Habits Of A Happy Brain with Dr. Loretta Breuning

You might have heard of the happy chemicals in our brains – dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin, but how much do you really know about them and what they do? I am hugely interested in this topic for personal reasons, and this week’s guest has so much wisdom on this topic. This woman has transformed my life, business, and knowledge of human behavior and I am over the moon to welcome her to the show this week.

Dr. Loretta Bruening is the author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels and also Tame Your Anxiety: Rewiring Your Brain for Happiness, plus many more. She joins me this week to talk about the four main happy chemicals as well as the not-so-happy chemicals we all have in our brains, where these chemicals evolved from, why so many people don’t realize the impact they have, and the various neural pathways that are running inside each of us behind the scenes. If you’ve ever wondered how human behavior works and want to understand yourself and the actions of others better, we’ve got you covered this week.

“Each of us has to create certain thought habits to put things into perspective and constantly build our confidence in our own problem-solving skills.”

- Dr. Loretta Breuning

In This Episode:

- Hear where dopamine evolved from and why it makes us feel good.

- There is a reason we all have a natural longing for protection, here’s what it is…

- Learn how each of us is wired by our own unique individual past experiences.

- Find out what the Pomodoro technique is and what’s so great about it.

- Loretta shares the difference between a new neural pathway and an old one.

- Hear why we currently think about the cortisol chemical the way we do.

- Loretta shares the differences between the human brain and the animal brain and why we act the way we do.

- Discover why the happy chemicals are not designed to be on all the time, and how they do specific jobs.

And much more...

Connect with Dr. Loretta Breuning:

- Website – https://innermammalinstitute.org/happypower/

- Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels – https://www.amazon.com/Habits-Happy-Brain-Serotonin-Endorphins/dp/1440590508

- Tame Your Anxiety: Rewiring Your Brain for Happiness – https://www.amazon.com/Tame-Your-Anxiety-Rewiring-Happiness/dp/1538117762

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