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Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast

Dr. Trish Leigh

Porn has been shown to create underactivity in the frontal lobe and reward centers in the brain. Porn can increase your anxiety, depression, mood problems, strain your relationships, and even give you erectile dysfunction. Dr. Trish Leigh will teach you how porn can ruin your brain and what to do to heal it.

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Episode #209: Why Modern Life Is Disconnecting You...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2026/02/15

Modern life didn’t make you lose yourself — it trained your nervous system to disconnect.Your sense of identity is built through the Relational Self Network (RSN), the brain system that forms “self” through emotional attunement and co-regulation. Modern culture floods the brain with stimulation but offers very little relational safety, so the RSN stays active without completing.That’s when you feel present but not really here. Connection feels draining. Motivation fades. Intimacy shuts down. Not

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Episode #208: Why Attraction Collapses Under Pressure

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2026/02/08

Attraction doesn’t disappear because something is wrong with you.It collapses when your nervous system feels evaluated.Pressure, performance, and self-monitoring activate the Arousal Inhibition Response (AIR). Attraction can still exist, but spontaneity shuts down because the brain no longer feels safe to open.Modern dating and social media train the nervous system to stay in surveillance mode. Under surveillance, attraction doesn’t open — it inhibits.The opposite of performance isn’t passivity.It’s

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13:34

Episode #207: Why Fantasizing Feels Normal

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2026/02/01

Your brain isn’t broken. You’re living inside a neurological environment built by chronic overstimulation.What feels “normal” today is engineered. Algorithms train your nervous system to expect reward without effort — and over time, your brain’s effort system goes offline.When stimulation replaces engagement, motivation drops, focus fractures, emotional regulation weakens, and desire shuts down.That’s not a discipline problem.It’s a nervous system state.In this Supernormal conversation, you’ll

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17:46

Episode #206: How the Nervous System Restores...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2026/01/25

How the Nervous System Restores Motivation, Drive, and Follow-ThroughBy the end of January, goals don’t usually disappear — effort does.You don’t stop caring. Your nervous system just stops permitting effort.When your autonomic nervous system shifts into protection mode, relief becomes the priority, not growth. That’s why pushing harder only makes you feel more blocked. Effort is not a personality trait or a moral quality. It’s a biological state created by regulation.This episode explains the

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Episode #205: Why Effort Feels Hard Now: The...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2026/01/17

If effort feels heavier than it used to, the problem isn’t your motivation.A screen-driven world is suppressing your brain’s agency system.When reward is instant, and stimulation is constant, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) stops initiating effort.You don’t feel lazy. You feel stuck.Not because you lack discipline, but because your brain has been trained to wait for urgency instead of choosing action.This is a regulation issue, not a mindset flaw.And when you restore effort before reward, agency

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Episode #204: Dopamine Discipline Explained: The...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2026/01/10

Dopamine Discipline Explained: The Neuroscience of Delayed RewardIf you struggle with focus, consistency, or self-discipline, I want you to hear this.This is not a motivation problem. It is dopamine overstimulation.When your brain is trained on instant reward, it stops working for your future. Planning weakens. Effort feels harder. Long-term goals lose their pull because dopamine is spent on relief rather than on pursuit.In Dopamine Discipline Explained: The Neuroscience of Delayed Reward, I walk

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15:05

Episode #203: Why Your New Year’s Goals Fail — and...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2026/01/04

Why Your New Year’s Goals Fail — and How to Become Supernormal InsteadYou set big goals for the new year. But if your brain is hijacked by screens, algorithms, and constant overstimulation, willpower alone will not get you there.Excess dopamine from the screen miswires your brain, drains motivation, and keeps your nervous system stuck in survival mode. That is why focus fades, follow-through collapses, and every year starts to feel the same.If you want this year to be different, the first step is

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29:10

Episode #202: The New Year Reset: Decluttering Your...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2025/12/28

The New Year Reset: Decluttering Your Space, Your Mind, and Your GoalsIf your mind feels cluttered and stuck as the new year begins, this is not a motivation problem. 🎯It is a nervous system problem.When your environment stays cluttered, your brain stays overloaded. Visual noise, mental load, and unfinished decisions keep your nervous system stuck in a low-level state of threat.When you simplify your space, your brain can finally regulate. Order reduces cognitive load. Open space restores focus

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Episode #201: Family of Origin Dysfunction: Why Going...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2025/12/21

If going home for the holidays leaves you anxious, exhausted, or feeling like you’re twelve years old again, this is not emotional weakness. This is your nervous system.When you’re around your family of origin, the oldest wiring in your brain comes back online. These patterns were built before you had adult self-regulation. Your limbic system reacts fast, old roles resurface, and your regulated adult self can get pushed offline without you realizing it.What you’re experiencing is neurological

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Episode #200: Winter Blues or Brain Overload? — Dr....

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2025/12/14

Winter Blues or Brain Overload?If you have been feeling heavier, foggier, or slower this winter, you are not broken. Your brain is overloaded.Many people mistake this for depression, but often it is a miswired nervous system struggling to regulate in the dark, cold season.Less sunlight lowers dopamine and serotonin. More isolation weakens emotional rhythm. More screen time overstimulates your reward pathways.Your motivation dips and your mood flattens because your system is strained, not because you

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Episode #199: Holiday Overstimulation: How the Season...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2025/12/07

Holiday Overstimulation: How the Season Hijacks Your Dopamine—And What Your Brain Actually NeedsIf December leaves you anxious, numb, restless, or overwhelmed, your brain is not malfunctioning. It’s responding to a season that pushes your dopamine system into overdrive. In this episode, I show you how holiday pressure, comparison posts, sugar and alcohol spikes, bright lights, noise, and overloaded schedules shift your nervous system from a state of regulation into survival mode.Overstimulation

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Episode #198: The Neuroscience of Flow: Why Stillness...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2025/11/30

The Neuroscience of Flow: Why Stillness Fuels Your DopamineIf you feel overstimulated, tense, or stuck in control mode, your brain is not the problem. It’s your rhythm. In this episode, I show you how your nervous system shifts from chaos to coherence when you stop forcing and start flowing.Flow is not a mindset. It’s a biological state in which your brain waves, heart rhythm, and emotional circuits sync. When that harmony returns, your dopamine stabilizes, your focus strengthens, and you feel

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Episode #198: Neuroscientist Explains the Dopamine...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2025/11/23

Every time you scroll, your brain learns one thing: distraction feels safer than stillness.In this episode, Dr. Trish Leigh explains the real dopamine hijack happening in modern life, the overstimulating, engineered world that keeps your nervous system running on urgency, novelty, and noise.As part of No Numb November, you will learn why ancient dopamine wiring struggles in a saturation-based world, how the scroll–spike–crash loop reshapes your reward circuits, why peace feels “boring” and stillness

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13:47

Episode #196: Neuroscientist Explains Why You Can’t...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2025/11/16

Neuroscientist Explains Why You Can’t “Fix” Your Dopamine You’ve tried to fix yourself — more routines, more tracking, more control. But neuroscience shows what you’re really chasing isn’t progress… it’s another dopamine hit.When you constantly tweak, check, or perfect, your brain lights up — not from growth, but from anticipation. That’s why stillness feels unsafe. You’ve trained your nervous system to equate safety with activity.Real discipline isn’t about doing more. It’s about learning to trust

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21:57

Episode #195: Neuroscientist Explains the Hidden Cost...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2025/11/09

You quit everything — screens, stimulation, even connection — thinking it would make you feel alive again.But three weeks into your dopamine detox, you feel worse. Numb. Flat. Drained.That’s not failure — it’s feedback. Your brain isn’t broken; it’s withdrawing.When you’ve spent years wired for constant novelty, cutting dopamine off doesn’t regulate your system — it crashes it.Your neurons go silent, your motivation disappears, and your nervous system panics in the quiet.The truth? You don’t need

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21:57

Episode 194: Neuroscientist Explains Why No Numb...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2025/11/02

You’ve seen dopamine everywhere—on shirts, mugs, even tattoos—but the real issue isn’t “more dopamine,” it’s imbalance. In a world wired for novelty—clicks, explicit matter, endless goals—your brain learns compulsion, not clarity. Dopamine was meant to be a teacher, not a trophy.This November isn’t just NoFap—it’s No Numb November. Because the problem isn’t only the behavior, it’s the numbing your nervous system keeps chasing. When you quit cold turkey, the stimulation stops, but your circuitry is

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Episode #193: When Social Media Becomes Your Enemy —...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2025/10/26

You think you’re just catching up—but suddenly your chest tightens, your breath shortens, and your brain whispers, “You’re not enough.” That’s not a lack of discipline. It’s a nervous system hijack. 🧠Every scroll trains your brain to crave stimulation instead of stillness and comparison instead of contentment. This is the digital envy loop—a dopamine-driven trap that floods you with pleasure and shame all at once, leaving you restless, anxious, and disconnected from your true worth.But here’s the

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Episode #192: The Dopamine Illusion — Why Pleasure...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2025/10/19

The Dopamine Illusion — Why Pleasure Isn’t the Same as JoyYour brain isn’t broken—it’s been tricked into chasing quick dopamine spikes and calling them happiness. That’s the illusion. Every swipe, scroll, and surge of stimulation rewires your reward circuits, dulling the calm rhythm of your mind—the peak alpha state where real joy and creativity live.But here’s the hope: your brain is neuroplastic. It can change, grow, and heal when given the right input. Through stillness, intention, and the right

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19:32

Episode #191: You Don’t Need Willpower — You Need...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2025/10/12

You don’t need more willpower. You need coherence.Trying harder isn’t the answer — it’s your brain that needs realignment. Neuroscience shows that willpower lives in your prefrontal cortex, but when dopamine spikes from overstimulation, that part of your brain literally goes offline. That’s why white-knuckling through temptation never works.True discipline isn’t about control — it’s about coherence. When your nervous system is balanced and your higher self is in control, discipline flows naturally

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Episode #190: Dopamine Hijack: How Screens Miswire...

Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast ·

2025/10/05

Dopamine Hijack: How Screens Miswire Your Brain (and How to Rewire It Back)Have you ever opened your phone to “just check one thing”… and suddenly 45 minutes are gone? That isn’t weakness—it’s your brain being hijacked. Dopamine, the chemical that drives motivation, gets rewired by screens to chase novelty and notifications instead of real-life rewards. Over time, that leaves you fragmented in focus, drained of motivation, and disconnected from who you really are.The good news? Your brain can

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