Befriend Your Brain: A young person’s mental health guide

Befriend Your Brain: A young person’s mental health guide

Our brains can be jerks sometimes. They can tell us we’re terrible people, make us yell at each other, or make us silent when we need to speak up. They can make us too anxious to do things we want to, or too depressed to do anything at all.

The friendly and funny Dr. Faith Harper’s new book, Befriend Your Brain, helps tweens, teens, and adults understand why our brains do this, and gives us practical skills for feeling better, no matter how hard things are.

About this book

Ever since Dr. Faith’s first book, Un**** Your Brain, came out in 2017, it’s been hugely popular—selling almost 3 million copies and still going strong. And a lot of those people want copies they can share with the tweens and teens in their life.

So we asked Dr. Faith to write a new version of the book for younger readers.

Readers will learn about:

  • The science behind mental health issues
  • Why you freak out sometimes, and what it means
  • How to express your emotions in a healthy way
  • Coping skills for depression, anxiety, grief, stress, addiction, self-harm, and rage
  • How to ask for help from adults and medical professionals

About the rewards

The book 

Befriend Your Brain: A Young Person’s Guide to Dealing with Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-outs, and Triggers

We’re offering the book in paperback, ebook, or both. You can add-on extra paperback or ebook copies to other reward levels.

Classic pack

  • Befriend Your Brain
  •  Un****Your Brain – the Dr. Faith original, swears and all!

Parental Guidance

  • Befriend Your Brain
  •  Woke Parenting – a treatise on how to raise your kids in a healthy, accepting way

Young Readers

  • Befriend Your Brain
  •  Amica’s World – a photograph-filled account of how one family adopted a rhea (a giant flightless bird)
  •  I Don’t Believe in Popular Kids – a fifth grader’s account of how she overcame being bullied
  •  Zoom! – a picture book about bikes, dogs and family

Middle Grade

  • Befriend Your Brain
  •  The Courage Party – a parent/child read along book about overcoming sexual assault
  •  Teenage Rebels – short biographies of activists who changed the world before they graduated high school

Super Teens

  • Befriend Your Brain
  •  If You’re Freaking Out, Read This – a workbook for building coping skills, good habits and rediscovering hope for the future
  •  Firebrands – a collection of short biographies of activists often left out of textbooks

New Adult

  • Befriend Your Brain
  •  Unf*ck Your Adulting – a swear-filled Dr. Faith book about how to be the person you want to be
  •  Coping Skills – another Dr. Faith title full of tools for calming yourself down in bad moments, and building longer-term strategies for chill
  •  Unf*ck Your Worth – a Dr. Faith title on how to understand (and conquer!) the intersection of money and emotions

All the books

One copy of all the books and zines included in previous rewards. We have this reward available for paper books or ebooks.

About the Author

Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN is a bad-ass, funny lady with a PhD. She’s a licensed professional counselor, board supervisor, certified sexologist, and applied clinical nutritionist with a private practice and consulting business in San Antonio, TX. She is the author of the book Unf*ck Your Brain and many other popular zines and books on subjects such as anxiety, depression, and grief. She is available as a public speaker and for corporate and clinical trainings.

Subscribe to the Un**** Your Brain newsletter to get a discount on her books and zines.

 

About the Publisher

Microcosm Publishing & Distribution is an independent book publishing house and distributor headquartered in Portland, Oregon. At any given moment, various members of our staff of 25 can be found organizing documents and spreadsheets, moving boxes in our warehouse, shipping your orders, protesting in the streets, reading books, having uncomfortable conversations, and getting excited about making the world a better place. You can stay in touch with us via our

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