When your anxiety turns on, you want anything that will turn it off. And it seems you’ve tried everything already. But there’s one thing you’ve probably haven’t: changing your expectations. I can’t tell you which expectations are causing your anxiety, but I can tell you how expectations trigger the cascade…
Loretta Breuning, Ph.D.
Professor & Author
Dr. Loretta Breuning is the founder of InnerMammalInstitute.org and author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels.
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With so much negativity around politics these days, positivity may seem like an impossible dream. It’s easy to blame negativity on others, but when you know the natural negativity of the human brain, you can steer toward the positive zone. Here are four simple ways to start. 1. Broaden your…
When women observe male behavior, they often wonder what is going on in the male brain. An evolutionary perspective makes it easier to see that male impulses are primal survival adaptations, just like female impulses. Here are three familiar frustrations that are easier to accept when we understand their evolutionary…
Social disappointment feels like a survival emergency to the mammal brain. You don’t think this consciously, but your brain turns on its emergency broadcast system when your urge for recognition is disappointed. You can escape this distress when you know how your brain is creating it. We are all born…
