Adult ADHD in Women: Is It ADHD, or Is Life Just Too Much? (Part 1)
Adult ADHD in women is being diagnosed faster than ever. But is it ADHD, or have you been stretched past your limit for years? 👉 Get the AD...
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CLEANING UP THE MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf
Hi! I’m Dr. Caroline Leaf. I’m a cognitive neuroscientist, author, & mental health and mind expert. Whether you are struggling in your personal life or simply want to learn how to understand...
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Revenge Bedtime Procrastination: Why You Stay Up When You're Exhausted
Revenge bedtime procrastination is why you're still scrolling at midnight, eyes burning, and telling yourself "just ten more minutes." Here'...
A Neuroscientist on Tradwives: Real Desire or Burnout?
Why does tradwife content pull you in, even if you'd never live that way? My daughter Dominique and I unpack the tradwife trend, the burnout...
Sunday Scaries? How to Stop Overthinking the Week Ahead
Sunday scaries creeping in? This bonus episode is for the night before the week starts, when your mind keeps replaying last week and rehears...
How to Stop Caring What People Think: 7 Steps From a Neuroscientist
People pleasing and peacekeeping can look identical from the outside. One comes from fear. The other comes from strength. Which one are you...
Is AI Making You Forget How to Think? A Neuroscientist Explains
AI and your brain: what happens to your memory, focus, and judgment when a machine does the hard thinking for you? We first aired this last...
When Life Feels Like Too Much: A Neuroscientist's 63-Second Reset
When life feels like too much, you need something you can do right now. Here's what I do in the first 63 seconds, before the stress takes ov...
A Neuroscientist's Near Death Experience: What I Saw When I Died
A neuroscientist's near death experience: six years ago, after a long surgery, my heart stopped for three to five minutes. Here's what I saw...
How to Stop Fearing Other People's Disappointment
Do you say yes when you mean no? My daughter Dominique and I open up about the fear of disappointing people, and why it runs so many of our...
How to Hit Any Goal When You Have Zero Motivation
Up to 92% of long-term goals never stick, and it has nothing to do with willpower. A neuroscientist breaks down the real, brain-based reason...
I Had an Eating Disorder. So Did My Daughter. Here's How We Found Healing.
Cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Caroline Leaf and her daughter Dominique Leaf sit down to talk about something neither has discussed this openl...
Is Your Apple Watch Making You Anxious? A Neuroscientist (and Her Daughter) Explain
Is your Apple Watch making you anxious? Cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Caroline Leaf is joined by special guest Dominique Leaf, her daughter a...
The Girlboss Trap: Why Ambition Became Burnout
Girlbossing is making us mean, exhausted, and unhappy. A neuroscientist and her daughter on what hustle-culture ambition did to us, and what...
When Botox Becomes Body Dysmorphia: The 30% Rule
Dr. Caroline Leaf and her daughter Dominique go past the beauty debate into what happens in your mind when you consider a cosmetic procedure...
Dr. Nicole LePera: Why Your Nervous System Picks Familiar Pain Over Safety
In this episode I sit down with Dr. Nicole LePera, The Holistic Psychologist, to talk about her new book Reparenting the Inner Child: The Ne...
2 Simple Rules for Being Happy: Always Have a Quest and a Crush
A clinical neuroscientist breaks down the two things that actually make you happy, a quest and a crush, and the brain science behind why a l...
Is Gossip Bad for You? The Science of Good vs Toxic Gossip (ft. a special guest!)
Why do we gossip, and is it actually bad for you? Cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Caroline Leaf unpacks the science of gossip with special gues...
5 Mindless Habits that Secretly Exhaust You
Do you feel exhausted even after a full night’s sleep or a seemingly restful weekend? You might be unknowingly caught in mindless habits tha...
Am I a Narcissist? 4 Signs + Why Confidence Advice Is Backward
Self-focus is one of your most powerful tools for change, but there's a point where it quietly turns into a wall. Dr. Caroline Leaf breaks d...
How to Become More Confident + 5 Thought Patterns Keeping You Stuck Under Pressure
Self-worth is what makes confidence last, and most of us were never taught the difference. In this episode, Dr. Caroline Leaf breaks down se...