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2007
10.27.07 The Brain Change Business
11.04.07 The Big Brain Question
11.11.07 Are You Here With Me?
11.18.07 The Neuroscience of Irrational Commitment
11.25.07 Building Better Brains for the Long Haul
12.02.07 The Neuropsychology of Joy
12.09.07 On Not Fearing Fear Itself
12.16.07 Dancing with the Dark Side of the Season
12.23.07 Making the Friend of Your Friend, My Friend
12.30.07 Soothing my Death Valley Brain
2008
01.07.08 Growing the Altruistic Heart-Brain-Mind-Body
01.14.08 The Mind-Numbing Cost of Suffering
01.21.08 Opening the Gifts of Love and Death
02.03.08 The Anatomy of an Upset
02.09.08 On Skillfully Speaking Truth to Power
02.17.08 The Neurobiology of Yes and No
02.23.08 This Just In – Science Proves Nothing
03.06.08 The Neurobiology of Parental Forgiveness
03.05.08 The Neurobiology of Parental Forgiveness – Part 2
03.13.08 Effective Neurosomatic Healing Modalities
03.20.08 The Neuroanatomy of Ecstasy
03.27.08 The Ritual Tribal Abandonment of Mothers
04.05.08 Going Gently into that Good Night
04.12.08 The Wisdom in the Palm of Our Hands
04.19.08 Hellfire and Neurodamnation
05.04.08 Edith’s Brain is Different than Archie’s
05.11.08 Transforming the Impaired Ability to Love
05.18.08 The Siren Call of Epigenetics
05.25.08 Getting my Back up Over Polyvagal Theory
06.15.08 Getting By on Half a Brain
06.22.08 On Becoming Mentally Tough
06.29.08 The Brains We Were Born With
07.05.08 The Happiness Formula
07.12.08 Honoring Our Own Authority
07.27.08 The Neurobiology of Play
08.10.08 The Neurophysiology of Make-Wrong
08.17.08 On Neuro-Gastro Integration
08.24.08 Orchestrating a Seven Brain Symphony
08.31.08 WWIBD? What Would an Integrated Brain Do?
09.07.08 The Making of a Social Retard
09.14.08 The Power of Pillowtalk
09.21.08 They Laughed When I Set About to Integrate
09.28.08 Brain Integration Redux
10.05.08 Would You Sell Your Death?
10.12.08 Six Essential Experiences We Missed as Kids
10.19.08 Developing Strength of Heart
11.02.08 Raising Fearless Kids
11.09.08 Easing a Mind that Binds
11.16.08 How a Good Chief Executive Brain Goes Bad
11.30.08 Appreciating Exceptional Brains
12.07.08 Honoring Heroic Hearts and Brains
12.14.08 The Workplace as Moral Testing Ground
12.28.08 Treading the Neural Road Less Traveled By
01.04.09 Death of a Dear Heart
01.18.09 How Our Children Lose Their Smiles
02.08.09 Detoxing Toxic Parent Brain
02.15.09 On Parenting a Murderer
02.22.09 Easing the Burden on our Children’s Children
03.08.09 Repairing Ruptured Relationships
03.15.09 Painting an Artist’s Brain
03.22.09 Apoplectic Over Apoptosis
03.29.09 Why Spanking Children is a Bad Idea
04.05.09 The Betrayal of Human Potential
04.19.09 How to Rewire Your Brain’s Wisdom Circuits
04.26.09 The Karmic Benefits of Social Neuroscience
05.03.09 Channeling Hot Emotions
05.10.09 Dancing to the Beat of Your Own Brain’s Music
05.17.09 Where in the World is Matt’s Brain?
05.31.09 Is it Best for the Children?
06.07.09 The Stink of Commerce
06.14.09 Why Men are Such Lousy Listeners
06.21.09 The Two Perilous Questions
06.27.09 Growing Our Gandhi Neurons
07.12.09 Learning to Love Learning
07.19.09 Repairing Good Brains Gone Bad
07.26.09 Liar, Liar, Brain on Fire
08.02.09 Food-Rehabbing My Big Fat Brain
08.09.09 Grokking the Gray Side of Social Neuroscience
08.16.09 Our Greatest Human Failing
08.23.09 The Cost of the Cut: Reflections on Circumcision
08.30.09 The Stress of the Unthought Known
09.06.09 The Four Horsemen of Neuro-Annihilation
09.13.09 Growing the Eyes of the Heart
09.20.09 Making the Most of Dropportunities
09.27.09 The Secret Power of a Mother’s Kiss
10.04.09 Lies, Damn Lies and Raising Hearty Children
10.11.09 The End of Kids as We Know Them
10.18.09 How to Beautify Your Disorganized Brain
10.25.09 The High Cost of Kvetching
11.01.09 Invoking the Gravitas of Affirmation
11.08.09 The Perils of Taking Life Sitting Down
11.15.09 The Myth of the Rugged Individualist
11.22.09 Making the Most of the Good
11.29.09 Taking the Brain to Heart
12.06.09 The Pornographic Brain
12.13.09 Sweetening the She-Spot
12.20.09 The Life-Threatening Aspects of Love and Unlearning
12.27.09 Why The Unexamined Neuro-Life is Not Worth Living
2010
01.03.10 What is the Sound of One Brain Crackling?
01.10.10 How America’s Bankers are Rotting Our Children’s Brains
01.17.10 Betrayed by Your Thieving Orchid Brain
01.24.10 Riffing on “The Science of Success.”
01.31.10 Why Our Children Can’t Be Trusted
02.07.10 ZZZZ’s Are Not for Wusses
02.14.10 Brewing the Alchemy of Synergy
02.21.10 The Myth of the Emotionally Unavailable Male
02.28.10 The Golden Rule of Social Neuroscience
03.07.10 How I Struggled to Stop Being a Whack Job
03.14.10 Playing Fast and Loose in Area 10
03.21.10 It’s Harmless to Spank Your Kids…If They’re Black
03.28.10 On Becoming a Pedotrophist
04.04.10 Playing Poorly with Others
04.11.10 Why Love Alone Can’t Do All the Heavy Lifting
04.18.10 The Pain of Living a Short Distance from My Body
04.25.10 Getting Off the Hedonic Treadmill
05.02.10 Dodging Psychology’s Dark Triad
05.09.10 The Trouble with Needing People …
05.16.10 Wiring the Brain for Wisdom
05.23.10 The Unrecognized Power of a Mother’s Voice
05.30.10 My Name is Mark and I’m an Apocaholic
06.06.10 Little Johnny: Unrepentant Sociopath or Moral Giant
06.13.10 How to Grow a Brain to Make your Mother Proud
06.20.10 Treasuring Our Chaotic Money Brain
06.27.10 Protecting Kids from the World’s Choice Architects
07.04.10 Should Therapists Pay Their Clients?
07.11.10 Wild Talents: Why it’s Essential to Follow Their Lead
07.18.10 Raising Kids to Be Clever or Kind
07.25.10 Reducing the Risk of Raising Fast-Twitch Airheads
08.01.10 The Sublime Benefits of Unimpaired Oxygenation
08.08.10 Renaissance Brain: How Nature x Nurture Inspires Genius
08.15.10 Raising Kids to Be Nonconforming Nazis
08.22.10 When Did You Stop Beating Your Kids?
08.29.10 Why Our Kids See Spirits or Souls
09.05.10 NewsFlash! Parenting Tops Maslow’s New Pyramid
09.12.10 I’m Rubber, You’re Glue: Spontaneous Trait Transference
09.19.10 Momma, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be … Engineers
09.26.10 Touching the Heart of the Barbeque Question
10.03.10 Raising Kids Wild to Globalize the Greenbeard Gene
10.10.10 Rewire the Shameful Brain Circuitry in Overeating
10.17.10 Babies Just Want Ta Have Fun
10.24.10 Firing Kids Up to Make Things Happen
10.31.10 The Neural Downside of Noise
11.07.10 Learning to Love a Good Fight
11.14.10 Eight Tasty Ways to Insure Your Kids Die Young
11.21.10 Protecting Kids from Our Resentment
11.28.10 The ACC: Six Seductive Reasons Why Bigger is Better
12.05.10 How I Failed to Protect My Daughter from the Ludic Fallacy
12.12.10 Teaching Kids to See What isn’t There
12.19.10 The Bittersweet Pursuit of Eudaimonia
2011
01.02.11 237 Reasons Why Kids Have Sex
01.09.11 One Righteous Reason for Embracing The Dark Night
01.16.11 Wrongology: Why it’s Sexy and Right!
01.23.11 How to Raise a Terrorist
01.30.11 Struggling with the Auschwitz in My Heart
02.06.11 Four Factors in Raising Kids to be Formidable Operatives
02.13.11 The Awesome Power of ADHD!
02.20.11 Why Lake Wobegon Kids are Fat, Dumb and Dangerous
02.27.11 Teaching Kids the Big Lie About Truth
03.06.11 Why Sex Offenders Offend: An Unorthodox Perspective
03.13.11 Opening the Gifts of Love and Suffering
03.20.11 How to Liberate Kids from the Burden of Memory
03.26.11 Getting Over Oneself as a Spiritual Practice
04.03.11 On Being Emotionally Unfaithful
04.10.11 Why Parents are Charged with the Work of the World
04.17.11 Why Our Kids Won’t Live as Long as Us
04.25.11 Four Ways to Raise Mean-Spirited Kids
05.01.11 Teaching Kids to Scorn Math and Science
05.08.11 Why Does the Universe Bait and Switch?
05.15.11 What Grows Strength of Heart
05.22.11 Why I Disagree with The Four Agreements
05.29.11 4 Reasons to Radically Embrace Your Outer Psychopomp
06.05.11 237 Habits of Highly Effective Mothers
06.12.11 How to Insure Our Sons Never Need Viagra
06.19.11 Why Puppies are Harder to Raise than Children
06.26.11 Three Tips for Avoiding a Sexless Marriage
07.03.11 How Our Ordo Amorum Can Guide Great Healing
07.10.11 Raising Kids to Embrace the Reaper
07.17.11 Why We Fight So Much on Vacations
07.24.11 8 Ways 4 U 2 B the Boss of U
07.31.11 13 Ways Casey Anthony’s Brain “Failed” Her as a Parent
08.07.11 Fortifying the Neurology of Now
08.14.11 Guess Who’s Rolling to Dinner
08.21.11 How to Be More Body-Wise than Bound and Foolish
08.28.11 The Most Ambitious Blog Post Ever Written
09.04.11 Ruptured Relationships: The Importance of Repair
09.11.11 Why Relationship Repair is Wide Open for Innovation
09.18.11 Why Abandonment and Neglect are the Hardest Wounds to Heal
09.25.11 How Movie Stars and Ursa Major People Have Helped Heal My World
10.02.11 Why Some Children Choose a Celibate Life
10.09.11 11 Little Known Brain Changing Secrets
10.16.11 A Death in My Co-Created Family
10.23.11 If the Sex is Ho-Hum, Can the Relationship be Brobingdangian
10.30.11 The Neurobiology of Fascism
11.06.11 The Pain We Are All Trying to Heal
11.13.11 How to Embrace the Dictator Within
11.20.11 Ten Unexpected Benefits from Knowing How Your Brain Works
11.27.11 Skillful Male Organ Management: Some Parental Guidelines
12.04.11 8 Brain Lessons from the Life and Death of Steve Jobs
12.11.11 Childhood Sexual Abuse: How Not to Heal From It
12.18.11 The Challenges of a Generous Heart
12.25.11 Six Guidelines for Repairing Betrayals of Trust
2012
01.01.12 How to Child Molest a 40 Year Old Mother
01.08.12 Correcting Attribution Errors of the Heart
01.15.12 How Violence Begets Violence: Two Personal Recollections
01.22.12 Modeling the Uncommon Power of Intelligent Gossip
01.29.12 Embracing the Descent into Mother’s Dark Heart
02.05.12 Heading Down the Erotic Road Less Traveled By
02.12.12 The Wisdom of Finishing Unfinished Business
02.19.12 Four Big Heart Answers to the Big Brain Question
02.26.12 Cultivating the Neuropsychology of Vulnerability
03.04.12 Dispelling the Trance of Unrequited Love
03.11.12 Bridging the Gap Between the Brain and the Heart
03.18.12 Why the Present Moment is Such a Rare and Precious Thing
03.25.12 237 Reasons Why Kids Have Sex with Orchids and Funky Monkeys
04.01.12 Single Women: 6 Reasons Why Many Remain Unpartnered
04.08.12 Single Women: Possibility 2 Why Many Remain Unpartnered
04.15.12 Single Women: Possibility 3 Why Many Remain Unpartnered
04.22.12 Single Women: Possibility 4 Why Many Remain Unpartnered
04.29.12 Single Women: Possibility 5 Why Many Remain Unpartnered
05.06.12 Single Women: Possibility 6 Why Many Remain Unpartnered
05.13.12 Undoing the Neurobiology of Learned Helplessness
05.20.12 Dissolving the Barriers to Brilliant Sanity
05.27.12 Should You Run Your Family Like a Hedge Fund?
06.03.12 The Secret Meaning of Loving Feelings
06.10.12 Can These 19 Brain Deficits Make Your Life Miserable?
06.17.12 Struggling to Recover from My Father’s Moral Injury
06.24.12 Discovering and Developing the Turn-Toward Muscles
07.01.12 The Baby Blue Ramblings a Self-Care Savant
07.08.12 The Naked Confessions of a Listening Warrior
07.15.12 Harnessing the Maieutic, Hypnopompic Power in NOT Believing What You Think
07.22.12 Conation: The Heart’s Super-Accurate Global Positioning System
07.29.12 Max-Amping Our Neurobiology From Me to We
08.05.12 How Many Blog Subscribers Does It Take to Make a Heartfelt Connection?
08.12.12 Why Any Truth Unkindly Told Is Always a Lie
08.19.12 Why My Brain Makes Losing Weight So Tough
08.26.12 Why Relationships Rooted in Trauma Rarely Remain Stable
09.01.12 Why I Am So Much More Than the Worst Thing I Ever Did
09.08.12 Three Ways Becoming Rich Made Me Mean
09.15.12 The Mixed Blessings of a Broken Heart
09.22.12 How I Know I Am Way Above Average
09.30.12 How Stress Makes Me Stupid
10.06.12 Doing Seductive Battle with the Barnum Effect
10.13.12 The Single Primary Purpose of EVERY Psycho-Spiritual Practice
10.20.12 Taming the Wildness of the 10th Cranial Nerve
10.27.12 How to Get a Second Wind from a Higher Power
11.04.12 Irrefutable Proof of Hell
11.10.12 I Know How You’re Going to Die
11.18.12 How Right Speaking & Listening Can Radically Expand Strength of Heart
11.25.12 How Mortgage Bankers Nearly Broke My Heart
12.02.12 How You Just Became 14% Dumber Without Even Realizing It
12.09.12 How to Successfully Negotiate with Your Inner Bag Lady
12.16.12 How to Be Kind When It Counts
12.23.12 Rebirthing the Brain Root of All Suffering
12.30.12 How a Psychic Phase Change Transformed My Trauma History for Christmas
2013
01.06.13 How to Stop Word-Brain from Making Life So Painful
01.13.13 Personal Betrayal: Is Forgiveness the Only Sane Response?
01.20.13 Getting the Neuro-Jump on Kind and Generous Friends
01.27.13 Why Does Something Wicked This Way Come?
02.03.13 Grappling with the Unholy Trinity: Chaos, Confusion, Conflict
02.10.13 What to Do When You Feel One-Down
02.17.13 You’re-Kidding-Me! Claims from Brain Science
02.24.13 A Super Way to Spend Your Day – According to Your Brain
03.03.13 Does Keeping Secrets Damage Your Brain?
03.10.13 Why Your Brain is to Blame for the State of Your Life, and Not You
03.17.13 Does Our DVD Brain Play Us as Human?
03.24.13 Why Homeless People Freak My Brain Out
03.31.13 The Two Perilous Questions Revisioned …
04.07.13 Surprising Elements of the Heroine’s Journey
04.14.13 Spiritual Maturity: Do You Know When Your Brain’s Kickin’ It New Skool?
04.21.13 Mental Health: Do You Know When It Vacates the Premises?
04.28.13 Why Must All Wars, Public and Personal, Eventually End?
05.05.13 Will You Take the Radical Accountability Challenge?
05.12.13 How G-Tummo Turned Me and Maynard G. Krebs into Real Warm Human Beings
05.19.13 Does a Cougar Have Your Leg?
05.26.13 The 3 Things We’re All Terrified Of: Thing One
06.02.13 The 3 Things We’re All Terrified Of: Thing Two
06.09.13 The 3 Things We’re All Terrified Of: Thing Three
06.16.13 How to Become a Superorganism in 3 No 4 Not-So-Easy Steps
06.23.13 How a Brain MOOC Damaged My Brain
06.30.13 Worthless: The Real Value of Most Self-Help Seminars, Books and Blogs
07.07.13 The Brain Benefits of Bondage, Discipline and Sado-Masochism
07.14.13 Bad Word Practice: How I Play at Not Letting Things People Say Toss Me Away
07.21.13 Why My Brain Rarely Let’s Me Undress the Maid Myself
07.28.13 Why Is It Easier to Grieve Pets Than People?
08.04.13 Should Your Significant Other Join the Rich Club?
08.18.13 Can You Trust Your Own Unconscious?
08.25.13 5 Ways to Become a Great LATE Bloomer
09.01.13 My Brain in the Money: On Joining the Lousy Millionaire’s Club
09.08.13 Spontaneous Relationship Abortion: Can We Work With Them?
09.15.13 Why Is Obeying the Ten Commandments Good for the Brain?
09.22.13 Crying in Restaurants While Slawing Cabbage
09.29.13 Is Your Brain Malfunctioning in These Subtle, Sneaky Ways?
10.06.13 Does Working a Desk Job Fry Your Brain and Rot Your Soul?
10.13.13 How to Be the Friend You Want to Have
10.20.13 Panic Attacks and Other Ugly Body Snatchings
10.27.13 Working the Glass Splinters Out of Our Hearts
11.03.13 Taking Anger to Heart … and Head
11.10.13 The End of Sex As We Know It
11.17.13 The Most Brain-Soothing Song in America
11.24.13 How Your Brain 4D Prints Reality
12.01.13 When Computers Emotionally Hijack Body and Brain: A Handy Primer
12.08.13 101 Reasons Why Being a Psychotherapist was Bad for My Brain
12.15.13 This is Your Brain on Trees
12.22.13 How Social Neuroscience’s Golden Rule Saved My Life
12.29.13 Why is It So Hard to Turn Ghosts into Ancestors
2014
01.05.14 Harmonizing Dissonances: Looking Backwards from the End
01.12.14 Facing Fear Wide Open with a Compassionate Heart
01.19.14 Why is Truthy Truth a Pathless Land?
01.26. 14 Your Brain’s Enantiodromia Avatar: Why Do You Sometimes Plot Their Murder?
02.02.14 The 6 Ways Depression has Become My Bitch So You Won’t Be Seduced into Becoming Hers
02.16.14 Why Your Brain’s Negativity Bias Might Save Your Life – Or End It Prematurely
02.23.14 Your Brain Secretly Knows You Will One Day Die. What’s One Unexpected Thing You Can Do About It?
03.02.14 Why Might Creative Writing Make You Sick and Crazy?
03.09.14 How to Become Human Miracle-Gro
03.16.14 How Your Brain was Trained to NOT Ask Questions … and Why You Should
03.23.14 How Being a No-Good, Dirty Rotten Lying Cheat Made My Brain Super-Creative!
03.30.14 Your Senior-Moment Brain: Teaching Your Body to Serve It
04.06.14 The Body’s Role in Forgiveness
04.13.14 If I Could Change ONE Thing About My Brain …
04.20.14 Lost Love: Five Things Your Brain and Body Want You to Know About It
04.27.14 One Sure-Fire Way to Change Your Partner’s Brain
05.04.14 Impeccability Practice: It’s What My Brain Wants at the Top of Your Ordo Amorum
05.18.14 How My (and Possibly Your) Brain’s Unconscious Aversion to Money Came to Be
05.25.14 The Deep Feminine and Its Extraordinary, Under-Used, Hidden Powers
06.01.14 Rooting Relationships in Ruthless Compassion
06.08.14 Opening Our Disowned Box of Relationship Darkness
06.15.14 How Estrogen Unexpectedly Turned Me into a Bad Dad
06.22.14 How to Rebuild Your Relational Brain
06.29.14 How to Increase the Probability of Making Wise Choices
07.06.14 Unraveling the Anatomy of Intention
07.13.14 How to Tame the Narrative of You
07.20.14 How to Know Where You’re Going
07.27.14 Should You Organize and Run Your Life Like a Skydiving School?
08.03.14 Does Wild Weather Adversely Impact Your Brain?
08.10.14 Why You Shouldn’t Beat Your Wife Between 10PM and 7AM
08.17.14 The Most Brain-Damaging Word in the English Language
08.24.14 What to Try When You’ve Tried Everything
08.31.14 Bringing Grace and Balance to Your Brain
09.07.14 Why Your Brain Made You ODD
09.14.14 What Your Brain Wants MOST for YOU
09.21.14 Why Creativity Can Be Bad for the Brain
09.28.14 7 Essential Brain Features Every Helping Professional Needs to Know
10.05.14 How Debt Damages the Brain
10.12.14 How Learned Helplessness Can Ruin a Lovely Walk in the Park – A Cautionary Tale
10.19.14 Why I Own Scores of Unread Books: My Brain Made Me Do It!
10.26.14 It’s Not Me – It’s My Big Fat Brain: How Faulty Brain Wiring Gained Me 60 Unwanted Pounds
11.02.14 How Women TRAP Men in Relationships
11.09.14 3 Small Changes that Can Ignite Your Brain’s Neural Network Potential
11.16.14 How to Keep a Rape From Covertly Damaging the Body and Brain … for Years and Years
11.23.14 Why You’re Not a Slug or a Slacker for Sleeping In
11.30.14 How a Social-Purposed Life Awesome-izes the Brain
12.07.14 Crowdsourcing Your Brain’s Creative Capacity
12.14.14 Can a Jackassectomy on the Toxic People in Your Life Benefit Your Brain?
12.21.14 10 Diabolical Ways Your Brain is a Devious Genius at Deluding You
12.28.14 Are a Brain-Sourced 10 Commandments Better for Your Brain than the Bibical 10
2015
01.04.15 How to Know When You’ve Gone Temporarily Insane
01.11.15 Joy and Divinity: Might Last Year’s Number One Brain Research Breakthrough Hold a Key?
01.18.15 How to Overcome Conventional Psychotherapy’s Fatal Flaw
01.25.15 10 Experiences My Brain & Heart & I Will Be Ecstatic About on Our Deathbed
02.01.15 Why Are High Maintenance People In Your Life?
02.08.15 How Unkept Promises Compromise Brain Function
02.15.15 Why the Yoga of Relationship is the Hardest Yoga of All
02.22.15 Making Empathy Operational
03.01.15 The Book Inside You: How to Seduce Your Brain into Setting It Free
03.08.15 Why So Many People Hate Their Jobs
03.15.15 How to Orchestrate a Magical Year for Your Brain
03.22.15 What Info-Besity Does to Your Brain
03.29.15 Zombie Grocery Shopping: Why Your Brain Checks Out at the Checkout Counter
04.05.15 Not Your Fault: Making Ready Sense of The Brain-Boggling Complexity of Obesity
04.12.15 Can Your Brain Learn to Love Managing Weight?
04.19.15 How My Listening Skills Earned Me a Million Dollars and Proved a Balm to My Brain!
04.26.15 Why Your Story One-Upping My Story Is Bad for My Brain … and Yours
05.10.15 The Compassion Pill: Do You Take It or Not?
05.17.15 Why One-Sided Cell Phone Convos Irritate the Bejeezus Out of Us
05.24.15 My Most Radical, Brain-Changing College Class
05.31.15 Why Are So Many of Our Brains Money-Challenged?
06.07.15 Why Your Money Brain Needs a CAO and Not a CFO
06.14.15 3 Non-Money Ways to Change Your Brain So That Money Is No Longer an Issue
06.21.15 The Neuroscience of Leadership
06.28.15 Abandonment and Neglect: How They Adversely Impact the Brain
07.04.15 A Surprising Sense of Kindness
07.11.15 No Idea What I Wrote Here
07.18.15 Zapposthesia: When Shoe-Buying Becomes Orgasmic
07.25.15 Why HSPs Need SUDs
08.08.15 The Dark Side of Highly Sensitive People
08.16.15 Why Struggling to Keep Up with Your Brain is Worth the Challenge
08.23.15 How to Use Your Best Money Brain When Borrowing or Lending
08.30.15 The Other Question My Brain is Always Asking
09.06.15 How Your Brain Creates Karma
09.13.15 When Your Brain Knows What You Want but Your Heart Knows What You Need
09.20.15 A Tale of Two Narcissists
09.27.15 When a Client Makes You Want to Smack Them
10.04.15 Beautiful Women: Their Main Brain Challenge
10.11.15 Can Early Food Trauma Adversely Affect Our Brain Decades Later?
10.18.15 The Trouble with TED Talks
10.25.15 Can Tithing Really Benefit Your Money Brain? – Part 1
11.01.15 Why Your Brain Wants You to Make Trouble
11.08.15 How I Know When I’m Listening-Challenged
11.15.15 Live-Wired: What Your Life and Brain Will Be Like a Year From Now Is Anybody’s Guess
11.22.15 Putting Your Neuroscience Knowledge to Work
11.29.15 Death: 10 Things Your Brain and Atisha Want You to Know About It (No. 9 can be a life-changer!)
12.06.15 Who is HAROLD and Why Is He Messing With My Brain?
12.13.15 3 Ways the Silver Tsunami Can Benefit Your Brain
12.20.15 When the Heart Has No Teeth
12.27.15 The Neurobiology of Unrequited Love
01.03.16 Why Fear and Learning Make Dreadful Bedfellows
01.10.16 10 Spirited Ways to Turn an Old Beta Brain Alpha
01.17.16 Can Falling in Love Frag Your Brain?
01.24.16 Money Relationships and the Brain – the 2nd Quarterly Update
01.31.16 Why We Work to Heal the Human Heart
02.07.16 When the Wrong Answer to The Big Brain Question Bites Us in The Butt and Breaks Our Heart
02.14.16 3 Reasons Why Our Brain Makes Us Quit Diets, Jobs, Relationships and Spiritual Practice
02.21.16 How to Be a Savvy Neuroscience Consumer
02.28.16 Can Your Brain Make You Millions on the Internet? Probably not.
03.06.16 Does My Brain Judge You By the Company You Keep?
03.13.16 How to Relax Your Body and Brain Around Fast Thinkers and Fast Talkers
03.20.16 3 Ways Our Brains Undermine Spirituality
03.27.16 How My Brain Secretly Tries to Keep Me Money-Poor
04.03.16 Is Your Brain Really Hardwired for Goodness’s Sake?
04.10.16 How to Repair a Broken Heart
04.17.16 5 Fun and Profitable Words That Neuroscience Has Taught Me
04.24.16 Why Is Managing Weight Such a Wicked Problem?
05.01.16 How to Know If You’re a Psychic Intruder
05.08.16 How to Know If You’re a Psychic Intruder
05.15.16 Using Neuroscience to Wake Up and Grow Up in Our Money Relationships – Report 3
05.22.16 How Puppies Can Re-Break Your Broken Heart
05.29.16 Checkmating The Super-Secret Enemy Living in Your Brain
06.05.16 Transient Hypofrontality: A True Grace in Aging
06.12.16 10 Brain Virtues in Seriously Short Supply in Corporate America
06.19.16 Outgrowing Gun Brain
06.26.16 Are You Plagued by Cyberchondria?
07.03.16 The Big Brain Question: 20 Popular Songs that Answer It “Yes”
07.10.16 The Most Inspiring Podcast I’ve Ever Heard
07.17.16 A Magnificent Way to Learn About Your Brain
07.24.16 Abandonment and Neglect: 10 Common Ways It Shows Up Every Day
07.31.16 The Benes of Being a Slow Poke: Why Slowing Down is Super-Bad (Meaning Good) for Your Brain
08.07.16 Why We Snap
08.14.16 Hidden Loyalties and Unwelcome Inheritances: How Our Brains Bequeath Us Ancestral Trauma
08.21.16 How to Know If Your Still Small Voice Is a Certified Psychopath
08.28.16 Why the Rich Get Richer: A Neuro-bio Look at The Matthew Effect
09.04.16 Using Life’s Difficulties as Directional Signals
09.11.16 Why We Can’t All Just Get Along
09.18.16 Why Your Brain is Vulnerable to the 8 Worldly Concerns
09.25.16 Using Moist Aversion to Manage Our Adrenal Glands
10.02.16 The Fault in Our Brains We Blame on Ourselves – Part 1
10.09.16 The Fault in Our Brains We Blame on Ourselves – Part 2
10.16.16 Why Being Wrongfully Accused Is So Painful
10.23.16 Why We Hook Up: No Heat, No Healing
10.30.16 The Neurobiological Pursuit of Deep Innocence
11.06.16 If Men Could Tell Women What Truly Threatens Them
11.13.16 President Trump: A Collective Compulsion to Repeat the Trauma?
11.20.16 Irrational Commitment: Something Your Brain Desperately Desires?
11.27.16 Money Relationship Madness – The Full Year Report
12.04.16 Why We Stalk People
12.11.16 Blindsight: One Reason We Sleepwalk Through Much of Life?
12.18.16 Brain Vulnerability No. 11: Why Self-Help Rarely Really Helps
12.25.16 The Friendship Peptide: We Really CAN All Just Get Along!
2017
01.01.17 Is a Compulsion to Repeat the Trauma Really a Thing?
01.08.17 Can Rewiring Your Brain Make Your Dreams Come True?
01.15.17 The Great Unraveling: My Brain’s Prediction for the Trump Presidency
01.22.17 Enlarging the Human Heart: Brain Science’s Final Frontier?
01.29.17 The Penis REALLY DOES Have a Brain
02.05.17 The Terror of “No” – How Your Brain’s Rejection Sensitivity Limits Life Options
02.12.17 Growing Your Brain to Love Beauty
02.19.17 Why There’s No Shame in Staring at a Beautiful Woman’s Face
02.26.17 How Your Storyteller Brain Instigates Great Mischief
03.05.17 Why Smart People Struggle to Forgive
03.12.17 Can Your Brain Think Unthinkable Thoughts?
03.19.17 What Being Raped by a Woman Feels Like to a Man
03.26.17 Botoxing Your Brain’s Moral Compass
04.02.17 Micro-Braving Your Brain
04.09.17 9 Muse-Inspired Reasons to Never Marry Your Muse
04.16.17 Can “Termination Days” Amp Up Your Brain Circuitry?
04.23.17 How Opinions Handicap Learning
04.30.17 How My Brain Secretly Limits My Life Potential
05.07.17 Why Men Struggle with Saying, “I Love You”
05.14.17 Why We Abandon People When They Most Need Our Help – Part 1
05.21.17 Why We Abandon People When They Most Need Our Help – Part 2
05.28.17 Struggling with Gratitude Practice
06.04.17 How a Bible Affects Your Brain
06.11.17 How Heartbreak Damages the Heart
06.18.17 The Ambivalence of a Reconciliation Warrior
06.25.17 Are Dual Relationships Bad for the Brain?
07.02.17 The One Brain Change that Changes Everything
07.09.17 When Your Brain Stifles Itself
07.16.17 My Darkest Brain-Shame Secret
07.23.17 When Terror Strikes for No Apparent Reason
07.30.17 How Our Love Songs Betray Us
08.06.17 Do Smartphones Trojan Horse Your Brain?
08.13.17 Coming to Grips with Victim Brain
08.20.17 Money Relationships and the Brain – Year 2 in Review
08.27.17 Why Marrying Her Rapist Might Not Be Best for a Woman’s Brain
09.03.17 Why Our Problems are Rarely the Problem …
09.10.17 Does “Killeen Brain” Produce Idiot Grit?
09.17.17 How Your Brain Turns Dreams into Reality
09.24.17 Mastering Life’s Universal Language
10.01.17 Are Bitcoins Bad for Your Brain?
10.08.17 Morphing Your Brain into an Idea Meritocracy
10.15.17 Reincarnation Reconsidered: A Neuroscientific Conjecture
10.22.17 What is a Transpersonal Neurobiologist?
10.29.17 What It Takes to Keep an Unpaid Writing Commitment for 10 Years
12.24.17 Might the Blockchain Reduce Suffering in the World and Make My Brain Work Better?
The Flowering Brain 
So many gems… The Big Brain Question… It’s Not You It’s Your Brain… Don’t Believe What You Think, especially if it Hurts… Money Relationships and the Brain… everything about Listening… The Perilous Questions… Forsaking Half Loves… these are some that come to mind first. Thank you, Mark, for all this and more!
Wow! A mastery of integrity and an inspiration beyond borders. Thank you dear teacher, Mark. With gratitude and joy! Jana