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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
The Mockingbird Revisited
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?

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Blending BBH with Surgery?
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.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
The Power of One
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.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
Feelings: The 2 Types
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.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
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