Brain Fact Friday ”Prioritizing Mental Health in 2023: Improving Self-Awareness and Resilience”

<p>Happy New Year, and welcome back to our 9th Season, approaching our 4th year of <em>The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast</em>.  For those returning, welcome back and for new listeners, I’m Andrea Samadi an author and educator, who launched this podcast in June 2019, for many reasons, but the one that stands out the most today, is to amplify the best practices, tools, strategies and ideas, from authors, experts and leaders who’ve risen the top of their field, to improve productivity in our schools, sports environments and modern workplaces, by connecting an understanding of our brain to their proven strategies.</p> <p>On today’s Episode #268 we will cover</p> <p>✔ An Introduction to Season 9 of our Podcast: Neuroscience: Going Back to the Basics</p> <p>✔ Intro to “Prioritizing Our Mental Health in 2023: Building Self-Awareness and Resilience in the New Year.”</p> <p>✔ 4 TIPS for Putting our Mental and Physical Health First in 2023 with our Brain in Mind.</p> <p>This season we will be focused on <em>Neuroscience: Going Back to the Basics </em>for the next few months, as we welcome some phenomenal pioneers in the field of Neuroscience, paving a pathway for all of us to navigate our lives with more understanding with our brain in mind. My goal with this next season (that will run until the end of June) is that going back to the basics will help us to strengthen our understanding of the brain, and our mind, to our results, and provide us with a springboard to propel us forward in 2023, with this solid backbone of science. Going back to the basics is something we do without thought while teaching a lesson in the classroom, or with skill-building in sports, and it’s at the root of our performance improvement plans in the workplace, so before moving forward, I wanted to take some steps back a bit, to intentionally strengthen our direction with this podcast.</p> <p>Before moving forward, I do want to thank our listeners who have taken the time to post a review of the podcast on Appl