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Brain Makeover: A Weekly Guide to a Happier, Healthier and More Abundant Life
Stop Surviving. Start Thriving.Many of us feel stressed, dissatisfied, unhappy, and stuck in a rut—even in survival mode. But it doesn’t have to be that way because how we feel is often due to our brains repeating the same thoughts and patterns, day in and day out. Your brain is running on autopilot...
But there are simple ways to retrain your brain for lasting positive changes that can help you feel happier in just one week.
Author, Positive Psychology, brain research, and EFT Tapping expert Phyllis Ginsberg, MA, MFT is known by her happier, less stressed working professionals as their “Survival to Thrival Expert.”
In Brain Makeover Ginsberg draws on her 30 years of experience as a Marriage and Family Therapist to show you how to make lasting, profound changes in your happiness level—often in a moment.
This book gives you the tools to
A better understanding of how your thoughts affect your health and happinessA greater sense of well-beingTools to quickly shift stressful thinking to achieve calm, clarity, and creativityBetter choice-making that cultivate healthier habitsA higher quality of life at work and at home
Brain Makeover has been featured In Woman's World, and Alive and Well Magazines.
Practical and easy to follow messages will inspire you to take the steps necessary to create the life you deeply desire. Each week you will be guided to think about, write about, or do something that will have you on your way to building new neural pathways and lasting changes for a happier, healthier and more abundant life!
But there are simple ways to retrain your brain for lasting positive changes that can help you feel happier in just one week.
Author, Positive Psychology, brain research, and EFT Tapping expert Phyllis Ginsberg, MA, MFT is known by her happier, less stressed working professionals as their “Survival to Thrival Expert.”
In Brain Makeover Ginsberg draws on her 30 years of experience as a Marriage and Family Therapist to show you how to make lasting, profound changes in your happiness level—often in a moment.
This book gives you the tools to
A better understanding of how your thoughts affect your health and happinessA greater sense of well-beingTools to quickly shift stressful thinking to achieve calm, clarity, and creativityBetter choice-making that cultivate healthier habitsA higher quality of life at work and at home
Brain Makeover has been featured In Woman's World, and Alive and Well Magazines.
Practical and easy to follow messages will inspire you to take the steps necessary to create the life you deeply desire. Each week you will be guided to think about, write about, or do something that will have you on your way to building new neural pathways and lasting changes for a happier, healthier and more abundant life!
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259 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 6, 2019
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September 28, 2019
How do our thoughts and perceptions influence how we interact with the world around us? Is there any way to improve or even “rethink” how we go through life? Based on research in the positive psychology field, this book will help you overcome common pitfalls we are stuck in, such as the fear of judgement, or losing money, or even simply a fear of living life to its fullest. The author gives us the tools we need if we truly want to retrain our brain. From an assessment, to weekly exercises and reflections, this book should be used as a companion as you work through your fears and start to focus on the happiness you have in your life.
The one downside with this type of book is that you will have to be honest with yourself as you go through the assessment and follow the weekly guidelines. Unless you are willing to put in the time you will not achieve anything. This is something that some people will have to remember. Just reading this book will not magically get your brain to be rewired. It was well written and easy to understand and follow along.
The one downside with this type of book is that you will have to be honest with yourself as you go through the assessment and follow the weekly guidelines. Unless you are willing to put in the time you will not achieve anything. This is something that some people will have to remember. Just reading this book will not magically get your brain to be rewired. It was well written and easy to understand and follow along.
October 14, 2019
Author Phyllis Ginsberg writes this book as a way to help encourage you to live the best life possible. Ginsberg gives tips as to how you can trick your brain into feeling happier, how you can change your lifestyle to include healthier choices, and even how to be positive.
Ginsberg includes many helpful facts and statistics in her book which help the reader to see how problematic our busy lives have become. She includes a helpful introduction in her book explaining why she was inspired to write it and what you can expect to gain by reading it.
In addition to this, the book contains interactive elements, such as space to write down your thoughts or to do mental exercises each chapter provides. At 233 pages, it might take a little time to read, but thanks to the helpful and positive information inside, the investment will certainly be worth it.
Ginsberg includes many helpful facts and statistics in her book which help the reader to see how problematic our busy lives have become. She includes a helpful introduction in her book explaining why she was inspired to write it and what you can expect to gain by reading it.
In addition to this, the book contains interactive elements, such as space to write down your thoughts or to do mental exercises each chapter provides. At 233 pages, it might take a little time to read, but thanks to the helpful and positive information inside, the investment will certainly be worth it.
July 15, 2019
Excellent self help book. I think a lot of people reach a point in their life where they realize they are running a rat race and have forgotten why. How does it affect your health? How does it affect your life? This week by week guide helps put things into perspective. Perhaps you are on the track you want to be, but if you are questioning your actions, such as I am, this book helps you to define your purpose in life. I love the pretest and post-test type questions. It is intended to be a year worth of weekly chapters to read, but I skimmed over the latter chapters in order to review it. I did receive this book as an early review copy.
October 14, 2019
How to rethink your way through life
This is a self help book on the positive effects of positive thinking. There are many activities and intelligent thoughts that will help you to learn and progress on a daily basis. The book is based on thoughts and perceptions and their effects on the world we live in. Basically happy thoughts and focus equals a happy life. The engaging processes in this book are very helpful in adjusting your thinking process and becoming a positive thinker. The advice provided is sound and can be useful in reaching this new level in life. Check this one out and let me know your thoughts.
This is a self help book on the positive effects of positive thinking. There are many activities and intelligent thoughts that will help you to learn and progress on a daily basis. The book is based on thoughts and perceptions and their effects on the world we live in. Basically happy thoughts and focus equals a happy life. The engaging processes in this book are very helpful in adjusting your thinking process and becoming a positive thinker. The advice provided is sound and can be useful in reaching this new level in life. Check this one out and let me know your thoughts.
May 27, 2021
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More of a workbook than an actual book, so probably better to rate after using it as a workbook for 52 weeks. Nothing new or extraordinary - basically read a chapter a week for a year and fill in the blank based on that weeks’ goal. It seems to be the type of activity to do if you’d like to make different daily habits.
More of a workbook than an actual book, so probably better to rate after using it as a workbook for 52 weeks. Nothing new or extraordinary - basically read a chapter a week for a year and fill in the blank based on that weeks’ goal. It seems to be the type of activity to do if you’d like to make different daily habits.
December 8, 2020
Every year I look for a few books like this one. Books that span an entire year and give you a little suggestion every week to work on in the hopes that by the end of the year you will have a few better habits or a shift in attitude. I think I enjoy these kinds of books because I am so crappy at maintaining resolutions.
This book just didn’t have enough “meat” each week to get me invested in the weekly activities. The author would title each week, something like “Reclaim Your Brain Space”, she would write a few brief paragraphs about what she means by that title. Sometimes she would add a few suggestions about ways to tackle that week’s activity, but that was it. No more than a page or two then the ball is in your court. Even though it’s not always clear what to do with it.
I do like that each weekly suggestion/activity had a space to write out your daily thoughts about your progress, but even that space was extremely limited and could only contain a sentence or two. In fact I couldn’t use it. I had to have a notebook that I could actually write a coherent thought in, thereby making the whole process more clunky and harder to process.
This was not my favorite, or the most inspiring read for me in this genre. But, if you want a quick weekly suggestion for how to change your life for the better, you might enjoy this book. I personally enjoyed 52 Small Changes for the Mind by Brett Blumenthal or How to Train a Wild Elephant, because they included more description and included research as to why activities were included and how to tackle them.
This book just didn’t have enough “meat” each week to get me invested in the weekly activities. The author would title each week, something like “Reclaim Your Brain Space”, she would write a few brief paragraphs about what she means by that title. Sometimes she would add a few suggestions about ways to tackle that week’s activity, but that was it. No more than a page or two then the ball is in your court. Even though it’s not always clear what to do with it.
I do like that each weekly suggestion/activity had a space to write out your daily thoughts about your progress, but even that space was extremely limited and could only contain a sentence or two. In fact I couldn’t use it. I had to have a notebook that I could actually write a coherent thought in, thereby making the whole process more clunky and harder to process.
This was not my favorite, or the most inspiring read for me in this genre. But, if you want a quick weekly suggestion for how to change your life for the better, you might enjoy this book. I personally enjoyed 52 Small Changes for the Mind by Brett Blumenthal or How to Train a Wild Elephant, because they included more description and included research as to why activities were included and how to tackle them.
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