Being there for your kids - Have You Changed Your Mind?

Episode Date: June 28, 2024

We change our minds all the time. Most is, whatever. But, when you start therapy, it's about changing your mind permanently. With mentalligent psychotherapy, your efforts to trade in downward spiraling for upward spiraling is about developing new neural pathways, using your brain's neuroplastic characteristic, to effect positive outcomes that last forever. In my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life, you will find the means to make those changes to your habits, personality, and relationships that will serve you well for the rest of your lifetime. Check it out and consider changing your mind.

Hi, I'm Dr. John Robinson, and this is Teachable Moments. Let me ask you, have you changed your mind? How many times have you changed your mind today? This past hour, this past minute. We are constantly changing our minds. I just woke up. Do I want to get up now or try to get back to sleep for a while? I'm in my closet.

I think I'll wear the red shirt. No, wait, maybe the green one. I'm going to work in my car. Do I want to listen to music or news? constantly changing our minds. For daily decisions, not a big deal. For life-changing decisions, very much a big deal. Beginning and continuing therapy until your goals are met is a very big deal,

and your change involves creating new neuro pathways and developing a new normal. In the healing journey, overcoming adversity on the path of the good life, I introduce you to a new path of healing, intelligent psychotherapy, which we call MPT. This is the practice behind Dr. Kristen Lee's new psychology of thinking, which she calls mental intelligence. I like mental intelligence to a computer system where the hardware are the physical attributes of your brain, that is what you've got. The software is the accumulation of all your life experiences, that is, how you use what

you've got. Back in the day, developmental neurobiologists concluded that our brain stopped growing after about 25 years. After that, you have all the neurons and connections that you're going to have for the rest of your life. However, in the last 20 years of research, we've identified the brain's neuroplasticity, that is, our ability to change our brains and grow for our lifetime. Our brains are neuroplastic in that regard. While we are now more inclined to seek psychotherapy for various reasons than ever before, people tend to do so because they want to change themselves in some way. They've tried various avenues for change, but to no avail. Your therapist is your guide on your

healing journey. MPT is a healing strategy that utilizes mindfulness, positive psychology, and cognitive behavioral treatments intertwined to affect lasting change in your brain's neurochemistry. By staying in the present, finding the positive outcome in your stressors and maintaining rationalization, MPT offers upward spiraling in your life's healing journey. As you move from conscious awareness to unconscious awareness in your stages of therapy, your brain lets go of unhealthy neuropathways and creates new healthy neuropathways, that is, neuroplasticity, to sustain the good life over time. With intelligence psychotherapy, you will change your mind, day by day, with a positive outcome.

I'm Dr. Jonathan C. Robinson, licensed clinical psychologist and Christian author of teachable moments building blocks of Christian parenting and my new book, The Healing Journey, Overcoming Adversity on the Path of the Good Life. And this has been Teachable Moments. Teachable Moments, Building Blocks of Christian Parenting, is available online at Amazonbooks.com and in local and national bookstores. More on Dr. Robinson at TMC-P-I-N-C.com.