Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
Hi. Welcome to my world!
It is my personal goal to live a balanced life between my work and play, as well as live a healthy and joy filled life – regardless of my external circumstances.
“Peace is just a thought away, and all we have to do to access that peace is to purposely silence the voice of our dominating left brain.”
- Jill Bolte Taylor
I practice the tools of Whole Brain Living to obtain and retain my deep inner peace.
I am sharing this neuroanatomically-based psychological paradigm with you, so you can live a more peaceful life too. We may not be able to choose the circumstances within which we find ourselves, but we have every say in how we let those circumstances impact our mental health.
Our deepest and wildest emotions of anxiety, fear, resentment, anger, sadness, and grief are not our enemies. They are important information from which we can learn and grow. Whole Brain Living is a wonderful roadmap that helps us hear rather than fear what our emotions are trying to tell us about ourselves and how we are wired. Whole Brain Living is a tool that trains us how we can sustain a peaceful heart and mind, even when we find ourselves emotionally triggered.
When we understand how our brain organizes information and we meet the Four Characters that drive our life, we gain the power to choose to step out of our emotional pain into the 75% of our brain that is not triggered. Allowing us to hear, hold, and heal ourselves from within.
In the following pages, I will share with you my personal journey and introduce you to my Four Characters, which we all share. Being willing to explore these Four Characters in yourself and others and learning to differentiate who is who inside of you is step one. Learning to bring all Four Characters of your brain into a diplomatic communication with one another empowers you to choose who and how you want to be in any moment.
We have so much more power over what is going on inside of our brain than we have ever been taught. I enthusiastically encourage you to take this journey into understanding your own mind.
Deep Dive Into Whole Brain Living
Discover Whole Brain Living at your own pace through this in-depth training designed to help you understand the four characters of your brain and how to call upon them with intention. You’ll learn practical tools to regulate emotions, shift unhelpful thinking patterns, and create more peace in your daily life.
For half a century we have been trained to believe that our right brain hemisphere is our emotional brain, while our left brain houses our rational thinking.
It is common knowledge in the world of neuroscience that our emotional limbic tissue is evenly divided between our two hemispheres, which means that each hemisphere has both an emotional module and a thinking module of cells.
In Whole Brain Living, I blend neuroanatomy with psychology to show how we can know the two emotional and two thinking parts of our brain and gain the power to call upon each of our characters in any moment.
I truly believe that our number one job in life is to love one another, and Whole Brain Living provides a simple roadmap for us to master our emotions and thoughts so we can live more peaceful lives.
“Please take responsibility for the energy you bring into this space.”
- Jill Bolte Taylor
My Story
I grew up to study the brain because I have a brother who would grow up to be diagnosed with the brain disorder schizophrenia. As a child, I could tell that we were different, so I became captivated with understanding what is ‘normal’ and what is not. The subject of my postdoctoral research in the Harvard Department of Psychiatry, asked the question: ‘How does our brain create our perception of reality?’ I desperately wanted to understand at a biological/cellular level why it was that my brain was capable of connecting my everyday experience with reality such that I could make my dreams come true, but my brother’s brain could not make that connection and instead manifest hallucinations and delusions.
