How to process stress with Emotional Brain Training with Dr. Laurel Mellin

When we experience stress, we are typically charged up with emotions that can lead us to becoming stuck. We lose our ability to think through things rationally and we lose the ability to be creative. This can persist for long periods of time unless we seek help or have tools that allow us to shift out of that state.

To explore this topic more, for this week's episode of the Weekend Wellness Hour Show, we discussed emotional brain training (EBT) with Dr. Laurel Mellin.  Dr. Mellin developed this technique to help clients learn how to process emotional stress instead of suppressing it. 

Dr. Mellin shared with us why and how she developed this tool when she found traditional psychotherapy methods to be ineffective. She described how the question "how do I feel" is often used to assess a person's state but that it doesn't work if the brain is stuck.

She described the 5 brain states of stress and how we would like to be in stage 1 of happiness and joy but we often fall into stages 3-5 which leads to emotional or stress reactivity.

We touched on emotional intelligence and emotional resilience and how we need these skills to navigate the world and its ups and downs.

Dr. Mellin takes us through an exercise of her EBT so we can see how this quick 2 minute process shifted her from some anger into peace. It was quite powerful to watch her change emotions over the course of a few minutes.

Dr. Mellin is a health psychologist, associate professor of family and community medicine at UCSF and New York Times bestselling author. She has been a guest of Oprah’s for three programs, and is an activist for empowering people to use EBT to raise their brain’s set point and spread more love and joy in the world.

Please join us to learn how this tool can unstick our brain within minutes!

Please feel free to reach out to Dr. Laurel Mellin by her email: [email protected] or at her website, EBT.ORG to get her app for spiraling up.

-Dr. Amy Novotny

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Dr. Amy Novotny founded the PABR® Institute with the mission to provide pain, stress and anxiety relief to those who seek a naturalistic form of treatment when other treatment methods have fallen short. Her unique approach comes from her experience treating in a variety of settings and with a wide range of patient populations over the past 12 years. Her background in orthopedics, sports, geriatrics, balance disorders, nerve injuries, and most recently, chronic pain; and influences from coursework at the Postural Restoration Institute gave her the foundation to develop this treatment method to address a wide variety of painful and restrictive conditions. She customizes all treatment plans to the individual to help them achieve their goals, whether it is to pick up a child, get through a work day pain free or play a sport. She co-authored two #1 Best-Selling books Don’t Quit: Stories of Persistence, Courage and Faith and Success Habits of Super Achievers, which share her journey on how and why she developed the PABR® Method. Her ability to speak French and Spanish has allowed her to communicate with and help various clients from all around the world, including France, Mexico, Central America and South America. She has a variety of interests including running 40+ marathons, running 10 ultra marathons (including two 100 milers), completing an Ironman triathlon, photographing wildlife and landscapes all over the world that has led to several of her images being chosen as Photos of the Day, most notably National Geographic Your Shot World Top Photo of the Day. Visit her photography portfolio at www.amysimpressions.com!