Change Your Brain Every Day

After a life-threatening medical emergency during a performance, professional dancer Hayley Erbert faced a recovery few could imagine. This podcast is a previous conversation that follows her journey — the surgery, the uncertainty, and the moment she sits down with Dr. Daniel Amen to see her own brain scan, confronting the physical reality of what she survived. It's a conversation about resilience, memory, and what it means to rebuild a life and a career after coming face-to-face with mortality. Raw, honest, and unflinching.

Hal Elrod survived a devastating car accident that left him clinically dead for six minutes and facing a future doctors thought he'd never recover from. Instead of allowing trauma to define him, he transformed it into extraordinary personal growth.
 
In this conversation, Hal shares the mindset shifts, daily practices, and life-changing lessons that helped him move beyond survival and into post-traumatic growth. You'll discover how to find purpose after hardship, build resilience in the face of uncertainty, and use life's darkest moments as a catalyst for becoming your best self.
 
In this episode:
 
Hal's near-death experience and miraculous recovery
The science and psychology of post-traumatic growth
How trauma can become a turning point instead of an ending
Practical tools for resilience, healing, and mental strength
Why your greatest challenge may hold your greatest opportunity
 
If you've ever experienced loss, adversity, or a life-changing setback, this episode offers hope and a roadmap for what's possible on the other side.
 
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In this week's throwback episode, Dr. Amen sits down with fitness mogul and New York Times bestselling author Jillian Michaels. Jillian discusses her past emotional history, growing up, and battle with organization, ADHD tendencies, and anxiety. Dr. Amen provides Jillian's brain SPECT scan results and a pathway for healing.
 
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What if the world's most famous prayer is also one of the most powerful tools for transforming your mind? In this conversation, bestselling author and pastor Brad Gray explores the surprising connection between the Lord's Prayer, neuroscience, and spiritual formation. Discover how Jesus' timeless words can reshape thought patterns, reduce anxiety, strengthen emotional resilience, and create lasting inner peace, not through positive thinking, but through intentional communion with God. Together, we unpack:
 
Why the Lord's Prayer is more than a prayer—it's a blueprint for renewing your mind.

What modern neuroscience reveals about attention, habits, and brain rewiring.

How ancient spiritual practices align with what researchers are discovering about neuroplasticity.

The hidden depth behind each line of the prayer.

Practical ways to experience greater peace, purpose, and freedom in everyday life.

 
Whether you're curious about faith, fascinated by neuroscience, or looking for practical tools to deepen your relationship with God, this episode offers a fresh perspective on one of Jesus' most profound teachings. If this conversation encouraged you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs hope today.
 
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Brad Gray: https://walkingthetext.com/

Everyone struggles with stressful situations at some point in their life. And most of us know that too much stress isn't good for us. But in today's world, we're faced with all kinds of stress on a daily basis—there's no escaping it. Did you know that, according to the National Safety Council, stress contributes to as much as 80% of all disease and illness? Understanding that having to deal with stress is inevitable and that too much stress is really bad for your brain and health, it is critical to know how to deal with stress.