A care-giving crisis is confronting us as baby boomers hit their sixties & the questions arise: Who's going to help & who's going to pay? Part memoir part recovery manual, Brain Heal Thyself may well act as a guidebook to thousands of unexpected caregivers. With humour, warmth, & arresting honesty, Madonna Siles recounts moment-by-moment the journey from her friend Eve's near-fatal aneurysm to casualty to rehab centre to at-home care & finally to near-miraculous recovery. Siles had no previous care-giving experience when Eve reached the limits of conventional therapy & was discharged to her care. Surprisingly, Siles was able to draw on her marketing & advertising background to develop non-verbal & subliminal methods for invoking the power of Eve's emotions & subconscious mind in the healing process.