Unfuck Your Brain: using science to get over anxiety, depression, anger, freak-outs, and triggers
About this ebook
Our brains are doing their best to help us out, but they can be real assholes. Sometimes it seems like your own brain is out to get you — like when you melt down in the middle of the supermarket, pick fights with your date, get addicted to something, or shut down completely at the worst possible moments. You’ve 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 humour, 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 or newly acquired traumas (especially post-traumatic stress disorder), or if you just want to have a more measured 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.
About the author
Faith Harper ACN is a bad-ass, funny lady with a PhD. She's a licensed professional counsellor, board supervisor, certified sexologist, and applied clinical nutritionist with a private practice and consulting/training business in San Antonio, Texas. She has been an adjunct professor and a TEDx presenter, and proudly identifies as a woman of colour and uppity intersectional feminist. She is the author of several highly popular “five-minute therapy” zines on subjects such as anxiety, depression, and grief.
