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Neuroplasticity

Neuroplasticity

Rewiring Depression
Mood Circuits

Rewiring Depression

Current depression treatment is pre-BBH. Imagine a world in which we learned how to activate healing chemicals for ourselves! This will take a revolution, which is why BBH is a movement.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
5 min read
Why We Overeat!  #6 - A Mini-Meltdown
Stress Eating

Why We Overeat! #6 - A Mini-Meltdown

Taking control of food means using a simple emotional technique, having a do-it-yourself opportunity to clear away stress and spiral up to joy – Craving GONE!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
The Missing Link
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.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
Joe's Animation of EBT
Brain states

Joe's Animation of EBT

About a decade ago, my son Joe Mellin changed the EBT culture and goals, setting the stage for Brain Based Health. Here is a video he made about EBT, which says it all!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 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
Misery – It's GREAT for us!
Neuroplasticity

Misery – It's GREAT for us!

Walking through Sather Gate years back, I was miserable. Another student made fun of me. Little did he (nor I) know then that misery can lead to transformation. Now we do!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Why We Overeat #1 - My Story
Stress Eating

Why We Overeat #1 - My Story

The brain is very personal! It stores the circuits that tell the story of our lives, which are re-activated without our awareness or approval to cause repeats of past experiences, including stress eating.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
The Psychological Is Biological!
Allostatic wires

The Psychological Is Biological!

Every emotion you experience is not only the reflection of the biologic - a wire – but it activates chemicals that impact ever cell, organ and organ system in our your body. Psychology is biology.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
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
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
Beyond Mindfulness
Heal Yourself

Beyond Mindfulness

It seems like mindfulness and other cognitive methods should work, however, new science shows that when we are stressed, the brain won't let us use these techniques. The BBH way to real-time stress relief: emotional techniques.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
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