922. Understand ADHD, anxiety, and how to rewire your brain
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Angie Noack, a licensed professional counselor with Brain Code Centers, joins us for a conversation about personal growth, the nervous system, and emotional resilience. We explore how everyday habits + mindset shifts shape your brain's stress response—and the self-awareness that can help you change those patterns.
After experiencing a traumatic brain injury at 19, Angie began to understand the brain's capacity for change. She shares how that experience led her into brain mapping + neurofeedback, and why the brain can stay stuck in patterns of anxiety long after the original stress has passed.
From technology + dopamine to self-talk + affirmations, we get into how repeated patterns are learned—and why changing them takes consistency, not a quick fix. Angie offers a hopeful reminder that your brain is not your identity, and that building new neural pathways is possible.
We also talk about:
- Why Angie believes in mental wellness integration rather than the idea of work-life balance
- The Enneagram 2 helper pattern, over-functioning, and feeling like you have to earn love by showing up for everyone
- How early attachment patterns can influence your sense of worth + your relationship with stress
- The overlap between ADHD-like symptoms + early trauma, and why Angie encourages looking beneath the label
- Why working toward a goal can be more rewarding for the brain than getting an immediate dopamine hit
- The role of sleep, circadian rhythm, movement, and blood sugar in brain health
- How to create healthier technology boundaries for yourself + your children
- Viktor Frankl's work on finding meaning in suffering + turning difficult experiences into service
- Why the people around you matter—and the impact of speaking life into yourself + others
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