Dr. Lee Warren

🧠 Brain Surgeon
📚 NYT Best Selling Author
😮 1M followers IG, new to X
🧬 Neuroscience + Faith
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[Dr. Lee Warren @drleewarrenmd]

Today, I’m going to give you ten years of therapy in two minutes.

I'm a brain surgeon, and I'm gonna show you how to make rapid progress in healing the wounds you’ve been carrying; the ones from childhood, from broken relationships, from things said that can’t be unsaid, and from things done that can’t be undone. Let's scrub in and get it done.

Here's a Fact: Your Wound Lives in Your Brain, But Your Healing Lives in Your Mind

When something hurts you, your brain stores it. The sights, the sounds, the sting of the words, the shape of the moment. That storage is real and physical.

But here’s where the hope of healing lies: your brain doesn’t get the final vote on what that memory means to you. Your mind does. And your mind is not the same thing as your brain.

Neuroscience nugget: Emotional memories get encoded in circuits involving the amygdala and hippocampus, but each time you recall a memory, it becomes temporarily unstable and gets rewritten via a process called reconsolidation. That means every time you revisit a wound, you have a fresh chance to change how it’s stored.

Self-Brain Surgery Procedure: The next time an old wound surfaces, don’t just relive it. Instead, reframe it while it’s “open.” Ask: What is the truest, most redemptive way to understand this moment now? Speak that new understanding out loud before you let the memory close back up.

Scripture: “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” Psalm 147:3, NIV

This is self-brain surgery. Hard and holy work.

Follow me to connect neuroscience and scripture every day. Save this to help when you need to heal. Share it with a friend who's hurting.

Click the link in my bio to learn more about The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery, my NYT bestselling book.

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Walking is NOT enough to build strong bones.

Women in midlife especially need to hear this.

I walk almost every day. It’s one of the most effective things you can do for blood sugar, blood pressure, and mood.

The truth is, walking is not enough.

Building bone takes a different signal. Cells inside bone called osteocytes respond to strain, and they respond most to heavy, fast, or unfamiliar loads.

Resistance training is one of the most powerful tools we have to build strong bones.

Resistance training sends a stronger signal, especially at the hip and spine. Adding some impact, like jumping, strengthens it further, along with vitamin D from sunlight.

But lifting also builds muscle and balance, which lowers your odds of falling.

Keep walking. It’s doing real work for your heart and metabolism.

Resistance training, built up gradually, covers what walking can’t: strong muscles, healthy bones, and the independence that comes with both.

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This is probably the most controversial thing I discuss publicly: you already have what you need to heal, grow, and change.

I want you to say this out loud with me if you're somewhere you can: "I already have what I need to heal and grow and change."

I know it's true for you because Scripture says it. You already know you have a sound mind from 2 Timothy 1:7 ("God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind").

Then Peter adds this.
"His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness." (2 Peter 1:3, NIV)

Every time I teach this, somebody comes up and says, "But you don't know what I've been through. You don't know my personality. You don't know my diagnosis."

That's true, I don't. But I do know what Peter wrote, and he wrote "everything we need."

I say this with love, friend, but also as a doctor giving you the straight facts; I don't see an asterisk in that verse that says, "Unless I've been through trauma, or have ADHD, or a high ACE score, or my name is ________."

So are you ready to accept what he has already given you, and the way he designed you? Are you willing to learn how to operate your system so it stops operating you?

And ultimately the question is this: do you want to get better, or do you want to stay broken, bitter, or trying to figure out who to blame for what's keeping you stuck? Because neuroscience and scripture agree: you have what you need if you're willing to change your mind.

Share this with a friend who needs to know they are designed to heal, and save it for later when you need a friendly reminder that you have what you need.

And follow me for daily connections between neuroscience and faith that will help you in your quest for healing, hope, and higher performance in your life.

Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best selling book, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery.

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#anxiety #selfbrainsurgery

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