Neuroplasticity: How to rewire your brain
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Our brains are designed to learn, but sometimes the patterns we inherit from trauma, fear, genetics, or elsewhere can keep us stuck. The Neuroplasticity Project explores how shifting perception and nurturing curiosity can open new pathways for growth, connection, and emotional resilience.
A pharmacist reflects on burnout, mental health, and emerging plant-based therapies, tracing a profound shift in perception about healing, medicine, and what it means to truly get well.
Written by Dr Sarah Myers • Illustrated by Maggie Stephenson
Exploring how shifting perception—from punishment and control to trust and connection—can rewire not only children’s brains, but our own. Blending neuroscience, trauma awareness, and lived parenting moments, the piece demonstrates how neuroplasticity enables individuals to break inherited patterns, build safer relationships, and grow together with compassion rather than fear.
Written by Annette Walters • Illustrations by Sonny Ross • Managing Editor Jessi Cape
As children, we held our emotional pain however we had to at the time. As adults, we can revisit that pain, and feel how it has affected our bodies, to move forward with self-compassion. Explained and demonstrated by somatic psychotherapist Gabriela Ucros, LMFT with Nahima Shaffer.
Produced with a grant by Unlikely Collaborators • Exec Producer/Camera Rob VanAlkemade • Series Producer Erika Paige Barnette • Associate Producer Nahima Shaffer • Series Editor Jae Shim • Creative Director Jennymarie Jemison • Music by East Forest
“Neuroplasticity is occurring when you’re outside of that very stuck, contracted experience of life… self-compassion radically shifts everything for clients.”
—River Jenkins, Bendable Therapy
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