How Whole Brain Living Can Increase Your Emotional Wellness with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

Words of Love with Dr Dwayne

What if, one day, you suddenly couldn’t do basic things or recall a single thing about your life?

At the age of 37, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor had a hemorrhage in the left side of her brain that left her without the ability to walk, speak, read, write, or remember anything about herself. It took her eight years to recover.
Now, she’s an author and advocate for teaching us that we can all recover from neurological and emotional trauma like she did. And she’s here today to discuss how you can increase your emotional wellness through Whole Brain Living and The BRAIN Huddle.
In this episode of the Words of Love podcast, you’ll learn about the four characters within the thinking and emotional sides of our brains and how they each exhibit a personality that creates a dynamic relationship within you as well as with other people. Dr. Taylor will also discuss how huddling these characters together helps you make decisions.
5:04 - What is Whole Brain Living? Dr. Taylor explains the four characters that drive our life

8:42 - How I approach the first two characters and how character #2 impacts the first

18:30 - Dr. Taylor explains her first and second characters (Helen and Abby) and how all four characters represent your choices

23:52 - The difference between the right and left hemispheres of the brain, the effect of trauma to the left side, and how free will plays into your choices

30:41 - The consequences of character #3, Dr. Taylor’s third character (Pig-Pen), and what character #4 is

38:43 - Being feeling creatures who think and how the left and right hemispheres affect humanity in relationship to one another

47:43 - Clarification on my character #3 and Buddha’s real gift

58:43 - Dr. Taylor explains what the BRAIN Huddle is and how it works

Mentioned in How Whole Brain Living Can Increase Your Emotional Wellness with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choices and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
The Art of No Hard Conversations Substack with Dr. Dwayne
The Big Talk Academy