How to Keep our Brains fit and healthy - with Jeanne Walker

 

How to keep our Brains Healthy and Fit for Life! |  SFN Zoom session |  Monday June 19 at 5.30pm (AEST)

Session on Zoom

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86250511462

“We used to think our brain didn’t grow or change much after our twenties. We assumed the  main changes were about decline. Now we know that there are lots of practical things we can do keep our brains lively, growing and learning right up to our last breath,” says Jeanne Walker, our SFN facilitator for June 19.   Jeanne should know. In July 2022, she survived four hours of emergency brain surgery to remove a very large brain tumour, which had grown undiagnosed for ten years, despite visits to many doctors. Now 10 months into her recovery, all her years of coaching and facilitating in leadership, happiness and well being, and her enthusiastic reading of brain specialists like Dr Oliver Sachs and Dr Lara Boyd have all come together.   “In fact, I feel my brain tumour has been a friend in disguise. It’s really forced me to focus on what matters: the people I love, living fully and healthily, and helping everybody - including me - to keep our brains as active and fit as possible.”    “We’ll be exploring how attitude, gratitude, relationships  and a range of everyday habits like eating, drinking water & alcohol, overnight fasting, moving, sleeping, meditating, and learning - especially fun things – can all boost our brains. We’ll also look at how you can get assessments for yourself or a loved one. We may even have time to look at how our brains can soar with ease and flow." Jeanne Walker’s career has spanned radio and TV as a journalist and as an executive. She made her name for powerful reporting of mass demonstrations in New Zealand for human rights about racial equality, freedom from nuclear radiation, and laws to recognise homosexual rights. Her first Australian TV job was on the ABC’s Lateline team.  Jeanne went on to lead government behaviour change campaigns involving millions of people and to raise over $30 million for community causes.  Read more at:  https://www.linkedin.com//in/jeannewalkerlinkedin