Posts made in December, 2021

Whole brain living – Jill Bolte Taylor

Posted by Beth on Dec 13, 2021

Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroscientist who suffered a massive stroke that took out almost the entirety of the functioning of her left brain. She wrote an amazing account of this time and what she learned about brain function in her first book, My Stroke of Insight, which I highly recommend. Her second book, Whole Brain Living details the ways different parts of our brains function and how knowing this can greatly empower us to manage and eventually begin to pick and choose which centres we want to operate from primarily. I’ve started giving out this sheet: The four Characters outlining the four parts of our brain and what they do, to all of my clients, as I feel it...