Summary of Louann Brizendine's The Upgrade

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#1 The brain, and the entire human nervous system, is hungry for connection. When we don’t get this essential social vitamin, we become sicker.

#2 I have been listening to the stories of joy and loss, discovery and fear, freedom and disorientation from women in Transition for thirty years. I have witnessed the emergence of real actions we can take to come into our fullness.

#3 The Upgrade is the period in which women are freed from the reproductive phase. It is an opportunity to grow into the wisdom and strength and resilience we’ve been primed for across our life span.

#4 The great benefit of the cloak of invisibility of age is that we find our authenticity within. We no longer are driven by fertility hormones to seek external approval, and so we behave differently and others respond to us differently.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822512382

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Insights on Louann Brizendine's The Upgrade

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The brain, and the entire human nervous system, is hungry for connection. When we don’t get this essential social vitamin, we become sicker.

#2

I have been listening to the stories of joy and loss, discovery and fear, freedom and disorientation from women in Transition for thirty years. I have witnessed the emergence of real actions we can take to come into our fullness.

#3

The Upgrade is the period in which women are freed from the reproductive phase. It is an opportunity to grow into the wisdom and strength and resilience we’ve been primed for across our life span.

#4

The great benefit of the cloak of invisibility of age is that we find our authenticity within. We no longer are driven by fertility hormones to seek external approval, and so we behave differently and others respond to us differently.

#5

The Upgrade is bold ownership, like the teenage girl who knows she has it figured out and that her mother is an idiot. In the Upgrade, it’s the bold authority that women in their second half of life actually do have it figured out, and that someday younger women and men will catch up.

#6

The Female Brain is a book about the differences between the brains of men and women, and how these differences impact how they live their lives.

#7

The world needs to shift to a different brain style, one that holds as its core value community and preservation of life. The upgraded female brain has the ability to balance human culture.

#8

The Upgrade is about shedding the skin of the fertile-phase identity and stepping into a more authentic, powerful version of yourself. You can begin to dream as if everything were possible.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The female brain is constantly being pushed by strong hormonal waves to mate, flirt, curl up by a fire, eat chocolate cake, rage, hug, and speak an unvarnished truth no one is ready to hear.

#2

The shoreline of the islands is narrow, and the ocean