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Connection Mode: How to Change Your Brain for an Easier Life
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“Connection Mode is a fantastic book! As a physician, I can highly recommend that my patients empower themselves with the wealth of knowledge and solutions offered in this book.”
—Andrea Lorenze, MD
“I can attest from personal experience with my family and patients to how effective this approach is. This revealing and insightful book will benefit all adults and kids.”
—Robert Schwartz, MD, FAAPMR
“Nancy’s ability to understand the complexities of the brain and nervous system and teach them to children, parents, and educators with such ease, understanding, and humor is life changing for everyone.”
—Jen Larson, MSEd, school counselor
Could simple changes to your brain and nervous system make your life easier?
Drawing on humorous examples, true stories, and playful analogies, Connection Mode shows how our nervous system—including a surprisingly common missed opportunity to finish our lower brain development—often interferes with our lives in ways we don’t even realize. The book answers questions such
• How can I stop feeling anxious, tired, and overwhelmed so much of the time?
• How does my nervous system play a role when I argue or shut down in relationships?
• How might my nervous system influence how I learn?
• Why should I care if I never finished developing my lower brain?
The good news is that we are all innately wired to live mainly in connection mode, in which each of us can learn with joy, be curious, show compassion, focus, and show up as who we truly are. Our brain and nervous system may just need a little help remembering that not everything in life is an attacking tiger.
Connection Mode distills decades of compelling information from the Brain Highways program, which has guided 20,000 kids and adults to improve their lives by changing their brain and nervous system. The book offers a simple, time-tested trifecta approach for restoring our nervous system’s flexibility, which is the gateway to living primarily in connection mode. Once our nervous system no longer sees everything as a threat, the problems we had either disappear altogether or show up in ways that are not so stressful.
Educator Nancy Green’s approachable voice and relatable stories may cause you to rethink what you believe about common diagnoses, anxiety, relationships, personalities, learning, and more. After reading Connection Mode, you’ll find it impossible not to look at others—and perhaps even yourself—with more curiosity and compassion. And if you incorporate the book’s specific actions, you’ll be well on the path to an easier life.
“Connection Mode is a fantastic book! As a physician, I can highly recommend that my patients empower themselves with the wealth of knowledge and solutions offered in this book.”
—Andrea Lorenze, MD
“I can attest from personal experience with my family and patients to how effective this approach is. This revealing and insightful book will benefit all adults and kids.”
—Robert Schwartz, MD, FAAPMR
“Nancy’s ability to understand the complexities of the brain and nervous system and teach them to children, parents, and educators with such ease, understanding, and humor is life changing for everyone.”
—Jen Larson, MSEd, school counselor
Could simple changes to your brain and nervous system make your life easier?
Drawing on humorous examples, true stories, and playful analogies, Connection Mode shows how our nervous system—including a surprisingly common missed opportunity to finish our lower brain development—often interferes with our lives in ways we don’t even realize. The book answers questions such
• How can I stop feeling anxious, tired, and overwhelmed so much of the time?
• How does my nervous system play a role when I argue or shut down in relationships?
• How might my nervous system influence how I learn?
• Why should I care if I never finished developing my lower brain?
The good news is that we are all innately wired to live mainly in connection mode, in which each of us can learn with joy, be curious, show compassion, focus, and show up as who we truly are. Our brain and nervous system may just need a little help remembering that not everything in life is an attacking tiger.
Connection Mode distills decades of compelling information from the Brain Highways program, which has guided 20,000 kids and adults to improve their lives by changing their brain and nervous system. The book offers a simple, time-tested trifecta approach for restoring our nervous system’s flexibility, which is the gateway to living primarily in connection mode. Once our nervous system no longer sees everything as a threat, the problems we had either disappear altogether or show up in ways that are not so stressful.
Educator Nancy Green’s approachable voice and relatable stories may cause you to rethink what you believe about common diagnoses, anxiety, relationships, personalities, learning, and more. After reading Connection Mode, you’ll find it impossible not to look at others—and perhaps even yourself—with more curiosity and compassion. And if you incorporate the book’s specific actions, you’ll be well on the path to an easier life.
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Published September 27, 2022
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April 2, 2025
This book was fantastic!!! I loved all the information and how it transformed my thinking about autism and the brain. I have never heard of “rebuilding the lower brain” until a brain center with lots of therapies told me that neuromovement (specific exercises similar to what babies do during development to rebuild the lower brain) would be a highly effective cure for my son’s debilitating anxiety.
I only gave it 4 stars because the Brain Highways Program is 30 minutes a day for 3 months straight and I don’t ever think I could actually do that (much less get my 13 yr old son to), but this book gave lots of helpful hacks I can at least do to understand and calm my nervous system.
I only gave it 4 stars because the Brain Highways Program is 30 minutes a day for 3 months straight and I don’t ever think I could actually do that (much less get my 13 yr old son to), but this book gave lots of helpful hacks I can at least do to understand and calm my nervous system.
October 7, 2022
I feel like the book was padded with way, way, way too many stories and the long development of how the author discovered each findings that led to this book and the program. If you want to help people, keep it concise, and don’t make it about YOU.
This reminded me of grade school teachers who loved their own voices too much, and who forced helpless students who could not escape listen to too too too many off-topic, or mildly-related stuff, just to learn a tiny, little bit. Could be useful, but very long-winded.
Also, it is very annoying to keep hearing the author use well-established methods, but renaming it as something else in “her program” and gloat about it, as if that makes it original or unique. There is something arrogant and off-putting about this.
Disclosure: I received a free review copy via NetGalley.
This reminded me of grade school teachers who loved their own voices too much, and who forced helpless students who could not escape listen to too too too many off-topic, or mildly-related stuff, just to learn a tiny, little bit. Could be useful, but very long-winded.
Also, it is very annoying to keep hearing the author use well-established methods, but renaming it as something else in “her program” and gloat about it, as if that makes it original or unique. There is something arrogant and off-putting about this.
Disclosure: I received a free review copy via NetGalley.
November 25, 2022
I couldn't put this book down.Unlike many other books, it offers practical and creative ideas to use with both kids and adults. I can't imagine anyone who wouldn't benefit from reading this much-needed book.
December 7, 2022
This book keeps you interested from the start to the finish. It's an easy read, yet it's packed with helpful information and lots of specific ways for anyone to change their brain and nervous system.
December 10, 2022
Terrific book with relatable stories, along with actions that can be implemented quickly and easily to help make life easier.
December 7, 2022
Connection Mode: How to Change Your Brain for an Easier LifeThis book is compelling and unique. Without the dry text and scientific jargon that often dominates books on the brain and nervous system, the author makes it easy for readers to understand how our brain and nervous system messes us up if not working as intended. I loved how the author used concise explanations, helpful analogies, and relatable stories of past Brain Highways participants, family, and friends to convincingly make this point: Any of us can change our brain and nervous system. I also appreciate how she provided readers with so many simple actions to get them started on a path to an easier life. I’ve already purchased six more books to give to family and friends!
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