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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May 11, 2026 • 38min
Mind, Brain, and Worldview (S14E2)
A deep dive into why the mind and brain are different and why that distinction matters. Practical habits like journaling, handwriting, and small action steps for real change. A look at materialism versus dualism and how worldview shapes how you interpret neuroscience.
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May 10, 2026 • 51min
Start Here with Self-Brain Surgery™ (S14E1)
A starter guide to applied neuroplasticity and how intentionally changing thinking can rewire the brain. Topics include a calming 'scrub in' mental routine, preparation for forming helpful automatic responses, and a seven-day thought audit. The conversation contrasts this approach with quick fixes and integrates spiritual resources and scripture with neuroscience.
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Apr 30, 2026 • 12min
Five Things That Are True (S13E61)
A morning reflection on five core truths for personal transformation. He highlights disrupting old patterns and using neuroplasticity to reshape behavior. Emphasis on internal control, finding peace and purpose from within. Discussion on freeing your future from past hurts and recognizing you already have what you need, with scripture woven through the ideas.
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Apr 27, 2026 • 31min
Holding It All Together (S13E60)
A blend of scripture and science exploring how a sustaining divine presence might underlie physics, biology, and neuroscience. The four fundamental forces are mapped to spiritual and physical realities. Ideas about mind‑brain interaction, prayer affecting the body, and quantum nonlocality are discussed. New practical training in 'self‑brain surgery' and upcoming season topics are previewed.
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Apr 20, 2026 • 46min
Dr. Iain McGilchrist, Part II (S13E59)
Dr. Iain McGilchrist, neuropsychiatrist and author exploring brain hemisphere differences. He discusses universality of beauty and moral sense. Values as discoveries that call us and their role in purpose and creativity. The neuroscience of prayer, meditation, and right-hemisphere processes. Practical counsel on grief, resilience, and growth through hardship.
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Apr 13, 2026 • 43min
Dr. Iain McGilchrist, Part I (S13E58)
Dr. Iain McGilchrist, neuropsychiatrist and author known for work on the divided brain, explains how the left and right hemispheres shape perception and attention. He contrasts narrow, goal-directed focus with broad, context-rich awareness. They explore map-versus-territory thinking, expectation-driven perception, different ways of seeing the same world, and why matter and consciousness are intertwined.
Apr 6, 2026 • 31min
When You Love Someone in Recovery (S13E57)
Caroline Beidler, author, speaker, and recovery advocate who runs the Substack Circle of Chairs, joins to discuss loving someone in recovery. She talks about faith’s role in sustained recovery. She explains healthy boundaries versus harmful tough love. She covers how communities and families can support recovery and how to respond to relapse and grief.
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Apr 1, 2026 • 38min
Bandaids for Broken Bones (S13E56)
They unpack why quick fixes fail when dealing with deep wounds and how superficial comfort keeps problems alive. Neuroscience and scripture meet to explain how doing one hard thing rewires the brain and builds endurance. The conversation calls out shallow messages that soothe but do not heal and encourages taking responsibility to perform honest inner work.
Mar 30, 2026 • 36min
Classic: Your Mind is not Your Brain (S13E55)
They explore the crucial distinction between mind and brain and why believing the mind leads the brain matters. Topics include how worldviews shape identity, responsibility, and cultural outlooks. Practical approaches to directing mental effort, neuroplasticity, and caring for the physical brain are highlighted. A server-and-host metaphor and reflections on faith, science, and personal transformation are discussed.
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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.
