What if learning about your brain led you to realize how much agency you have over your life?
What if we could supercharge everything we teach students through SEL methodologies in a way that incorporates the whole of their brains?
Taking a deep dive inside the brain can be an amazing catalyst for discovering how you can show up as your best self, and empowered educators as a whole. So, if you want to live a better life as a teacher- this episode is for you!
Welcome to episode 14 of the Take Notes with Jen Rafferty podcast! In this episode, I’m speaking with one of my heroes, Harvard trained and published neuroscientist: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor.
In 1996, she experienced a severe hemorrhage and the left hemisphere of her brain causing her to lose the ability to walk, talk, read, write or recall any of her life. She documented her experience in her memoir “My Stroke of Insight,” which spent 63 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list.
Dr. Jill is a dynamic teacher and public speaker who loves educating all age groups and academic levels, as well as corporations and not-for-profit organizations about the beauty of our human brain and focuses on how we can purposely choose to live a more flexible, resilient, and satisfying life.
In our conversation, we take a deep dive into her new book “Whole Brain Living” and the idea that you can achieve a symbiotic relationship with all the “characters” in your brain to live a more full and satisfying life.
Today, we address how to leave overwhelm and teacher burnout behind on a cellular level that is both tangible and enlightening!
This information is truly life-changing and leads to true teacher well-being!
Stay empowered,
Jen
About Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor:
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroscientist. In 1996 she experienced a severe hemorrhage (AVM) 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, documenting her experience with stroke and eight-year recovery, spent 63 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list and is still routinely the #1 book in the category Stroke in the Amazon marketplace.
Dr. Jill is a dynamic teacher and public speaker who loves educating all age groups, academic levels, as well as corporations and not-for-profit organizations about the beauty of our human brain. She focuses on how we can activate the power of our neuroplasticity to not only recover from neurological trauma, but how we can purposely choose to live a more flexible, resilient, and satisfying life.
In 2008 Dr. Jill gave the first TED talk that ever went viral on the Internet, which now has well over 27.5 million views. Also in 2008, Dr. Jill was chosen as one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” and was the premiere guest on Oprah Winfrey’s “Soul Series” webcast. Her new book, Whole Brain Living – the Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life is a #1 release on Amazon in categories ranging from Neuroscience to Nervous System Diseases and Stroke.