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Wired for Joy Defined
Wired for Joy

Wired for Joy Defined

Waht is Wird for Joy? How do you know that you've traveled along this EBT pathway for long enough and with enough ah-ha moments and breakthroughs that your brain naturally returns to joy and savors it?

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Health: The Love Connection
Love

Health: The Love Connection

As mammals, we are all lovebirds, and in lessons learned from horses, for our comfort, safety and health, we need each other. Joy is about reunion with loving connection and we can't have too much of that natural medicine.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
Neuroplasticity and Medicine
Brain Based Health

Neuroplasticity and Medicine

A new tool for physicians and other health professionals is the positive plasticity of the stress overload and trauma circuits that contribute to health problems. Now, EBT launches the trauma feature on the app to help make our nation and the world healthier and happier.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
How EBT Changes Biochemistry
Optimal Health

How EBT Changes Biochemistry

By processing our emotions, we can change our biochemistry. The new medicine is emotional resilience, as by feeling better, we get better. EBT is foundational to optimal health.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Wired for Weight Loss
Obesity

Wired for Weight Loss

Research on the stress triangle, survival circuits, and fear memories published between 2008 and 2013 laid the groundwork for a new treatment of obesity: positive plasticity of the wires that activate the Stress Triangle.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Giving yourself a clean slate

Giving yourself a clean slate

The word "peace" comes up a lot in the EBT Community. The first reward is Sanctuary: peace and power from within. So, how do we use EBT to facilitate that elusive,

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
EBT: Self-actualizing Our Joy Potential
Homeostatic Wires

EBT: Self-actualizing Our Joy Potential

Behind every stress-induced wire may well be a drive for such joy that rewiring it could transform our lives. Add to that some good fortune of happy circumstances, and who knows what our true joy potential is?

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Why not 20 Spiral Ups/Day?
Spiral Up

Why not 20 Spiral Ups/Day?

By spiraling up more often, the brain stays at a higher, less stressed, more health-promoting state. We stay ahead of the stress and lock in a stronger connection to being in joy.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
#1 Addiction: Suppressing Emotions
Emotions

#1 Addiction: Suppressing Emotions

Suppressing emotions often starts with not having the skills to turn gnarly, stuck emotions into positive, flowing feelings, and continues as a Survival Circuit . . . a drive to suppress rather than express.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Weight Loss: Make It Easy!
weight loss

Weight Loss: Make It Easy!

Stress activates the Big 8 Chemicals that drive overeating, binge eating, mindless eating, and food addiction. Rewire the offending circuits so that weight loss can become effortless and lasting.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
4 min read
Neuroscientific therapy for all
Psychotherapy

Neuroscientific therapy for all

Mental health is rooted in physiology, yet psychotherapy methods do not directly treat the circuits that drive physiology. With stress levels rising ("The Age of the Emotional Brain"), it is time for that to change.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
Rebirthing addiction therapy
Survival Circuits

Rebirthing addiction therapy

Neuroscience breakthroughs forwarded by Joseph LeDoux give us a way to see addictions that makes them more treatable and offers a pathway to clearing the stigma. They are wires! Discover three new ways to think about addiction based on this science.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
5 min read
EBT is a verb!
Resilience

EBT is a verb!

Although emotional brain training is the method's name, it is action-oriented and deserves to be applied as a verb. So, whatever circuit you erase, consider saying, "Oh, I feel emotionally lighter. I feel great because I EBTed it."

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
4 min read
Change Your Circuits, Change Your Life
Neuroplasticity

Change Your Circuits, Change Your Life

All problems are brain circuits. With EBT, we have the power to fix any of them that block our joy and separate us from that "glow state" that optimizes our health. What's the neuroscientific pathway to a GREAT life? Fixing our own brain with the immense power of EBT.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
5 min read
Explore Emotional Brain Training with Dr. Laurel Mellin on The Natural Health Rising Podcast
podcast

Explore Emotional Brain Training with Dr. Laurel Mellin on The Natural Health Rising Podcast

Dr. Laurel Mellin, renowned health psychologist, New York Times bestselling author, and founder of Emotional Brain Training (EBT), recently appeared on The Natural Health Rising Podcast. In this enlightening episode, Dr. Mellin delves

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
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