The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast
Neurosurgeon and award-winning author Dr. W. Lee Warren, MD delivers daily prescriptions from neuroscience, faith, and common sense on how to lead a healthier, better, happier life. You can’t change your life until you change your mind, and Dr. Warren will teach you the art of self brain surgery to get it done. His new book, Hope Is the First Dose, is available everywhere books are sold.
Episodes
It's Frontal Lobe Friday!
Today, a lesson about anesthesia, a review of some of the commandments of Self-Brain Surgery, and a few thoughts about how to heal and move forward in our lives!
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It's Theology Thursday!
Today, another look at light, and some surprising lessons from Psalm 119, quantum physics, and 21st-century neuroscience.
Check out this video from Tara-Leigh Cobble and The Bible Recap!
Check out this article on the two kinds of light mentioned in Psalm 119!
Check out this book (specifically chapter 4) to learn more about how light may be how God communicates with our minds!
Lea...
Help Me Pick the Best Podcast Conversation of 2024!
Every week for Wildcard Wednesday, I'll give you one of my (and your) top-four favorite interviews for the first quarter of the year. Then we'll have a survey for you to vote and choose a winner to move onto the semi-finals. After next quarter is over, we'll pick a winner from Q2, and then you can choose the finalist from the first half of the year by voting betwee...
It's Tuesdays with Tata!
(This is a classic episode about being ready for whatever life brings. It's important for me today, as I'm dealing with a big work issue. Back with multiple new episodes later this week!)
Today, a great talk about the importance of getting your mind ready for whatever comes along. Does life jump up and knock you out? Or do you have a plan in place for how you're going to use your mind to handle anyt...
An Episode About Anxious Thoughts: It's Default Mode Monday!
Today, some compelling research about the connection between the default mode network (DMN) and the Central Executive Network (CEN). We'll learn how thinking more about God trains your brain to ruminate less about past traumas and possible future troubles, and to connect with the present and others more effectively. This, my friend, is how you can become healthier...
It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday!
(This is a carefully-selected re-release of an episode that will get you ready for next week’s focus on the #1 secret to changing your mind and your life. Even if you’ve heard it before, please check it out and be ready for Mind-Change Monday!)
Today, we learn a little operation that will help us escape the inner "Me Show" we all hear in our heads, stop worrying about the suffering of the pa...
Life Can Stress Us to the Point that We Forget It’s Not All Trauma
(Classic Episode as I'm on a short sabbatical)
Today for Frontal Lobe Friday, a reminder that you’re not always in a fight. If you’re so tired of being so tired, this will help. (Based on Season 8, Episode 45)
Scripture: Jeremiah 6:16, Isaiah 43:19, I John 3:8, John 10:10
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If You Keep Trying, It Will Eventually Click
For Theology Thursday today, we're going to talk about how to master your mind, overcome negative thinking, structurally improve your brain, and the process of overcoming shame and doubt. When it all clicks, you'll realize that you've become a master self-brain surgeon, but it didn't happen overnight.
This episode is dedicated to my professor and friend, Dr. Takanori Fukus...
It's Wildcard Wednesday!
(Still on sabbatical, so here's a classic episode for you, originally a Self-Brain Surgery Saturday operation!)
Every week, we'll learn a specific neuroscience operation you can master to change your mind and change your life.
Today, we learn the basics, and we start with Self-brain surgery tip #19:
“There is almost nothing outside you that will help in any kind of lasting way, unless you are ...
It’s Tuesdays with Tata!
Since we've been talking about light lately, here's a classic Tuesdays with Tata episode in which we talk about a curious passage from Zechariah 8:20-23, and what it means to be the light of the world!
Plus, a new Tata-ism, fiat lux (“Let there be light”)!
Scriptures: Zechariah 8:20-23, Matthew 5:13-16, John 1:1-5, Titus 2:10
Music: Tim Hughes
(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is auth...
A Super Weird and Hopeful Episode About Light (Mind-Change Monday)
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It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday!
Here's a look at four approaches to using self-brain surgery to help us become healthier, feel better, and be happier in our lives.
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- You can become a...
Here's a self-brain surgery operation you can learn to deal with anxiety in any situation.
It's Frontal Lobe Friday! I have to operate today, so I'm giving you back this important Frontal Lobe Friday episode! Come back tomorrow for an all-new Self-Brain Surgery Saturday operation on how to deal with difficult situations.
Today, we develop a strategy to handle anxiety, learn resilience, and become better equipped to face what...
Self-Brain Surgery is a Fight to Become Healthier, Feel Better and Be Happier
Here are some thoughts on how you can win.
Our guiding principles:
- Words of my mouth AND the meditation of my heart: Psalm 19:14
- Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, strength: Mt 22:37
- Every thought captive: II Cor 10:5
- Operate out of renewed minds: Romans 12:2
- Worship with our brains as part of body: Romans 12:1 means hurting brain is an ...
Our current society has a big worldview problem.
Today for Wildcard Wednesday, We Talk About Worldview
Today, we talk about John Mark Comer’s book Live No Lies, and two ideas that he really helped me clarify:
- What was the biggest idealogical mindset shift in Western civilization in the past 200 years?
- What cultural credo did we pick up from Shakespeare, and why is it so ironic?
Today’s Mind Change Monday episode ge...
The American Family is Under Attack, and it is a Perilous Fight for the Soul of Our Nation and the Souls of our Children
Join me for a chilling but hopeful conversation with world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, bestselling author, and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson!
Dr. Carson's new book is The Perilous Fight: Overcoming Our Culture's War on the American Family
Dr. Carson's American Corner...
It's Mind Change Monday!
An overview of what self-brain surgery can do for you, and some tools to help you become healthier, feel better, and be happier in your life.
Scripture: Ephesians 4
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It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday!
Sometimes the wound is so fresh or so persistent that you don't have the energy or mental capability to even try to change your mind. You're overwhelmed and it's all just too fresh and heavy, and it doesn't feel possible to do anything but hurt.
If you're there, it's okay. Here's one little tool that will help you hold on until you heal enough to start seeing the light again, and the hope th...
The Things We Think About Turn Into Real Things
Today, a look at the 10th commandment of Self-Brain Surgery: I must understand that thoughts become things.
Scripture: Philippians 4:6-9, II Corinthians 10:5
The Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery
I must relentlessly refuse to participate in my own demise.
I must believe that feelings are not facts, they are chemical events in my brain.
I must believe that most of my t...
What You're Doing, You're Getting Better At
Today, a look at the 9th commandment of Self-Brain Surgery: I must believe that what I’m doing I’m getting better at.
Scripture: Psalm 19:14, Matthew 22:37, Psalm 51:17, II Corinthians 10:5
The Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery
I must relentlessly refuse to participate in my own demise.
I must believe that feelings are not facts, they are chemical events in my brain.
I mus...
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