my perspective, and a little bit about my book, I’ve Seen the End of You, in which I share stories of what I’ve learned from these brave ...
Jul 15, 2024•32 min•Season 10Ep. 99
It’s Mind-Change Monday! Thoughts from the riverbank about the situations we're born into, and how we can either blame our parents for our lives, or we can recognize how things came to be and decide to change. Also, airplanes, grapes, and a bunch of other metaphors to help you perform the self-brain surgery you need to change your mind about starting points, trauma, and what you leave behind for your kids. We cover a lot of ground in this one! Also, be sure to check out The Spiritual Brain Surge...
Jul 08, 2024•33 min•Season 10Ep. 98
Help Me Pick the Best Podcast Conversation of 2024!For the next two weeks, I'll replay the top-two most downloaded interviews for the second quarter oft his year. Then we'll have a survey for you to vote and choose a winner to move onto the semi-finals. The first quarter winner was Mattie Jackson-Smith! After we choose a winner from Q2, you can choose the finalist from the first half of the year by voting between the first two winners (Mattie Jackson-Smith and whoever wins Q2). At the end of the...
Jul 03, 2024•43 min•Season 10Ep. 96
It’s Mind-Change Monday! When you learn the thought biopsy procedure, one potential diagnosis is the dreaded LAS: Lousy Attitude Syndrome. Click here to read my self-brain surgery weekly letter from this week, in which I teach you strategies to perform the Lousy Attitude Lobotomy operation to handle LAS when it appears. Today, we go deeper into LAS, what it is, how to lobotomize it, and a solid plan to improve the space between our ears so we become healthier, feel better, and be happier! Also, ...
Jul 01, 2024•32 min•Season 10Ep. 97
It’s Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! “Pain is inevitable. But suffering is optional” Haruki Murakami Today, a very personal talk about how to reframe our thinking about long-held narratives, God’s answer to our prayers, and the difference between pain and suffering. “After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. “ Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for ...
Jun 29, 2024•32 min
Learning to Think About Our Thinking is a Key to Empowered, Happier Living. Today for Frontal Lobe Friday, some thoughts on how we hear two kinds of thoughts in our heads, a look at artificial intelligence, and a powerful tool to help you manage your mind. This talk will fill you with hope, and open your eyes to a new and more powerful way to operate your brain! Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with y...
Jun 28, 2024•43 min•Season 10Ep. 95
Help Me Pick the Best Podcast Conversation of 2024!For the next two weeks, I'll replay the top-two most downloaded interviews for the second quarter oft his year. Then we'll have a survey for you to vote and choose a winner to move onto the semi-finals. The first quarter winner was Mattie Jackson-Smith! After we choose a winner from Q2, you can choose the finalist from the first half of the year by voting between the first two winners (Mattie Jackson-Smith and whoever wins Q2). At the end of the...
Jun 26, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 10Ep. 94
It's Mind Change Monday! Today, a powerful tool to help you gain control of harmful thinking. You can download a free worksheet to help you with the thought biopsy by clicking here. Podcast Mentioned: Theology in the Raw with my friend Dr. Preston Sprinkle. Here's a link to my appearance on his show last year.Scripture: II Corinthians 10:5, Romans 12:2, Philippians 4:6-8 Book Mentioned: Your Brain is Always Listening by Daniel Amen Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You C...
Jun 24, 2024•38 min•Season 10Ep. 92
It's Frontal Lobe Friday! Today, a powerful tool to help you heal by making one important mental switch in your life. 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 podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here. Visit one of our affilia...
Jun 21, 2024•27 min•Season 10Ep. 91
Sometimes You Don't Have the Words to Say, or Even to PrayHere's a strategy for you.Scripture: Psalm 19, Psalm 103, Psalm 111, John 1, Romans 1And for Throwback Theology Thursday, a look at happiness, joy, and contentment.Books Mentioned: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott and Happiness by Randy Alcorn 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 com...
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 10Ep. 90
Surgical Training is Hard, But It's Crucial to Safe Practice Today, a look back at something called a "Surgical Approach," and why knowing multiple approaches is so important. This has everything to do with learning and practicing self-brain surgery too! Surgeons who only know one approach get stuck, and sometimes cannot complete an operation safely. Choosing the right approach makes all the difference, and this episode will help you learn the approaches to your own life and self-brain surgery p...
Jun 19, 2024•50 min
Flashback to the Beginning of Season 10! Today, we respond to a listener who asked the important question of what to do and say when someone has just experienced trauma, tragedy, or some other massive thing (TMT). Scripture: Romans 12:15 Books Mentioned: This is Hard by Jon Swanson, Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering by Timothy Keller, Hope Is the First Dose by me My Advice When Speaking to Others after TMT:1. Show up and shut up (I stole this from Jon Swanson)2. Tears over talking3. Em...
Jun 18, 2024•25 min•Season 10Ep. 89
It's Mind Change Monday! Today, a flashback to 2022, when we gave you a First Aid Kit From the Future. If You Could Go Back In Time, What Advice Would You Give Yourself? Here's a first aid kit from the future, to help you start today! Scripture: Psalm 19:14 14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heartbe acceptable in your sight,O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. Proverbs 17:27 TPTCan you bridle your tongue when your heart is under pressure? That’s how you show that you are wise. An ...
Jun 17, 2024•25 min
It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! We're learning a new way to pray and learn to use our minds to change our brains, and help us seek the abundance and peace Jesus promised us in John 10:10! Today, we take the ABIDE practice one level deeper, and learn a self-brain surgery operation that will help us become healthier, feel better, and be happier in any area of our lives. Neuroscience and faith smash together hard in this one! Remember the ABIDE prayer/meditation practice:Level I (Hearing):Approac...
Jun 15, 2024•51 min
It's Frontal Lobe Friday! Today, a look at where we go to perform the self-brain surgery we need to change our minds and change our lives! 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 podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here. Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider usi...
Jun 14, 2024•51 min•Season 10Ep. 88
It's Wildcard Wednesday! Today, a throwback of my talk from last October with the incredible Erwin Raphael McManus about his book, Mind Shift: It Doesn't Take a Genius to Think Like One. This is the best personal transformation book I've ever read. Please be aware that the free books have already been given away. Mental toughness, mental clarity, and mental health all have one thing in common: The journey begins in your mind. In this radical guide, the award-winning author of The Last Arrow illu...
Jun 12, 2024•52 min•Season 10Ep. 87
Erin Loechner had a million followers on social media. She was at the top of her game as an influencer when she realized that something was very wrong. Join me for a compelling conversation with Erin about why she decided to walk away from that career, and from social media altogether, to start a new life with her husband and kids as an Opt-Out Family. Her new book, The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't is an incredibly important new idea for families, parents, and gran...
Jun 11, 2024•41 min•Season 10Ep. 86
It's Mind Change Monday!Today, a look at the feeling we all have that there has to be something more in life. When you feel stuck or frustrated, how do you move forward? Even if you haven't been through some massive thing yet, most of us feel a sense we're missing something. Here's what to do when you feel that way. Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:11 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 co...
Jun 10, 2024•34 min•Season 10Ep. 85
It's Frontal Lobe Friday!Today, a conversation with Dr. Josh Axe. He shares his powerful story of healing from a devastating infection, and we talk about how you can learn to change your mind with his incredible new book, the New York Times bestseller, Think This, Not That: 12 Mindshifts to Breakthrough Limiting Beliefs and Become Who You Were Born to Be. About Dr. Axe:Renowned physician, entrepreneur (founder of Ancient Nutrition) and best-selling author Dr. Josh Axe is revolutionizing how we l...
Jun 07, 2024•53 min•Season 10Ep. 83
Life Throws a Lot At Us: We Need a Helmet Paul tells us that the hope of salvation is our helmet, to protect our minds from all that's coming for us. This episode will help you put hope on your head! (Throwback from Season 3 for Theology Thursday!) 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 podcast and get speci...
Jun 06, 2024•27 min
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 choose the finalist from the first half of the year by voting between those two. At the end of the year, we'll let the two semi-finalist winners battl...
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 10Ep. 82
How do maintain hope and faith when you're dealing with something that is never going to get better?Our guest today is Andrea Herzer, an author and expert on chronic illness. She's been dealing with a severe pain syndrome and with cancer for over twenty years, and has had over 100 surgeries. Her book is Incurable Faith, and it's tremendously helpful if you're struggling with something hard. Check out Andrea's website and Facebook group! From the publisher:Discover the riches of abundant life tha...
Jun 04, 2024•42 min•Season 10Ep. 81
It's Mind-Change Monday! Today, a conversation with world-renowned researcher, bestselling author, and founder of Emotional Freedom Therapy, Dr. Dawson Church. Some thoughts for Christians about EFT Tapping 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 podcast and ge...
Jun 03, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 10Ep. 80
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 surgery, we can never overcome trauma, drama, tragedy, or any other massive thing. This episode will bring you HOPE! Leave a voicemail with your question ...
Jun 01, 2024•40 min•Season 10Ep. 79
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 a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus epi...
May 31, 2024•24 min•Season 10Ep. 78
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 how light may be how God communicates with our minds!Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! S...
May 30, 2024•27 min•Season 10Ep. 77
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 choose the finalist from the first half of the year by voting between those two. At the end of the year, we'll let the two semi-finalist winners battl...
May 29, 2024•44 min•Season 10Ep. 76
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 you have a plan in place for how you're going to use your mind to handle anything that happens? Tata takes us through I Peter and other scriptures to ...
May 28, 2024•26 min
