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Learning
  Just registered for the second part of my Wilderness First Responder training. I'm realizing that something that many of us may need to pay attention to…
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Maturity and problem-solving
  Brains mature in the presence of mature brains. Maturity is one of the most important, and complex, topics of our current time. Maturity is directly…
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Untapped Potential
  Learning, adaptation and change are:   Enfleshed Embedded Enacted Extended   … within the mind-body system for learning. The current education…
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Context and complexity
Long form content. We need it. Our brains need it. The next generation needs it. What do I mean by long form content? Books, audio books, long podcasts…
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Thank you!
brainwaves and book-writing...   First I want to send my appreciation to all of you who are sending me the most beautiful emails and insightful…
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Sleep and the Brain
  It’s Sleep Awareness Week, so I thought I’d share some information about the importance of sleep, dreams and circadian rhythms. Something I have found…
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Growth
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature has a way of taking my breath away……
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Newsletter!
  I just sent out a monthly newsletter to email subscribers! If you'd like to receive these (which also include exclusive invites for subscribers, such as…
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Season 3 Episode 9 – Mindset, Purpose & Neuroplasticity: Career Insights & Perspectives
  A quick episode that covers some insights gained over the course of my career in human communication and psychology, child development, teaching, and…
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Online challenges
  I talk about challenging ourselves and self-regulating... sometimes I forget that social media is something that feeds us those feel-good hormones, and…
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Play, Failure and Learning
  "Increased struggle leads to increased structural change in the brain." -Dr. Lara Boyd   During a conversation yesterday with a few other beginner…
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Teacher-Student Connections
  Good teachers are rare. They possess an ability to connect with students that is in and of itself a form of intelligence. It requires a high level of…
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Beginner Mindset
Years ago, I directed programs for kids at the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University. What we understood from experience and research is…
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Scientist Mindset
  "Science is about reading the world from a gradually widening point of view.” — Carlo Rovelli, world renowned quantum physicist   A scientist's…
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Community
  Had an amazing experience this past weekend connecting with people who came together to celebrate the grand opening of a wonderful coffee shop* in…
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Bottom-Up and Top-Down Strategies
https://youtu.be/YAmCdYYPtYs I spent several hours yesterday (as I do almost every day) with people's brainwaves and team meetings about self-regulation…
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The island
As a continuation from a previous post about some favorite travels, I thought I’d share one of those stories…   So after traveling on a tiny fishing boat…
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Inspiration and Flow
The moment I can sense the 'aha' from someone when they see a situation, themselves, or someone else with 'new eyes'... that's a moment I live for. When that…
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Connecting with Ground
  I’m excited to continue to integrate the past couple of decades of my career experience in the field of neuroscience, mindset, and my extensive world…
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Oxytocin, Brainwaves and Bonding
One of the most common brainwave profiles I’ve seen with clients over the years are related to anxiety. This is often correlated with very fast frequencies…
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Off Screen
    Sometimes there are no words or on-screen images capable of honoring what we experience.   Sink into those spaces.      …
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Stimulus Response
There is something about coffee shops for me... I love how they bring people together, I love when they are done well. This one had a cute book about making…
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Our social matrix
When we talk about the importance of coming together with others, who we surround ourselves with, and what we do when we come together matters. It’s not just…
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Presence
“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”   -Thich Nhat Hanh…
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Season 3 Episode 8 – Warriors Heart: Courage, Connection and Healing
“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.” ― Shannon L. Alder   Listen on Blubrry Listen on…
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New podcast tomorrow!
  “What is success? To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest…
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Outdoors
  "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." -Albert Einstein   Our plan to take a day trip to the mountains yesterday…
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Content coming soon
  Taking the day off computers and phone to head to the mountains for the day. Although I am still very immersed in technology, I try to look for…
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Perceived Ability to Cope
  As I was preparing and editing my interview with Kelly Harris of Warriors Heart for my upcoming podcast episode, a theme emerged: ‘perceived ability to…
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Mechanism of Healing
  “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ― Kahlil Gibran     Just as in a…
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Mechanism of Injury
  In my wilderness first responder training this past weekend, an important task during various emergency scenarios was to figure out the Mechanism of…
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Neurobiology of Affiliation
  As I began re-writing chapter 5 of my book, I wanted to share some highlights of a few studies.   The neurobiology of affiliation - which is tied…
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It’s not the critic who counts…
"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit…
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Signal to Noise Ratio
  A signal-to-noise ratio tells us about the level of signal power compared to the level of noise power. Signal refers to useful information - meaning…
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Self and Service
  The field of psychology and human behavior that emerged out of different schools (the three Viennese schools of psychotherapy, beginning with Freud…
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Story-Telling
  One of my favorite ways to learn about people and the world is through stories. We take story-telling for granted in the fast-paced, visual-imagery…
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Expedition
  The word ‘expedition’ came out of my mouth the other day as I was explaining to a friend that I am attending wilderness first responder training. I…
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Heart-Brain Connections
The way forward is found on a path through the wilderness of the head and heart---reason and emotion. Thinking, knowing, understanding. Laurence Gonzales…
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Self-Leadership and Collective Well-Being
"Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must…
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Adding Awareness in 2023
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” – Albert Einstein     The idea of preparation is one of the key concepts I’m learning…
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Resilience-by-affiliation
  “Never underestimate the empowering effect of human connection. All you need is that one person, who understands you completely, believes in you and…
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Invisible Wounds
There are neurophysiological effects from witnessing and experiencing events that violate systems embedded within us. These systems are designed to keep us…
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Power and Purpose
“A change in purpose changes a system profoundly, even if every element and interconnection remains the same.”   ― Donella H. Meadows     Your…
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Stories
  One of my favorite parts of the holidays so far has been listening to people tell stories. It is amazing how much we can learn as we transport ourselves…
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Mindset and Change
Do you truly believe that growth is possible? That you have the ability to find new ways through whatever it is you’re going through?   That one small…
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Connection
  When we have a chance to create something exceptional, one-of-a-kind, world-changing… something no one else on the planet and no one in history could…
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Gratitude…
  Thank you to everyone for the beautiful words of support and encouragement I just received from so many people... I was not expecting that! As you all…
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Progress and discomfort
...there is a lot of trial and error involved as I make mistakes and then try to learn and evolve from them as much as I can. It's not a linear process. It's…
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Transitions
Transitions have generally been pretty easy for me for some reason. Except this one. Normally when I move, I do it with the goal of settling there for a while…
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System Optimization
  Humans are literally, neurophysiologically, 'better together' than alone Attuned, problem-solving teams, partnerships and family units optimize our…
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Signals and Stories
  Have you ever had the experience of feeling like someone really ‘gets you’? This can take various forms - like being able to share what’s on our mind…
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An Evening with Me, Neuroscience, Story-Telling and Connection
    "The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.”…
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Seeking neurochemicals
  How we regulate ourselves and deal with social danger, rejection, status, comparison, the need for acceptance are tied to neurochemicals.   These…
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Season 3 Episode 7 – Danger, Attachment and Navigating our Neurochemicals with Loretta Breuning
Danger - and how it is dealt with - is the central theme of attachment - and therefore human interaction. Who we turn to and who we have around us during times…
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Self-Talk
What is your self-talk?   Self talk is an internal working model. It’s the activity of brain circuits that are well-used and repeated.   Because you…
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Social behaviors and information processing
  After spending a day with people's brainwaves yesterday, I was about to wrap up for the evening and was overcome with the sense that it was time to put…
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Work to do
  Thought I was figuring stuff out... realizing I have sooo much work still to do. Hoping that being near family for a couple months and helping out my…
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Science of Connection – Guest Interview
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms     Don't know about you…
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Healing
"In one lifetime we can be reborn many times" -yung pueblo   A true teacher of healing, resilience and transformation is someone who is able to turn…
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Voice and Vibration
“The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play." -Richard Strauss     The vibrations of your voice…