Laurel’s Life The Mockingbird Revisited The famous book, To Kill A Mockingbird, focuses on innocence that the mocking bird symbolizes. Yet, don't we all have a mockingbird inside somewhere?
Heal Yourself Blending BBH with Surgery? The foundations of health are natural: Commit to processing life just the way it is, and using your brain well, then exploring traditional healthcare as needed.
BBH & the News The Power of One Robert Smith presented an extraordinary gift to graduating students, but the brain gives him rewards beyond happiness. It ensures that he continues to find new challenges and rewards him with JOY.
Allostatic wires Feelings: The 2 Types Just the way there are only two types of wires that control our emotions, thoughts, responses, and physiology, there are only two types of emotions. The skill of differentiating them is core to using our power in daily life.
Relationship Wires Freedom from Grieving Behind each moment of grieving is immense joy. Evolutionary biology delivers sadness to motivate us to cycle down and release that pain, clearing the hurt, and ensuring that we become wiser and stronger.
Heal Yourself Beyond Mindfulness It seems like mindfulness and other cognitive methods should work, however, new science shows that when we are stressed, the brain won't let us use these techniques. The BBH way to real-time stress relief: emotional techniques.
Mood Circuits A Cure for Anxiety? What does anxiety look like from a Brain Based Health perspective? How can the BBH view help us feel better faster, and specifically, what is the "reconsolidation window?"
Allostatic wires Well-being Made Easy It's extremely strange that we have a universal bad guy that is the root cause of all that ails us. It's the Stress Circuit, and when we de-activate or rewire it, it's so easy to experience well-being!
Stress Eating What's a Body Circuit? Preventing weight loss relapse takes rewiring the Body Circuit, the drive to hold onto extra weight for protection or the familiarity of self-judgment. This circuit is a major contributory to stress eating and weight regain!
Relationship Wires The Joy of Loving Conflict Loving conflict with another person can heal both people. Understand your relationship in terms of brain states so that you can set effective limits.
Brain states Brain-based Grieving Attachments last beyond the grave. Those we have lost live inside us, in our circuity. Based on the new understandings from neuroscience, how can we grieve our losses?
