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In this final installment of the D-E-S-T-R-E-S-S Protocol Series, Dr. Michael and May Bagnell,IHP explore the last pillar of the protocol developed by Dr. Stephen Cabral and integrated into the Bagnell Brain Center’s approach to whole-person healing. Today’s focus is the second “S” – Success Mindset. 

This episode dives into the science and psychology of healing, revealing why mindset is not optional but biologically essential. You can have the right data, the right therapies, and the perfect nutrition plan, yet still struggle to heal if your belief system and emotional environment are not aligned with recovery. 

May shares how thoughts create chemical messages, how suppressed emotions become physiological burdens, and why your inner environment directly shapes the biology of your brain. Drawing from the work of Dr. Bruce Lipton, Gabor Maté, and Tony Robbins, the conversation highlights: 

• How beliefs and emotional patterns influence hormones, inflammation, and brain firing
• Why suppressed emotions become “depressed” physiology
• The role of authenticity in healing
• How trauma patterns show up as chronic symptoms
• How hope, perspective, and neuroplasticity can reshape the brain

The Bagnells also discuss the three forces of meaning, how to break emotional loops, and the powerful connection between state, interpretation, and behavior.

In the final portion of the episode, May offers practical tools to help you shift your mindset, including:
 

• How to identify where you’re saying “yes” when you mean “no”
• Where you may be abandoning your own needs
• How language patterns either reinforce or release emotional stress
• How small mindset shifts begin retraining your brain and restoring your health

As the year closes and a new one approaches, this episode invites you to step into clarity, authenticity, and a renewed belief that you can heal, and with the right support, you can transform your life from the inside out.