The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast

It's Mind Change Monday! You spend your entire life performing self-brain surgery, whether you do it intentionally or not. This is the biggest single realization of my life, and it should produce a desire in us to make sure we're competent and effective as self-brain surgeons. Because your mind is operating on your brain every moment of your life, either passively or actively. What you're doing, y...

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...

It's Frontal Lobe Friday! A few final thoughts (for now) about suffering, self-directed neuroplasticity, epigenetics, and telling ourselves better (and truer) stories). ( Be sure to check out part 1 of this talk, on the Spiritual Brain Surgery Podcast earlier from yesterday! ) SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The Spiritual Brain Surgery Podcast is now live everywhere! Please consider listening and subscribin...

What Happens in Our Brains and Bodies When We Suffer? ( Be sure to check out part 1 of this talk, on the Spiritual Brain Surgery Podcast earlier today! ) A look at the neurobiology of suffering , and where to find hope again when life hurts. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The Spiritual Brain Surgery Podcast is now live everywhere! Please consider listening and subscribing by clicking one of the links below...

Shame and Fear Thrive in Isolation, but shame dies in community. It's Wildcard Wednesday. so here's a talk from Season 5 that's been unavailble for a while. Listen to learn how to rethink our basic instincts when we're going through hardship.  Music by Tommy Walker (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) SPECIAL ANNOUNCEM...

It's Mind Change Monday! We're continuing to learn a new way to pray and learn to use our minds to change our brains, and help us seek the abundance and peace Jesus promised us in John 10:10! Quantum physics gives us two principles of how constantly looking at a situation can keep it stuck in that state, and the same is true in our lives. Learning to shift our viewpoint, relax, and trust God's pro...

It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! We're learning a new way to pray and learn to use our minds to change our brains, and help us seek the abundance and peace Jesus promised us in John 10:10! Today, we take the ABIDE practice one level deeper, and learn a self-brain surgery operation that will help us become healthier, feel better, and be happier in any area of our lives. Neuroscience and faith smas...

It's Frontal Lobe Friday! What happens in your brain when you pray? Here's a look at some surprising neuroscience research into how prayer changes your brain, and some ways you can use these insights to make your life better! Scripture: Deuteronomy 5:33, Proverbs 4:26, Hebrews 12:13, I Thessalonians 5:16-17, Luke 18:1, John 15 Book Mentioned: How God Changes Your Brain by Andrew Newberg and Mark W...

It's Time for Some Heart Surgery. An overview of the mind-heart-brain-body connection, heart rate variability and heart coherence , and how you can use them to help you become healthier, feel better, and be happier! Scripture: Psalm 103 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The Spiritual Brain Surgery Podcast is now live everywhere! Please consider listening and subscribing by clicking one of the links below! Spi...

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 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The Spiritual Brain Surgery Podcast is now live everywhere! Please consider listening and subscribing by clicking one of the links below! Spiritual Brain Surgery on Apple Spiritual Brain S...

The secret to resilience when The Massive Thing Happens is having a solid base of pre-hab in your heart. Today, I give you four Insight Spots from MyBridge Radio , our favorite place for 24/7 encouragement. MyBridge is a great place for YOU to find hope! Plus, music from my friend Tommy Walker ! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playl...

It's Season 10! Today, we respond to a listener who asked the important question of what to do and say when someone has just experienced trauma, tragedy, or some other massive thing (TMT). Scripture: Romans 12:15 Books Mentioned: This is Hard by Jon Swanson, Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering by Timothy Keller, Hope Is the First Dose by me My Advice When Speaking to Others after TMT: 1. S...

It's Frontal Lobe Friday! Today, an overview of the new Spiritual Brain Surgery podcast that's coming on Tuesday, and a few thoughts on Jesus's brain! Check out our appearance on Daystar Network! Music by Josh Baldwin (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Ca...

It's Theology Thursday! BRAND NEW EPISODE DROPS TOMORROW, January 26, 2024! Here's a look at what scripture and neuroscience have to say about the reason you're able to change your mind about the traumas, tragedies, and massive things of your life. See transcript for scripture references. (We are on a 2-week sabbatical to prepare for Season 10. This episode will help you get ready!) Leave a voicem...

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 Chang...

It’s Tuesdays with Tata ! Today, 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 authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) (...

It's Mind-Change Monday! And today is also DEFAULT MODE MONDAY! Your brain uses the same amount of energy at rest as it does when you're actively thinking about or engaged in a task. We're going to look at the task-positive network and the default mode network today, and learn how to improve our brain's baseline behavior so we can become healthier, feel better, and be happier. Plus: an incredible...

It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! Today, a talk about whether we're stuck with our feelings, diagnoses, or past traumas, or not. Am I just a skin sack of neurons? Or I am I fearfully and wonderfully made? What if we actually have a tremendous amount of control over these things? The good news is, we do! How we think changes how we live, even if we've been through TBI, TMT, or any other type of pro...

It's Frontal Lobe Friday! Today, response to some listener questions, and a look at what separates cognitive behavioral therapy from self-brain surgery. Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:4-9, II Corinthians 10:5 (We are on a 2-week sabbatical to prepare for Season 10. This episode will help you get ready!) Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get...

When we ruminate on old losses and other massive things, it literally changes our brains and our bodies. Today, I'll give the science behind how psychosomatic illnesses work, and some compassionate self-brain surgery tools to change guilt into healthy, healing grief. Podcast Mentioned: While We're Waiting from Jill and Brad Sullivan Scripture: II Corinthians 10:5 Book mentioned: The Grieving Brain...

What Power Do Labels Have to Change Reality? It's Wild Card Wednesday, and today we look at labels, our true identity, and the power of changing our minds. Books mentioned: Redefined by Arden Bevere, The Deepest Place by Curt Thompson Scriptures mentioned: Daniel 1, John 6:37, II Corinthians 5:17. II Peter 2:9, Ephesians 2:10, Galatians 2:20 (We are on a 2-week sabbatical to prepare for Season 10....

The Difference Between "Self-Help" and Renewing Your Mind Makes ALL the Difference! Today, a response to a reader's letter about whether it's us or God who provides to power for our ability to change our minds and change our lives. This episode will: Relieve you of the burden of thinking that it's all up to you Answer your question of, "What am I supposed to do now?" when life throws massive thing...

When You're Stuck, You Have A Choice: How Will You Use the Time? How you use the time WHILE you're stuck determines the quality of your life in the future. Books Mentioned: Run With the Horses by Eugene Peterson and Redeeming Justice by Jarrett Adams Scripture: Philippians 3:12-14, I Corinthians 9:26-27, Jeremiah 32 (We are on a 2-week sabbatical to prepare for Season 10. This episode will help yo...

It's Mind Change Monday! A look at the fascinating truth that our genetics do not tell the whole story of our lives. A quick overview of neurobiology, epigenetics, and the powerful influence thoughts have on brain structure. (I'm on sabbatical for two weeks. This is a re-release to get you ready for Season 10!) Scripture mentioned: Psalm 139, Psalm 19, Proverbs 23, Romans 12:1-2 Book mentioned: Ge...

Does Your Mind Exist Outside of Your Brain? Or Are "You" Really Just A Bunch of Neurons? Join me for a fascinating conversation with author and brain imaging scientist Dr. Sharon Dirckx to answer the question. It's a great talk that's full of awe, wonder, and hope! This is the final episode of season 9, and we're going to take a two-week break after this. You'll still get episodes, but they will b...