48 min
Cleaning up Your Mental Mess: Creating healthy, young-leaders for our Future with Dr. Caroline Leaf | Ep. 92 Soul Purpose Leadership
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- Mental Health
Still buzzing from getting to host Dr. Caroline Leaf on my podcast this week, and such an important, life-saving topic… mental health + our children.
Dr. Leaf needs no introduction, but for the record - she is a communication pathologist, audiologist, clinical and cognitive neuroscientist with a Masters and PhD in Communication Pathology and a BSc Logopaedics, specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology. Since the early 1980s she has researched the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health, and the formation of memory. She was one of the first in her field to study how the brain can change (neuroplasticity) with directed mind input.
Basically, when Dr. Leaf talks, we better be listening!
It’s not an easy truth to face, but according to Dr. Leaf and research, children are now worse off than adults regarding mental health. “The mental health crisis that we are sitting with now is actually a symptom of something much larger - and that much larger crisis is one I believe of mind management,” says Dr. Leaf.
Dr. Leaf discusses everything from helping parents to help with our child mental health crisis, to the immune system of our minds. We discuss a shift from a more holistic approach over the decades to one of diagnosis, labeling, and suppression, and how diagnosis versus description masks resilience. “No child is trying to be difficult. They’re trying to process life.” -Dr. Caroline Leaf.
We also discuss neurocycles and Dr. Leaf’s new book, Mentally Resilient Kids. “Your brain is always changing, your body is always changing, your mind is always changing because you are always changing… because life is always changing.” Well said, Dr. Leaf!
Thanks listeners for your faithfulness in tuning in, rating, and sharing about Soul Purpose Leadership. It’s because of YOU that we get to host renowned guests like Dr. Caroline Leaf!
Visit @drcarolineleaf and grab her book here
Visit @thejenniferwatson and our website
Still buzzing from getting to host Dr. Caroline Leaf on my podcast this week, and such an important, life-saving topic… mental health + our children.
Dr. Leaf needs no introduction, but for the record - she is a communication pathologist, audiologist, clinical and cognitive neuroscientist with a Masters and PhD in Communication Pathology and a BSc Logopaedics, specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology. Since the early 1980s she has researched the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health, and the formation of memory. She was one of the first in her field to study how the brain can change (neuroplasticity) with directed mind input.
Basically, when Dr. Leaf talks, we better be listening!
It’s not an easy truth to face, but according to Dr. Leaf and research, children are now worse off than adults regarding mental health. “The mental health crisis that we are sitting with now is actually a symptom of something much larger - and that much larger crisis is one I believe of mind management,” says Dr. Leaf.
Dr. Leaf discusses everything from helping parents to help with our child mental health crisis, to the immune system of our minds. We discuss a shift from a more holistic approach over the decades to one of diagnosis, labeling, and suppression, and how diagnosis versus description masks resilience. “No child is trying to be difficult. They’re trying to process life.” -Dr. Caroline Leaf.
We also discuss neurocycles and Dr. Leaf’s new book, Mentally Resilient Kids. “Your brain is always changing, your body is always changing, your mind is always changing because you are always changing… because life is always changing.” Well said, Dr. Leaf!
Thanks listeners for your faithfulness in tuning in, rating, and sharing about Soul Purpose Leadership. It’s because of YOU that we get to host renowned guests like Dr. Caroline Leaf!
Visit @drcarolineleaf and grab her book here
Visit @thejenniferwatson and our website
48 min