The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast

It's Mind Change Monday! Your hippocampus is a seahorse-shaped area in the middle of your limbic system. It's involved in emotional regulation, learning new things, and determining whether something is a threat. Today, we're going to learn how to take the long path to peace, train our limbic systems to help us instead of hurt us, and feed those hungry, hungry hippocampi better stuff to help us become healthier, feel better, and be happier. Book mentioned: Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Resilience, Creativity, and Joy by Dawson Church Scripture: Philippians 4:6-8 Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here. Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here! Music by Tommy Walker (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 )

Your facial nerve allows you to close your eyes when you need to. And so does hope. Good morning my friend! Today’s dose of hope is a story from my new book, Hope Is the First Dose. Click on the button above to hear the audio version. Paid subscribers can also check your email for a video version of the episode. If you don’t like to listen, here’s a link to the PDF transcript you can read. (Note: these transcripts are computer generated and aren’t perfect. I noticed it transcribed Kearney, Nebraska as “Carney,” but it’s pretty close overall). In the transcript and the episode, you will learn that the facial nerve allows to make most of your facial expressions, and allows you to close your eyes and smile. Here’ why that’s so important after we face TMT in our lives. Here’s a few other doses of hope for you this week! * A great reflection on hope from our friend, the wonderful podcaster/blogger Katherine Singer. * A terrific post about the threads he saw in the arc of my three-book journey from the Iraq War to Hope from Dr. Jon Swanson. * An opportunity to sponsor or spread the word about our friend Kristin Smedley’s powerful children’s book, What I Can Be Is Up to Me. * Our friend Tommy Walker has released the epic, orchestral masterpiece he’s been working on for over two years! Spend 7 minutes with Tommy today worshiping with He Is the Lord! Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here. Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!

It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! Today, a look at why it's normal and okay to feel sad sometimes, but we don't have to be stuck there. Check out the great weekly newsletter at Renovarè! Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here. Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!

It's Frontal Lobe Friday! Today, we start new, and then go back in time to the very first Frontal Lobe Friday! We have brand new episodes coming back tomorrow, but here's a new twist on my favorite part of your brain, the frontal lobe! Flashback to the first episode in a new series about how to get the different parts of your brain working in the way they're designed to take control of your thinking, change your mind, and change your life! Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here. Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!

If you’re stuck, you need a plan. (Short sabbatical while updating the studio!) And the plan you need starts with hope. But my friend: what got you here won’t get you there. Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!

It's Wildcard Wednesday! Today, a quick look at three different levels of self-brain surgery to help you become healthier, feel better, and be happier no matter what happens. Scripture: I Thessalonians 5:16-19 Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!

Two Songs, Two Books, Two Movies, and Two Thoughts for Tuesday! Here's a bunch of uplifting and helpful things for you today. Scriptures: 2 Timothy 1:6-8, Acts 17:26-28, Matthew 5:44-46 Books Mentioned: Because of Bethlehem: Love Is Born, Hope Is Here by Max Lucado and Forgive: Why Should I and How Can I? by Timothy Keller Movies Mentioned: The Book of John in Song Kids by Tommy Walker Ministries, and Because of Bethlehem From Tommy Walker Ministries: The Book of John In Song KIDS project is our first full-length animated adventure. It takes our characters, Teddy and Wendy through different lands, teaching children and adults alike the different aspects of who Jesus is while pausing to sing and worship with songs written from scripture. From Max Lucado's Team: Check out the Because of Bethlehem movie in a theater near you December 5-7! Religious-based films are killing it at the box office and Max Lucado’s Because of Bethlehem Event (more here) is primed to be one of the biggest for the rest of the year, especially with the Christmas theme!Max, together with some pretty special guests like Matthew West, Matt Maher, CeCe Winans, Anne Wilson and Evan Craft are featured for three nights in the Because of Bethlehem film. It will air on December 5, 6 and 7 as a Fathom Event in movie theaters. As of today, more than 1500 screens have been confirmed nationwide. This movie, which is inspired by his bestselling book, Because of Bethlehem: Love is Born, Hope is Here shows how the Bethlehem story with all its fumbles, awkwardness, and longing, illustrates how God is with us in ways we could never imagine! Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! (Please talk to your health care provider before making any big changes in your diet, exercise, or supplement routine!) PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here! Music by Tommy Walker (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 email from a listener, a new book from Susie Larson, and more! Scriptures: 2 Timothy 1:6-8, Acts 17:26-28, Matthew 5:44-46 Books Mentioned: Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Resilience, Creativity, and Joy by Dawson Church, Waking Up to the Goodness of God: 40 Days Toward Healing and Wholeness by Susie Larson, Am I Just My Brain? by Sharon Dirckx, Switch On Your Brain by Caroline Leaf Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here! Music by Tommy Walker (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 )

When Your Heart is Broken, You Need Brain Surgery Today, a powerful talk about how to use the thought biopsy technique to do self-brain surgery and find the path forward to hope again. Scriptures Mentioned: Isaiah 26:3, Psalm 51:10, Psalm 19:14, Psalm 139:23, Proverbs 3:5, Proverbs 17:27, Philippians 4:6-8, Lamentations 3, John 10:10, John 16:33, Colossians 3:15, Psalm 71:14 Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here! Music by Casting Crowns and Riley Clemmons Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 )

It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! Today, we learn a little operation that will help us escape the inner "Me Show" we all hear in our heads, stop worrying about the suffering of the past or potential problems in the future, and to capture our thoughts so we can be fully present in the now. Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!

Granger Smith is a country music star, bestselling author, and bereaved father. We had an incredible Friday Conversation about the massive trauma of losing a child, and how those major losses can wreck our lives. His story is one of hitting rock bottom, learning to surrender, and finding his faith and the path forward to hope again. Granger's story is told beautifully in his new book, Like a River. Check out Granger's apparel company, YeeYee! Music by Granger Smith (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!

It’s Thanksgiving Day in the United States Lisa, Tata, and I pray that you’re safe and happy, and surrounded by people you love today. We pray you're well and surrounded by those you love, but also remember that some people are hurting when it’s holiday season. Here are some thoughts on weeping with those who weep, on gratitude, and some worship music for Thanksgiving! Music by Matt Redman, Shane & Shane, Brooke Ligertwood & Brandon Lake, Paul Baloche, and Tommy Walker Scripture: Colossians 3:17, Romans 12:15, Psalm 81:16, Isaiah 43:18-19 Great article from Jennifer Greenberg Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here! (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 )

Hope and Help for Families in These Stressful Times! Join me for a great talk with author Kayla Craig about how to build a life that helps ground your kids in their faith, cement them together as a family centered on Jesus, and build them into people who can withstand the pressures of today's hectic life. About Kayla's new book, Every Season Sacred, from Tyndale: What does it look like to live a flourishing, messy, wonderful life together? As parents, we’re tasked with nurturing and guiding our children, even as we navigate our own wonderings about faith. In the overwhelm and constant demands of life, is it possible to tend to our own souls and to our family’s flourishing? With tender curiosity and contemplative wisdom, Every Season Sacred is a weekly invitation to grow spiritually alongside our children. Blending thoughtful musings and practical resources, author Kayla Craig meets parents right where they are, offering honest and hopeful reflections for every season of the parenting journey; encouragement to parent with intention and imagination, presence and purpose; and open-ended discussion prompts and prayers to explore and practice as a family. Every Season Sacred is an invitation to ask big questions, embrace faithful rhythms, and experience God’s mysterious, loving presence together. You don’t have to have all the answers―and if we’re honest, many answers aren’t ours to have. This is the beauty of faith.As you parent your children and explore your questions together, may God reveal sacred moments to you―in each season of your life. Book Mentioned: Every Season Sacred: Reflections, Prayers, and Invitations to Nourish Your Soul and Nurture Your Family throughout the Year by Kayla Craig Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!

It's Tuesdays with Tata! Today, a look at Exodus 32, and a talk about how Moses changed his mind! Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!

How do we glorify God and help others when we're exhausted and our lives seem impossibly busy? Today we have a great conversation with writer and editor Drew Dyck about how just showing up is sometimes the most important thing we can do. This powerful talk will encourage you and change your mind about calling and purpose. Book: Just Show Up: How Small Acts of Faithfulness Change Everything (A Guide for Exhausted Christians) by Drew Dyck Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!

It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! Today's operation is The Gratitude Graft. (Originally released in 2022, re-released today in preparation for Thanksgiving, with transcript!) Learning how to be grateful in any situation is a neuroscience superpower that will increase resilience, hope, and happiness. Scriptures: 1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Psalm 118:24 ESV This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Colossians 3:17 ESV And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Psalm 136:1 ESV Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. Helpful Article: The Neuroscience of Gratitude and Effects on the Brain Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here! Music by CC Winans (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 )

It's Frontal Lobe Friday! A look at how bringing mindfulness into your breathing can get your frontal lobes under control, to help you retake the high mental ground when life throws hard things at you. This is a superpower to help you become healthier, feel better, and be happier! Book Mentioned: Every Season Sacred by Kayla Craig Scripture: Hebrews12:1, Isaiah 43:18-19, Isaiah 14:16 Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here! Music by Tommy Walker (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 )

It's Theology Thursday. Today, a look at happiness, joy, and contentment. Books Mentioned: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott and Happiness by Randy Alcorn Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!

No matter where you find yourself, or what you're going through, God will be there for you if you ask him to. A quiet time about God’s sovereignty, and how we can trust in it no matter what. Scriptures shared today: Psalm 281 To you, LORD, I call; you are my Rock, do not turn a deaf ear to me.For if you remain silent, I will be like those who go down to the pit.Psalm 139:7-87 Can I go anywhere apart from Your Spirit? Is there anywhere I can go to escape Your watchful presence?8 If I go up into heaven, You are there. If I make my bed in the realm of the dead, You are there. Psalm 143:77 Hurry and answer me, O Eternal One, for my spirit is weak, my courage is gone.Do not turn away; let me see Your face; otherwise, I’ll die and be like all those who have gone to the grave. Music by Cody Carnes and Chris Tomlin (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!

Learning the Discipline of Waiting is a Powerful Self-Brain Surgery Tool If you can't say no to something you want today so that you can have something you need tomorrow, you can never be free. Here's some thoughts on delayed gratification, as one of the super powers in our quest for infinite happiness. Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here! Music by Lyle Lovett and Tommy Walker (Adapted from Infinitely Happier, Part 11, with new transcript)