Do you know how to use your brain to create a new life after trauma? Following a traumatic event your mind can feel disconnected, disjointed and reduced in functioning. In addition to the effects of acute stress and then, sometimes, PTSD how trauma changes your brain can have a big effect on how you live and who you are.

While it can seem like you’ve been changed forever, the fact is that your brain (and you) changes all the time. Most of the alterations experienced in brain function after trauma can be encouraged to change again; this is how healing happens. My guest today, depression expert Craig Meriwether, joined me to discuss how the brain changes and how that knowledge can be practically applied to recovery. In our conversation we covered:

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• Craig’s personal struggle with and experience of depression
  
• why we all feel so isolated in our post-trauma mindset
  
• the moment of change
  
• how conditioning happens
  
• the science of the brain and your emotions
  
• how to put the science into practice
  

Fave quote:

You don’t have to feel that miserable, but it does take work to feel better. You have to do the work.

Craig Meriwether  has been described as a “wake-up†call, giving people the tools and information they need to energize and revitalize their lives, enabling them to end depression and create a life of happiness.

Craig is the author of the best selling programs Mind Mastery Blueprint and Depression 180 about which Wendy Love creator and author of the award winning blog DepressionGateway.com says: “This is one of the best, most thorough books on depression I have read – and I have read most of them. It is the most thorough account of all of the strategies you could possibly employ to manage depression.â€

Craig is also a featured author in the New York Times bestselling book Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to Live your Best Life Now! along with Jack Canfield, Marci Shimoff and Janet Attwood. He is also host of the popular blog talk radio show – The Mastermind Show interviewing experts in mind, body and spiritual transformation.

For a free download of a 1 hour long seminar on this topic (plus a cool video) visit http://UltimateLife360.com/.