Lessons for Leaders 89: How Stories Challenge the Stigma of Mental Health

Dec 1, 2022 | Podcasts, Lessons for Leaders, Mental Wellbeing

How Stories Challenge the Stigma of Mental Health

When we tell stories there are areas of the brain that light up and create feel good chemicals and reactors in the brain that mean that stories are retained much better than just facts or figures.

Listen to this podcast on how stories challenge the stigma of mental health; and how telling stories creates different responses and connections in the brain that increases empathy and also increases trust.

How Stories Challenge the Stigma of Mental Health

When we tell stories there are areas of the brain that light up and create feel good chemicals and reactors in the brain that mean that stories are retained much better than just facts or figures.   Listen to the information how it creates different responses and connections in the brain that increases empathy and also increases trust.

How Stories Challenge the Stigma of Mental Health

There is five times more brain processing when we tell stories than when we just tell facts.

This is why I tell stories in my podcast, in my speaker sessions and in my workshops, so that the tools, tips and advice I give can be better retained and be more relatable.

Any questions on this, drop me an email at emma@emmalangton.com

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Emma Langton

Emma Langton

Executive Leadership Coach

Emma hosts the Lessons for Leaders podcast. Each week she brings you lessons, learnings, tips and advice to enable you to lead with ease in business, without stress, doubt and overwhelm so that I help you to increase your performance, be resilient and thrive in life. Emma has been providing coaching, training and therapeutic support for executives since setting up her business in 2011. Prior to that she spent over 20 years with people at the top of national and multi-national training and communication businesses.

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