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Change What Happened to You: How to Use Neuroscience to Get the Life You Want by Changing Your Negative Childhood Memories
Change Negative Childhood Memories and Change Your Life.
If you feel stuck on a long road of struggle, pain, and limiting patterns, therapy isn’t always enough to get on a better path. Your implicit memories control the navigation of your entire life, and they take root in your subconscious during childhood.
You can’t build a time machine to change what happened in your childhood, but with the right tools, you can learn how to rebuild negative childhood memories into positive empowerment.
Combining neuroscience, psychology, and personal experiences, Change What Happened to You shares Odille and Steve Remmert’s unique, proven memory-editing process with the power to transform your mind, behavior, and happiness. With step-by-step techniques for foundational self-love, this guide will help you change your implicit memories so you can heal from the negativity of your childhood and reroute your life toward the positive destination you desire.
You’re about to learn:
• 3 steps to change negative childhood memories without blame, guilt, or shame.
• How your childhood shapes your self-image, worldview, and beliefs in adulthood—and why that can make healthy habits difficult.
• Techniques to gain control over your brain chemistry and produce more “feel-good” chemicals in times of stress.
• The Due Justice Technique, a simple way to overcome complex generational trauma and anxiety regarding certain memories.
• Zero tolerance strategies to silence negative self-talk before it derails your journey.
Give that little you the childhood you should have had—and still deserve. Read Change What Happened to You and start on a new road of an abundant, empowered, and positive life.
If you feel stuck on a long road of struggle, pain, and limiting patterns, therapy isn’t always enough to get on a better path. Your implicit memories control the navigation of your entire life, and they take root in your subconscious during childhood.
You can’t build a time machine to change what happened in your childhood, but with the right tools, you can learn how to rebuild negative childhood memories into positive empowerment.
Combining neuroscience, psychology, and personal experiences, Change What Happened to You shares Odille and Steve Remmert’s unique, proven memory-editing process with the power to transform your mind, behavior, and happiness. With step-by-step techniques for foundational self-love, this guide will help you change your implicit memories so you can heal from the negativity of your childhood and reroute your life toward the positive destination you desire.
You’re about to learn:
• 3 steps to change negative childhood memories without blame, guilt, or shame.
• How your childhood shapes your self-image, worldview, and beliefs in adulthood—and why that can make healthy habits difficult.
• Techniques to gain control over your brain chemistry and produce more “feel-good” chemicals in times of stress.
• The Due Justice Technique, a simple way to overcome complex generational trauma and anxiety regarding certain memories.
• Zero tolerance strategies to silence negative self-talk before it derails your journey.
Give that little you the childhood you should have had—and still deserve. Read Change What Happened to You and start on a new road of an abundant, empowered, and positive life.
- GenresNonfictionPsychology
263 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 13, 2022
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About the author
Odille Remmert
2 books8 followersOdille and Steve Remmert are mindset coaches specializing in emotions and the subconscious. After successfully transforming their lives by changing their own negative childhood memories, they created the Remmert Method to empower others to create deep and permanent life change through memory transformation.
Before marrying and becoming mindset coaches, Odille and Steve struggled throughout their lives with anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and debilitating patterns. Independently, they both cycled through countless self-help solutions in an effort to help their emotional struggles without lasting success. In 2015, Odille learned about the effects of adverse childhood memories and how to change them. Through a combination of changing negative childhood memories and her techniques for controlling brain and body chemistry, she finally started to see significant results in all areas of her life. Odille and Steve, then a professional psychotherapist who was using similar techniques in his own life, met at a seminar in 2017.
Steve holds a master’s degree in psychotherapy from Governor’s State University. Odille earned a certificate in the fundamentals of neuroscience through HarvardX. Their expertise and the Remmert Method has been featured on Speaker Insight, Success Quest, Happiness Club, and more.
The Remmerts currently live in Peoria, Illinois. Learn more www.theremmertmethod.com.
Before marrying and becoming mindset coaches, Odille and Steve struggled throughout their lives with anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and debilitating patterns. Independently, they both cycled through countless self-help solutions in an effort to help their emotional struggles without lasting success. In 2015, Odille learned about the effects of adverse childhood memories and how to change them. Through a combination of changing negative childhood memories and her techniques for controlling brain and body chemistry, she finally started to see significant results in all areas of her life. Odille and Steve, then a professional psychotherapist who was using similar techniques in his own life, met at a seminar in 2017.
Steve holds a master’s degree in psychotherapy from Governor’s State University. Odille earned a certificate in the fundamentals of neuroscience through HarvardX. Their expertise and the Remmert Method has been featured on Speaker Insight, Success Quest, Happiness Club, and more.
The Remmerts currently live in Peoria, Illinois. Learn more www.theremmertmethod.com.
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April 14, 2022
I was intrigued by the approach and claims from these authors. Memory can be changed every time we retrieve and store it, as known from many studies on eye witness testimony. What these authors do is to get you to change the emotions attached to the memories by going back to childhood where your worldview and personality developed. The end result is, I think, designed to get you into an abundance and positive self-confident mindset.
They share their own stories of change using the processes described and don't overclaim on credibility or authority by saying hundreds (rather than thousands or millions) of their students of the Remmert method have benefited. Credit is also given to some students for adding tweaks and steps to the method. It is a first -world method as it relies upon the analogy of you being a car driver with GPS which can reset for a different destination. You will need to read the text to see where dogs are also used in an analogous way. There is a science basis and each chapter finishes with the references used in that chapter. Not all assertions are backed up in this way, though as the final chapter says that all PTSD relates to childhood incident. There is no reference to this statement. I am not aware of anyone else espousing this idea.
The chapters are logically set out and you would probably want to assimilate and perfect each exercise before moving onto the next chapter if you are using this as your roadmap to changing your memories. Reading it all the way through gives you an idea whether it is an approach you would like to take. There are stern warnings at multiple points not to work on a memory of trauma without a trusted guide. There is a lot of repetition of the principles, exercises and arguments for the method. I think this is deliberate as the basis of it is "neurons that fire together wire together". They have anticipated and addressed many of the objections people may have about undertaking these exercises in brain chemistry alteration. An example; your subconscious brain believes what it is told and responds accordingly, so you can imagine anything you want in the reprogramming of the memory, but still retain the knowledge in your logical brain about what happened. The information can be the same, but you have altered your emotional, maladaptive response.
I received a free advance review copy and am leaving this review voluntarily.
They share their own stories of change using the processes described and don't overclaim on credibility or authority by saying hundreds (rather than thousands or millions) of their students of the Remmert method have benefited. Credit is also given to some students for adding tweaks and steps to the method. It is a first -world method as it relies upon the analogy of you being a car driver with GPS which can reset for a different destination. You will need to read the text to see where dogs are also used in an analogous way. There is a science basis and each chapter finishes with the references used in that chapter. Not all assertions are backed up in this way, though as the final chapter says that all PTSD relates to childhood incident. There is no reference to this statement. I am not aware of anyone else espousing this idea.
The chapters are logically set out and you would probably want to assimilate and perfect each exercise before moving onto the next chapter if you are using this as your roadmap to changing your memories. Reading it all the way through gives you an idea whether it is an approach you would like to take. There are stern warnings at multiple points not to work on a memory of trauma without a trusted guide. There is a lot of repetition of the principles, exercises and arguments for the method. I think this is deliberate as the basis of it is "neurons that fire together wire together". They have anticipated and addressed many of the objections people may have about undertaking these exercises in brain chemistry alteration. An example; your subconscious brain believes what it is told and responds accordingly, so you can imagine anything you want in the reprogramming of the memory, but still retain the knowledge in your logical brain about what happened. The information can be the same, but you have altered your emotional, maladaptive response.
I received a free advance review copy and am leaving this review voluntarily.
October 16, 2022
There are zillions of books out there about personal growth and sometimes it is tough to navigate those and see which one is the real deal. Well, this one is the real deal! It is filled with tools to improve your life significantly, if you take the suggested approach seriously. All the examples are super relatable and it is really easy to understand.
October 12, 2022
I found this a very interesting and accessibly written book giving great insight into how we can address things we think are out of our control. The reader is invited to consider that our childhood memories can be re-programmed in order for us to be freed up from things that maybe hold us back in the present.
I like the cautionary tone the authors take in relation to those who have experienced severe trauma in childhood, suggesting they look at the material alongside someone who can give them professional support.
The book goes beyond the 'why' and 'what' in relation to how past memories impact and offers a degree of 'how' to change them through lots of practical exercise suggestions and techniques.
A thought provoking read. I was grateful to receive an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
I like the cautionary tone the authors take in relation to those who have experienced severe trauma in childhood, suggesting they look at the material alongside someone who can give them professional support.
The book goes beyond the 'why' and 'what' in relation to how past memories impact and offers a degree of 'how' to change them through lots of practical exercise suggestions and techniques.
A thought provoking read. I was grateful to receive an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
June 1, 2022
There are so many self-help books out there that are very good at explaining things and giving you great insights (giving you the what and why), but more often than not, in the end they leave you with the question “but how then?”. This book not only explains why we experience what we experience in our present lives, but more so really emphasizes on the “’ how”. It is not only a beautiful starting point for anyone at the beginning of their journey, but also to keep handy as a practical guide along the way.
December 20, 2022
Change your reaction
We, of course, cannot change past events. Memories of past trauma prompts the body to produce stress hormones. There are exercises in this book designed to teach people to control their emotions, to eliminate the stress.
We, of course, cannot change past events. Memories of past trauma prompts the body to produce stress hormones. There are exercises in this book designed to teach people to control their emotions, to eliminate the stress.
June 3, 2022
All I really got from it is you can lie to yourself and it's ok. As if becoming a self pathological liar is a good thing. I get the premise, but imagining things were different is definitely not a healthy way to process your trauma.
February 12, 2024
Take a course with Robert Gene Smith instead. You'll be glad you did.
September 10, 2025
Just lie to yourself about what happened in your life as a way to feel well.
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