Today, I’m going to give you ten years of healing in a couple of minutes. I'm a brain surgeon, and I'm gonna show you how to make rapid progress in healing the wounds you’ve been carrying; the ones from childhood, from broken relationships, from things said that can’t be unsaid, and from things done that can’t be undone. Let's scrub in and get it done. Here's a Fact: Your Wound Lives in Your Brain, But Your Healing Lives in Your Mind When something hurts you, your brain stores it. The sights, the sounds, the sting of the words, the shape of the moment. That storage is real and physical. But here’s where the hope of healing lies: your brain doesn’t get the final vote on what that memory means to you. Your mind does. And your mind is not the same thing as your brain. Neuroscience nugget: Emotional memories get encoded in circuits involving the amygdala and hippocampus, but each time you recall a memory, it becomes temporarily unstable and gets rewritten via a process called reconsolidation. That means every time you revisit a wound, you have a fresh chance to change how it’s stored. Self-Brain Surgery Procedure: The next time an old wound surfaces, don’t just relive it. Instead, reframe it while it’s “open.” Ask: What is the truest, most redemptive way to understand this moment now? Speak that new understanding out loud before you let the memory close back up. Scripture: “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” Psalm 147:3, NIV This is self-brain surgery. Hard and holy work. Follow me to connect neuroscience and scripture every day. Save this to help when you need to heal. Share it with a friend who's hurting. Click the link in my bio to learn more about The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery, my NYT bestselling book. (Not medical advice. See your provider for help) #selfbrainsurgery #neuroscience #neuroplasticity #grief #healing

It's frustrating when you keep trying to make changes in your life only to wind up exactly like you were before. You may start to think that, "This is just how I am." If that sounds like you, I've got good news: Your brain changes every day based on what you rehearse. The science is on your side, and your creator has something to say about it too. 1 John 3:2 and 2 Corinthians 3:18 (NIV) say you're still becoming. Neuroplasticity shows how that can happen in the brain. Neuroscience has a elucidated the mechanism, and it's been built into your design all along. You've never been stuck, your brain has just been waiting for you to tell it who's boss. Save this for the next time you feel stuck, share it with a friend who needs to know it as well. Follow me, and together we will build better brains every single day by smashing neuroscience, and faith together. Click the link in my bio to learn more. 
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