Hey, this is Ari. Welcome back to the Energy Blueprint podcast. With me today is Dr. Loretta

Bruning, who is the founder of the Inner Mammal Institute. She's an author of many personal

development books, including the one

that I have read of hers, which I highly recommend and I found fascinating, called Habits of a Happy

Brain. Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphin levels.

And basically, as a teacher and a parent, Dr. Bruning was not

convinced by the prevailing theories of human motivation and happiness. So she set about on many

years of doing a very deep dive into the scientific literature around this topic and how our brain works

and how neurochemistry really relates to happiness.

And she's arrived at a number of, I think, very novel and original insights into this topic

and important insights into this topic that not a lot of people are talking about.

In particular, she really has a strong critique of the notion that our moods and behaviors and ways of being are

a byproduct of our neurochemistry and our brain.

And she's much more a proponent of a paradigm where we are less at the end of the train of

sort of effects of this neurochemistry in our brain and much more at the

originating causal end of that chain of events meaning what what we choose to do how we choose to act

and behave is affecting our neurochemistry which is in turn affecting how we feel. She also has some really

interesting insights around the permanence versus transients of these neurochemical states.

This is a topic that I think I personally found tremendously fascinating, and I think you'll get

a lot of value from. So

with no further ado, enjoy this podcast with Dr. Loretta Bruning. So welcome, Dr. Bruning. Such

a pleasure to have you on. Hi. Thanks for having me. So I have to say, I stumbled across

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