How to Deal When the Shit Gets Real Podcast · Rietta Boksha

Geoffrey 'G' Cole: Brainwave Analysis and Mental Health

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He says his sleep kept delivering a daily thought that he “should just kill myself.”

1. How to Deal When the Shit Gets Real Podcast centers on Geoffrey “G” Cole and his brainwave-analysis approach to mental health. 2. Rieta introduces G Cole as a “brave brainwave analysis expert,” and he says he has studied EEG technology and psychological therapy with thousands of people since 2007. 3. The episode asks how G Cole deals when “the shit gets real,” and his answer is that trauma, brainwaves, and love are all part of the same system. 4. He says his own path began with “years and years and years of trauma,” seven years of depression, panic attacks, and treatment-resistant anxiety. 5. He explains that he found neuroscience in 2007 and watched his own brainwaves while working through a major personal issue. 6. He describes a framework that maps trauma to the brain and says he can tell when different traumas happened by reading EEG patterns. 7. G Cole says the biggest problem he could not fix was sleep, because waking up felt like immediate hopelessness and suicidal thinking. 8. He says he tried meds, Reiki, morning routines, and other coping tools before connecting sleep with occipital-lobe imbalance. 9. He references research from the 1990s and says self-esteem and sleep are directly related to occipital-lobe imbalances. 10. He explains left-right occipital balance as a 10 percent range, with one side focused on action and the other on meaning and strategy. 11. He says the breakthrough came when he coordinated left and right brain activity and the depression lifted the next day. 12. He links that moment to his belief that “what you focus on grows in here,” meaning the body follows repeated thought patterns. 13. He says his earliest identity wound came from learning that his mother rejected him and did not touch him for a full year after birth. 14. He says that discovery led him to call himself worthless until he decided to build a better relationship with his mother. 15. He describes telling his mother “I love you” for years before hearing it back, and says the exercise was meant to rewire his own nervous system. 16. He says the same fear-based pattern showed up later in jail, where he was held with 50 angry men and chose to create calm instead of conflict. 17. He says he used meditation, breathing, sudoku, and humor in the cell, and another man later told him he had changed the consciousness of the cell. 18. The conversation is interview-based, with Rieta prompting him often and giving room for long, technical explanations about brainwaves and trauma. 19. People interested in trauma recovery, EEG, and practical self-regulation would get the most from this episode. 20. People looking for a short, lightly technical chat without trauma content may skip it.

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