The astonishing NYC Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist’s own stroke led to enlightenment.

On Dec 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained human brain scientist experienced an enormous heart stroke in the still left hemisphere of her mind. As she observed her brain deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, examine, create, or recall some of her life-all within four hours­-Taylor alternated between the euphoria from the intuitive and about My Stroke of Insight kinesthetic right brain, where she felt a feeling of full well-being and tranquility, and the reasonable, sequential left mind, which known she was possessing a heart stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was completely lost. It would take her eight years to fully recover.

For Taylor, her stroke was a blessing and a surprising rvelation. It taught her that by ‘stepping to the correct’ of our remaining brains, we can uncover feelings of well-being that are often sidelined by ‘brain chatter.’ Achieving wide viewers through her talk at the Technology, Entertainment, Style (TED) conference and her appearance on Oprah’s online Soul Series, Taylor offers a valuable recovery guide for all those touched by brain damage and an uplifting testimony that inner peace is obtainable to anyone.