I REMOVED THE NAUGHTY BITS AND IT TOOK AS LONG AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT

(Befriend Your Brain serving up hot)

So when we started discussing with some seriousness a kid-friendly version of Unfuck Your Brain, I was very determined to do it myself. I didn’t want it dumbed down and cheesed up.

Being young, esp right now, is exhausting and messy and while some of these Tik Tok challenges get me worried, I love Gen Z and have high hopes on them changing the world. So I’m not talking down to any of them.

So f-bombs eradicated to make the book purchasable by school districts and the like, and some language and examples made more relevant. But the science? No changes. Because if young people aren’t dumb, neither is the material.

Anyway, it’s been a minute in the making and is kickstarting for preorder with a pretty small window so if you have monies and want to share them with me, you can do so here.

And in honor of Indigenous Peoples Day? I wrote Chapter 3 in this book, which came out last year. It’s academic so it’s expensive and I don’t get any monies for my effort but it was the first mental health, chapter-contributor book published that had every contributor be indigenous. Kinda a big deal, and kinda heartbreaking that it didn’t happen until 2020. It’s here: Understanding Indigenous Perspectives

And me? I’m sitting with a pile of cats working on some materials around self-sabotage and imposter syndrome. The cats experience neither but we still do.