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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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.
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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.
