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February 2, 2021 33 mins
It would be nice if our happy brain chemicals flowed all the time, but that’s not how they’re designed to work. Loretta Breuning is today's guest on The Segilola Salami Show podcast. Loretta shares with us how you can Tame Your Anxiety when you know the truth about our brain. I assure you, you need to click play now to listen to this most intriguing conversation with Loretta Breuning.
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About Loretta Breuning
Loretta Breuning, PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of Tame Your Anxiety: Rewiring Your Brain for Happiness. She's Professor Emerita at California State University. Her many books on happy brain chemicals have helped thousands around the world to make peace with their mammal brain. Loretta's research began when she saw that the academic model of motivation did not work for her children and her students. Get many free resources on her website: innermammal.org
Her published books include: Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels and Tame Your Anxiety: Rewiring Your Brain for Happiness.

What do you hope to achieve from coming on the show?
To spread my effective method of changing bad feelings to good feelings. Compared to other methods out there, I believe that my method works better. My method is aimed at everyone, in my opinion, because we all need to learn why our brain creates bad feelings and how to redirect it.
Our brain creates bad feelings so we all need to learn how to redirect it.
Loretta Breuning's tips to help you Tame Your Anxiety

* for 60 seconds, figure out what you want in that moment.
* Do something fun for 20-40 minutes to give the cortisol time to be eliminated
* for 60 seconds, choose your next step and take it

Get the full explanation in my book, Tame Your Anxiety: Rewiring Your Brain for Happiness.
About The Segilola Salami Show
The Segilola Salami show is an audio podcast talk show hosted by the female Nigerian-British podcaster Segilola Salami who is also an author, freelance writer and blogger. Please click here to see the full list of Yoruba children's books written by Segilola Salami.
The show is set in a virtual cafe and is a podcast on books and publishing. The aim of the show is to be both educative and informative but in an entertaining way. Guests from all works of life come on the show to talk about the books they have read or written and how books motivated or inspired them. Listeners of the show get to discover new authors and new books as well as learn something new. Also, as the show is set in a virtual cafe, it is a fun podcast to listen to at work, while running or even when driving.
The show is published weekly on Tuesdays at 9 am GMT London. Please click here to review the different ways to listen to or subscribe to this podcast to be notified when a new episode is released.
The Segilola Salami Show is a great audio podcast talk-show for writers and authors. If you would like to appear as a guest on this podcast, please click here for more info and to book your slot.
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