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How Dare They?
Body Circuit

How Dare They?

People tell us to lose weight. How DARE they? We can NOT lose weight or can we? It's often that Body Circuit!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
The Best Medicine? Baby Joy!
children

The Best Medicine? Baby Joy!

Aging does make it easier or does it? The fork in the road becomes regenerativity vs. despair. What if giving to babies makes us young again? What if we see life through their lives, even for a moment?

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
New Research: Keep the Weight Off
BBH Science

New Research: Keep the Weight Off

Want to get healthy? As you launch a new lifestyle plan, dig a bit deeper and pair it with a way to keep it off. New research links maintaining 75% of weight loss with the best health effects.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
#MeToo and EBT
Heal Yourself

#MeToo and EBT

The emotional brain records abuse and harassment. To increase power against it for our daughters and ourselves, we need the tools to rewire our emotional brain. Email Frannie@ebt.org for information about memberships and #MeToo groups.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Tammy? Home Sweet Home
laurel's life

Tammy? Home Sweet Home

When we come home and see Tammy waiting, and a few flowers that we somehow managed to keep alive, it feels like home. Yet, according to neuroscience, "home" is grounded in the emotional brain.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
Why We Overeat! #4 - Spinning!
weight loss

Why We Overeat! #4 - Spinning!

We're spinning out of control because our Stress Eating Triangle in the emotions brain is spewing "overeating" and "weight gain" chemicals.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
We All Need Toys!
Laurel'e life

We All Need Toys!

Play is essential to health. One of the 30 days of the Stress Overload Solution is devoted to play. Tammy knows how to play -- with this fish or her favorite, the octopus. Let's be more like Tammy!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
The JOY of Existing!
Essential Pain

The JOY of Existing!

What is the nature of the intense joy that comes from facing the gritty truths of life? Instead of asking ourselves, "What brings me joy?" we might ask ourselves, "What reaches me with pain, because I care so much?"

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
EBT as Self-Therapy
Psychotherapy

EBT as Self-Therapy

With the new Brain Based Health app, you can have a therapist in your pocket – and surprise yourself with you own insights and ah-ha moments and new depth of understanding of yourself.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Why We Overeat! #3 - BOOM!
weight loss

Why We Overeat! #3 - BOOM!

What causes us to be out of control? It's those stress reactive circuits. The problem is NOT us. It's a wire!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Intimacy: It's a Skill
Relationship Wires

Intimacy: It's a Skill

The emotional brain state controls our emotional connection, sexual pleasure and loving companionship. Learn the rules of the emotional brain. Brief groups for singles or couples. Email michael@ebt.org

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
The MAGIC of the Body Circuit
weight loss

The MAGIC of the Body Circuit

Boost your joy and effectiveness in losing weight by crushing your Body Circuit. It's often the missing link! Use whatever food plan you want, but BE SURE to zap that Body Circuit. Activate the loving powerful drive to release extra weight!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
3 Strategies for Election JOY!
BBH & the News

3 Strategies for Election JOY!

As couples, families and states await the 2020 elections, here are three ways to make them sheer JOY! No opt outs or do overs, celebrate diversity of opinion, and play the "set point" game for candidates!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Why We Overeat #2 - It's A Silly Wire!
Stress Eating

Why We Overeat #2 - It's A Silly Wire!

It's the wires in our emotional brain that trigger us to overeat. These wires tell us what to do. What's Brain Based Health? Skills to shut off or rewire those messages and drives.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
Emotions: From Gritty to Sweet
Laurel’s Life

Emotions: From Gritty to Sweet

What emotional flow comes with being a grandmother? I'm learning, but it's so multi-layered, so soft and dear, yet so gritty.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
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