The Healing Power of Hormones: Harness dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin to unlock your best life

by Emilia Vuorisalmi

From the Finnish 'Doctor Love', Dr Emilia Vuorisalmi, comes an expert guide to harnessing our brain chemistry to be able to live a joyful, fulfilled life.

Neurochemicals are the ignition for our nervous system, and inform how we think, feel and behave. In The Power of Love Hormones, Dr Emilia Vuorisalmi, internationally acclaimed Finnish doctor, actor and speaker, teaches you how to harness the immense power of your brain by understanding how your love hormones dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin can completely transform your life.

Dr Vuorisalmi charts her own journey from burnout and heartbreak back to full health and vitality, through her research on how our own brain chemicals can heal our emotional and physical ailments. Tuning into which particular hormonal boost we may need to respond to different challenges, and being able to turbocharge our wellbeing with this knowledge, is the recipe for a more joyful, vibrant and bold life.

If life is often turbulent, anxious and stressed, enhancing your serotonin levels is the source of happiness, serenity and harmony.If you're struggling to feel motivated or finding that life lacks zest and colour, learning how to tap into slow dopamine will get you back on trackFiring up your oxytocin will revitalise you with compassion, and more closeness to those around you.The Power of Love Hormones is a holistic journey into neuroscience, inviting the reader to embark on the healing journey deep into themselves. When you fully understand your own brain chemistry, midlife can be a gateway for personal transformation, wisdom and living as your fullest expression.

Genres: Self Help

245 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 23, 2025

Reviews

[Aisling · Rating 5 out of 5]

read for work and very thoroughly enjoyed- would 100% recommend for anyone else who is currently using dopamine and serotonin interchangeably

[Kata · Rating 4 out of 5]

ajatuksia herättävä.

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kirja hyviä harjoituksia pullollaan, joita meinaan kokeilla. Ehkei ihan suomalaiselle lukijalle ensi sijaisesti tehty (self help herättää meissä aina hiukan epäluuloja) mutta viihdyttävää ja innostavaa luettavaa silti.

[Susanna Paravian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful for general purpose but as these ideas are flowing in the media and society anyway I wouldn’t say it was something groundbreaking

[Beabehindpages · Rating 3 out of 5]

✨3.5

É um livro bastante didático, cheio de dicas; perguntas que nos fazem questionar a nossa própria vida e as nossas escolhas; histórias de vida da doutora como estudos acerca das hormonas, dopamina, serotonina e oxitocina. Esta parte foi a mais secante.

Por não ser o meu tipo de leitura, achei bem agradável, leve e intuitivo. Não é um livro que muda o mundo, mas ajuda-nos a ver as coisas de uma forma mais prática e saudável. Recomendo!

[Kathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I borrowed this with the assumption it was about women’s hormones, linked to the female cycle, but was pleasantly surprised to learn it was about the other hormones in our body, that I don’t know much about.
And it was a great read. I got a lot of information from it that I will take away and try to implement in my life. The biggest one was Dopamine, because of our current lifestyle and how we are all running on empty. Massive awakening there and focus on changing it. And noticing how children are all dopamine addicted. Rushing from one activity to the next without really savoring the moment and feeling grateful. Will be looking into this more.