The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast

When Your Heart is Broken, You Need Brain SurgeryToday, a powerful talk about how to use the thought biopsy technique to do self-brain surgery and find the path forward to hope again. Scriptures Mentioned:Isaiah 26:3, Psalm 51:10, Psalm 19:14, Psalm 139:23, Proverbs 3:5, Proverbs 17:27, Philippians 4:6-8, Lamentations 3, John 10:10, John 16:33, Colossians 3:15, Psalm 71:14NEW BIBLE APP/YOUVERSION Bible Study is up!Keep coming back every day for more doses of hope!Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount!Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique!PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen!Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs!Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose!Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book!Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!Music by Casting Crowns and Riley ClemmonsMusic shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) 

Sometimes, All You Need to Say Is, “This is Hard.”Today, a wonderful Hope Talk with my friend Dr. Jon Swanson. We talk about how we can be helpful when we’re coming alongside someone who is going through their own trauma, tragedy, or other massive thing. Check out Jon’s helpful writing at his Substack, This Is Hard.Jon Swanson helps people and organizations find sense at urgent and important times. Whether sitting at deathbeds with families or sitting over coffee with people needing counsel, Jon's experience allows him to find the words and silence that help meaning come to the surface.Once upon a time, Jon thought he would use his PhD in Rhetorical Theory and Criticism to teach college students how to analyze speeches. Instead, he has been helping people read the Bible for more than thirty years. In small groups and conversations, he tries to listen to the text, listen to people and connect the two in ways that are practical and often unexpected.Jon has been a communication prof, college administrator, and an associate pastor. Currently, he's a hospital chaplain and a consultant.He and Nancy have been married since 1983 and have two married children and a daughter in heaven. Jon and Nancy walk at least two miles a day, conversing the whole time.Jon has been blogging since 2005. In 2008, he started 300wordsaday.com, where he writes in simple language about following Jesus, 300 words at a time.Keep coming back every day for more doses of hope!My new book is coming out on July 18, and this is the next Daily Dose of Hope I’m going to give you to get ready!You can now pre-order my new book, Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things! Coming July 18 everywhere books are sold. There are major bonuses you can get by pre-ordering, including a great playlist of hopeful songs, three chapters of the book, lock screens for your phone, and more!Hey- you can get up to six months of free access to all my paid-subscriber-only content on Substack by referring friends to sign up for my free weekly Self-Brain Surgery letter! Click the button below for more information.Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe

Caroline Beidler On the Grittiness of Chasing HopeHere’s an incredible dose of Everyday Hope! Meet my new friend, Caroline Beidler, MSW. We talk about her incredible journey through childhood trauma, abuse, and addiction, and how she discovered hope in the “downstairs church,” as our mutual mentor Philip Yancey calls it. Caroline also had a great conversation with Philip Yancey about her book, which you can listen to here!Caroline’s Official BioCaroline Beidler, BA, MSW is an author, recovery advocate and founder of the storytelling platform Bright Story Shine. Her new book Downstairs Church: Finding Hope in the Grit of Addiction and Trauma Recovery is available everywhere books are sold. With almost 20 years in leadership within social work and ministry, she is the Membership and Outreach Manager for the Association of Recovery in Higher Education, where she works with collegiate recovery programs (CRPs) and collegiate recovery communities (CRCs) and students in or seeking recovery from addiction across the globe. She is a team writer for the Grit and Grace Project and blogger at the global recovery platform In the Rooms. Caroline lives in Tennessee with her husband and four year old twins where she enjoys hiking in the mountains and building up her community’s local recovery ministry.Keep coming back every day for more doses of hope!My new book is coming out on July 18, and this is the next Daily Dose of Hope I’m going to give you to get ready!You can now pre-order my new book, Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things! Coming July 18 everywhere books are sold. There are major bonuses you can get by pre-ordering, including a great playlist of hopeful songs, three chapters of the book, lock screens for your phone, and more!Hey- you can get up to six months of free access to all my paid-subscriber-only content on Substack by referring friends to sign up for my free weekly Self-Brain Surgery letter! Click the button below for more information.Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe

What Do You Stand On When the World Gives Way Under Your Feet?Today, we talk about how we find our way back to hope, purpose, maybe even happiness again when the world falls apart. My new book is coming out on July 18, and this is the next Daily Dose of Hope I’m going to give you to get ready!You can now pre-order my new book, Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things! Coming July 18 everywhere books are sold. There are major bonuses you can get by pre-ordering, including a great playlist of hopeful songs, three chapters of the book, lock screens for your phone, and more!Music by Joe Satriani and Leanna Crawford(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 )Hey- you can get up to six months of free access to all my paid-subscriber-only content on Substack by referring friends to sign up for my free weekly Self-Brain Surgery letter! Click the button below for more information.Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe

A Story from My New Book About WaitingToday, we talk about Marcus Green’s spinal cord, learn a lesson from his incredible story, hear a great song from our Hope Is the First Dose playlist (available soon for folks who pre-order my book!), and discover another good way to think about waiting. My new book is coming out on July 18, and this is the next Daily Dose of Hope I’m going to give you to get ready!You can now pre-order my new book, Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things! Coming July 18 everywhere books are sold. There are major bonuses you can get by pre-ordering, including a great playlist of hopeful songs, three chapters of the book, lock screens for your phone, and more!Music by Lyle Lovett(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 )Hey- you can get up to six months of free access to all my paid-subscriber-only content on Substack by referring friends to sign up for my free weekly Self-Brain Surgery letter! Click the button below for more information.Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe

What Happens When You Can’t Seem to Solve a Problem?Today, we talk about physical chemistry, downstream goals, unsolvable problems, and the hope that comes from having a God who can handle those things for us!My new book is coming out on July 18, and this is the next Daily Dose of Hope I’m going to give you to get ready!Article by Charles SwindollYou can now pre-order my new book, Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things! Coming July 18 everywhere books are sold. Music by Austin French(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 )Hey- you can get up to six months of free access to all my paid-subscriber-only content on Substack by referring friends to sign up for my free weekly Self-Brain Surgery letter! Click the button below for more information.Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe

It’s Independence Day in the USA!Hi friend, and happy 4th of July!I hope you have a great day, filled with family, fun, and some rest. We will be repairing the sprinkler system as two very naughty German Shorthaired Pointers decided to dig up and chew through the entire soaker hose array in our flower bed. I also have a pile of last-minute assignments my publicist dropped on me yesterday, in preparation for my book launch in 14 days! Hope is the First Dose is coming to you quickly, and we believe it will be extremely helpful in learning to hold onto hope no matter what you’re facing. In case you have a few minutes of time to listen to a podcast today, here’s a replay for Infinitely Happier 14: The Science of Freedom, to give you some thoughts on the value of declaring your independence from things that are hurting your life. And for today’s daily dose of hope, here’s a letter I wrote a while back that might help you find hope in freedom!I hope you have a great day, and that you're off with your family doing something fun. I'm going to give you a short thought today; perhaps it will help today be more than just a holiday. July 4 is Independence Day in the United States. We celebrate our independence from Britain, earned with the heroism and blood of the earliest Americans. The men who wrote the Declaration of Independence and framed our constitution pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to establish this nation on the basis of freedom.And now, over two hundred years later, I want to encourage you, no matter where you live, to embrace freedom. The Founders of the USA knew that freedom wouldn't come easily. They knew they would have to fight for it, go to war for it, that some of them would give their lives for it.But being free was essential to them; they knew they couldn't continue to live under the oppression of the British king any longer. They had to make a change. And today, perhaps there is some area of your life in which you need freedom.The good news is, science is on your side. Below are several possible declarations you could make today. Each one has a link to something helpful. I hope you find them useful. Depressed? Take control of your thoughts. You have the freedom and the neurochemical power to speak into your own mind and make it better. Sometimes you need medical help, but the research is overwhelming that the biggest secret to feeling better is to decide you want to, and start behaving as if you already do. Emotion follows motion, and no matter how bad things seem to you, I promise that if you start moving toward the place you dream of being, soon after you'll notice that you're feeling better.Struggling financially? Today, declare that you will begin paying yourself first. No matter how impossible it seems, saving ten percent of what you earn is not only doable, but it's necessary if you're ever going to be financially free. You deserve to keep some of the money you work so hard for. The science of finance declares that living on ninety percent or less of your income is the clear path to security and freedom from financial worry. Remember that the Founders pledged their lives AND their fortunes? Imagine how the country would have fared if those early freedom-seekers had been financially irresponsible in their earlier years. They would have had no fortunes with which to help fund the fight for freedom. Having savings and investments creates the power to choose a different path. And that leads to freedom. Trapped in a body that isn't shaped the way you want or doesn't weigh what you want it to? Biochemistry promises you can change that too. But you have to make a declaration. Today, choose to move more than you sit, to consume less than you burn, to take one less sip or pill or bag of whatever it is that's enslaving you and keeping you stuck in a place you're not supposed to be. To be free, you have to decide, act, and press on even when it's hard. Whatever it is that's enslaving you, keeping you from being free, you can declare your independence from it today.Remember, though, that the declaration isn't the end of the matter. When the founders put pen to paper and declared themselves free, they still had a lot of work to do. Battles to fight. A war to win.And even after it was all over, it wasn't over, because the English weren't ready to quit. In the War of 1812, the British actually captured and burned Washington, DC; freedom isn't final unless you're willing to keep fighting for it. So today, amidst the fireworks and the hot dogs and the parades, take a moment to think about the things from which you might need independence. Make your declaration, and commit your life and your honor to making it real. Make July 4 your personal Independence Day. If you want to become healthier, feel better, and be happier, pull out your pen and sign your name to the declaration.The Founders reached a point where they were no longer willing to live with the way things were. Freedom was worth everything to them.Is it worth everything to you?July 4, 1776 was Independence Day for them.They started that day.And so can you.Make a decision to be free, my friend.And start today. You can now pre-order my new book, Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things! Coming July 18 everywhere books are sold. Hey- you can get up to six months of free access to all my paid-subscriber-only content on Substack by referring friends to sign up for my free weekly Self-Brain Surgery letter! Click the button below for more information.Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe

Hope is only 15 Days Away!My new book is coming out on July 18, and this is the second of 16 Daily Doses of Hope I’m going to give you to get ready!Today is Mind-Change Monday, and we’re taking a look at why you need a treatment plan in place for when life hurts, and I’m going to give you a preview of the plan!You can now pre-order my new book, Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things! Coming July 18 everywhere books are sold. Music by JJ Heller(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 )Hey- you can get up to six months of free access to all my paid-subscriber-only content on Substack by referring friends to sign up for my free weekly Self-Brain Surgery letter! Click the button below for more information.Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe

Self-brain surgery tip #6:Hope is a verb. You have to choose it, chase it, fight and flex for it. Negative is natural, positive is spiritual. Romans 12:12 in The Voice: “And do not forget to rejoice, for hope is always just around the corner.”Music by David Crowder(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 )Hey- you can get up to six months of free access to all my paid-subscriber-only content on Substack by referring friends to sign up for my free weekly Self-Brain Surgery letter! Click the button below for more information.You can now pre-order my new book, Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things! Coming July 18 everywhere books are sold. Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe

Johnny Sirpilla Knows that Life is HardJoin me for an inspiring conversation with Johnny Sirpilla, an author, sought-after public speaker, entrepreneur, and former head of Camping World. Johnny has an incredible story of catastrophic loss, pivoting to personal growth and refinement through faith and the healing power of hope. Johnny’s story will encourage and lift you up, and it was an honor to spend 45 minutes with him. It’s everyday hope to help you change your mind and change your life, and it’s one of my favorite all-time conversations. Check out Johnny’s excellent and helpful book, Life is Hard but I’ll Be Okay.About the book (from JohnnySirpilla.com)With refreshing honesty, candor, grace, and ease, Johnny Sirpilla -–a master storyteller– serves as our guide through a life story that seems too traumatic to be true, yet true it is. Johnny and Susan Sirpilla were a happily married couple. Like so many couples, they wanted to be parents. This is their astonishing story that included thirteen different scenarios to build a family.From infertility to unexpected dangerous pregnancies, adoptions, international adoptions, twins, triplets, life-threatening medical concerns, moral and faith crossroads, their story never ceases to fascinate. Through their journey, you’ll discover the mindset that will set you on a course of positivity and resilience to navigate any of your own difficult times in life.About JohnnyJohn A. Sirpilla is a 1984 graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas High School, a 1988 graduate of Miami University with a degree in Accounting and a special interest in Psychology and Finance, and a 2000 graduate of the University of Phoenix with a master’s degree in Organizational Management.In 1992, Johnny became President of Sirpilla R.V. Center, Inc.. Within a few years, he was recognized out of more than 3,000 dealers as the National RV Dealer of the Year for best overall run dealership in the country. In 2003, Johnny was one of the initial acquisitions by Camping World and sold his family business to become part of the executive team to attempt the first RV dealership roll up plan in the industry’s history.Johnny served as President of Camping World, a 140-store nationwide retail chain serving the RV industry and was promoted in 2012 to Chief Business Development Officer for the parent company, Camping World and Good Sam with annual sales of nearly $4 billion. Over the 14 years at Camping World, he had responsibility over dealership operations, new store acquisitions and new location market selection and construction. Johnny speaks professionally to businesses, communities, and universities on the importance of managing thoughts, internal honest reflection to develop meaningful professional and personal relationships, and re-framing each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-development and growth. Johnny has been married to his college sweetheart, Susan for over 30 years, and has three children, Beau, Bella, and Stone and they reside in Canton, Ohio and Naples, Florida.Hey- you can get up to six months of free access to all my paid-subscriber-only content on Substack by referring friends to sign up for my free weekly Self-Brain Surgery letter! Click the button below for more information.You can now pre-order my new book, Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things! Coming July 18 everywhere books are sold. Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe