Who's telling the story of your life-YOU or your brain? Searching for reasons her promising life had crumbled into obsessive thoughts and deep depressions, Karen Lawrence uncovers an enigmatic past filled with deception, religious fanaticism and abuse. Merging fragments of childhood memory, current scientific research and insights gleaned from practicing mindfulness, Karen weaves a deeply personal account of how our brain-stories can run our lives without our conscious awareness. Her persistent belief that she wasn't doomed to a life of coping with mental illness is a poignant example of what science now knows-YES, we can change our stories. YES, we can heal our brains.