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

Written by Catherine M. Pittman, PhD and Elizabeth M. Karle

Narrated by Susannah Mars

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wetware Media
• Release date: Jul 29, 2015
• ISBN: 9781509495757

Reviews for Rewire Your Anxious Brain

[husam · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It’s a great book, first view chapters is painful because they will talk about anxiety, how it happened, causes, symptoms and how the brain reacts. But hang in there, after chapter 5 you will feel better because you learned everything about anxiety and for the rest of book they will talk about how to deal with it.

[V P · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

A couple of good advices, but overall extremely repetitive and often quite boring. Could really fit into a one-hour audiobook.

[pattmatt · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Excellent book. It helped to explain some of the feelings I've been having and presented many useful techniques to help me to manage my anxiety (from C-PTSD) and give hope that I can eventually rewire my brain to reduce or eliminate the incidents I am experiencing.

[Rachael Basye · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I had to skip repeating parts & some of the antedates but the information about memory pathways was much more detailed than the dozens of other books about the brain I have read. Chapter 7 & 8 were most useful to me. Life long traumas have resurfaced at age 44 & I didn’t understand why since cognitively I am “over” them. I have no idea what is triggering me other than just being alive but chatted with my Dr. about a med I have never tried before. Might help ADHD & Autism symptoms as well as chronic pain so I am hopeful. Recommending this book to my Dr. & to all!

[Lyndsay Stewart · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Wow! This has changed how I will now live my life. Fantastic! It was so easy to listen to and it really helped me to understand and deal with anxiety.

[Beck · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

So great that I also purchased the book. Understanding more about what the brain is doing is in itself a tool for overcoming anxiety.

[marie leonte · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Excellent, worth to publish it in French, too
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[Turbulent Tuba · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It puts the clinical verbiage into lamens terms for anyone to understand. A very helpful read for anxious people!

[Sergiu Costea · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A must listen audiobook! Practical and very usefull. I recomand it!

[glenda morris · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It provided practical and easy exercises for you . Very helpful

[Andreas Two · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Reads scientific. 3.8 stars because it does not help achieve calm, but it gives a high level explanation of where in the brain anxiety and worries come from. It also poses some questions which, listening to the audiobook I did not bother to stop and answer

[Xtine Hunter · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Awesome book! Really breaks down the brain. Easy to follow.

[Desmond Barber · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very insightful book! Great narration and information that's practical! Excellent!

[Talea Pattemore · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This audio book was amazing and truely life changing. Thank you !

[Loner Wolf · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

educational. highly recommended!
educational. highly recommended!
educational. highly recommended!
5/5

[Cilica · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The author has included much research on the brain and its function in anxiety. However, as a person suffering from anxiety, it isn't necessary for me to know the anatomy and functions to get over my anxiety.

I think the book is great for a technical, anatomical look at anxiety. The premise of how 'fight or flight' affects the brain is used repeatedly in the argument of why we are triggered to respond with fear and anxiety. In my experience, this theory regardless of how long it is have been in use (just proves that people don't examine what they are taught) is totally incorrect and an extremely simplified theory of how humans react when anxiety and fear are triggered. It is really time to stop using 'fight or flight' dualistic theory when humans are more complex than this doctrine provides.

[Mahak Sharma · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

My favourite part was knowing how does anxiety originate and why it is hard wired into our system. The distinction between amygdala and cortex based anxiety was very useful to know. Also I found the chapters 19-20 very useful especially learning about mindfulness. This book was very helpful in overcoming anxiety to a certain extent.

[Lenore McKenzie · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I am going to counselling and what the counsellor has explained to me which has helped me after 50 years of panic attacks and severe anxiety is all in this book .
It’s a book everyone with anxiety should read . I give it 5 stars .

[matt · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Simplistic approach for anyone who is unaware of what causes anxiety and how to change or monitor the activity within the old grey matter. Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book, and totally recommend for those looking to change their approach to anxiety and worry.

[Astrid · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is an excellent aid for anyone in panic and anxiety situations. I'm currently trough very strong panic episodes and the approach of this books has really helped me to cope with them in an effective and grounded way, is direct and based on facts, makes me feel more safe.

[Thomas Mekler · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

The fact that snake oil like this is actually written and prescribed by real doctors in the 21st century should be surprising to me but sadly it isn't as I have experience dealing with so called "mental health" "professionals" and not a single one of them over the years of misery they deliberately put me through had conduct that was redeemable in even the slightest capacity ( I must add that their conduct broke both the Hippocratic oath's and malpractice laws sections regarding never inflicting unnecessary suffering on a patient). TLDR: When someone tells you how to rewire your brain assume they are referring to causing brain damage by drinking bleach and politely decline their offer of a $300/hr consultation fee.