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Neuron Hopping: Why Rewiring Is Essential for Treating Stress Eating and Obesity
Neuroplasticity

Neuron Hopping: Why Rewiring Is Essential for Treating Stress Eating and Obesity

The wires that activate overeating are lightning fast, so behavior change is unlikely. The electrical impulses hop from one neuron to the next. Rewire that circuit and get the freedom you want and need.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
EBT as a Pain Reliever

EBT as a Pain Reliever

Pain, pleasure, stress, and reward have complicated relationships. EBT can intervene to manage pain through several different pathways in the brain.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
A Breaking-Free Moment!
Rewiring

A Breaking-Free Moment!

We all talk about our experiences, but the most magical experience—the moment of breaking free from some miserable wire—is not often amplified. Here is my Breaking Free Moment. Please share yours!.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Rewire: Save on Drug Bills
Medicine

Rewire: Save on Drug Bills

Why spend money on medications when you can rewire a few circuits and get those chemicals from the health-promoting circuits in your own brain. A new way to save money is to rewire circuits and get healthy naturally.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Start Rewiring, Stop Drugging
Optimal Health

Start Rewiring, Stop Drugging

We have a natural pharmacy in our brain. Each activation of a resilience circuit launches cascades of healing chemicals. Use the natural pharmacy by clearing away all those stress circuits from your brain!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Rewiring Success
Obesity

Rewiring Success

Discover exactly how to rewire that food circuit, celebrate with others the power of erasing a wire, and discover that you have no desire to overeat. Celebrate your power to erase!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
It's not me. It's just a wire!
Neuroplasticity

It's not me. It's just a wire!

The reality of life is not what you see, but the specific wire in your unconscious mind that is activated. Take charge of your stress wires with EBT. Maximize the power you have to make yourself healthier and happier!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Wired to be Fearless
Spirituality

Wired to be Fearless

Our emotional brain gives us pathways to fearlessness, and moments of supreme peace after each use of the Cycle Tool. Here are five steps to being fearless for life.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
6 min read
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
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