In this episode of The Healthy Brain Podcast, I share how to create a personal curriculum to support learning and challenging your brain!

In this episode of the Healthy Brain Podcast, I give you a quick rundown of what to eat and what to avoid to optimize your brain health!

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In this episode of The Healthy Brain Podcast, I discuss how to create evening routines that support brain health. Evening routines directly impact sleep quality, nervous system regulation, and executive function skills, and overall the importance of ending the day in a calm and supportive way. I outline a four-step approach to setting up an effective evening routine. We also discuss the importance of sleep for brain health, noting that chronic sleep impairment increases risk for dementia, depression, and various health issues, and recommended aiming for 7-8 hours of sleep with at least 1 hour of deep sleep and 1.5 hours of REM sleep.

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In this episode of The Healthy Brain Podcast, I guide you through ideas to create your own summer bucket list and support brain health!

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In this episode of The Healthy Brain Podcast, I discuss the brain benefits of positive emotions, explaining how positive emotions like gratitude, joy, and hope can change the brain through three main mechanisms: affecting neurotransmitter release, promoting neuroplasticity, and altering brain activity patterns.

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Heather hosted the Healthy Brain Podcast to discuss "8 ways to switch your brain" using her if-then approach for addressing common brain issues like brain fog, difficulty focusing, feeling overwhelmed, and burnout. She outlined specific strategies for each problem, including exercising for brain fog, practicing meditation for focus issues, clearing processed foods for low energy, hydrating and improving sleep hygiene for lethargy, decluttering for feeling overwhelmed, using habit stacking to overcome procrastination, prioritizing social interaction for disconnection, and engaging in creative activities for burnout and lack of motivation.
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Why is there so much out there about regulating your nervous system, calming your nervous system, down regulating your nervous system, fight/flight/freeze, primitive brain?

In todays' episode I will give you insight about why and how to regulate your nervous system.

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“Clutter doesn’t just occupy the house in which you live, it occupies your mind”-Avina Celeste

This quote hits the nail on the head. Clutter in our environment clutters our mind. We see the clutter and our brain gets cluttered. But often we don’t declutter and organize our environment because our brain has difficulty deciding on what to and how to organize, difficulty in paying attention, planning the task, starting an organizing task, staying focused on the task and completing the task.

We often give up, procrastinate, get distracted, wait for motivation to come to us.

The skills of planning, organizing, starting a task, finishing a task, sustaining attention are called executive function skills and many of the skills are completed due to the activity in the pre-frontal cortex of the brain.

I have worked over 25 years in cognitive rehab and hundreds of brains, with people who have had either brain trauma, tbi, concussion, stroke, brain surgery, changes in brain function, mild cognitive impairment.

In the Legacy Life Program, I help people to understand their brain and to use tools from neuroscience and holistic health to achieve optimal brain function.

This week we are running a mini-decluttering challenge in the legacy life program. We are focused on decluttering a space in our home but it actually helps us to declutter our mind.

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