Reprogram Your Brain
Take away:
Recognizing that our childhood experiences, both positive and negative, shape our biology in profound ways. Creating a safe, nurturing environment for kids is vital for their future well-being. And for adults, healing unresolved traumas from the past may be the key to unlocking better physical and mental health.
Money Learnings:
Dr. Don Wood had an "idyllic childhood" with very nurturing parents who never yelled, screamed, or hit him and his siblings. This provided a safe, calm home environment. His father was financially disciplined and taught them how to save money, despite not being wealthy himself. By age 19, Dr. Wood says he had $30,000 saved in the bank.
His parents passed down values like financial discipline, saving diligently, avoiding wastefulness, and maintaining sufficiency - likely shaped by their own experiences growing up in challenging times. Their nurturing parenting style coupled with modeling provident financial behaviors laid a foundation for Dr. Wood's positive relationship with money from a young age.
Bio:
Don Wood, PhD, author, speaker, Founder & CEO of the Inspired Performance Institute, and creator of the patented TIPP method focused on helping people resolve their trauma and get their lives to a place of high performance.
He has helped 1000’s of people live a better life and overcome the effects of stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and addiction with his neuroscience-backed program, TIPP.
TIPP program is designed to clear away the effects of disturbing or traumatic events, repurpose old thinking patterns and set the individual’s mind up for peak performance.
Dr. Wood is also author of two books, Emotional Concussions and You Must Be Out of your Mind and is releasing his newest book Don’t Mess With My DNA in near future.
Highlights from this episode:
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Unresolved childhood trauma can lead to inflammation, a compromised immune system, and various mental/physical health issues like autoimmune disorders, addictions, anxiety, and depression.
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Our early childhood environments and how we were parented shape how our DNA gets expressed - creating either resilient biology or increased disease susceptibility.
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Addictive behaviors are the mind's way of coping with emotional pain by creating neurological "codes" that provide temporary relief.
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Traumatic memories get stored in vivid high-definition, keeping the nervous system in a perpetual state of activation as if the threat is still present.
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A calm, safe, and nurturing home environment is crucial for children to develop properly regulated nervous systems and healthy mind-body connections.
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Emotions like fear and anger signal the subconscious trying to provoke a protective action, but get dysregulated when sourced from past traumatic memories.
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An innovative 4-hour program can "reset" high-definition traumatic memories, allowing the mind and body's natural healing capabilities to restore balance.
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