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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