The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast
Dr. Lee Warren
What if the secret to healing, hope, and higher performance isn't only about understanding our trauma or coping with our diagnoses, but is also about retraining our brains? Neurosurgeon and award-winning author Dr. Lee Warren integrates neuroscience and faith to help you find the life you were designed to live. This is where you get the training, tactics, and truth you need to change your mind and your life, and it's called self-brain surgery.
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Mar 27, 2026 • 31min
Classic: Who Self-Brain Surgeons Are (S13E54)
A discussion of what it means to become a self-brain surgeon through directed neuroplasticity and metacognition. They explore how attention and intention shape brain wiring and resilience. Scripture and neuroscience are woven together to show how imagination and daily practice can reframe identity, reduce anxiety, and shift from reactive to intentional living.
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Mar 25, 2026 • 22min
Classic: How Self-Brain Surgeons Think (S13E53)
They explore how thought patterns keep people stuck and why internal narratives matter. You learn to treat thoughts as events to be examined, not commands. The role of attention in shaping reality and practical daily routines for auditing thinking are highlighted. The conversation also covers habits, scripture-based filters, and how practice automates healthier mental patterns.
Mar 23, 2026 • 45min
Classic: Heartaches and Bone Breaks (13E52)
Explores how emotional and physical pain share the same brain circuits. Explains why grief can trigger chest tightness, shingles flares, and chronic somatic loops. Describes research linking social rejection to physical pain and the health risks of loneliness. Offers practical approaches like journaling, prayerful meditation, reframing loss into legacy, and leaning on community for resilience.
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Mar 20, 2026 • 31min
The Suffering Substitution (S13E51)
Compelling stories of bereaved parents who transform unimaginable loss into service for others. A practical spiritual take on 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 and using scripture as a blueprint for retraining the brain. A taught “self-brain surgery” approach linking cognitive reframing, neuroplasticity, and meaning-making. Conversations about turning grief into legacy and training the mind for hope.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 35min
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy vs. Self-Brain Surgery (S13E50)
A deep dive comparing cognitive behavioral therapy with a mind-driven approach called self-brain surgery. They explore neuroplasticity, directed attention, and how intentional reappraisal can reshape brain circuits. Discussions link faith, identity-level change, resilience through effort, and a real-life story of learning recovery to illustrate transformative practice.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 1h 8min
Throwback: Tish Harrison Warren (S13E49)
Tish Harrison Warren, an Anglican priest, bestselling author and New York Times columnist, shares reflections on faith, lament, and spiritual practices. She explores Advent’s space for honest grief. Conversation highlights include Compline as a tether in sorrow, how tradition sustains people in suffering, the church as a hospital for the broken, and pastoral presence amid unfixable pain.
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Mar 13, 2026 • 28min
Healing with the Patient-to-Doctor Switch (S13E48)
A throwback on the patient-to-doctor switch that reframes how you respond to pain. Personal medical mishaps and faith meet neuroscience to show attention changes outcomes. Discussion of trauma as response, deciding to act, and learning resilience through hard work. Practical prompts to examine habits and operate on problems instead of from them.
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Mar 11, 2026 • 22min
Light and Darkness (S13E47)
A wide-ranging look at light as a spiritual and physical reality tied to faith and neuroscience. Discussions link rumination and brain networks to patterns of darkness. There is a focus on neuroplasticity and practical steps to rewire thinking. Quantum ideas about consciousness and a recovery story illustrate themes of transformation and hope.
Mar 9, 2026 • 50min
Brant Hansen on the Unoffendable Life (S13E46)
Brant Hansen, author, radio personality, and CURE International advocate, joins to explore living unoffendable. He defines what that life looks like and challenges the culture of righteous anger. Conversations cover biblical perspective on anger, practical forgiveness exercises, personal stories of trauma and calm action, and how mercy and clear thinking improve justice and flourishing.
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Mar 6, 2026 • 20min
Visualize vs See (S13E45)
A surgeon’s OR story about a dictation slip sparks a meditation on precise language and thought. The difference between mentally visualizing and truly seeing is unpacked. Hemispheric ways of perceiving are contrasted to show how richer attention changes what we notice. A single daily question is offered to shift awareness from narrow worry to fuller presence.
