Brain Fact Friday on ”How Conflict and Arguments Impact the Brain and Body”

<p>Welcome back to The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we cover the science-based evidence behind social and emotional learning (for schools) and emotional intelligence training (in the workplace) with tools, ideas and strategies that we can all use for immediate results.</p> <p>On this episode we will cover:</p> <p>✔ The future of educational neuroscience.</p> <p>✔ A mid-year look at our goals.</p> <p>✔ How unresolved issues impact our brain and body.</p> <p>I’m Andrea Samadi, and for this week’s Brain Fact Friday, I wanted to tie in our interviews from this week with something we can all use right away. I thought about what my friend Kate is building with YungMash Collective that we covered on EPISODE #235<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a>—a mentoring community for young adults ages 18-30 to learn how to apply the most current cutting edge neuroscience to their lives to solve problems with their brain in mind. When Kate’s Dad heard this interview, he told her “what a noble cause” which is exactly what Simon Sinek said to me when he heard of my mission to make an impact in the field of education. It made Kate’s day to have her Dad’s support with her project…</p> <p>Then I thought about Dr. Loretta Breuning’s <em>Habits of a Happy Brain</em> book that we just covered on EPISODE #236<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a> and I’m amazed at how new this topic of applying an understanding of our brain is, for improving our everyday life and results. Before this interview, I wouldn’t have thought about the serotonin boost that our mission would give both Kate and I, as Dr. Breuning taught us many things about how to increase our happy chemicals, and how serotonin increases when we have a sense of pride with our work, or social importance.</p> <p>IMAGE: From Habits of a Happy Brain by Dr. Loretta Breuning</p> <p>It’s only been recently that I began making the connection between the work we are doing here on the podcast, improving our results, and what our brain has to do with it all.  We’ve mentio