Dr. Caroline Leaf

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Know Thyself · E199 - Dr. Caroline Leaf: How to Stop Your Brain From Holding You Back · 16 Jun 2026 podcast

So that I think is quite an important concept and idea.

And then working with kids from young, I mean, if you are, children read books

Children read us.

So if they're better at body language and nonverbal communication than adults, we lose a lot of that.

We know that between the ages of up to the age of five, children are incredibly insightful.

Then it still carries on.

And then we lose that as we reach sort of our mid-teens and that sort of thing, it gets less.

But what's interesting is that's why it's so important for us to teach children from very young.

that it's okay to have a bad emotion.

You know, we live in a biomedical world that has taken an approach to mental health that's very biomedical.

So it's treating it like an illness, and it's not.

Mental health is part of our humanity and our response to adverse circumstances.

So our children, Gen Z, Gen Alpha, are growing up the most challenged generation when it comes to emotions, because every time they have an emotion, they're told it's bad.

And then the tick-tockification of mental health.

And that's a big concern, looking for the label to try and find, well, this is the solution.

But that locks you in.

And so they've got to be able to express themselves.

You've got to be able to cry and have guilt and compassion and happiness and joy and fear.

It's all part of it.

And that concerns me that that's

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