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Whole Brain Living with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

August 6, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist.  In 1996, Jill experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain, causing her to lose the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life.  Her memoir, My Stroke of Insight documents her experience with her stroke and her 8-year recovery and it spent 63 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.  Her new book is Whole Brain Living:  The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters that Drive Our Life.

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In This Interview, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and I Discuss Whole Brain Living and …

  • Her book, Whole Brain Living:  The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life
  • The wolf parable as it relates to the right and left hemispheres of the brain
  • The differences between the right and left brain and how they work together
  • Losing her left brain function as a result of a stroke and being left with just the present moment
  • The division between the science of the left brain and the spirituality of the right brain
  • The function of the amygdala in the left and right hemispheres
  • Four different “characters” of the brain
  • How we can change the habitual patterning of our circuitry 
  • Mindfulness is choosing purposefully to train our automatic responses
  • A “brain huddle” is bringing the four characters together as a team
  • B.R.A.I.N. huddle:   breath, recognize, appreciate, inquire, navigate
  • Our lives are a collaboration of our whole brain

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor Links:

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

Neuropsychology and the Thinking Mind with Dr. Chris Niebauer

Lessons About the Brain with Lisa Feldman Barrett

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