Your Brain Is Being Trained Like a Dog — Here's How to Take Back the Leash

Every time you pick up your phone without deciding to, your brain gets trained a little more. Every time an anxious thought pulls you down a spiral, that pathway gets a little deeper. You are not choosing these patterns — they are being conditioned into you by algorithms designed to keep you scrolling and a nervous system that learned to associate the phone with relief. Phyllis Coletta has spent her career teaching people to retrain that conditioning — and her Leave It protocol applies the same principles used to train a puppy to your own intrusive thoughts and phone urges. What she shares about how to catch anxious thoughts before they hijack your day, how to surf the urge to scroll without giving in to it, and the 60-second breathing reset that calms your nervous system on demand will give you the most practical and surprisingly playful framework for taking your attention back from everything that has been stealing it. The phone is not the boss. This episode hands you the leash. You’ll learn: 📵 How to catch “fake news” thoughts before they hijack your day 🐶 How to use the “Leave It” puppy protocol on your own mind 📱 How to surf phone urges instead of drowning in doomscrolling 🌬️ A 60-second breathing reset to calm anxiety on demand 💛 How kinder self-talk and self-compassion rewire old patterns 🔥 If your phone and thoughts are running your life, this episode hands you the leash. 🔗 Show Notes & ResourcesMind training + “Leave It” support doc:https://95f72eee-8948-4bb1-ac4d-a4728ea4d29a-1.tiiny.site/Additional resource / guide:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1du-qRPVDMlQz6z8gzHP7oHE8Qh3OVX46/view?usp=sharing 🔗 Links & ResourcesWebsite: https://www.howtobeagooddog.com/Blog: https://www.howtobeagooddog.com/blogContact: [email protected]📘 Get the Book — How to Be a Good Dog: Learning to Sit, Stay, and HealBookBaby: https://store.bookbaby.com/book/how-to-be-a-good-dogAmazon: https://www.amazon.com/How-Good-Dog-Learning-Stay/dp/B0F86PDJ3RApple Books: https://books.apple.com/be/book/how-to-be-a-good-dog/id6745525078Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-be-a-good-dog-phyllis-coletta/1147392035 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices