Neurons & Narratives: A Teen Brain Operators Manual - Couverture souple

Linsenbardt, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798998593833

Editeur : Sapient America, 2026

Synopsis

Your Brain Got an Upgrade. Nobody Sent the Release Notes.

Something changed around twelve or thirteen, and nobody gave you a manual for it. You didn't become more dramatic. You didn't suddenly get worse at handling things. Your brain went through a structural reorganization, the emotional system expanded dramatically, the judgment system is still catching up, and the result is a brain running hotter on everything, rejection and embarrassment and the pull toward your friends and the resistance to anyone telling you what to do. That's not a character flaw. That's the upgrade running exactly as designed.

Neurons and Narratives: A Teen Brain Operator's Manual (Teen Edition) is that manual. Written directly to you, not about you, it covers what happened to your brain, what it's producing, and what you can actually do about it.

Based on neuroscience, psychology, and decades of working directly with teenagers Mark shows you what's happening underneath the surface, and why understanding that mechanism changes everything for you.

You'll understand:

• why correction still feels like a personal attack, even when you know it isn't
• how your brain built your behavioral strategies before you could choose them, and what it takes to change the ones that are costing you
• why the story your brain tells about what happened feels like fact, and how that works against you
• what the pull toward your friends is actually about, and why the family feeling less interesting isn't rejection
• how reliability and integrity work as practical tools, not moral lectures, and why they change how every adult in your life responds to you

The strategies you're running made sense when they formed. Some of them still work. Some of them are costing more than they're producing, and your brain is the last one to notice. This book is how you get ahead of that.

You didn't break. You got upgraded.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark A. Linsenbardt has spent more than twenty years working with parents, teenagers, professionals, and judges - teaching the science of how brains work and what people can do with that information. His Neurons and Narratives series is the distillation of that work: a Parent Edition, a Teen Edition, and a Family Workbook currently in development, each written to give families the neuroscience of adolescence in language built for real life, not a classroom.The books draw on research in developmental neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and family systems theory - and on the understanding that none of us operate in a vacuum. A teenager's behavior makes sense inside their family system. A parent's response makes sense inside their own history. Neurons and Narratives was written to both sides of that dynamic because changing one without the other rarely works.For nearly all of the past twenty years, Mark has worked directly with teenagers - teaching leadership to young people in JROTC programs nationwide, and working alongside teens navigating addiction, legal trouble, and the hard work of rebuilding. That direct experience shapes everything about how the Teen Edition is written. Written not at teenagers, but with them in mind as the actual audience, with the respect that comes from knowing what those teens are genuinely capable of.For fourteen years, Mark has facilitated family workshops through ResetYourLife and conducted Recovery Camps for specialty courts - drug courts, juvenile courts, and court-mandated family programs where the stakes are as high as they get. He has delivered workshops and keynote addresses on trauma to a wide range of audiences, including judges and judicial employees throughout Nevada, and has spent more than two decades on stages ranging from intimate seminars to large conferences.As chief officer of content development for Sapient America, Mark has built tools - books, discussion cards, educational games, and guided programs that serve the recovery and mental health community. Neurons and Narratives is an extension of that mission into the family system, bringing the same science-based, plainly communicated approach to the parents and teenagers who need it most.Mark has been writing and publishing since 1997. A Las Vegas native, he is a popular speaker for conventions, conferences, and judicial training events throughout the region and nationwide.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sapient America
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798998593833
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 156
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg