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The Brain Coach podcast is hosted by executive function expert and 'Brain Coach' Mary Turos. Take a deep dive into executive functions and simple strategies based in neuroscience to overcome obstacles and achieve personal progress.
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- Sep 15, 2026
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Break the Groove: 3 Simple Fixes for Getting Out of a Rut (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Brain Coach, Mary Turos explains what a rut is from an executive function perspective and why willpower alone won’t fix it. She outlines practical strategies—change the cue, shrink the first step, and add external monitoring—to help you break repetitive, unhelpful patterns. Using real-world examples, Mary shows how small context shifts and implementation intentions can rebuild automatic responses and prevent backlogs.
The Hidden Mask: Why We Pretend and How to Unmask (opens the original)
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Mary Turos explains psychological masking—how and why people hide their true thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to fit in, avoid judgment, or feel safe. She outlines common causes and clear signs of masking, the emotional and physical costs like exhaustion and identity loss, and how it often shows up for neurodivergent people. The episode closes with simple, gradual strategies to unmask safely: start small, find trusted people to be real with, notice bodily tension, and set tiny boundaries to pro
Living in the Now: Understanding Time Blindness and ADHD (opens the original)
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This episode explains "time blindness," a neurologically based difficulty perceiving and managing time often linked to ADHD, and clarifies that it’s a performance issue, not laziness. Mary Turos outlines practical strategies to externalize time—using analog clocks, visual timers, padded scheduling, staggered alarms, and external structure like calendars or accountability—to help manage daily tasks and deadlines.
Stuck in Place? Beat Task Paralysis with One Small Step (opens the original)
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Mary Turos explains task paralysis—the freeze between knowing what to do and actually doing it—and how it stems from breakdowns in executive function, not laziness. She outlines common triggers (cognitive overload, emotional interference, depleted capacity) and real-life examples like the blank-page freeze, overloaded to-do lists, and avoidance disguised as busyness. Actionable fixes include implementation intentions (if–then plans), tiny pre-decided entry steps, pairing cues with tasks, and kno
Power Naps, Big Gains: How Short Sleep Supercharges Your Brain (opens the original)
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In this episode Mary Turos explores the science of naps and why sleep is essential for brain health. She explains mechanisms like the glymphatic system, memory consolidation, and sleep spindles that make naps effective for learning, emotional regulation, and clearing metabolic waste. Mary covers practical guidance on nap timing—short 10-30 minute power naps for alertness, and 60–90 minute naps for deeper consolidation—discusses biphasic sleep history, and encourages trying naps as a useful daily
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