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September 25, 2025 @ 9:00PM EASTERN
 
This is a live teleseminar; 90 minutes in duration; a 60 minute discussion followed by 30 minutes of Q & A. Unable to make the live event? Replay will be available afterwards for listening at any time.
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Details for connecting to the event are available at the PDF download from your bookshop account and order confirmation once purchased. You DO NOT receive a separate email with the link. Please check your order confirmation. Thank you!
 
 

Happy Brain Chemicals: Teleseminar with Dr. Loretta Breuning

$10.00Price

  • September 25th, 2025 @ 9:00PM EASTERN

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    Happy Brain Chemicals: Why They're Not Meant to be Always On

    Today's culture trains us to believe we should feel good all the time, and someone should fix it if we're not. But it's useful to know that our happy brain chemicals are designed to turn on in short spurts when we have an opportunity to meet a survival need.

     

    If our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin were always on, they couldn't do their job of getting us to notice opportunities. Our conscious brain doesn't see happiness that way, but our happy chemicals are inherited from earlier mammals.

     

    When you know how they work in animals, you can accept the natural ups and downs in good feelings instead of believing that something is wrong.

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    Dr. Loretta Breuning, Happy-Chemical Pioneer and founder of The Inner Mammal Institute, wrote the first book on the animal origins of our happy brain chemicals: serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphin. Her work has been translated into 16 different languages. In her latest book, she explains that unhappiness is not a disorder, but our brain's natural default state.


    Our happy chemicals are not designed to be on all the time, yet we're taught that happiness is "normal." This leaves a lot of people feeling like something is wrong with them. The disease model of mental health is so entrenched that we don't notice it the way a fish doesn't notice water. It's proclaimed as a service to the greater good, but it does more harm than good.

     

    So, why is this misleading view of our biology so popular? It's politics. Not the politics of government elections, but the politics of saying what's popular to win support.

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    Details for connecting to the event are available at the PDF download from your bookshop account and order confirmation once purchased. You DO NOT receive a separate email with the link. Please check your order confirmation. Thank you!

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