Book · 2021 · Biography

The Awakened Brain

by Dr. Lisa Miller · Recommended by 3 people on 2 podcasts

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Have you read the work of Dr Lisa Miller uh the awakened brain yeah I had her on the podcast.
Rainn Wilson · The Rich Roll Podcast · Apr 2023 Listen at 1:12:27

The best things said about it

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Discussed
So, what you're saying here, and you write about this in your best-selling book, The Awakened Brain. I'm on page 58.
Mel Robbins The Mel Robbins Podcast · May 2025
Discussed
Her first book, The Spiritual Child, was a New York times bestseller and her latest and the focus of today's discussion is entitled The Awakened Brain.
Rich Roll The Rich Roll Podcast · Jan 2022

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The Awakened Brain by Dr. Lisa Miller is a work exploring the neuroscience of spirituality and how it shapes human health and resilience. Rainn Wilson mentioned the book on The Rich Roll Podcast when discussing the empirical data supporting the benefits of religion and spirituality, noting that he had previously hosted the author. Rich Roll also recommended and promoted the book at the conclusion of his interview with Dr. Miller. On The Mel Robbins Podcast, Mel Robbins brought up the publication to read and highlight specific passages concerning genetic inheritance, twin studies, and how the brain receives thoughts rather than generating them, while also noting that a spiritual practice discussed on the show is featured in the text. Furthermore, Rich Roll and Rainn Wilson revisited the author's work across multiple episodes, reflecting on the broad implications of her research. Roll initially introduced the book by contrasting it with her previous bestseller, The Spiritual Child, and noted how military organizations had integrated the science from her latest research in a vertically integrated way to support mental well-being and performance.

Every mention

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Rich Roll Her first book, The Spiritual Child, was a New York times bestseller and her latest and the focus of today'… 3
Discussed
“Her first book, The Spiritual Child, was a New York times bestseller and her latest and the focus of today's discussion is entitled The Awakened Brain.”
Discussed
“The Armies used the science of The Awakened Brain, and in a top-down vertically integrated way.”
Recommended
“The book is The Awakened Brain. You can get it everywhere.”
Rainn Wilson have you read the work of Dr Lisa Miller uh the awakened brain yeah I had her on the podcast 2
Discussed
“And if you have you have you read the work of Dr. Lisa Miller uh the awakened brain? Yeah, I had her on the podcast.”
Recommended
“have you read the work of Dr Lisa Miller uh the awakened brain yeah I had her on the podcast”
Mel Robbins So, what you're saying here, and you write about this in your best-selling book, The Awakened Brain. I'm on… 3
Discussed
“So, what you're saying here, and you write about this in your best-selling book, The Awakened Brain. I'm on page 58.”
Discussed
“And this is where I took out the highlighter and was like, "Wait, what?" And this is on page 102.”

Also mentioned in the same episodes

Other mentions (14: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“Today's guest on On Purpose is Dr. Lisa Miller, psychologist, Columbia professor, and author of The Awakened Brain.”
Own book
“I share in The Awakened Brain that in the journey to find Isaiah, there were very I'm very grateful for some very sacred, mystical visitations.”
Own book
“on the podcast to promote her new book The awakened brain Dr Miller delivered an incredible Deep dive on the numerous benefits of cultivating a spiritual practice”
Own book
“And the two threads within lived human spirituality where I focus in The Awakened Brain, are the two areas where the lines share of science says, our lives are entirely different.”
Own book
“My deep spirituality by which usually is meant this thread of lived spirituality identified in The Awakened Brain.”
Passing
“But before we even do that I suspect that... And you talk about this in the book.”
Own book
“Okay, my oldest son Isaiah, who's in the story, he is in The Awakened Brain.”
Own book
“I often in The Awakened Brain telling the story of being on a New York City in-patient unit.”
Own book
“And there are practices in The Awakened Brain for reawakening our brain.”
Own book
“I delivered the science in The Awakened Brain to the four-stars, the vice chief, the chief and the Secretary of the Army.”
Own book
“But the military is leading away in a data-driven approach using the science in The Awakened Brain to address really the plague that has attacked young adults.”
Own book
“And I share in The Awakened Brain, sophomore year I ended up in the basement of my dorm at Yale.”
Own book
“Your trail angels is what I call them in Awakened Brain.”

Portraits from Wikimedia Commons: Rainn Wilson, John Manard / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0); Rich Roll, Compassion Over Killing / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).