Befriend Your Brain

Executive Function and Visual Thinking

with Brandy Agerbeck, Loosetooth.com

This live workshop is being transformed into a self-paced course.

Learn all nine executive functions on your own schedule, with lifetime access. Coming soon.

Watch Brandy walk through one executive function from struggle to visual tool. Then meet all nine:

Three questions.
The whole course is here to help you answer them for yourself:

brain wearing a red headband, wristbands, and sneakers running all over the place

What are the
Executive Functions,
exactly?

cartoon brain with dial on its forehead, the dial is turned all the way up

So what.
Why should I care?

cartoon brain standing confidently with big thinking bubble full of different, colorful shapes

Great.
Now what do I DO?

You're constantly asking "what's WRONG with me?!" Your whole life has been white-knuckling what comes easy to everyone around you. Or health changes just pulled the rug out from under you.

The term "executive function" may have landed on your radar with the painful thud of a diagnosis. Your search for answers quickly ended in a pile of conflicting information.

Goal 1

Grasp the Executive Functions

Executive dysfunction is a part of being human.

Yes, some of us have lifelong struggles because of our 'wiring.' Others develop them through trauma or chronic conditions. We all have daily ups and downs.

The executive functions are knowable.

All nine of them, both sides of the coin, function and dysfunction. Gain a whole new vocabulary of being human.

Current resources are scattered, clinical, and dialed into dysfunction.

That's not your fault — the research is still young, coming from many angles at once: neuroscience, education, psychology.

Befriend Your Brain hands you a clear, complete set full of constructive language and useful detail.

Learn how executive functions (EF) affect daily life, and shape your long-term sense of self.

Recognize which EFs you excel at and which ones may need support.

Your inner critic has been running the mic for years. When you lose focus, forget the thing, or melt down, it's quick to call you lazy, scattered, too much.

That running commentary in your head is exhausting, and you've stopped questioning whether it's even right.

Goal 2

Increase Self-Awareness and Compassion

We adopt clearer language for our challenges.

The inner critic loses their bluster when we have more specific and constructive language to understand our struggles.

We also shine a light on our strengths.

Stop taking your abilities for granted! This holistic approach helps us celebrate our wins, and build upon them.

Metacognition is the key to self-compassion.

Boosted by a big picture view, kinder language, and new tools, we can all be kinder to our minds (and others' as well).

Gain clarity on exactly what makes you tick, and what stalls you out. In detailed, stigma-free language that shifts your self-talk for the better.

Befriend Your Brain is just the beginning of a kinder relationship with your mind.

And see how what you learn for yourself ripples out to those you care about.

You're not short on effort. You've tried the color-coded calendars, the productivity hacks, the app everyone swore by.

You started each tool with the hope. That it would crack the code of your puzzling brain. Build the habit. Be the routine that finally sticks.

But they didn't work with the way you think, and got quickly tossed into a guilt-filled graveyard.

Goal 3

Gather the Visual Tools that Support Executive Function

The more specific we know our needs, the easier it is to sleuth out new tools.

Getting granular makes it easier to find better ways of working with our unique brains.

Get out of your head by getting your thoughts into your hands.

Trying to keep it all inside is impossible. Making your thoughts, feelings, and ideas tangible and visible is the key to everything.

There are countless concrete tools and techniques to improve your executive function.

Most are not fancy or expensive. (Your resource guide is stuffed with them.)

After Befriend Your Brain, you'll have a full mental toolbox of specific tools, knowing exactly what executive function each one supports.

Gain real-world, repeatable strategies throughout.

Improve your quality of life personally and professionally.