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Our brains are doing our best to help us out, but they can be real assholes sometimes. Sometimes it seems like your own brain is out to get you—melting down in the middle of the grocery store, picking fights with your date, getting you addicted to something, or shutting down completely at the worst possible moments. You already told your brain firmly that it isn’t good to do these things. But your brain has a mind of its own. That’s where this book comes in. With humor, patience, and lots of swearing, Dr. Faith shows you the science behind what’s going on in your skull and talks you through the process of retraining your brain to respond appropriately to the non-emergencies of everyday life. If you’re working to deal with old traumas, or if you just want to have a more measured and chill response to situations you face all the time, this book can help you put the pieces of the puzzle together and get your life and brain back.Here’s an excerpt from the book:Knowing what’s going on up in your brain is HUGE. So much of how we interact with the world around us is a completely normal response when we take into account our past experiences and how our brains work. • Freaking the fuck out • Avoiding important shit we need to take care of • Feeling pissed off all the time • Being a dick to people we care about • Putting shit in our bodies that we know isn’t good for us • Doing shit we know is dumb or pointlessNone of these things are fucking helpful. But they all make sense.Your brain has adapted to the circumstances in your life and started doing things to protect you, bless it. It’s not TRYING to fuck you over (even though it totally is, at times).As we navigate the world, nasty shit happens. The brain stores info about the nasty shit to try to avoid it in the future. Sometimes these responses are helpful. Sometimes the responses become a bigger problem than the actual problem was. It’s called a trauma reaction.And even if you aren’t dealing with a specific trauma? Adaptive coping strategies, bad habits, and funky behaviors all wire in similar ways. And research is showing that these issues are actually some of the easier ones to treat in therapy … if we address what’s really going on, rather than just the symptoms.
Publisher : Microcosm Pub
Publication date : November 7, 2017
Language : English
Print length : 191 pages
ISBN-10 : 1621063046
ISBN-13 : 978-1621063049
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Reading age : 14 years and up
Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.5 x 6.75 inches
Part of series : Good Life
Customers say
Customers find the book highly informative and helpful, explaining the brain in easy-to-understand language, and appreciate its relatable content. Moreover, they value its humor and find it not overwhelming in length. The book receives positive feedback for its coping skills, with one customer noting how it makes sense of mood swings and trauma. However, the language receives mixed reactions, with several customers finding the profanity excessive.
Mia C. –
LOVE the book and the Author
Not only has this book been extremely helpful but the author writes with a personal connection to the audience which makes engaging easier. I’ve even purchased a few extra copies to hand out.
g man –
BUY THIS BOOK
If you are looking at this review it means you are thinking about buying this book. Buy it. This book helped me more than you can even begin to imagine. Please buy it. I have recommended it to everyone I talk to about mental health. If you think you will benefit from this I assure you you will. The profanity is a little excessive but it’s fine too.
Lees Rodionov –
Great book! Highly recommend!
I bought this book for my daughter and my husband. Both suffer from anxiety and neither like reading books that much. It is written in a way that is easy to read, very relatable, and so helpful. It is funny but not in a way that makes fun of the issue but eases the tension and made them feel like “this is normal”. It was so impactful for my husband that he shared it with his psychologist. Highly recommend!
Kevin –
Straight to the mind.
It is nice to relax listening to this with my eyes closed because I can understand it better by not going back a few words wondering if I missed something. Some of the words keep me alert.
Amazon Customer –
Life changer for me!
I absolutely loved this book! I work in mental health, and recommend it all of the time. I found myself in a low point in life and knew that I had to do something. It took me shuffling it around “for another day” for months, and then a plant fell and the pot shattered, and it knocked this book down. I look at the mess on the floor and through the soil I see the title staring at me. If that wasn’t my sign that it was time, I don’t know what would have been ! I read this book slowly, took notes. Took my time to really process each section. I wish that I knew there was a workbook! I essentially made my own, which was very helpful. But I would recommend buying the workbook! I loved the language used. The author is very intelligent and although she uses a lot of swearing, I felt that it made her more human and relatable. It was easy for me to understand the actual functions of the brain and to picture exactly what she was explaining. I’ve done trauma therapy in the past, but this is what worked for me. I’m FREE! Seriously. I really hope that this book works the same for others. I’m so so grateful.
Abigale Rice –
Fun
It’s a fun read, better than most books like this.
Objective Reader of Descriptions –
Needs an Editor
I’m Torn. Pros: This book covers a very necessary, serious, and stigmatized area of mental health: trauma. It does a good job describing accurately & scientifically what happens to the brain on trauma, the effects and how to deal. More should be explored & written about this subject.Cons: I have issues with the way it’s written. First, the Title Doesn’t Really Tell You It’s About Trauma. So people looking for that won’t find it and people who think this book is about something else will be out a few bucks. It’s written with the view that absolutely Everyone has gone through some kind of trauma & could benefit from this book. I won’t argue that, I can’t know.The Language is not necessary. There isn’t a sentence not peppered with f-bombs and every other curse word. I have NO problem with cursing but this is overkill! It’s obvious the book is geared towards young people but if trauma effects all ages why write it like that? It’s comically full of urban lingo which almost discredits the intelligent and noble writer. Because it’s got a lot of valuable info., I read it, but it’s hard. I think even a teenager would roll their eyes at the writer trying to relate to them and sound cool.By the time a lot of people get around to doing some self help reading they’re pushing 30 & up. It would be great if it were scrapped & re-written for everyone.It also says, “I dont think young people are very smart & won’t be interested in reading something unless it sounds ‘woke.” That’s not what I’d want to hear if I were the target audience. In fact there’s nothing worse than an adult trying to talk like your generation when they’re not.The other thing it says is, if you’re older than the target audience, this book won’t be useful to you, which is also untrue. So, kudos to the writer for delving into a serious much needed topic but please get an Editor.
Pam –
Very down to earth, easy to understand
This book has been amazing! It’s in normal, everyday language that is easy to understand. Yeah, you might have to look up a few medical terms, but the book is so relatable, so you don’t feel like ‘you’re the only one’ who feels this way. Found out there are other books that she has written and going to purchase those next. Definitely worth the price I paid.
Lim –
brand new in single layer of bubble wrap envelope
Merle –
Ich habe das Buch gekauft um tiefer in das Verständnis zwischen Traumtisierung und Körper einzusteigen. Da ich vorher sehr wissenschaftliche Texte dazu gelesen hatte, war die hier verwendete Sprache gewöhnungsbedürftig. Der Autor benutzt Umgangssprache und Floskeln, die einen anderen Zugang zum Thema ermöglichen. Durch praktische Tipps und niedrigschwellig umsetzbare Interventionen ist das Buch sehr gut zur Selbsthilfe geeignet. Ich habe das Buch in 3 Tagen durch gelesen, da viele Themen nur oberflächlich angerissen werden. Dadurch wird aber ermöglicht eine Vielzahl an Interventionen aufzuzeigen, welche durch die Angabe von weiterführender Literatur vertieft werden kann. Das Bucht geht sehr traumasensibel vor und ich empfehle es Menschen, die Traumabewältigung oder zumindest Anreize dazu auch außerhalb einer hochschwelligen Traumatherapie beim Psychologen suchen.
isabella –
La prima metà del libro l’ho trovata estremamente interessante, di facile comprensione, coinvolgere e davvero utile infatti ho sottolineato molte parti dei vari capitoli.Peccato che dalla seconda metà le sottolineature sono diventate sempre più rade fino a scomparire del tutto.Il capitolo sulle tipologie di aiuto che possiamo trovare ( psicologo, meditazione, medicina omeopatica e medicina chimica ecc) l’ho trovato piuttosto inutile, bastava fare una ricerca online per trovare risultati simili.Gli ultimi capitoli sono di poche pagine e ciascun capitolo spiega cos’è l’ansia, cos’è la depressione, cos’è la dipendenza o il lutto, per le mie esigenze personali ho trovato anche questi capitoli poco interessanti o utili.Peccato perché la prima parte è davvero ben fatta e interessante poi però si perde e mi ha lasciato con una sensazione di delusione finito il libro.Lascio comunque 3⭐ in quanto ci sono buone informazioni e qualche esercizio utile nei primi capitoli e per come è scritto che lo rende una lettura molto scorrevole e coinvolgente ( scritturamolto colloquiale, di facile comprensione, a tratti spiritosa. Con molte parolacce quindi evitate la lettura se per caso siete sensibili a questo gergo)
Nora –
Interesting cannot wait to read this.
Krischell Averion –
I was very disappointed myself as i was really excited to read this book cos it had such good comments and it seemed more focused on young people. As english is not my mother language nor i was born in the states, the expressions and slangs are hard to understand therefore the book is hard to read. Didnt really get anything from it. Plus, its really bad publishing. The spaces between words and space like. I feel scammed. Such a waste of money. Its even more expensive than other greater books similar to this one. And yeah, too much unnecessary swearing.