"What's my number?": One Simple Question that Unlocks Your Brain's Power for Health, Happiness & Purpose

by laurel mellin

From a New York Times best-selling author and health psychologist, “What’s my number?” is a game-changing book for all self-helpers! It gives us a simple, profoundly effective way to instantly update how we process daily life to meet the high-stress demands of our times. Stress overload has caused us to enter the age of the emotional brain when we need emotional tools to unlock the brain's power for health, happiness, and purpose. Based on emotional brain training (EBT), by asking ourselves one simple question – What’s my number? – we can use the natural power of our own emotions crush cravings and regain control, clear away ineffective beliefs, deal with workplace stress, relieve anxiety, depression, and hostility, resolve conflicts in relationships, boost our sense of purpose, and create joy in our lives!

158 pages, Paperback

Published April 7, 2020

Reviews

[Arash Farzaneh · Rating 2 out of 5]

This slim self-proclaimed self-help book does not only feel rushed but it is also cold, mechanical, calculating, and repetitive in nature and style. For an approach that calls itself emotional, it surprisingly lacks emotion and ends up being all thinking and cognition, starting with the narrow and limited premise that humans are nothing but their brain and essentially a computer that needs to be "updated" or "rewired" in order to function better.

The science, although in some aspects true, does not hold up to closer scrutiny. The methods described in the book are a filtered version of positive and wishful thinking at best and self-hypnosis at worst, neither of which can effectively deal with stress; they merely serve as band-aids hiding and camouflaging deeper and undigested trauma that will remain and fester within notwithstanding.

It's a shame because if the book had really focused on actual emotions, trauma, and the unconscious, it would have made a serious impact. Instead, we are left with a book that while claiming to deal with stress will only manage to increase it in a world already oversaturated with stress and anxiety.

[Carol · Rating 5 out of 5]

Concise descriptions of these wonderful tools

Anyone who is struggling with the effects that stress has on their life (health, relationships, work, etc); this book…this method is for you. It’s changed my life in ways that I thought were impossible.

[Donna Jane Fogle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Useful information

I have used CBT as the basis of my practice for years, it works well but not fast or easy EBT seems to be a useful alternative