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I’ve Discovered Four Different Ways People Respond to the Hard Things Life Brings The question is, are you going to wait to discover how you respond to your massive thing, or are you going to try to build your life so as to predict a healthier response when it happens to you? This episode breaks down the four types of responses I’ve noticed after “The Massive Thing” or TMT happens. It doesn’t have to be chance for you, friend. But you can’t change your life until you change your mind.  Scripture: Romans 12:2, Psalm 71:14 PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!

When life seems out of control, how do we find solid ground again? Traci Rhoades is an author, speaker, and social media spiritual influencer from Michigan. She joins me today for an inspiring Hope Talk to discuss what to do when we find our lives on shaky ground.  Traci has a great Substack letter, which I highly recommend, and I love her website and Twitter account. She has much to teach us about the church, spiritual disciplines (her writing reminds me of Richard Foster), and how to hold on during hard times.  Her books are Not All Who Wander (Spiritually) Are Lost: A Story of Church, and Shaky Ground: What to Do After the Bottom Drops Out.  This was a great talk, and I’m excited to introduce you to a new friend today.  She was so kind to read my new book and is one of my inside-the-jacket endorsers. Here’s what Traci had to say about Hope is the First Dose.  “Lee Warren opens himself up entirely to being seen, and he ministers to readers in the process.” —Traci Rhoades, author of Not All Who Wander (Spiri

We gain strength by understanding our weaknesses.  Here’s a plan to bring our weaknesses to God and let him use his strength to make us stronger. If you’re tired of fighting, struggling, and wondering why everything “always feels so hard,” here’s the path forward.  (Adapted from Season 4, Episode 74 from April 8, 2022) Scripture: II Corinthians 12:9 You can click on the cover below to pre-order my new book, Hope is the First Dose.  Music by Tommy Walker (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!

Computers require frequent software updates to function properly (Repost for relevance. Back with brand-new episodes on Friday and Saturday!) A few thoughts on how your brain works, and how to make sure it’s got the best software available! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!

When the pressure is on, how do we make good decisions? Hasard Lee is a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot with combat experience in Afghanistan. He now runs a successful YouTube channel and continues to fly the F-35 fighter and teach student pilots in the Air National Guard. His new book is The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions, available now everywhere. Join me for an amazing and inspiring conversation with this brilliant pilot, teacher, and writer. His book was incredibly helpful to me, and reminds me of the best from writers like Malcolm Gladwell and Chris Voss. You can order Hasard’s book anywhere books are sold, or by clicking on the cover below! You can click on the cover below to pre-order my new book, Hope is the First Dose. Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with o

It’s Mind Change Monday! (Adapted from the very first Mind Change Monday episode! I’m resting my voice again today in preparation for recording the Hope is the First Dose audiobook recording next week. Keep praying!) Today, we talk about what happens once you know that you can change your mind. It’s about the difference between self-care and self-malpractice. Scripture: James 4:17, Psalm 34:8 My new book is called Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things. It is coming out on July 25, but you can pre-order it now anywhere books are sold. Music by Tommy Walker (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visi

When the Unimaginable Happens, What Next? Clarissa Moll was a wife and mother of four young children when The Massive Thing (TMT) showed up. Her husband Rob, an author and avid hiker, fell to his death during a morning hike with a friend. Clarissa was faced not only with TMT of losing her husband, but also thrust into many new roles WHILE she was facing grief and what she calls “the darkness” that it brought into her world. Clarissa was on the podcast once before (Season 6, Episode 48). You can hear that conversation by clicking the button below. Clarissa’s book is Beyond the Darkness: A Gentle Guide for Walking with Grief and Thriving After Loss. I consider it a must-read, and I HIGHLY recommend you listen to her narration in the audiobook. She also has a wonderful Instagram account, in which she leads people into understanding the path forward after major life events. She was so kind to read my new book and is one of my inside-the-jacket endorsers. Here’s what Clarissa had to say about Hope is the First D

Life is a Series of Hobson's Choices (Adapted from Season 4, Episode 89) Hobson's choice A Hobson's choice is a free choice in which only one thing is offered. Because a person may refuse to accept what is offered, the two options are taking it or taking nothing. In other words, one may "take it or leave it".Wikipedia There are some things you need to settle if you’re going to be happy. What are those for you? Write them down. Start praying for peace around them. Start clarifying the true things in your life, and disavow yourself from the notion that you need to have a pain-free life in order to be happy. The degree to which you couple emotion and circumstance in your life is inversely proportional to your ability to be happy. And what kills us, is the unwillingness to accept the quantum duality that life is hard and we can be happy anyway. We focus on the but and the and and the woe and the oh no and we forget the tho and yet. Scriptures Mentioned John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you m

Happiness is not achieved through perfect circumstances. Happiness, counterintuitively, is achieved in spite of difficult circumstances. Here’s how it works. (Adapted from Season 4, Episode 88) My new book is called Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things. It is coming out on July 25, but you can pre-order it now anywhere books are sold. Music by Brenton Brown (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe

A Lesson About “Promised Land Problems”  (Adapted from Season 4, Episode 83) What if I told you that you could take a two-week trip and make it last forty years? What if I told you that you could spend your whole life chasing something in your future, or running from in your past and miss everything good you could have right now? And what if I told you that you could live in a version of what you really want because you think you have arrived, but you really wind up never getting the great life you were designed for, just because you never learned to wait for it? These are all tragic examples of something I call Promised Land Problems, and today we're going to learn how to avoid them. If we don't solve the Promised Land problems in our lives, we end up wasting our days, wandering in a desert version of what we were meant for, and die in the wasteland of an unfulfilled, unsuccessful, unrewarding life. I want to enjoy my life now, I want to make the best decisions I can make so I wind up where God intends me to

It’s Tuesdays with Tata! (Note: I’m resting my voice for a couple more days, and Tata and I both had the flu and did not record a new episode this week. Here’s one of our favorites from last year, Season 6, Episode 66. Pray for my voice to come back before I have to record the audiobook in two weeks!) I asked Tata to shed some light on what it means to be “saved to the uttermost” from Hebrews 7:25! Scripture: Hebrews 7:25, John 6:37 Music by Tommy Walker (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) My new book is called Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things. It is coming out on July 25, but you can pre-order it now anywhere books are sold. Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribe

When Life Brings Us Pain, We Have Two Choices (Note: I STILL can’t talk long enough to record a new episode. I’m going to rest my voice for THREE MORE DAYS, and then I have some AMAZING guests coming up later this week. So please pray that my voice gets stronger and that we can get back on track later this week. ) When life brings us hard things- massive things- we can either sit down with our hurt and let it define the rest of our life, or we can press into it and let God lead us through.  Today we look at Exodus 20-34 and see that the path to finding the light again always starts in the darkness. Will you go there with me? My new book is called Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things. It is coming out on July 25, but you can pre-order it now anywhere books are sold. Music by Tommy Walker (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is

We've Reached the End of Infinity, at Least for a While Today, a story about stumbling stones, brain cancer, finding God in unexpected places, and how God is always working to help all of us, even when we can't see it. Plus, Tommy Walker music, AND I'm going to pray for you WHILE teaching you more self-brain surgery techniques. Whew. A lot going on in this episode! (Adapted from Infinitely Happier, Part 15) Scripture: Ephesians 3:14-21 When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will b

The Science of Freedom is On Your Side Freedom starts with a choice- a declaration. In this episode, we talk about the science of freedom, and how vital it is to be willing to fight for it in all areas of our lives. (Adapted from Infinitely Happier, Part 14) Music by The Psalm Library (featuring Tommy Walker) (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) My new book is called Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things. It is coming out on July 25, but you can pre-order it now anywhere books are sold. Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe

All of Us Have a Story We Tell Ourselves And it's often a lie. (Adapted from Infinitely Happier, Part 13)  Today, we're taking a look at the art form known as Story, and we're going to finally learn how to find the courage to enter the scary places from which those stories come. We'll get into the cave of our minds, find the source of the lies we tell ourselves, and finally overcome them to find the treasure we seek- a life free of limits and labels.  My new book is called Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things. It is coming out on July 25, but you can pre-order it now anywhere books are sold. Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe

Life Is Hard, But God Wants Us to Be Happy Anyway. (Adapted from Infinitely Happier, Part 12) Here's some thoughts on why it matters so much that we learn to separate our mood/emotional state from our circumstances. Plus, a story about cows! Music by Cody Carnes (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) My new book is called Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things. It is coming out on July 25, but you can pre-order it now anywhere books are sold. Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe

Learning the Discipline of Waiting is a Powerful Self-Brain Surgery Tool If you can't say no to something you want today so that you can have something you need tomorrow, you can never be free. Here's some thoughts on delayed gratification, as one of the super powers in our quest for infinite happiness.  (Adapted from Infinitely Happier, Part 11) Music by Lyle Lovett and Tommy Walker (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) My new book is called Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things. It is coming out on July 25, but you can pre-order it now anywhere books are sold. Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subsc

Every Interaction Leaves a Mark Every interaction with another person is a choice: do we use our words for our gain, or for theirs? Do we have transactional or transformational relationships? Here's a few thoughts on how to make sure we have a "first no harm" approach to others, and how words can heal or hurt. (Adapted from Infinitely Happier, Part 10) My new book is called Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things. It is coming out on July 25, but you can pre-order it now anywhere books are sold. Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe

God wants your life to soar, but often it feels like we're crashing instead. (Adapted from Infinitely Happier, Part 9) Today, I want to talk about flying. I grew up around airplanes, because both of my parents were private pilots. And we lived down the road from a WWII pilot, Glen Walters. I used to go down to his house, and his wife Betsy would make ginger bread and I’d fish in their pond and, once in a while, Brother Walters would take me into his shop and let me play around with an airplane he was building. Come to think of it, he was “building” that plane the whole time I was growing up, and I don’t think he ever finished it. But I’d fly missions and save the day over and over like Pappy Boyington. And then I was in the air force. So I’ve always loved airplanes. And I love flying so much that I get more excited to meet fighter pilots than sports figures. I trained in Pittsburgh and worked for Joe Maroon, who was the team doctor for the Steelers and the Pirates, so there were always pro athletes around. Bu

Overthinking Can Drive Us Crazy and Wreck Our Peace of Mind (Adapted from Infinitely Happier, Part 7) Worrying isn’t the only thought issue we face. Whether it’s worry, regret, sadness, decision making, whatever, sometimes we simply overthink things. In this episode we'll learn how to stop overthinking everything, which will help us in our quest to become Infinitely Happier. Music by Tommy Walker (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) My new book is called Hope is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things. It is coming out on July 25, but you can pre-order it now anywhere books are sold. Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.subst