Free e-guide · Emilia Ferreira, neuroscientist
See opportunity where you once expected disappointment.
Learn 3 simple, neuroscience-based steps to move past old setbacks and open your mind to the success you want.
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A short guide you can use today.
Sound familiar?
You’re capable. You know what you want.
And still, you hesitate on the big decisions. Talk yourself out of the opportunity. Overthink. Delay. Then catch yourself doing the exact thing you promised you’d stop.
That’s not a confidence problem. It’s your past, still making the call.
Your brain uses what happened before to predict what will happen next. If it learned disappointment, it quietly steers you away from anything that looks like it. This guide shows you how to give it new evidence.
The science: predictive processing, the idea that the brain works as a prediction machine. See Clark (2013), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and Barrett, How Emotions Are Made (2017).
Before & after
From old disappointment to a clearer next move.
Before
After the 3 steps
Inside the guide
Three steps. A few minutes each.
A first look at the real pages. The full steps arrive in your inbox.
Peak Access
A one-minute physical reset for the moments before work that needs your full mind.
Full step in the guideWorry Detox
A 10-minute end-of-day practice, so the last thing your brain takes in isn’t stress.
Full step in the guideJoy Mirror
Thirty seconds, out loud, that tell your body this moment is not the old one.
Full step in the guideUntil the life in front of you becomes bigger than the evidence behind you.
Who I am
Emilia Ferreira is a neuroscientist, author and speaker.
She studies how the brain predicts what happens next, and how changing the body’s state changes those predictions. Her research began in the lab, studying unconscious bias, and was tested in her own life. Her book, Raising Ona, documents what happened when her daughter’s development defied the predictions made about it.
“At its heart, Raising Ona is about far more than motherhood. It’s about discovering who we become when life doesn’t unfold as we imagined. … A moving and deeply hopeful book.”
Dr. Nicole LePera
Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Do the Work
Your past shaped what you expect. It doesn’t get to decide what’s next.
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