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Laurel Mellin

Laurel Mellin

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Sharing Brain Maps
Heal Yourself

Sharing Brain Maps

What if your physician or therapist said, "Let me show you a map of your brain"? Let's agree to speak about the causes of issues as wires and set points, something over which we have power.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
Brain Based Mental Health
BBH Science

Brain Based Mental Health

We need comprehensive help to overcome mental health problems, but the BBH system gives us more control over the quality of our lives. New complimentary coaching helps introduce new members to the tools.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
4 min read
What's the Hidden Pathway?
Emotional Brain

What's the Hidden Pathway?

In 2007, UCSF researchers integrated neuroscience research to identify a technique to self-direct stress processing in the brain to expand our control of our momentary experience of life. They discovered the hidden brain pathway to get from stress to joy.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
What's Your Stress Style?
Stress Circuits

What's Your Stress Style?

Faulty circuits in the brain cause us to develop an ineffective stress style. With advances in neuroplasticity, we can rewire those faulty circuits and improve our health and well-being.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
Brain Based Pain Management
Allostatic wires

Brain Based Pain Management

Brain-based tools can create hope, connection and resilience, which are core to managing pain and living our best life.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
"Do you practice BBH?"
BBH Science

"Do you practice BBH?"

Be part of the Brain Based Health Movement. If you are a health professional, learn about neuroscience based healthcare. All of us are patients. Nudge your health professional to update their practices by asking: "Do you practice brain based health?"

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
What Toddlers Need Most
Emotional Brain

What Toddlers Need Most

As parents, we think about security for our children. What's the most powerful source of security? It's beautiful circuits that move them through stress to joy.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
What Brain Area Rules Us?
laurel's life

What Brain Area Rules Us?

When stress is low and the thinking brain (prefrontal cortex in GREEN above) is in charge, life is good. When stress is high, the bottom of the brain (in BROWN) takes over, which is what causes most problems.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
The Loneliness Cure
Brain states

The Loneliness Cure

We give ourselves an emotional cleanse each time we use the EBT Tools. Then our mind opens up and we see the grace, beauty, and mystery of life in unexpected ways. Loneliness vanishes. The cure is within.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Poor Tammy - It's Cycle Time!
Laurel’s Life

Poor Tammy - It's Cycle Time!

The couple's tool to break through stress together comes in handy, however, the dog can't cope with emotions. Poor Tammy! Using the Cycle Time technique can bring rapid stress relief to all.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
The Most Beautiful Pathway
Set Point

The Most Beautiful Pathway

The natural pathway from stress to joy is already inside you. The movement to equip all Americans with the simple tools to access it is the mission of brain-based health. Become part of this natural health movement. Try out the tools!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
Taking in the News
BBH & the News

Taking in the News

The news can be stressful! It can trigger Stress Circuits that take us to Brain State 3, 4 or 5, that is, in stress! Use stress relief in real time with the emotional tools of EBT.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
Brain-Based Weight Loss
Stress Eating

Brain-Based Weight Loss

Lasting weight loss rests on smart rewiring. Weight and food are so core to survival that the emotional brain controls them. Clearing out two specific wires is core to experiencing weight loss that lasts.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Joy After Trauma
Allostatic wires

Joy After Trauma

What a joyful world it would be if the BBH movement were successful and more people could heal trauma on the spot and turn stress into joy.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
4 min read
Tammy's Loving Brain
Laurel’s Life

Tammy's Loving Brain

Walt and I have a beloved dog, Tammy, and her loving limbic brain is so dominant that she goes into stress overload really easily! How can we help her?

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
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