The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery

Connecting Neuroscience and Faith to Radically Transform Your Life

By: W. Lee Warren MD, Daniel G. Amen MD - foreword

Narrated by: W. Lee Warren MD

What if it were possible for you to make structural changes to your own brain so it’s healthier and less prone to depression, anxiety, grief, worry, and other issues that make you unhappy and keep you stuck?

In this neuroscience-based, faith-infused, and immensely practical guide, Dr. W. Lee Warren, a practicing neurosurgeon, trauma survivor, and award-winning writer, reveals how to take control of your own mental, emotional, and physical healing by reordering your mind to change your brain—resulting in a radically transformed life that is healthier, happier, and more hopeful.

Since the development of functional brain imaging in the early 2000’s, we now know that thoughts can direct structural changes in the brain as or more effectively than medicines or surgery and can do so more quickly. That means, whether we know it or not, we’re all brain surgeons.

The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery will help you:

• learn and master several types of “self-brain surgery” operations to move from floundering to flourishing
• heal from trauma, tragedy, and other types of hardship
• overcome anxiety, depression, loneliness and other emotional and mental health struggles
• conquer limiting or negative thinking
• break old habits and create new ones
• build resilience and wellbeing
• become an empowered, hopeful person no matter what you’re facing

With the skill of a surgeon, the wounds of a trauma survivor, the lessons of a scientist, and a hard-won faith that we are wired for happiness here on earth and not just in the hereafter, Dr. Warren walks readers into nothing less than a new way of life.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2026 W. Lee Warren, M.D. (P)2026 Tyndale Refresh

Hope

I wish I could buy a copy of this book for everyone I know. I can’t express how life changing Dr. Warren’s teachings are. This book can mean the difference between life and death for some. I implore you to listen to this engaging and exciting book! Many times while listening, my heart would skip a beat because of the excitement of hope from whatever was being said in that moment. I’m so thankful for this book. If I can find hope after losing my son in a tragic way, then anyone can. No matter how much you think your life is too far gone to ever have happiness, hope, and joy again, this book can change your perspective.

TRY THIS AT HOME

You might expect that any description of brain surgery would carry the disclaimer: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME. And, it is true that if you suspect you have ruptured an aneurysm on your Circle of Willis, a bulge in a ring of blood vessels in the center of your head, if you've experienced a sudden "thunderclap" headache due to a subarachnoid hemorrhage, bleeding into the space between the brain and its surrounding membrane, or if spinal fluid drips out your nose due to cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea, you need an actual neurosurgeon right away. However, if want to improve your life by enhancing the function of your brain, this is the book for you. Dr. Lee Warren, a board certified brain surgeon, describes ordinary yet profound procedures you can do that change your brain structure and function. In fact, things you do every day are already changing your brain. The good news is that through "self-brain surgery" you can take charge of that process and get a better brain. In this book, Dr Warren invites readers into the operating room of their own minds—and hands them the tools to begin.

So, my recommendation is: TRY THIS AT HOME!

A must read for changing self-talk

As a counselor for many years this book is the best I’ve read at integrating brain science with actual practical steps to really effectively combat negative thinking. Dr. Warren gives powerful insights to help understand what’s going on in the brain and why we can so easily get dragged into a negative thinking habit. He also gives excellent language and information on teaching this to young children in a way that they can understand. Everyone would benefit from this book. Thanks Dr. Warren.

Life changer

The concepts in this book and the way it was presented relative to science and faith and how we control our mind and our mind controls our lives is something that I wish I would have learned long ago, and grateful that I’ve learned it now! There’s a broad audience that can benefit from this!

Truth

Dr. Warren, I honestly cannot thank you enough for writing your book. I have been telling EVERYONE to get it! I bought a hard copy and have it on audible. This has changed my life. I am a brain surgeon ❤️ and the rest of my life is going to be so much more free than the first 50 years. I wish I could hug you! Thank you!!!!!! May God continue to bless you and all of the people you reach with this incredible truth!! Christine Belk