Staying Positive and Persevering
1h 11mGeneral2024-05-13
Authors

Madecraft
Full-Service Learning Content Company

Loretta Breuning
Course details
Dive into the science of happiness and discover how to balance stress and forge new neural pathways. In this course, Dr. Loretta Breuning teaches you how to reduce distress, enhance contentment, and achieve lasting happiness. Dr. Breuning unpacks strategies to relieve stress chemicals and spark reward chemicals in healthy ways. After completing this course, you’ll have a greater understanding of the brain and how to build lasting habits for contentment and happiness.
Learning objectives
Understand the purpose of negative feelings.
Differentiate between cortisol and facts.
Understand the purpose of positive feelings.
Build new neural pathways in your mind.
Identify the habits linked to positive feelings.
Create healthy rewards for yourself.
Re-electrify your happy chemicals.
Learning objectives
Understand the purpose of negative feelings.
Differentiate between cortisol and facts.
Understand the purpose of positive feelings.
Build new neural pathways in your mind.
Identify the habits linked to positive feelings.
Create healthy rewards for yourself.
Re-electrify your happy chemicals.
Skills covered
Well-Being and Self-CarePersonal DevelopmentLimited SeriesProfessional Development
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Positivity is possible
1. Negativity Is Natural
- 02 - The emotional brain
- 03 - Stress is cortisol
- 04 - Your unique wiring
2. Your Happy Chemicals
- 05 - Finding joy with dopamine
- 06 - Creating safety with oxytocin
- 07 - Discovering pride with serotonin
- 08 - Exploring relief with endorphin
3. Your Rewiring Plan
- 09 - Building new joy pathways
- 10 - Constructing new safety pathways
- 11 - Blazing new trails to confidence
4. Tools for Success
- 12 - Your mirror neurons
- 13 - Repetition is power
- 14 - Plan rewards carefully
- 15 - Personalize your rewards
5. Real-World Examples
- 16 - Rewire that bad habit
- 17 - Burnout and balance
- 18 - Helping others
Conclusion
- 19 - Time to persevere
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