Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry

Catherine M. Pittman, PhD · Elizabeth M. Karle

Jul 2015 · Wetware Media · Narrated by Susannah Mars

About this audiobook

Do you ever wonder what is happening inside your brain when you feel anxious, panicked, and worried? In Rewire Your Anxious Brain, psychologist Catherine Pittman and author Elizabeth Karle offer a unique, evidence-based solution to overcoming anxiety, based in cutting-edge neuroscience and research.

In this audiobook you will learn how the amygdala and cortex (both important 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.

Pittman and Karle offer simple, specific examples of how to manage fear by tapping in to both of these pathways in the brain. As you listen, 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.

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 self-assessments and proven-effective techniques in this book, you will learn to literally "rewire" the brain processes that lie at the root of your fears.

Ratings and reviews

As someone who has suffered from anxiety for as long as I can remember, and who was put on antidepressants just this year for increasingly out of control panic attacks, this book has been a godsend. I consider it an amazing resource as a starting point for understanding your own anxiety and how to manage it. The authors do an amazing job of breaking down scientific and complex medical terms and concepts into understandable language.

Brilliant! I recommend everyone who suffers with anxiety & worry reads this book!

Excellent book, helps explain types of anxiety and ways to manage them.