How to Reduce Anxiety and Renew Your Mind with Dr. Caroline Leaf

We are hard pressed to go 3 seconds without thinking, so if we aren't aware or willing to take action, our thoughts will end up running our lives. To address this war in our minds, Louie sits down with Dr. Caroline Leaf to discuss how both science and Scripture point us towards eliminating toxic thoughts and building healthy mental practices.
To learn more about Dr. Caroline Leaf, visit drleaf.com.
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ABOUT LOUIE GIGLIO
Louie Giglio is Pastor of Passion City Church and the Original Visionary of the Passion movement, which exists to call a generation to leverage their lives for the fame of Jesus.
Louie is the national-bestselling author of Don’t Give the Enemy A Seat at Your Table, Not Forsaken, Goliath Must Fall, How Great Is Our God: 100 Indescribable Devotions About God and Science, Indescribable: 100 Devotions About God & Science, The Comeback, The Air I Breathe, and I Am Not But I Know I Am.
Louie and Shelley make their home in Atlanta, Georgia.
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[@brendacruz7587]

When I was 48 I went through severe panic attacks which led to a season of healing from my parents divorce as a child. It was extreme fear that had been suppressed. The Lord came to me in dreams and told me audibly in a dream that I needed to write the word in the tablet of my heart. That is what brought me out of that very dark season and helped me renew my mind. I agree with most of what she’s saying but I cannot discount the use of scripture in healing because that’s what he told me to do and it’s what changed me.

[@sonlightpsalm942]

God bless you sweetheart. You're right on! Keep truckn' for Jesus! He's a commin back for His bride 👰‍♀ soon!

[@pamelamorse3553]

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[@sonlightpsalm942]

Brenda: We are to renew our minds through Christ Jesus. Hiding God's word in our heart is the key 🔑 I'm sorry to hear of your trauma, as no child should have to feel that their world is shattered 💔 due to a divorce. Your testimony is powerful, and encouraging.

[@sonlightpsalm942]

That's beautiful, what God spoke to you Brenda! Truly it's the washing of the water 💧 of His Word that transforms any of us. May the Lord bless you, keep you. May the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.The Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace.

[@merindaarvie28]

❤❤

[@DenaliRose]

I promise what she’s is saying is nothing but truth I’m fixing my mind right now and I’m listening to this sitting in my doctor’s parking lot blood pressure out of whack anxiety attack I can control and feels like my body is constantly having one, I’m renewing my mind and doing what I need to help my body get back on track but I’ve been under constant stress fight or flight mode for about 13 years but I’m fixing it

[@frankagliotti3626]

An wonderful conversation with wisdom. Thank you for being a salt and light in faith, hope and love.

[@Mspromises]

For some of the people watching, putting it on 0.75x speed matching with subtitles will help you hang around till the end. :)

[@the_light_wins1718]

This is an answered prayer. So many Christian’s don’t go to church because they feel so horribly convicted, they hear the messages but don’t know how . Thank you for teaching, tellling us in love , salt and light “ the how to live Jesus, the how to be human and of Christ and renew our minds in love , mercy and grace “

[@tiffanyboyd4668]

Listen it’s 4-26-23 And I am so glad I stumbled upon this video it has truly been a pivotal moment in my life Ty soooooooo much you guys and Ty pastor for collaborating with this amazing woman of God you truly have blessed the body of Christ with your testimony and her wisdom on the mind 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@jaznm7195]

This has been very informative- especially the need to push thru the difficulty of depression- I believe we have put out pharmaceuticals as the fix for situations where little is gained but perhaps getting people to function more like robots vs working to real healing. Thoughts??

[@Godsmasterpiece1993]

Wooooooooah!!!! How amazing! And all this time, I thought I couldn’t pray…. I would have no words when asked to pray! I was suppressing so much previously! Now….. the words just come out! Capturing bad thoughts and renewing them! Praise God!

[@angelagibson2305]

Thank you I believe there's healing on the way for me now after 40 years of toxic thinking 🤔

[@rose5566]

Thank you for your honesty and assurance about mental illness. There needs to be more awareness of this and Dr. Caroline is wonderfully reassuring with her explanations and understanding of this . I am really glad I heard this and reassured that it is very normal and it can be dealt with in a positive way.

[@rub-a-louyou-tube3597]

So thankful for getting to experience this message this morning. God is using you

[@laurasmith5274]

Y’all are a God send…!!! Thank you so very much

[@Mspromises]

Currently Watching . . .

[@womanofgod2199]

This is amazing!!! You are an inspiration Dr. Caroline! Thank God for using your life to bless other people. Our mind was opened that we are responsible for our thoughts. And we have the mind of Christ! We are more than conquerors! 🤍🔥💯 Glory to God! Thank you for this interview Louie. God bless the both of you and your families 🤍✨

[@hanlibadenhorst7837]

Thank you so very much - spending time, energy, brain power and Spirituality - this information is not going past unseen. There are really people that nééd perspective… holistically. Thank you Louie for being só open… and dr Caroline - your ‘open-headedness’. Excellent combo!!! 🙏🏻😇🕊️♾️

[@michaelhicks6329]

What a gift! Thank you and ALL your guests!

[@amberbrown2499]

Brilliant. Thank you pastor Louie.

[@Natures-Void]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🏾 I love this woman! You have an amazing mind !

[@rcz2023]

Great interview, thank you so much!

[@dnk4559]

Thank you. This was very helpful and very affirming!

[@AndreaM-ws5fv]

Thank you. This has hit nerves with my journey with Christ 🙏🏽 God bless

[@tulettebitner221]

Thank you

[@bettykasser6917]

❤love Dr. Leaf!

[@leonapietsch4367]

I cry everyday since I left my Ex. Had no choice he was very toxic. Yes God has been by my side. It is a painful slow journey in mind body and spirit. Yes I want joy and happiness and it’s there !!!🎉 I’m free!!

[@beverleypender5931]

I am really struggling to follow Dr Leaf. But I will persevere.

[@nancyvega1247]

14:55 to... Start catching your thoughts, observe thoughts, change them to reflect God healing thoughts by deconstructing thoughts to manage the messy mind and build a better brain/life/chemistry. She's awesome, she's enthusiastic and talks fast. She makes sense, is rich in knowledge and wisdom and science. 👍 Awesomeness! 🙏

[@kashakowal8201]

Listen Joseph Murphy ..he is more clear

[@jcismyall]

Truly there is much guilt, shame, condemnation brought by the religious teaching of ‘original sin’ or believing one is born a ‘sinner’. Nothing could be farther from the truth. (Religion needs returning customers hence THAT teaching). Before ‘original sin’ there is/was & always will be ORIGINAL GRACE. We were forgiven BEFORE we ever messed up. We were found in Christ BEFORE we were ever lost in Adam. Seeing oneself made in the IMAGE & LIKENESS of God is one’s ORIGINAL BLUEPRINT. I encourage everyone to read the Mirror Translation by Francois DuToit which expounds this well in the original Septuagint. Katie Skurja of Imago Dei Ministries teaches incredible ‘identity’ course here on KZbin.

[@annaberg1200]

Downloaded the app. But god, how hard it was with all my anxiety. Don't know if I can handle this myself...

[@doingwhatiwant4189]

Put her in CNN and put the drug companies and surgeons out of business and take stress of the American Public with the truth. Also she is the first Christian speaking with helpful knowledge that goes beyond the parking lot of the church!

[@leonapietsch4367]

🙏✝️🤗 Thank you for this video.

[@reneehernandez8017]

What happens when you get in the garden but have no one to be with you? When you ask just like Jesus did, “Just be with me”. But no one wants to? What can you do?

[@sonlightpsalm942]

Renee: You are with you, and the Spirit of God is with you. Jesus was abandoned by His deciples and ultimately His Heavenly Father turned away as God is holy and cannot look upon sin, but it was momentarily. Jesus Christ said he would not leave us comfortless,, but would send the Holy Spirit to be with us. If you haven't already, you can ask Jesus that you want the Holy Spirit, and He will come and dwell in your heart and change you. Then we can take our burdens to the cross. That's why Jesus Christ came. To redeem us! Take one issue that needs dealt with and bring it to the cross. Leave it there, then thank him for taking it, the praise him for taking it, then worship him for taking it. Do that for a 63 day period. You will be transformed by the renewing of your mind in Christ Jesus!

[@reneehernandez8017]

@@sonlightpsalm942 Thank you for this, I have been waiting for guidance and will do as you have said. Thank you so much, I will be Faithfully waiting. God bless.

[@sonlightpsalm942]

@@reneehernandez8017 Hi Renee: As the empathic persons that we are, we are as traumatized as the narcissistic person we attached to. We just didn't hide behind a mask and let negative energy / negative influence cause us to become like the ones that abused us. And yes, I've forgiven, but I will no subjugate myself to their demons! I too am having to learn the lessons necessary to heal and not fall into the same trap with someone else that's narcissistic! Something that will help you, is to look yourself in the mirror at least once a day if not every time you look into a mirror, ans tell yourself that you love yourself. You need to look out for the wounded little girl within. If you're not looking out for the wounded child within, then you'll surely look for validation through someone else, and everytime they'll let you down at the least, or take advantage of you such as another narcissist! God bless. This is a good start. I've quit worrying about what other people think of me. I'm not going by other people's opinions anymore and feeling like I'm not good enough! God created me and loves me. Once I love myself then I'll be able to love other properly. Hope this is an encouragement to you.

[@carly-0-7]

@@sonlightpsalm942 this is spot on. I know I need to learn to love myself first and know Gods love for me so I can love others enough as well 🙏🏻 God is enough and his grace will cover us

[@sonlightpsalm942]

@carlyd2300 I'm certainly still working on this myself. But I see it for what it is. 🤷 We chose identifying with our caregiver / abuser (Stockholm syndrome) instead of hating and becoming like the narcissistic abuser. On the other hand, the abused child, even in the same family, can hate their caregiver / abuser, and it opens them up to becoming the very thing that they hate. This opens the door to pass on the " generational curse." Subconsciously, we're drawn to what was familiar to us as 95 % of our thinking is subconscious. It takes a lot of work on our part to change the pattern once it's identified. I will say both the narcissist and the empath don't feel worthy, but it was all in the approach. As people pleasers, we're looking for validation through others, making us codependent. The only way to break this is to love yourself first! This is a strange concept for an empath, who's always put others first. Change is uncomfortable, to be sure, but necessary to order to grow. You'll know you're healed when you become enough, and don't need another to "complete you." We're actually the ones looking in the mirror, falling in love with our reflection and never obtaining love ( because it isn't real from the narcissist)i, then being betrayed. Yes, validate yourself. You're a beautiful person! Be kind to yourself, then your boarders will be strong 💪 ✨️ as you've gone back to rescue the inner child that was never validated. God bless 🙌 🙏

[@sandradelarosa7799]

Please pray our items that were stolen be returned

[@evalizandrades6476]

I wish her pace was slower … And straight to the “ how to fix” part … Hopefully the book will

[@angelamoreno4376]

Yes! It's called neurocycle. She explains the how to in her other videos and podcast and the book.

[@mimismegalife4976]

Mind Management 🗝️

[@evalizandrades6476]

I don’t people are lazy to do the work. I think that is the lack of information /education of and on the process cycle of doing the work , especially if only 3% of leaders are talking about this to congregations.

[@debbiedorman1043]

Could I get some counsel by you Dr Leif

[@debbiedorman1043]

How do you change how you see it

[@kurdtluv9418]

amen

[@GretchenSuzanne]

I really could of used this information but she talked so fast I couldn’t understand or retain any of it. Also all the science talk was to hard to follow.

[@angelamoreno4376]

Get the book. And she has a podcast.

[@helenlindner191]

The devil, satan is a real entity a fallen angel. And yes we have choices however the very real devil is allowed to tempt us and in that we have a choice goodness or evil which is negative , a sin!

[@annehancock9032]

I do love Caroline Leaf…. But her rapid speaking plus her accent is impossible for me to listen to further.

[@Mspromises]

Put the speed on 0.75x

[@rochellecaffee1417]

Caroline, i have been one who has been very happily influenced by your research, BUT I disagree with your theology. The “fear of death”, the devil’s power, has been defeated. He is still tempting people to be “fearful”. Those “in Christ”, have the Truth which protects them from entertaining the Devil’s lies or temptations. Truth protects LOVE, through HIS children who keep HIS love alive, and serve others with His love. Truth is the greatest need OVER love. If you are led by the Truth of God, in His Word, you WILL LEARN/KNOW HIS LOVE. So, we challenge the lies and set them against TRUTH, “Take every thought captive to the TRUTH”. The Garden was an example of Jesus being tempted by the lie that He should protect His body, and NOT FOLLOW THROUGH with what God asked Him to do. The spiritual battle between being controlled by the “flesh” vs being controlled by the “Spirit”, is a constant battle for Christians as long as they have a Physical body/“flesh”. It does get better because you subject yourself to learning TRUTH, because the TRUTH sets you free from the lies that lead to death. That’s why, “the wages of sin is death”. Sin comes from being more influenced by deception/lies than by the TRUTH. Living in TRUTH leads to a healthy life…”abundant life”. Unfortunately, anxiety is all about believing the wrong thing or “lies”. Truth leads to “peace”, and Jesus said, “i give you my “peace”,which comes from having “faith” in what He says is TRUE.He has loved us so much that He teaches us Truth when we have fallen down, so that we will learn how to avoid lies and do not repeat actions that hurt us. We need to learn that trying to “ACT LIKE WE ARE FINE” is NOT HELPFUL, and keeps us in the lies, and away from facing the truth that WILL set us free from the problem, and LIFE ABUNDANT. Caroline , Push knowing the TRUTH. You will come to love Jesus even more for the TRUTH, which He said that He IS..God bless you.

[@whitemusk7691]

“In the name of Allah, the most Merciful and the most Beneficent.”

[@lindaford624]

In the name of Jesus Christ, Every knee will bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is LORD. He is the only true God. You must believe Jesus is God incarnate to live with Him eternally. How? Confess your sins & believe Jesus came to this earth and died for your sins, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. But you must believe & trust His Holy Word (Jesus-He is the Word) and be saved. He is the WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. I pray you will open a Bible not the Koran and ask the true God to reveal himself to you. He will if you mean it.

[@volvaheidrbores663]

Godess Sophia is the real creator.

[@volvaheidrbores663]

Of course " they" don't want us to know this.

[@sonlightpsalm942]

Goddess Sophia didn't die for your sins. Only the true and living God, Jehovah's Son Jesus Christ did. Proving it by raising from the dead on the 3rd day! Many gods in this world, only one true and living God who loves you enough to take away the sins of the world 🌎 ✨️. Soon His Church will be raptured/ caught up to be with Him. Then the tribulation begins!

[@ninaluolakari8397]

Sopia- wisdom But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him. Jaa 1:5 🤍🙏 I pray to the very great and good Father, who is the God of our *Lord Jesus Christ. I pray that he will cause you to understand things by his Spirit. I ask God to show things to you by his Spirit, so that you can really know him. Efe 1:17 🤍👐 Thank you Lord Jesus !