Brain Power: Recent Episodes
Dr. Laurel Mellin
Unlock the power of your emotional brain! It's our emotions that drive our stress, joy, passions, creativity, health, and sense of purpose. Technology, scarcity, and diseases have ramped up our stress and caused us to suppress our emotions. Dr. Laurel says, Stop suppressing and start expressing! With her easy-to-learn, safe, structured method, emotional brain training (EBT), she shows us how to ask one simple question, What's my number? and within minutes feel transformed, with a new sense of joy and freedom. The method is scientific, proven, and rapidly changing healthcare. Amaze yourself by using these tools, then share them with everyone you know as stress overload is the #1 epidemic worldwide. We all need to reboot our brains to become resiliency superstars.
Learn from an international expert on stress why the EBT brain/body approach is needed. Stress comes from many sources. It can be psychological, physical or metabolic. Most stress for most people is psychological, which is why EBT gives us the tools to rewire circuits that cause psychological stress, but the same wires promote unhealthy behaviors, health problems, and metabolic stress. EBT integrates medical care and lifestyle, too. Speak with Lynda Frassetto, MD, our special guest and EBT researcher for program that will help you understand your health and integrative medicine in a new way.
What triggers addiction? Wires! Stress activates strong circuits in the emotional brain that promote addictive behaviors, ranging from drugs and alcohol to sugar and technology. Discover the power of viewing addiction as a wiring problem, and learn how to begin rewiring it. The EBT 30-day Intensive is a remote service by telephone, with private, confidential training and support for 30 minutes daily to learn how to rewire addictions and promote a secure connection to yourself. Hear from addiction specialist, physician and EBT leader, Michele Welling, MD in this special program on the neurobiology of addiction and how to stop judgments and feel better faster. For information on the 30-day remote intensive with Dr. Welling, please click here: https://www.ebtconnect.net/groups?group_type=intensive
Work gives us satisfaction but it is love that brings happiness. The brain is the chief organ of intimacy, and you can use EBT to find that sweet spot in the brain so that giving and receiving love comes more naturally - yet keeps us setting limits to avoid neglecting or abusing ourselves. Use EBT to build intimacy in relationships with special guest, EBT leader, Bill Mory, Ed.S, LFMT with call-ins and our weekly emotional brain trip. Use your brain power to give and receive love in your liife.
Stress impacts parental stress and child stress. The emotional brains of children are highly plastic and during stressful times, they can learn resiliency tools to last a lifetime. The simple tools of EBT were initially developed for children and adolescent to help them bounce back from stresses like missing social contact, cyber bulling and preventing overeating, tech excesses and anxiety. Parents need optimal EBT tools to stay emotionally connected to children and find that sweet spot of nurturing and limits. Arinn Testa, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and leader in EBT (Director of Research) with three school-age children of her own shares how to use tool to improve family stress resilience – and make it into games. Dr. Testa offers concierge coaching, weekly groups and 30-day intensives at EBT.ORG.
With COVID-19 and economic uncertainty, the adolescent and young adult brain is particularly vulnerable to stress overload, addiction, suicide, PTSD and depression. Find out how we can use the EBT system to help young people from self-harm and suffering. They are in high-stress physiologically and in a toxic stress environment. Find out how you can help the Generation Z leapfrog over stressed-out adults and become resiliency superstars.
Stress is contagious and to protect ourselves and others we all need the stress vaccine of EBT. Learn how contagious stress is, how to prevent the stress of others from amplifying your stress and, last, how to switch off your own stress response in daily life. Join EBT Director of Community Education and Master Trainer Judy Zehr, LPC, MHRM to discover strategies for overcoming toxic stress.
Weight loss is controlled by the brain. No matter how much someone tells you to eat healthy or love your body, it's the emotional brain that controls your weight. Learn how to switch off drives to overeat, how to activate the drive to release and more. EBT is the only program that when applied to weight loss has shown lasting weight loss after treatment ends in peer-reviewed journals. Learn these techniques to take weight loss seriously and see remarkable results.
The power of emotional brain training (EBT) rests on using the brain's natural pathways to achieve neural connection. In that state we feel joy, unconditional love and freedom. Guest Judy Zehr, LPC, MHRM, Master EBT Trainer and Director of Community Education, is a specialist in attachment theory and EBT. Learn how the brain seeks and needs that secure attachment and how you can find it for yourself by using the tools of EBT. Unconditional love is not a thought, it is a profound experience in the body that comes from connection of the unconscious and conscious mind. It is not just for other people. It's how the brain works and it is for you to experience throughout the day. Enjoy this special session with this remarkable leader in EBT.
In the optimal state - Brain State 1 – we can easily move forward with purpose, charged up for all the right reasons. EBT's scientific director, neurophysiologist Igor Mitrovic, MD discusses why purpose is so important in the brain and how to find it and live it. Dr. Mitrovic's inspiring stories and unique capacity to explain how our brain functions have long been enjoyed by health professionals who view his programs as part of their EBT certification training. Dr. Mitrovic's Voice America session will bring new insights for anyone seeking purpose in these uncertain times. Whether you are a listener who is new to neuroscience, an established scientist or a health professional, be sure to join in for this session. Also, call in and speak to our guest, use the emotional brain training (EBT) tools and learn more about how to find and live your purpose in today's world.
Suffering is the brain in disconnection. In real time, connect the brain, and joy flows – suffering stops. With the discovery of EBT, we can raise our expectations and stop tolerating suffering. The Gates Foundation set a goal of eradicating polio and have nearly accomplished it. With the discovery of EBT, we have the power to eradicate suffering. Commit to empowering people to unlock their brain's power to clear stress overload in real time. All aspects of life measurably and meaningfully improve. Use EBT yourself. Share it with others. Let's stop suffering NOW!
Relationships are complicated, right? Enter the age of the emotional brain and learn an entirely new way to experience love in your life. Guest Bill Mory, licensed marriage and family counselor and leader in emotional brain training will share his personal story of how EBT saved his own marriage, and discuss key tools to take charge of the emotional brain to renew your relationship for emotional closeness, sensual, sexual pleasure and loving companionship. Call into the live show and use the tools of relationship renewal. EBT changes the dynamic on the spot. Use your own brain's amazing power to clear relationship stress and strengthen your connection to the deepest part of yourself. Are you a health professional? Learn more about how you can become certified in EBT.
Anxiety and depression are the top epidemics worldwide and our current methods of treating both are failing us. We each have a magical miracle within us – an emotional brain. Emotional Brain Training will give you the power to unleash the power of your emotional brain.
Learn how to rethink your approach to anxiety, and hear from EBT Master Trainer and Director of Professional Education, Dr. Michele Welling. She is an physician with interests in addiction medicine and integrative healthcare medicine. She offers 30-day intensive daily programs for a brain reset at www.ebt.org and certification training for health professionals at www.ebtgroups.org.
Call in with your real-life anxieties to use the power of your brain to resolve them. Become a member of EBT so that you can follow along with the tools with our Brain Based Health by EBT app, and join the Brain Based Health movement. It's the age of the emotional brain. Let's tap into its magical powers!
The emotional brain is our hidden asset that contains wires, neural circuits that control everything that really matters in life: health, happiness, relationships, spirituality, creativity, productivity, and purpose. These wires control us, but by moving to a new paradigm in self-care, you can control your own wiring. It's the age of the emotional brain in which our capacity to use the power of emotions to switch on and off circuits, strengthen wires that empower us, and weaken and transform wires that block our joy will impact the quality of our lives. This new show launches with host Dr. Laurel Mellin, the founder of emotional brain training (EBT) and the Brain Based Health movement and guest Dr. Michele Welling, a physician, director of EBT professional training for certifying health professionals in the method and an addiction medicine expert talking about this new paradigm in health and wellness. Listeners call in to learn the tools and appreciate their brain's power.