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Change Your Brain

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There rarely comes along a book that speaks so profoundly to me.  Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Dr. Daniel Amen is one of those books. Like most people my age, I have found myself feeling lost and questioning my choices lately.  Am I in the right job? Have I surrounded myself with the right people? Am I truly happy? I never consider myself depressed, I laugh every day, but I have noticed I can get caught in negative thought patterns when I think about how different my life is from the one I planned to have years ago.  I would never have gone to a psychiatrist to deal with these questions but with Dr. Amen's plan for a healthy brain, I have a great program in place to change the things I may not love. Change Your Brain is well written, easy to understand, and chock full anctedotes and photos of SPECT images.  Anyone with an interest in brain health and psychology will find it fascinating.  I devoured the book in a matter of days and am excited to follow thru the p