Make Your Brain Your BFF: Change Your Self Narrative, Change Your Life

By Paetyn Alexander

Is Your Brain on Your Side?

The brain is a fascinating and wonderful thing. It is also a LIAR. But you can fix that.

You can retrain your brain to work with you, not against you.

Create a more positive self-narrative to change how you approach the world.

This book is designed to teach you:

The overall health advantages to reshaping your self-narrative
Methods and suggestions to practice mindfulness
Techniques and questions to challenge your pattern of thinking
Prompts to reframe your thoughts
How to put it all together

This book is written in everyday, layperson style with no difficult medical terms or over-complicated explanations.

This book was written in a succinct style in order to be as clear and concise as possible.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 25, 2023
• ISBN: 9781312629059

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Paetyn Alexander

Make Your Brain Your BFF

Change your self-narrative, change your life.

First published by Little AP Publishing 2023

Copyright © 2023 by Paetyn Alexander

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Contents

Introduction: Sincerely From My Brain to Yours

Chapter 1: The Benefits of Being Friends with Your Brain

Chapter 2: Becoming Unstuck

Chapter 3: Practicing Mindfulness

Chapter 4: Deciphering the Code

Chapter 5: Strategies to Challenge Your Brain

Chapter 6: Changing Your Internal Language

Chapter 7: Stay Besties with Your Brain

Chapter 8: Seek Help If You Need It

End Note

Sources

Introduction: Sincerely From My Brain to Yours

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This book is largely the result of my passion to share this information with as many people as possible. I struggled for many years with negative self-narration, which led me to have a not-so-helpful spin on many situations that I found myself in. For me, it was largely feeling like an imposter, as though at any moment someone was going to realize that I have no idea what