Can You Really Change Your Brain by Changing Your Thoughts?
Neurosurgeon, Iraq War vet, and author Dr. Lee Warren shows Curtis Chang how to perform "self brain surgery"—no scalpel, just the brutal truth: your automatic thoughts are rewiring your brain every day, and a lot of them are lying to you. Curtis and Lee dig into neuroplasticity, why you keep looping the same stress scripts, how gratitude can hijack anxiety, and they connect the dots between brain science and faith as represented in Philippians 4 and Romans 12. If you're stuck in anxiety, trauma, or toxic patterns, this episode could be a wake-up call—and a way forward.
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02:38 - How Do Thoughts Reshape the Brain?
07:39 - Personal Story: Grieving and Neuroplasticity
11:08 - Philippians 4 and Neuroscience
18:01 - Gratitude as a Brain Switch
21:51 - Neuroscience vs. Classic Therapy
31:03 - Building New Habits and Synaptic Pruning
32:28 - The "Self" in Self Brain Surgery and the Holy Spirit
44:07) - Wisdom to Know What Can and Cannot Change
52:34 - Epigenetics and Generational Influence
56:49 - Final Word: Hope and Agency
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