We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. She is the author of Switch On Your Brain, Think and Eat Yourself Smart, The Perfect You , and Think, Learn, Succeed , among many other books and journal articles, and her videos, podcasts, and TV episodes have reached millions globally. In this podcast I talk about what happens when we develop an overreliance on therapy, and how this can potentially affect our ability to work on our coping skills and self-reliance. They teach us how to transform negative thoughts into new, more positive thinking patterns that’ll help us lead happier and healthier lives.

If I want to go over how a scientific experiment was done, the best way for me to do that is sit down with the actual paper. I found just way too much of the book was spent explaining why we need to do this and it read more like a scientific paper than a useful guide. DISCLAIMER: This podcast and blog are for educational purposes only and are not intended as medical advice. The most amazing fact that I will take away as an author, is the importance of writing in one's life! In fact, a number of studies indicate that close to 90 percent of conditions like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease are caused by toxic stress.I also began using the author's app that she references throughout the book and I've found it pretty helpful.

There's hope and help available to us, and the road to healthier thoughts and peak happiness may actually be shorter than you think. It can harm people who are going through difficult times, and make them feel ashamed for experiencing normal human emotions like sadness, grief, depression, anger, and so on. Leaf’s previous books, namely “Switch On Your Brain”, a lot of the information was related directly to biblical concepts and truths straight from Scripture - I loved how she tied all of the amazing workings of our mind directly to God as our Creator. it’s so fascinating that we can quite literally change our brains and our bodies with our thought patterns. So, rather than trying to figure out the why behind our traumas, a better approach is to focus on healing.

I would definitely recommend reading if you’re in a place where you’re able to make some new habits and mental changes. There's hope and help available to us--and the road to healthier thoughts and peak happiness may actually be shorter than you think. Read the first half of the book if you want to get into all the science of how neurons and neuro plasticity works.

This book is helping me on that journey because I like to dig away and excavate my pain and my thinking so I know I can.It feels like I’m right back in my biology class, trying to remember scientific facts to be able to understand further subjects within.