Rewire Your Anxious Brain

Introduce your brain to moments that are free of worry, anxiety, and pressure. Whether it's from work stress or relationship discord, an overactive brain is never a good thing. It keeps you trapped in the future or the past, and it keeps you out of the present. It's time to change. Your anxious brain is completely within your control. Really. Rewire Your Anxious Brain tackles the problem of an overactive brain from the inside out. Anxiety comes from thoughts, which come from beliefs, which can come from environmental and upbringing factors. The key is to deal with all of these aspects simultaneously, and this book offers you the tools to do that. Stop dwelling on the negative with therapy techniques. Nick Trenton grew up in rural Illinois and is quite literally a farm boy. His best friend growing up was his trusty companion Leonard the dachshund. RIP Leonard. Eventually, he made it off the farm and obtained a BS in Economics, followed by an MA in Behavioral Psychology. Deconstruct the cycle of anxiety and conquer it. -Learning how to emotionally calibrate to deal with hardships -The simple ABCDE method for anxiety and overcoming overwhelm -How to manage your expectations and change your beliefs -How to use three columns to see a different perspective -How to turn your anxiety and worrying into an actual superpower How to overcome feeling paralyzed and terrified - and start living your life.

Introduce your brain to moments that are free of worry, anxiety, and pressure. Whether it's from work stress or relationship discord, an overactive brain is never a good thing. It keeps you trapped in the future or the past, and it keeps you out of the present. It's time to change. Your anxious brain is completely within your control. Really. Rewire Your Anxious Brain tackles the problem of an overactive brain from the inside out. Anxiety comes from thoughts, which come from beliefs, which can come from environmental and upbringing factors. The key is to deal with all of these aspects simultaneously, and this book offers you the tools to do that. Stop dwelling on the negative with therapy techniques. Nick Trenton grew up in rural Illinois and is quite literally a farm boy. His best friend growing up was his trusty companion Leonard the dachshund. RIP Leonard. Eventually, he made it off the farm and obtained a BS in Economics, followed by an MA in Behavioral Psychology. Deconstruct the cycle of anxiety and conquer it. -Learning how to emotionally calibrate to deal with hardships -The simple ABCDE method for anxiety and overcoming overwhelm -How to manage your expectations and change your beliefs -How to use three columns to see a different perspective -How to turn your anxiety and worrying into an actual superpower How to overcome feeling paralyzed and terrified - and start living your life.

Do you ever wonder what is happening inside your brain when you feel anxious, panicked, and worried? Now fully revised and updated, Rewire Your Anxious Brain offers a unique, evidence-based solution to overcoming anxiety based in cutting-edge neuroscience. In Rewire Your Anxious Brain , psychologist Catherine Pittman and author Elizabeth Karle show how the amygdala and cortex (both key parts of the brain) are essential players in the neuropsychology of anxiety. The amygdala acts as a primal response, and oftentimes, when this part of the brain processes fear, you may not even understand why you are afraid. By comparison, the cortex is the center of "worry." That is, obsessing, ruminating, and dwelling on things that may or may not happen. In the book, Pittman and Karle provide specific examples of how to manage fear by tapping into both of these pathways in the brain. You'll gain a greater understanding of how anxiety is created in the brain, and as a result, you will feel empowered and motivated to overcome it. This new edition also features the latest in cutting-edge brain research, unique "goal-focused" self-assessments, and more than a decade of new findings in neuroscience. The brain is a powerful tool, and the more you work to change the way you respond to fear, the more resilient you will become. Using the practical and proven-effective techniques in this book, you will learn to literally "rewire" the brain processes that lie at the root of your fears.