Heal Yourself The Missing Link What if with all our advances in healthcare, there was a missing link that would make us really healthy and happy? That missing link would be brain-based health.
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.
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.
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?"
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
Brain states Switching Brain States: Magical! Brain states remain mysterious, as even after we know the science that explains them, switching brain states is absolutely magical.
BBH Science Joy as Natural Medicine That momentary experience of joy? That's just what the doctor ordered. Legions of chemicals comfort and heal us. EBT helps you create moments of joy (score "Joy Points" as a way to live your best life!
Heal Yourself The Virtue of Using the Brain Well There is a certain pride that comes from learning how to use our natural brain pathways from stress to joy, and reaping the many rewards.
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.
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.
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.
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'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.
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’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?
