The Science of Love Playbook: A Brain-Based Guide to Deeper Self-Love and Healthier Relationships

The Science of Love Playbook
A brain-based guide to deeper self-love and healthier relationships

You've been watching the Science of Love series and taking notes. This is the book those notes were meant to live in.

Love is more than a feeling. It's a pattern your brain learned, and every text, gesture, and argument passes through that pattern before you decide how to respond. Watching the episodes helps you understand the pattern. Writing it down, in your own words, about your own relationships, is what starts to change it. That's what this playbook is for.

What you'll be able to do

See your pattern instead of just feeling it. Each of the 26 chapters gives you the core idea from one episode on a single page, with a diagram of the pattern and a short note on what's happening in your brain while it runs.

Recognize it in your own life. "What This Means for You" translates the science into the relationships you're actually in, and the "Notice Your Pattern" prompts ask what your body did first, not just what you thought.

Change one thing at a time. Every chapter ends with "This Week's Experiment," one small practice to try before the next episode, so the work stays doable.

Keep the videos and the writing together. A QR code at the top of each chapter takes you straight to the episode, so you can watch, write, and come back without hunting through a playlist.

What the book covers

Four parts, following the series: how your brain learned to love and filters it (attachment, dopamine, self-love, the inner narrator); attraction, bonding, and gut feelings; trust, vulnerability, and old wounds; and the patterns that keep repeating, from ignoring red flags and overgiving to fighting like you're under threat and not being able to stop thinking about someone. It opens with a baseline check-in and the NEAR framework for working with any pattern, and each part closes with a page that connects its chapters.

Details

Full-size 8.5 by 11 softcover, 98 pages, with room to write. By Dr. Tracey Marks, board-certified psychiatrist and creator of the Science of Love series. A companion to the videos, not a replacement for them.

Pre-order now and your copy ships on September 30. Free shipping through September 30. Want one for someone else too? The two-copy bundle is $39.99. Get it here