My Everyday Wellness Routine as a Neuropsychologist
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- In this episode of I CARE FOR YOUR BRAIN with Dr. Sullivan, board certified neuropsychologist Dr. Karen D. Sullivan discusses her own everyday wellness from sleeping and eating habits to fitness and family time with transparency, and with the reminder that there is always room for change and mindfulness. Learn more at www.icfyb.com
Dr. Sullivan, I keep my brain happy and energized by engaging it in solving scrambled words puzzles and general knowledge quizzes. Above all, I enjoy writing poetry and poetic prose while I sit out in my patio, and do my best to get enough sleep. I'm 71, and have been dealing with autoimmune conditions since 1991.
I "overcame" a hemorrhagic stroke that was almost the end of me but in the end I prevailed with a few issues still intact, that is a damaged basal ganglia and thalamus. Have you ever done a vlog on any nutritional foods and supplements one should take or consider to "smooth out" any deficits that linger? Thanks!! 😀
Due to a migrainous TIA and then developing bilateral tinnitus, I limit my caffeine intake; however as a nurse, I find it challenging to create wellness for myself after giving of myself after multiple shifts in a consistently highly stressful environment. I have several areas for improvement. I am mindful of my daily nutrition but I really need to work on my sleep hygiene.
So nice to see you! You look great!
I try to go for a very long walk every day. It connects me to nature and it's like a good time out for me. Thanks for your videos> I really appreciate that you share your knowledge. A trip to Iceland sounds very exciting.
Hello Jennifer
How are you doing today?
Thank you for your honesty 🙏
Great to hear you’re learning about diet and exercise! It’s essential to have a good quality, long life. I follow the low carb diet with intermittent fasting and walk 2.4 miles/day. My Apple Watch helps me track my heart rate, sleep and exercise parameters.
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Enjoyed your health revelations. I’m very surprised that you recommend a meditarean diet for brain wellness when you are a vegetarian. Thank you very much for your honesty. Written by a essential tremor sufferer. Joe
You are an amazing women. Thank you for sharing!
Great info
Thank you !
Exactly my ideal sleep and wake time -- thanks so much for explaining this.
Thank you! Great comments here too.
I learned from Doc Michael Merzenich, plasticity pioneer, self/work/"me & my" focus has limited use in expanding neuropathways & reversing the brain declines that start in our 30s.
Our culture is consumer/predatory, "me me me." Perfect way to dumb down the brain. "MY organics, MY workout," etc, is considered a top virtue, when the planet around us that provides all this, is dying & drying up, a vast extinction of other species ongoing, because our brains are cross-eyed from self obsession, oblivious of all we owe to Earth. And the heart intelligence is disjoined from the brain.
So i have changed focus from "my" health, "my" cat & "my" kids to include the wildlife, soil health, water table, climate, trees, pollinators, etc.
Instead of "my" absurd self congratulatory workout, i get out & chop lawn out to replace with tree, native shrub & wildflower groves, extra large ventilated bird boxes (the small are too hot in climate change), terra cotta plant saucers full of fresh water for thirsty birds & butterflies, fall leaves spread around trees to hold moisture & grow fungi & firefly larvae & food for songbirds...& better soil.
What a change! The land has come to life! So has my brain!
Amazingly this one change in focus to a way bigger, eternal, Earth-vast picture, has fast improved spiritual, mental, heart & body health, & my family joins together on this happy purpose beyond "Ourselves." No squabbles now. It's like Christmas all year round-- new flowers, birds, colors, delicious air, spring peepers & whippoorwills & fall cicadas sing at night, & for the sake of wildlife & all photosensitive plants & trees, we have NO fake lighting outside at night, so tons of fireflies can find each other & we can see lots of stars. Awesome. We no longer live indoors like a deadening echoey space capsule.
If people could break themselves & the kids out of their private me-first hard space helmets, & be PART of life while they get a rare chance to help ALL beings, depression would drop, joy increase, intelligence expand & physical health would naturally grow again.
Plus we could leave a better, livable biosphere to our kids & their kids, vs a trainwreck.
That's our Rx. It's free.
Thank you for your honesty on sharing. I am Surprised not to hear more on the spiritual side, which is my resting place. I don’t want to offend but sounds like the world of me, myself and I. Forgive me, I am 75.
Hmmmm. For me, my work is my spiritual service.
Cool video thanks.
How about expanding on mindfulness starting with defining it and how to pursue it
So you eat just 2 meals a day? Are you "intermittent fasting"? Or are you snacking throughout the day?
Can you pls tell which protein powder u use for ur smoothies I searched so many & some have artificial sweeteners which cause me migraine.
My every day wellness is a 3 finger whiskey.😂
I gave up listening in the first 5 minutes.
Fyi... you can fast forward.
I had brain surgery in september ieat meat it keep mè fuĺl. But i feel lonley and sad most of the days. I i started working out in my hallway. Wow it's great to koow th i am not thr only one struggĺigh ẁith mental issues. Don't forget klove network