The Balanced Brain Neurofeedback Training Center

11/23/2025

A little behind-the-scenes moment from today: updating one of our core software tools. Not glamorous, but it’s the kind of quiet upkeep that keeps our workflow—and our clients’ sessions—sharp and reliable.

11/12/2025

What is neurofeedback — really?

At the Suisun Conference, Santiago Brand and I dove into how the brain can learn to regulate itself — and why that’s a game changer for emotional and physical balance.

The process isn’t about forcing change. It’s about teaching your brain how to find its own rhythm again.

💬 Have you ever noticed how your state changes when you finally feel regulated?

11/11/2025

Big Food. Big Pharma. Big Ag.
They’re not plotting in secret to keep us sick — the incentives just work that way.

Cheap calories. Quick fixes. Lifelong prescriptions.
A system that profits when we stay dependent.

But we play a part too.
Every shortcut, skipped night of sleep, and “I’ll start next week” keeps the same pattern alive.

At The Balanced Brain, we focus on awareness, not blame.
When you understand how your brain regulates stress and attention, you start making better choices — naturally.

Real health isn’t about outrage.
It’s about agency — knowing how to shift your own state.

👉 Learn more at www.thebalancedbrain.com

11/05/2025

Ever felt like your brain just zoned out after a rough night?

New MIT research reveals that when you skip sleep your brain actually initiates cleansing waves of fluid — the same process it uses when you’re asleep — and during those moments your attention suffers. https://news.mit.edu/2025/your-brain-without-sleep-1029

At The Balanced Brain we help you build the sleep foundation so your neuro-regulation, coaching and nutrition work are effective — not fighting a brain that’s on autopilot repair.

Ready to support your brain & body as a whole system? Contact us.

11/02/2025

You wouldn’t skip oxygen before a big meeting. So why skip sleep?

This Forbes piece by Daisy Auger-Domínguez captures something we see every day at The Balanced Brain: high-performing people running on empty, trying to think, lead, and create from a depleted nervous system.

Leadership, focus, and emotional steadiness don’t come from pushing harder — they come from recovery, regulation, and rhythm.

That’s why we partner with our colleagues at EmpowerSleep.com to help clients understand what their brains and bodies are really doing during rest. Their data-driven sleep analysis pairs beautifully with our neurofeedback and coaching approach — giving clients not just more hours in bed, but deeper, restorative sleep that fuels clarity and leadership from the inside out.

Because in the end, sleep isn’t downtime. It’s strategy.

Read the full article on Forbes: “Sleep and Leadership: The Most Overlooked High-Performance Advantage” by Daisy Auger-Domínguez.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daisyaugerdominguez/2025/08/25/sleep-and-leadership-the-most-overlooked-high-performance-advantage/

Sleep and leadership performance go hand in hand. This piece explores how sleep, often dismissed as indulgent, is an undervalued high-performance leadership habit.

10/26/2025

What is neurofeedback?

Santiago Brand and I discuss this at the Suisun Conference.

Watch the full video on our YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/gxOFSx8Rhvk?si=15xfyiyHEMKIZZ45

10/19/2025

Coming from The Balanced Brain!

We had the privilege of sitting down with Santiago Brand at the Suisun Neuroscience Summit — one of the world’s leading voices in qEEG applied psychophysiology.

We talked about how neurofeedback and self-regulation training give the brain a chance to heal and perform at its best.

🎬 The full interview drops this week on YouTube — stay tuned!

10/19/2025

09/05/2025

OK, it's rat brains but still a remarkable feat!

Showing how complex decision making is, just how many brain areas are involved, some were unknown contributors.

We in the neurofeedback field know this from experience but wonderful to see some data.

Science marches on.

https://interestingengineering.com/science/first-mouse-brain-decision-map?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

07/24/2025

Because we embrace the concept of holistic healing in our work here at The Balanced Brain, I was delighted to see that Alice Walton, the richest woman in the world, has put her fortune to good use and opened a medical school!

"Instead of drilling young physicians to chase symptom after symptom and perform test after test, Alice Walton wants her school’s graduates to keep patients healthy by practicing something that most doctors today don’t prioritize: preventive medicine and whole-health principles, which involve caring for (and not just treating) the entire person and all of the factors—from their mental health to their living conditions and lifestyle choices—that contribute to well-being.:"

We are turning a corner in supporting preventative, integrative healthcare.

https://time.com/7303692/alice-walton-school-of-medicine-new-medical-school/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

07/19/2025

The next frontier in medicine isn’t another drug.

It’s a radical shift in how we view the body, the brain, and disease itself.

Depression is often rooted in systemic inflammation, gut dysbiosis, mitochondrial dysfunction, insulin resistance, trauma, or disrupted circadian rhythms. ADHD may be tied to neuroinflammation, poor blood sugar control, or nutritional gaps like low magnesium, zinc, or omega-3s. And heart disease? It’s largely a food-borne illness, driven by a diet of ultra-processed, inflammatory, nutrient-poor calories.

There is no single root cause. But there are root causes.
And they are almost always connected by lifestyle, environment, and systems-level dysfunction.

Medications have their place… But they were never designed to reverse chronic disease. They manage symptoms, often while the underlying dysfunction worsens.

If we want to reverse the chronic disease epidemic, mental and physical, we need to stop asking what drug treats this and start asking why the body lost balance in the first place.

The answer isn’t in the pharmacy… It’s in how we eat, move, sleep, connect, and live.
It’s in our soil, our food system, our communities, our kitchens.

The next revolution in medicine will come not from the lab but from returning to the root.

06/19/2025

What a qEEG revealed about disconnecting from the phone. Andrew's experience is closing in on 100k views, yours should be one. He is quite a talented documentarian and The Balanced Brain is are proud to have been a part of this journey. It's not for the faint of heart!

This time with a link!

30 Days without a phone Changed my Brain- Andrew Feinstein

https://youtu.be/8h8H9xf0JDY?si=gHNbXrpXQLcgcOdP