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Get in-depth research + science-based strategies on how to: cultivate growth mindset, avoid the dangers of the 'mindset hype', and how to foster psychological safety as a foundation for learning, creativity and innovation.

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Episodes include:

Self-regulation: the remarkable skill that will make you a better human

Neuroscience of Attachment: satiated connection, rest and play with Dr. Deb Macnamara

Cerebral Entanglements: How the Brain Shapes Our Public and Private Lives – Dr Allan Hamilton

The Neuroscience of Feeling Like a Failure: why our brain makes us feel like giving up and what we can do stop it

The Neuroscience of Attachment and Emotion Regulation

How to be more authentic when teaching growth mindset

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Our collective nervous system: how to bring healing to hidden wounds

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Signals, Vibrations and Frequencies that affect your relationships

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Pattern recognition creatures: how your brain-body builds a life you love

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"This material inspired me to rewrite my curriculum

to include Growth Mindset in as many aspects as possible.
I greatly appreciate your emphasis on intentionality and feedback,
and making sure Growth Mindset is not just teaching the concept
but actually changing the way we talk about progress and learning."

- Leading Edge Educator, Julia Ann Wilber

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What is it about those things we know are good for us that we somehow just can’t get ourselves to do? Maybe we do start making healthy choices, but they don’t last, and we revert back to our unhealthy patterns..

Did you know that there are mechanics behind why we don’t do the things we know are good for us?

When we find out how this happens, we have a chance to OVERRIDE this system.

Find out why your brain gets triggered to make you give up and what you can do to stop this from happening so you can make choices that allow you to see how POWERFUL you truly are

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Learn more in my interview with @drkyrabobinet on the Mindset Neuroscience Podcast and in her book Unstoppable Brain. I also do a quick review of her research in my latest YouTube video..

#unstoppablebrain #habenula #neurosciencepodcast #failure #iteration #mindset

Neutralizing failure: how the habenula triggers us to give up & what we can do about it

We can change our brain activity to work in our favor and move us into an improved state that helps us achieve more of what we want.

We can re-wire our brain based on WHAT WE PAY ATTENTION TO.

To re-wire our brain away from negativity and self-criticism, we must re-direct our attention.

This video will give you 3 specific ideas to help you do this.

Give these three ideas a try and let me know how it goes in the comments! Also share your own ideas of how you get out of your own negative thoughts.

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“The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact: moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work. We choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form in our material selves.”

― Michael Merzenich, Soft-Wired: How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Can Change Your Life

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How to rewire your brain to lower self-doubt and self-criticism

Growth mindset does not only need to apply to intelligence or academic pursuits. Research also shows that a growth mindset is important for other aspects of life too.

A growth mindset shapes one's goals, and learning strategies (i.e., work harder or give up/cheat/become defensive). Fixed mindsets of personal traits significantly correlate with and predict higher depression and anxiety in youths, particularly adolescents (Romero et al., 2014; Schleider et al., 2015; Schleider & Weisz, 2016a).

The influence and implications of mindsets can have long- lasting effects that have been demonstrated in children as young as preschool-aged and continues throughout adulthood (Smiley & Dweck, 1994; Dweck, 2006).

https://stefaniefaye.com/podcast/the-neuroscience-of-growth-mindset-and-how-to-apply-to-your-life/

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References:

Erdley, C. A., Cain, K. M., Loomis, C. C., Dumas-Hines, F., & Dweck, C. S. (1997). Relations among children's social goals, implicit personality theories, and responses to social failure. Developmental psychology, 33(2), 263–272. https://doi.org/10.1037//0012-1649.33.2.263

Gallagher, M. W., Bentley, K. H., & Barlow, D. H. (2014). Perceived control and vulnerability to anxiety disorders: A meta-analytic review. Cognitive Therapy & Research, 38, 571e584.

Romero, C., Master, A., Paunesku, D., Dweck, C.S., & Gross, J.J. (2014). Academic and emotional functioning in middle school: The role of implicit theories. Emotion, 14(2), 227-234. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0035490

Schleider, J. L., Abel, M. R., & Weisz, J. R. (2015). Implicit theories and mental health
problems in youths: A random-effects meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review,
35, 1e9.

Schleider, J.L., & Weisz, J.R. (2016a). Implicit theories relate to youth psychopathology,
but how? A longitudinal test of two predictive models. Child Psychiatry and
Human Development, 47, 603–617. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-015-0595-2

Smiley, P.A. & Dweck, C.S. (1994). Individual differences in achievement goals among young children. Child Development, 65, 1723-1743.

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Why a Growth Mindset Will Change Your Life: 3 Strategies Backed by Neuroscience

I often get asked ‘what is a mindset in terms of what is happening inside the brain? ‘

Mindsets are a set of beliefs and predictions that reflect the activity of brain circuits that are well used and repeated.

When it comes to building brain networks, it’s survival-of-the-busiest.

Because you were around a small set of people during critical years of brain development, you were likely surrounded by similar behaviors and emotional responses over and over again.

The words that surrounded you were data that your brain gathered to create cause-effect models.

That is the basis of a mindset. It’s a set of cause-effect models of how the world operates and why things are the way they are.

Notice what happens if you don’t do well at something. Is there a voice that motivates you? Or does that voice beat you down and make you feel small, like giving up? That voice may have a lot to do with what you heard when you were young and what you surround yourself with now.

The good news is that you can update your brain networks and mindset… find out how in this video

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Get the new free tool kit - mindShift: how to cultivate paradigm time shifts using embodied social neuroscience (go to :

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Embodied Neuroscience to enhance your expertise:

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my Talks @Google also doves deep into this topic: https://www.youtube.com/@talksatgoogle

#mindset #predictions #growthmindset #talksatgoogle #mindsetmatters #brainhealth #algorithms

The neuroscience of growth mindset: how your past affects your present

“Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness,
which unites your body to your thoughts.
Whenever your mind becomes scattered,
use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.”

― Thich Nhat Hanh* , The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

*Years ago, while studying with a professor at NYU who was looking at brains scans of monks, I decided to stay for a few months at various monasteries. One of them was under the guidance of Thich Nhat Hanh. It was an eye-opening experience. We engaged in many meditation and mindful breathing practices.

#mindfulness #mindfulbreathing #breathing #meditation #emotionregulation #neuroplasticity #neuroscience #executivefunction #selfregulation #selfcare #brainhealth #brainpower

The science of mindful breathing to improve brain functioning

Taking things too personally can lead to over-amplified emotions and reactions that distort our thinking and relationships.

There are forces occurring under the surface for both you and the other person. Those forces may distort how you and the other person are interpreting each other’s behavior and may lead to reactions that are over-amplified and in many ways inaccurate.

When we don’t understand that these things are affecting ours (and their) response, we may end up continuously repeat the same type of negative interactions over and over again.

We can get better at navigating challenging interactions, feelings and relationships when we understand three particular unconscious influences.

#relationships #relationshipadvice #overpower #emotionalstatus #emotionregulation #emotional #subconsciousmind

*please note that the suggestions and exercises offered in these videos are not offered as a substitute for professional mental health care or medical care and are not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any mental health or medical conditions.

How to not take things too personally (the neuroscience of stimulus-response)

How did the words you hear as you were growing up affect how your brain solves problems and deals with challenges now?

There are 2 kinds of speech that affect how we moved into different stages in childhood, and they affect how we perform on tasks, regulate our emotions, and direct our attention. Those 2 types of speech were influenced by the people around us. Learn more about them in this video.

#useyourwords #mentalhealth #emotionregulation #emotionalintelligence #neuroscience #vygotsky #neuroplasticity #cognitivebehavioraltherapy #attention

How words from childhood change your brain and behaviors

We are not born with many of the skills we need to reach our highest potential. We are born with the potential to develop them.

The malleability and adaptability of the human brain is what makes our intelligence have limitless potential. However, the sensitivity to our experiences and environments also means that our childhoods matter and may bring with them challenges that we must learn to navigate in new ways as we get older.

Learn about two types of neuroplasticity that affect how our brains develop and function.

My book is currently still in the proof stage at the publisher! Hopefully will be easy in a few weeks!

#emotionalintelligence #neuroscience #neuroplasticity #mentalhealth

Neuroplasticity: 2 ways life changes your brain

Empathy plays an important role in adaptive social relations, self-esteem and social competence

However, if we don’t understand the different types of empathy and how we can navigate them, being too empathic can lead to challenges in our own mental health and relationships.

Find out what we can do to use empathy in ways that help us connect, without falling into the traps that can happen when we over-use it.

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Neuroscience Workshop October 3!

Neuroplasticity: how early experiences shape the brain and life trajectories

Learn how brains develop over the lifespan and how early experiences shape brain architecture. We’ll explore how this knowledge can help us increase our understanding of our own past, and how the concept of neuroplasticity can empower us to take charge of our present conditions and ongoing evolution - as individuals, families and as a species.

Learn more and get a free mini book on human resilience at:

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Empathy: why too much can hurt and what you can use instead

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