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. Each episode provides insights from a community of educators, researchers, therapists, clinicians, family members to support a healthy brain.
Mary Turos breaks down expressed emotion—the family patterns of criticism, hostility, and over-involvement—and how they affect relapse and everyday functioning across mental health issues.
She shares practical, research-based approaches for critics (emotion coaching and psychoeducation) and for people who are criticized (reframing, keeping a record of successes, low-reactivity responses, and creating safe spaces or boundaries).