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EBT = Happy Relationships
Relationships

EBT = Happy Relationships

Learn the basics of EBT – brain states – and start applying them in your relationships. See that the physiologic brain state controls connection, and find that you can have more happiness in your relationships with EBT.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
Mend a Broken Heart: The 2 Steps
Grieving

Mend a Broken Heart: The 2 Steps

The joy of making each moment in life count is taking risks, loving more, and having a few broken hearts along the way. A recent Spiral Up with Dr. Laurel focused on the two steps for mending a broken heart and creating gritty joy from it.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
Spiraling up to come alive anew
Spirituality

Spiraling up to come alive anew

We either spiral up or spiral down in response to the challenges that come our way. Facing the essential pain of life and accepting it gives us a new lease on life and gives us a neuroscientific way to come alive anew, again and again!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
EBT in the White House Cancer Moonshot
cancer

EBT in the White House Cancer Moonshot

Dr. Valerire Yerger has spearheaded EBT, becoming part of President Biden's Moonshot, and is focusing on EBT delivery to marginalized populations.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
Activate Healing Chemicals with EBT

Activate Healing Chemicals with EBT

In writing 1-2-3 JOY!, I thought a lot about the relationship between chemicals and circuits, not immediately a conversation topic – but really important for anyone wanting to experience optimal health. In fact, you

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
New EBT Book!  1-2-3 JOY!
Stress Eating

New EBT Book! 1-2-3 JOY!

Dr. Mellin's book maps out a new way to lose weight without drugs or diets that is designed to stop cravings and overeating by changing the brain's neural circuitry.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
To love – and spiral up!
Love

To love – and spiral up!

EBT is a pathway to fulfilling our potential for the elevated emotions (love, compassion, gratitude, hope, forgiveness, awe, and joy), our Genetic Potential for Joy (GPJ).

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
An unconscious drive to stay big
Body Circuit

An unconscious drive to stay big

Most people equate losing weight with changing food, but it is by rewiring the Body Circuit and switching off the need to hold onto weight that releasing weight becomes effortless and natural.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
5 min read
EBT: A Natural Alternative to Weight Loss Drugs
Obesity

EBT: A Natural Alternative to Weight Loss Drugs

There is so much fervor about weight loss drugs that one would think obesity is a condition of GLP-1 deficiency. It is not. These drugs deliver an abnormal boost to GLP-1 receptors that

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
6 min read
The Solution: Count Joy Points
Joy Points

The Solution: Count Joy Points

Surges of joy switch off the stress response, so why not focus on one thing: create joy in your life. Then count how many Joy Points you really need!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
Happy Memories are Circuits!
Joy Points

Happy Memories are Circuits!

Our emotional brain is a storehouse of memories. Self-directed activation of them can launch a chemical cascade that brings joy – and enough dopamine to do things we otherwise can't force ourselves to do!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Turning Adversity into Joy
Trauma

Turning Adversity into Joy

The more extreme the hurt, the more spiraling up delivers a burst of joy, which is often unexpected, but always appreciated!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
4 min read
3 Life-changing Ideas
Neuroplasticity

3 Life-changing Ideas

Three ideas based on neuroscience and weathering the inevitable ups and downs of life and be life-changing.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
Deepening Love with EBT
Relationship Wires

Deepening Love with EBT

Resolving conflicts is easier if we spiral up. After clearing the cortisol that makes us warlike and confused, we find that sweet spot of loving connection. We deepen the love.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
Spiral Up before you eat!
Stress Eating

Spiral Up before you eat!

The root cause of overeating and weight gain is stress wires in the brain. Tired of feeling out of control with food and weight? Learn how to rewire circuit and create more freedom in your life.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
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