Why We Numb: How Comfort Becomes a Trap With Dr. Chip Dodd

Why do we turn to food, alcohol, shopping, or even busyness when life feels overwhelming? In this episode, Chip and Leanne dive into the real reason we numb—what we’re actually trying to escape or avoid—and how society conditions us to suppress rather than process emotions. They break down the neur…

Addiction Is More Than Substances: How Coping Becomes a Trap With Dr. Chip Dodd

Addiction isn’t just about substances—it’s about the ways we cope with pain, stress, and unmet needs. In this episode, Chip Dodd and Leanne unpack how behaviors like emotional eating, over-exercising, workaholism, and social media addiction follow the same addictive patterns as substances. They exp…

She Healed at 22 What Most Women Carry for Decades (Case Study)

Mylaina is 22 years old. And she just did what most women wish they'd done decades earlier. She was a psychology student getting certified in nutrition and wellness. She knew intellectually how to take care of her body, how to eat, how to work out. But mentally, she was destroying herself. Every …

The Patient-to-Surgeon Switch: How to Rewire Your Brain in Minutes, Not Years [With Neurosurgeon Dr. Lee Warren]

What if you didn't have to manage your anxiety, your trauma, your patterns for the rest of your life? What if you could actually repair the root problem—and move on? In this final episode of our series, Dr. Lee Warren and I talk about the solution. The shift from "holding pressure on the wound for…

The Observer Effect Problem: Why Focusing on Your Problems Makes Them Worse [With Neurosurgeon Dr. Lee Warren]

What if the very thing mental health culture tells you to do—focus on your trauma, honor your feelings, explore your pain—is actually reinforcing the patterns that are keeping you stuck? In this episode, Dr. Lee Warren and I tackle one of the most controversial (and most important) truths about ho…

Why Mental Health Is Getting Worse (Even Though We're Trying Harder): Brain Science Over Theory [With Neurosurgeon Dr. Lee Warren]

We have more mental health resources, more awareness, more support than ever before. So why are anxiety, depression, and suicide rates at all-time highs? In this first episode of our brand-new Spiritual Brain Surgery series, Dr. Lee Warren and I dive into the paradox that's plaguing our culture: m…

Why Your Teen Doesn’t Know Who They Are Anymore (And How to Help Them Build a Self-Image That Won’t Crumble)[Teenager Brain Series Part 5]

In this final episode of the Teenager Brain series, Leanne dives into the root of it all: the identity crisis. Teens today don't have a stable sense of self. They don't know who they are, what they value, or what they stand for. And their sense of self rises and falls with every like, every commen…

Why Your Teen’s Emotions Are All Over the Place (And What’s Really Happening in Their Brain) [Teenager Brain Series Part 4]

In this episode, Leanne dives into emotional dysregulation—why your teen melts down over the smallest things and can't bring themselves back down. When a teen experiences something that feels threatening, stressful, or overwhelming, their brain's alarm system (the amygdala) goes off and sends them…

Why Your Teen Can’t Focus Anymore (The Dopamine Addiction No One’s Talking About) [Teenager Brain Series Part 3]

In this episode, Leanne exposes the attention crisis that's affecting every single teenager right now—and reveals what social media platforms know about teen brains that most parents and educators don't. The average teen now spends between four and five hours a day on social media. And teens who s…

Your Teen Is Struggling…But the School Can't Help Them (And It's Not Their Fault) [Teenager Brain Series Part 2]

In this episode, Leanne dives into why schools have become mental health first responders—and why they're not equipped to handle it. 96% of schools report skyrocketing mental health needs, but only half have the staff to address them. Counselors are managing caseloads of 400-600 students. And teac…