What the Hell is my Brain Doing?
Julie Lamb, licensed therapist and life coach has helped thousands of people take control of their mindset and careers by helping them understand their most powerful strategic asset, their brain.
Join her as she takes you on a path of personal growth and understanding of the who, what and whys of your thoughts and behaviors. Have you ever thought to yourself, “Why in the world did I do that?” If yes, this is the podcast for you!
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How do I navigate holiday “should’s” and set healthy boundaries?
Happy 4th of July. Today we are talking about navigating holiday “should’s” and how to set healthy boundaries.
• Why its ok to have different feelings about culturally accepted social obligations
• Healthy reasons why you need to prioritize yourself at times
• Ways you can start to set loving boundaries and limits with yourself and others
How Emotions Are Created in the Brain
We are gonna look at some of the basic chemical processes in the brain designed to create the sensation we call “pleasure.”
We have touched on this lightly in the past but we are going to take a deeper dive today as we are in the midst of the summer season.
Your body, more particularly, your brain has a set of natural processes designed to make you feel good under certain stimuli.
Certain intersections of behaviors will literally tell your brain to activate your pleasure centers and release dopamine.
Dopamine is our brain’s natural “happy” chemical and it is vital for our continued health and happiness.
There are known ways to trigger your brain to release these chemicals and improve your state of well-being.
This episode starts a mini-series on the three circles of overall wellness.
Today’s focus is the circle of our physical health and how our brain assists in those processes.
As I always say, Give Yourself Grace and Know Your Limits.
Finding Julie
We have been talking about how our thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by and connected to the brain.
And along the way, I have shared some tidbits about my journey. But today, I am going to get very vulnerable and share with you my beginning into this journey.
Now I am not talking about where I learned about the brain. Let’s be honest, you don’t want to hear about college and it will make for very boring podcasting.
No, what I am talking about is the beginning of how I knew that an aspect of my brain was out of alignment.
That realization led me on a journey of emotional health and fulfillment.
Along the way, I realized I wanted to help other people who might not understand these same feelings and thoughts I was having.
So today is a bit of a year in review and the story of why I started this podcast.