Rebel Human Radio

This episode is about self-advocacy and fierce advocacy for your health. Tait starts out telling her story about a gynecologist trying to prescribe her estrogen without doing proper blood work, claiming she was moving into menopause. After getting another opinion from Dr. Richard Rock, she found out that wasn't the problem at all and she actually had a tumor on her pituitary gland. She explains what would've happened if s...

In this long awaited episode, Jenny and Tait share the pseudo-science and misinformation around colonics, ayahuasca, homeopathy, "adrenal fatigue," drinking your own urine, "detoxing," lemon water, and alkaline water. 

Is ayahuasca a way to instant enlightenment and an "ego death"? Will your life change by taking "adrenal support" supplements? Do we need to "detox"? Will le...

Listen to this episode with HEADPHONES. 
Grief is one of the most painful of human experiences. We hope this help give your nervous system a little break while you are grieving. This won't make everything better but it will take care of your body and brain so you can continue on breathing and healing. 


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Tait and Jenny share details of their personal stories around their relationship to worth. Tait only existed in the eyes of other people's praise. She also shares how that led to an addiction to alcohol. Jenny felt unworthy of the roof over her head because she felt she didn't measure up to expectations of beauty and fitness she was taught was the most important attribute. That along with being gang raped in seventh grade...

Tait and Jenny discuss the mental health effects of ruminating and procrastinating. Tait tells her latest health challenge story and how the steroids she has to take have put her back into the mental state she experienced in her teens and how that helps her be more compassionate. Jenny shares what it's like when depression visits her and how that also reignites her compassion. Tait experiences what it feels like to try to medi...

Tait and Jenny discuss how magic, tarot cards, mystics, psychics, and mediums play into our human psychology. They explain the connections between these "magical" practices and the placebo effect. They share some examples of how "magical" our own powers are as well. 

Tait shares some placebo studies, question the ethics of how placebos are presented, and they agree it's important to live in the mys...

Jenny starts out sharing her covid experience while in quarantine, including her manic hair cutting episode. They move onto goals, the role of tracking, and the neurocircuitry of goal pursuit. Tait shares how she got herself to the top of her field as a dancer at the age of 16 and how a dance class has a built in reward system. She also shares her theory of why she and Jenny didn't need external motivators while in recovery. <...

Starting with how Tait procrastinates, Jenny and Tait then move on to explaining their scaffolded approach to Rebel Human skill acquisition. They explain why some people get frustrated with meditation and feel they can't do it. They explain the difference between Mindfulness Meditation and their foundational skills approach and why Mindfulness Meditation isn't for everyone.

They discuss why they've chosen no...

Opening with paradoxes, polarities, and contradiction, then moving onto the findings from our schools program study. Tait and Jenny love hard data! Jenny reads some student testimonials and Tait explains her research process, powerful findings, hierarchical lineal modeling, and running multiple sensitivity analyses to really make sure we are getting the full story from the data. The Rebel Human For Schools program works!

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"Play is the highest form of research." Albert Einstein
Adults forget how great play is for our brains. Tait explains what happens in the brain when we play (when we keep it non-competitive) and how play enhances her research. Did you know that endogenous opioids are released in the brain during play? Jenny shares ideas for ways adults can work play into their lives easily. They also share what the components of play ...

Tait and Jenny discuss the difference between self-actualization and self-transcendence, along with the connections they have. Tait explains what it physically feels like for her when she feels a sense of self-transcendence. How does wonder and awe factor in to it? Can you experience it immediately? Jenny explains a small part of what's happening in the brain when we experience it. 

Is sitting quietly meditating? Not ...

Tait and Jenny talk about how stress can uncover what we really care about and how it can help connect us to our purpose. They discuss the stress that comes from people pleasing and caring what others think, while acknowledging that people may hate us for not caring. Jenny shares two of the exercises around stress and spinning out that she had retreat participants do last week in Mexico. They are fun for you to do too! Tait shares ...

Tait and Jenny discuss how we can change our relationship to stress to bring about a more adaptive physiological, affective, and cognitive response. They cite a few jaw dropping studies (re: weight loss, appetite suppression, blood pressure, cortisol) that explain just how powerful mindset is. Tait dissects the value of wearables and gives her opinion about sleep trackers, which is very much against the status quo right now. They t...

Tait and Jenny discuss the science of anxiety, free floating anxiety, specific anxiety, the body's budget, our brain's predictions, why it's happening and how to alleviate it. How does resilience, equanimity, and transcendence, the Rebel Human core competencies work with anxiety? What is transcendence? Tait and Jenny answer these questions and share the hope in developing the skills that can reset our system, heal th...

Jenny and Tait discuss how getting back up on the horse can happen multiple times a day. They share the ways that they often get back on the horse and what ways they tend to fall. Tait tells of her pandemic kidney stones and flood, and why she needs to drink more water. Jenny talks about what happens when she doesn't meditate and getting her strength back. 

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Allostasis, affective circumplex, emotional concepts, emotional granularity, how emotions differ among cultures, and what anger looks like in different cultures. 

Jenny and Tait discuss how emotions help give meaning to feelings and what our brain's main job is.  They also cover what the emotion guilt can do for us.

Their funnies give you the definition of huckmuck and zoopsia! Jenny also tells the story of T...

Jenny and Tait explain SEAC (stop, exhale, attend, connect), a part of their Rebel Human®  For Schools program. It's something we can all use so it's not just for students. They also share their funnies: Jenny's botch up of a YouTube visual and Tait's adamant push for Jenny to watch ALL of the Beatles documentary. 

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This week we need some deep calm. Jenny guides you through a 15 minute sound bath using crystal singing bowls and the gong. You can lay down and listen for some deep, nap-like calm. It can even ease you into a nap. Or you can listen while driving or doing other chores and allow the sounds to give you a mental and aural cleanse. 

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Jenny and Tait explain explore the five dials we can turn in any given moment to shift our physiology: breath, mantra, eye focus, movement, and non-sleep deep rest (NSDR). Each dial washes the brain in different chemicals depending on what shift you would like. Once we understand how to turn these dials and when, we then have autonomy over our whole system. Tait explains the autonomic nervous system, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, o...