How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend

<p><b>'Riveting and enlightening, this book should be handed out to all humans as mandatory reading'- <i>Stylist</i> </b></p><p><b>'Fun, but still deeply, rigorously researched' - Professor Neil Shyminsky</b></p><p><b>'A true masterpiece. Rachel Barr has done a phenomenal job breaking down the complexities of the human mind' - Jeffrey Meltzer, LMHC</b></p><p><b>'Insightful and relatable. . . it’s a resource I’ll proudly keep on my shelf as a therapist' - Joshua Fletcher, anxiety therapist</b></p><p><b>THE INSTANT <i>IRISH TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b></p><p><b>Your brain is the most remarkable thing in the known universe.</b></p><p>Always trying to mend itself, and always trying to protect you, it’s in a constant state of flux — adapting, reconfiguring, finding new pathways . . . And it has an astonishing capacity for recovery. Only it doesn’t always get it right.</p><p>Rachel Barr struggled through years of devastating loss, heartache, and uncertainty until neuroscience gave her the first spark of self-belief she had felt in her adult life — and proof that, because of the brain’s near-infinite potential for neuroplastic change, it’s never too late to carve out neural pathways to form new habits, new skills, and new ways of thinking.</p><p>Whether you want to nerd-out on Neuroscientific acronyms, finally understand what’s going on in your head, or take refuge in a book that’s like a warm hug for your mind, <i>How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend</i> is a delight-filled, evidence-based guide to taking better care of your brain — so it, in turn, will take better care of you.</p>