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What Do You When You're Stuck on the Mat?Here's a Theology Thursday look at what we can do when Jesus says, "Do you want to get well?" That's a life-changing question, but what happens next makes all the difference. We've learned to ABIDE, now let's become ABIDERS! We're self-brain surgeons, and we're willing to help others see where we're from and what we've become.  Three Levels of ABIDE Contemplate: ApproachBreatheInviteDependExperience Operate: AssessBelieveIncisionDeepenExpect Recover:AcknowledgeBleedInformed ConsentDecideExcise Scripture: John 5 Books Mentioned: Peace in the Waiting: When You Love People Who Don't Love God by June Chapman and Generations Deep: Unmasking Inherited Dysfunction and Trauma to Rewrite Our Stories Through Faith and Therapy by Gina Birkemeier Music by Tommy Walker(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us

Frustrated? Stuck? Feel Like God Expects You to be More Squared Away?(Replay for Wildcard Wednesday) Here are some thoughts about how God rejoices when we start today.  Music by Patty Loveless(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Scripture: Zechariah 4:10 Book Mentioned: A Great Work by Jon Swanson Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! Other Helpful Links: Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be su

It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday!A new operation for you, The Blame Ablation. This will help you stop being stuck in the past, and start moving forward towards becoming healthier, feeling better, and being happier. Also, an update to the Fourth and Fifth Commandments of Self Brain Surgery! Scripture: James 1:2-4 Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! Other Helpful Links: Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a fr

It's Frontal Lobe Friday!A few thoughts on attention, perspective, and how to navigate the difficulties in life without missing the beauty all around us. Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! Other Helpful Links: Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!All recent episodes with transcripts a

When Life Brings Your Massive Thing, You Only Have Two Choices This episode was inspired by a letter I received from a listener. We talk about suffering and hope, and it will help you. Scripture: Isaiah 48:10, II Corinthians 1 Books: Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart by Gordon Livingston and The Grieving Brain by Mary-Frances O'Connor (Bonus classic episode for Throwback Thursday) Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! Other Helpful Links: Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be su

A Listener Asked a Question: "Do Thoughts Have Mass?" The answer requires some philosophy, some science, and some faith! Today, we'll smash them together like ingredients in a recipe, and see what we can cook up. This episode will help you process the things you go through with the right perspective, using the ABIDE meditation method. Scripture: Isaiah 30:25, Ephesians 4 Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! Other Helpful Links: Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to

It's Mind Change Monday! Lisa and I will be at the First Presbyterian Church in Bonita Springs, Florida tonight! Come by if you're in the area, and we can sign a book and say hello The event starts at 5:30 PM Eastern. You can also watch it live by clicking this link! Today, a plan for what to do when life thrown The Massive Thing at you. (Throwback travel episode) Here's how to develop a plan so that you're more resilient to life's troubles, starting today. Scripture: Ephesians 4, Philippians 4:6-8, Romans 12:2 Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Music by Tommy Walker (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Check out my article on Psychology Today!

Ignorance is Bliss, Right? WRONG!Today, we talk about what happens once you know that you can change your mind. It’s about the difference between self-care and self-malpractice. Scripture: James 4:17, Psalm 34:8 Music by Tommy Walker (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! Other Helpful Links: Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book,

It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday!Today, the third in a series of looking at each of the Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery in more detail. The third commandment is, "I must believe that most of my thoughts are untrue." Here are some tools to challenge bad thoughts, and how to manage them. Scripture: II Cor. 10:5, Psalm 34:8 The Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery (Updated 3/8/2024; corollaries coming soon)1. I must relentlessly refuse to participate in my own demise.  2. I must recognize that feelings are not facts, they are chemical events in my brain.   3. I must recognize that most of my thoughts are untrue.  4. I must love tomorrow more than I hate how I feel right now.   5. I must not treat bad feelings with bad operations.  6. I must stop making an operation out of everything.  7. I must not perpetuate generational thought or behavioral issues in my family or start any new ones.   8. I must love my brain and live in such a way as to improve it.   9. I must believe that what I’m doing I’m getting

It's Frontal Lobe Friday!Today, the second in a series of looking at each of the Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery in more detail. The second commandment is, "I must recognize that feelings are not facts, they are chemical events in my brain." Also, learning to articulate what's really going on so we can begin to get after healing it is a crucial step in becoming great self-brain surgeons! Scripture: II Cor. 10:5, Romans 12:2 The Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery (Updated 3/8/2024; corollaries coming soon)1. I must relentlessly refuse to participate in my own demise.  2. I must recognize that feelings are not facts, they are chemical events in my brain.   3. I must recognize that most of my thoughts are untrue.  4. I must love tomorrow more than I hate how I feel right now.   5. I must not treat bad feelings with bad operations.  6. I must stop making an operation out of everything.  7. I must not perpetuate generational thought or behavioral issues in my family or start any new ones.   8. I must l

Sometimes Life Can Make Us Feel Overwhelmed, Damaged, or Exhausted If that's you, here's a some help through the power of learning to abide in God's presence, and some surprising ideas from scripture and science about learning to heal and hear. Scripture: Isaiah 30, Matthew 12:20 Please listen to, subscribe to, and share the Spiritual Brain Surgery Podcast! All episodes are available here! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! Other Helpful Links: Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope I

What Do You Stand On When the World Gives Way Under Your Feet?Today, we talk about how we find our way back to hope, meaning, purpose, and maybe even happiness again when the world falls apart.(Classic episode replay from Season 8 for Wildcard Wednesday) Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! Other Helpful Links: Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new

It's Mind Change Monday, and Here Are Some True Things You Need to Remember!1. Your baseline is not your fault, but what you do next is2. People are multidimensional, but your left hemisphere makes them 2-D3. God is a quantum physics God4. You are never stuck- your brain is literally changing its structure every second. All you have to do is decide to be purposeful about it. 5. The way our brains see the world is affected by many factors (culture, genetics, faith, experiences, many others), but that doesn't make it more or less correct, because feelings aren't facts (the second commandment) Scripture: Jeremiah 23:23 "Am I a God who is only close at hand?” says the Lord.“No, I am far away at the same time." NLT Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get speci

It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! I had a computer crash this morning and lost an entire episode I'd just recorded. So, here's a flashback episode that will remind you of the three levels of Self-Brain Surgery. Today, a quick look at three different levels of self-brain surgery to help you become healthier, feel better, and be happier no matter what happens. Scripture: I Thessalonians 5:16-19 Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! Other Helpful Links: Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, he

It's Frontal Lobe Friday!Today, the first in a series of looking at each of the Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery in more detail. The first commandment, just like in medical school, is primum non nocere, First No Harm. Self-Brain Surgeons say it like this: "I will relentlessly refuse to participate in my own demise." Scripture: Mark 12:30-31, Romans 12:1-2, Psalm 19:14 The Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery (Updated 3/8/2024; corollaries coming soon) 1. I must relentlessly refuse to participate in my own demise.  2. I must recognize that feelings are not facts, they are chemical events in my brain.   3. I must recognize that most of my thoughts are untrue.  4. I must love tomorrow more than I hate how I feel right now.   5. I must not treat bad feelings with bad operations.  6. I must stop making an operation out of everything.  7. I must not perpetuate generational thought or behavioral issues in my family or start any new ones.   8. I must love my brain and live in such a way as to improve it.   9

Your Brain Has Two Halves, and They See the World Very DifferentlyLearning to integrate what you see from both sides of your brain is a key to becoming healthier, feeling better, and being happier. It turns out that the Bible has a lot to say about that too. Scripture: I Corinthians 2:15-15, II Corinthians 3:18, I Corinthians 13:12, Ephesians 1:18-23, Romans 1:19-20 Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! Other Helpful Links: Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to che

Trauma Rounds: Stuck Tina Tisdale is a Character in My New Book She is a real person, with enough details changed to protect her family’s privacy. She had a problem that wouldn’t go away, and it forced her to make some decisions that were tragic.  From Tina’s story, we learn the critical importance of learning to accept the reality that God doesn’t always answer our prayers the way we think he should. It’s about faith and doubt, and acceptance.  There’s a little bit of Tina in all of us, but we can learn from her how to change our minds to become healthier, feel better, and be happier.  Scripture: II Corinthians 12:7 Music by Alan Jackson (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Don't forget:The Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery1. No Self-Malpractice: I will relentlessly refuse to participate in my own demise.2. I Will Believe That Feelings Are Not Facts3. I Will Believe That My Thoughts Are Not Always True4. I Will Believe That

Trauma Rounds: All You Can SeeSome thoughts about what to do when you're stuck, and a story from my new book about how to see your life again after trauma or tragedy. If all you can see is The Massive Thing that happened to you, you’ll never be able to see all the other things that are still beautiful. Here’s how to change that. Music by Tommy Walker(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Don't forget:The Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery1. No Self-Malpractice: I will relentlessly refuse to participate in my own demise.2. I Will Believe That Feelings Are Not Facts3. I Will Believe That My Thoughts Are Not Always True4. I Will Believe That Thoughts Become Things5. I Will Not Treat Bad Feelings With A Bad Operation6. I Will Love Tomorrow More7. I Will Not Make An Operation Out of Everything8. I Will Not Perpetuate Generational Issues In My Family (Or Start New Ones)9. I Will Love and Not Hurt My Brain10. I Will Practice Mental F

It's Mind Change Monday! I've received many requests for a new presentation of The Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery. So, here they are! As I write my next book, tentatively titled Self-Brain Surgery: How to Rewire Your Brain, Reorder Your Mind, and Radically Transform Your Life, these may change or reorder a little as I determine the best way to work them into a format that will fit nicely into book form. But here they are, which is a perfect way to start Mind Change March! These ten principles will help you become healthier, feel better, and be happier in your life. The Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery (Note: These have been modestly revised as my new book is taking shape; here is the list as it will appear in the book, although in this episode they are slightly different): —I must relentlessly refuse to participate in my own demise.  —I must believe that feelings are not facts, they are chemical events in my brain.  —I must believe that most of my automatic thoughts are untrue.  —I must believe

It's Frontal Lobe Friday! On this first day of Mind Change March, I want to encourage you with some great news: nothing, not your genes, your trauma, your parents, or anything else, has the ultimate power over whether you get to have a healthier, better, happier life. Here are some thoughts to help you change your mind about that! Scripture: Romans 1:25-26, 2 Peter 1:3 Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! Other Helpful Links: Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to c