Why All Women in Medicine Need Whole Brain Living!
Why All Women in Medicine Need Whole Brain Living!
By Tammie Chang, MD, Co-Founder of Pink Coat, MD
Nothing has changed my life in such a profound way as Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters that Drive Our Life. This is WHY we are bringing Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor to Pink Coat, MD and collaborating with organizations we trust and believe in this August to teach a live 4-part course to help all of us women in medicine find inner peace and freedom!!
Jill Bolte Taylor, PhD, former Harvard neuroscientist, New York Time’s Bestselling Author of My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey and TIME 100 Most Influential People, is one of the most important women and scientists of our generation. She is famous for having a full left-sided stroke in her mid-30s and living to tell the tale, giving one of the top 25 TED Talks of all time My Stroke of Insight. Her book Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters that Drive Our Life is the culmination of her lifetime of work delving deep into the anatomy and science of WHY we experience the emotions and feelings – and have the thoughts we have – as human beings.
Whole Brain Living explains the science and the WHY behind why coaching, therapy, trauma healing, mindfulness and spiritual growth WORKS.
“We are emotional beings who think,” as Dr. Taylor writes. Not the other way around. And once we understand this very fundamental aspect of how we exist, experience and function in the world as human beings, this changes everything.
We exist living, seeing and experiencing the world through our four internal characters: Character 1 – Our left sided thinking brain (critical thinking, achieving, execution), Character 2 – Our left sided emotional brain (fear, trauma, fight, flight), Character 3 – Our right sided emotional brain (love, joy, creativity), and Character 4 – Our right sided thinking brain (our higher, spiritual selves).
Once we can understand each of these four characters and parts of ourselves and begin to build awareness about which character we are inhabiting throughout each moment, THIS then becomes the key to our true freedom and inner peace.
As women in medicine, we get it. We understand science, we understand anatomy. We have also lived our entire lives in the left side of our brain – our Characters 1 and 2 – because this is what we have strengthened throughout our training and careers in medicine. Most of us probably started striving and achieving from a very young age. I know I certainly did. And letting go of this perpetual need to strive and achieve, to where I pushed myself repeatedly to extreme burnout and the brink of breakdown, has been the single greatest challenge of my own inner work and growth over the last several years since finishing my pediatric hematology/oncology training in 2014.
The neurocircuitry of our striving, achieving and fear-based parts of our brains is so strong that we struggle to let go and unhook from our old, familiar, well-worn patterns, no matter how much we may want to let go.
To be able to live from the right side of our brains – Characters 3 and 4 – can seem like a distant, foreign, unreachable land. This live course taught by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor herself, will show you the way.
As a coach, friend, mentor, and teacher, I rarely “tell” people they have to do something. But today, I’m going to urge you so strongly to take this course and read this book!!!
Join us for our Virtual Live Whole Brain Living Course: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Your Life for Women Physicians with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor August 14 – September 4! Registration and more information at the link here.
I know you will find some part of this course that resonates for you, and will help you live a more whole, full and free life. I want this for you — all of us at Pink Coat, MD want this for you!
With all my love,
Tammie
