Change Your Story Change Your Brain For Better Relationship

THE POWER OF STORIES So many misunderstandings, hurts, and little fault lines that may grow into bond-shattering earthquakes can be minimized or even fully eliminated if only we practice more mindful, compassionate, and open communication—first with ourselves and then with our partners. You can change your story. You can repair your relationship. You can change your brain at a neurological level by rerouting elemental neural pathways that are associated with those stories that you made up to explain and face reality when you were younger. --Dr. Linda Miles Dr. Miles’ new book "Change Your Story, Change Your Brain for Better Relationships" combines essays and mindfulness practices to strengthen your relationships and provide healing for yourself and those close to you. Reader reviews for Change Your Story Change Your Brain “Dr. Linda Miles provides great insights and strategies to deal with loss and pain through the practice of mindfulness. Anyone who is struggling in life or dealing with a major life transition will benefit from her book.” “This is no self-improvement book. Change Your Story, Change Your Brain is a book that will change your life” “If you are going through some pain and trials right now this book is for you.” “...I love the way she draws from literature, philosophy and other professional sources to drive home her points. “Change Your Story: Change Your Brain" is a fantastic read. You'll thoroughly enjoy it.” Dr. Linda Miles has a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and has worked as a psychotherapist and author for 35 years. Dr. Miles is personable and accessible in her books and articles and is passionate about how mindfulness and loving kindness can positively change your brain, your chemistry and your life. Her first book, The New Marriage, written with her husband, Robert Miles, M.D., won a literary prize as a finalist for Forward Non-fiction book of the year. She has published several books on relationships and mindfulness as well as articles in the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Reuters and Miami Herald. She has been a guest expert on numerous national TV shows including CNN, Fox News, ABC, and NBC. For more information about Dr. Miles and mindfulness: www.DrLindaMiles.com and Facebook Mindfulness Rewrites

Do you feel as if someone else is writing the story of your life? Does the world seem to be brimming with negativity? Do you feel trapped in a mental prison of blame, depression, anxiety, or fear? It’s time to rediscover your most powerful weapon. Change Your Story, Change Your Brain is a guide to living more fully in the present moment and propelling yourself free from the cesspools of toxicity. Merging powerful anecdotes with neuroscientific findings and simple practices, this book invites you on a life-altering quest to rediscover purpose and joy through the practice of mindfulness. Learn to program your brain to live purposefully. Seize control of your thoughts and unleash your utmost potential. As you live with greater intention, you’ll discover that you can literally change the structure of your brain—and your life. “Great insights and strategies to deal with loss and pain through the practice of mindfulness. Anyone who is struggling with a major life transition will benefit from this book, recover, and move on to a healthier, happier life.” Amy Botwinick, Life Coach, Founder of WomenMovingOn.com “Change your Story, Change Your Brain cut through my pain with scalpel-like precision. It brought my deadened heart back to life and enabled me to revive my career. This is no self-improvement book. This is a book that will change your life.” Martin Terrell, author of Beyond Tomorrow “Read this if you are interested in exploring, cultivating, and nurturing yourself and those around you.” Shengli Dong, Professor of Psychological and Counseling Services at Florida State University

Reader reviews for Change Your Story Change Your Brain "Dr. Linda Miles provides great insights and strategies to deal with loss and pain through the practice of mindfulness. Anyone who is struggling in life or dealing with a major life transition will benefit from her book." "This is no self-improvement book. Change Your Story, Change Your Brain is a book that will change your life" "If you are going through some pain and trials right now this book is for you." "...I love the way she draws from literature, philosophy and other professional sources to drive home her points. "Change Your Story: Change Your Brain" is a fantastic read. You'll thoroughly enjoy it." Dr. Linda Miles has a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and has worked as a psychotherapist and author for 35 years. Dr. Miles is personable and accessible in her books and articles and is passionate about how mindfulness and loving kindness can positively change your brain, your chemistry and your life. Her first book, The New Marriage, written with her husband, Robert Miles, M.D., won a literary prize as a finalist for Forward Non-fiction book of the year. She has published several books on relationships and mindfulness as well as articles in the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Reuters and Miami Herald. She has been a guest expert on numerous national TV shows including CNN, Fox News, ABC, and NBC. For more information about Dr. Miles and mindfulness: www.DrLindaMiles.com and Facebook Mindfulness Rewrites

The things we tell ourselves affect how well or poorly our path in life goes. It’s time to flip the script on the internal stories you tell yourself and live life on your terms. Most of the “self-stories” you tell yourself—the kind of person you say you are and the things you are capable of—are invisible to you because they have become such a part of your everyday mental routine that you don’t even recognize they exist. Yet, these self-stories influence everything you do, everything you say, and everything you are. Choose Your Story, Change Your Life will help you take complete control of your self-stories and create the life you’ve always dreamed you’d have. Author Kindra Hall offers up a new window into your psychology, one that travels the distance from the frontiers of neuroscience to the deep inner workings of your thoughts and feelings. In Choose Your Story, Change Your Life, Kindra will help you: Uncover the truth of how you have created the life you have; Challenge everything you think you know about how your life has been built; Uncover the clear steps you can take to create the life you want; Take control of your self-story to become the author of who you are; and Live your life in a way you never have before. This eye-opening, but applicable journey will transform you from a passive listener of these limiting, unconscious thoughts to the definitive author of who you are and everything you want to be. Changing your life is as simple as choosing better stories to tell yourself. If you can change your story, you can change your life.

Change Your Story, Change Your Life is a practical self-help guide to personal transformation using traditional shamanic techniques combined with journaling and Carl Greer’s method for dialoguing that draws upon Jungian active imagination. The exercises inspire readers to work with insights and energies derived during the use of modalities that tap into the unconscious so that they may consciously choose the changes they would like to make in their lives and begin implementing them.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The gap is the space between where you are and where you want to be. Companies that close the gaps in business best, win. #2 We all have gaps in life, between where we are and where we want to be. These gaps are human nature. Without them, we would have no hopes, dreams, or aspirations. But while there’s nothing more human than dreaming of leaping a gap, there are few things more disheartening than staring at a gap and never doing anything about it. #3 To change your life, you must first understand why you tell the stories you do. To do that, you must go back much further than Mike did, to where the trouble really began. #4 The campfire legacy lives on today. Even if you’ve never taken a single step past the city limits, you’ve experienced what lighting a few candles can do for the mood. Good storytellers are more attractive to potential mates and even have healthier offspring.

Change Your Story, Change Your Life is a practical self-help guide to personal transformation using traditional shamanic techniques combined with journaling and Carl Greer’s method for dialoguing that draws upon Jungian active imagination. The exercises inspire readers to work with insights and energies derived during the use of modalities that tap into the unconscious so that they may consciously choose the changes they would like to make in their lives and begin implementing them.