Emily McDonald

You don't see the world with your eyes.

You see the world with your brain.

Your thoughts, emotions, memories, beliefs, your past, it's all a construction that's happening inside of a black box.

And that black box is our skull.

I didn't used to believe in the power of the mind.

I didn't used to believe in any of this.

I grew up with so many different health issues and doctors were never really able to help the people that I loved or me.

Everything that I talk about is everything that I needed to hear and that I've personally used to change my life.

They raise newborn kittens in complete darkness except for a few hours each day in cylinders painted with only horizontal or only vertical black and white stripes.

After that critical period, the kittens that were raised to only ever see these horizontal stripes, they did not respond to vertically oriented objects.

It could be right in front of my face and I wouldn't even notice it.

Where am I the kitten in my own life?

When it becomes your entire identity and it's entangled in your work, it becomes very painful.

Your sense of worthiness completely resides on performance.

But when you realize that your brain is constructing your entire experience of reality, it's actually quite empowering because

Thank you for having me.

I'm so excited for this.

Nice to meet you too.

I love that you say diving straight into the deep end.

This was actually kind of the thing that opened the doorway for me into knowing myself, knowing life, building the life that I want.