Today on the pod we welcome Dr. Daniel Amen, an expert on brain health and mental health disorders. Dr. Amen is a best-selling author, a physician, an adult and child psychiatrist, AND a brain disorder specialist, who is making it his mission to end mental illness by creating a  revolution in the way we view brain health. In this episode, Dr. Amen brings a *research-backed* approach to help you learn to be the parent you want to be and raise emotionally healthy kids who are equipped to THRIVE. Highlights include:

Easy, concrete things you can start doing TODAY to ensure your child grows up with the *strongest* possible mental health

Practical tools to help our kids go from defiance, meltdowns, and power struggles to being responsible, confident, kind, and emotionally resilient

How we can boost OUR brains as parents and optimize our own mental health (because spoiler alert: our kids’ mental health starts with *us*)

The one GAME CHANGING thing you can do daily to foster a healthy brain and better behavior for your kid

The tool you can use to help make literally EVERY decision about optimizing brain health for you and your kid

The 11 major risk factors every person should know about if you want to keep your brain healthy

Plus, the brain science behind women feeling more guilt than men (Yep! It’s biology!)

The transcript of this episode can be found here!

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