the Happiness Rebound: Inside Brain’s Rise, Fall, and Return to Meaning

Happiness isn't a permanent state - it's a rhythm the brain was designed to play. In The Happiness Rebound, neurobiologist Moawiah Naffaa, PhD takes readers on a journey through the brain's emotional circuitry - revealing why joy peaks, why it fades, and how meaning brings it home again. Drawing on the latest discoveries in neuroscience, psychology, and physiology, this book weaves science with story to show that happiness is not a goal to chase but a biological rhythm to understand. Inside every mind lies a living orchestra of molecules - dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and cortisol - whose harmonies and dissonances shape the way we feel, connect, and recover. Through poetic narrative and scientific clarity, The Happiness Rebound reveals how pleasure, stress, and renewal coexist in the same neural rhythm- and how balance, not intensity, sustains the rhythm of joy. This book invites you to experience happiness not as an escape, but as a cycle of anticipation, balance, descent, and renewal - the rhythm of being human.