Rewire Your Anxious Brain

How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry

By: Catherine M. Pittman PhD, Elizabeth M. Karle MLIS

Narrated by: Susannah Mars

Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's Summary

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.

©2015 Catherine M. Pittman & Elizabeth M. Karle (P)2015 Wetware Media

Accurate info, well explained

but nothing new here and certainly will not END your anxiety, even the book will say things like manage and accept. It is a huge amount of Cognitive Behavioral Monitoring and massive amounts of work to do on your own. Lot's of recommendations for therapy. Why sell a book that claims to rewire your brain and end anxiety when it doesn't?

Mediate, watch your thoughts, journal, exercise, eat right sound familiar. Good basic advice you can get for free from your auntie or the internet. Explaining the difference between limbic/amygdala anxiety and cortex anxiety, while interesting doesn't really help much. Just my opinion. I truly hope others have success.

not for generalized anxiety disorder

I purchased this book and was extremely disappointed. It only acknowledges anxiety that has a definitive external cause, not the gripping anxiety that arises for no reason that is associated with actual anxiety disorders. They act like it doesn't even exist, as if the only reason people feel anxious is either because they take normal daily worries too far or they have an immediate danger that arouses a fear response. I wish I could get my money back.

Extremely helpful book

This book is a really good tool on understanding the way your brain functions to help you manage anxiety. I went threw two suicides three weeks apart with people extremely close to me. This book has really helped to understand why you feel helpless sometimes like you can't control your reactions and emotions but gives you the tools on how this works so you can gain control again and manage your life.

this book covers all you need to take some control

I listened to this book twice and feel so much more in control of anxiety.

Excelent!

I liked this book a lot! Most anxiety books only focus on one type of treatment for anxiety, promoting it as the only way to cure it. This book has a much more ample and better explained and sustained ways to cope with anxiety.

Gave Me Guidance & Direction

I was initially skeptical because I saw in the comments that people said it wasn't meant for those who have generalized anxiety disorder. I found that to be false. I felt like it touched on all different forms of anxiety and gave skills and techniques to best cope with them. There's a lot of good tools to use in this book if you're suffering from any form of anxiety. But most of all, this book gave me a lot of hope.

A Useful Tool for Dealing with Anxiety

Although I found I would have liked a little less scientific discussion, on a whole this book proved quite useful for understanding how the brain manufactures anxiety. Better yet, this book offers useful exercises in measuring your anxiety and dealing with solutions. A most helpful read that provides a better understanding of neuroplasticity and how to make it work in your favor.

A Must Have for Anyone Suffering from Anxiety

this book had been a life saver for me so far. the narrator's voice is calming and easy to listen to. these tools and understanding what's happening in the brain had helped me do much with anxiety and panic attacks.

Helpful

Any additional comments?

I found this book well structured, to the point, and helpful.

I loved that the author didn't try to treat anxiety with a cookie-cutter approach, one fits all. When it comes to anxiety, one definitely doesn't fit all.

Through short quizzes, to which you can easily give mental answers while listening to the audio book, the author helps you pinpoint what you are experiencing, names it, and gives you strategies specific to the type of anxiety you might have. I found that knowing the origin of my anxieties, putting a name to them, and knowing at least 2-3 strategies for each, is very helpful.

In fact, I'm about to purchase a book in print, in order to bookmark and reference it.

Pleasant introduction to the brain

With no experience in the field, this book was nevertheless a pleasant introduction to the brain. I indeed feel like I learned something.

Very 'sciencey' but good

This book was a lot more 'sciencey' than I anticipated but I stuck with it. Some good techniques for coping with anxiety are mentioned including mindfulness at the end.

brilliant

An interkectual but approachable book. it not only gives you the background abd the science behind anxiety it gives you the encouragement and reassurance to achieve.

Not my cup of tea

I found this book to theory based for me. I was after a bit more of a lighter practical approach and found it too heavy and intense.

Good overview.

good breadth but not enough depth. suits beginner in the subject rather than someone advanced.

Disappointing

Apart from discovering anxiety can be produced by two parts of the brain, I did not gain much by listening to this book. A great deal of time is dedicated to explaining this simple fact and much of the information is needlessly repetitive. The suggested techniques to combat anxiety are disappointing and boil down to breathing and muscle exercises - nothing particularly innovative or new and similar exercises readily available on YouTube. Certainly not the 'rewiring' processes implied by the title of the book.

Amazing!

Literally the best and most informative book Ive ever listened to and is also very easy to follow and apply and has helped me greatly. Will listen again soon.

Excellent guide!

Neurosciences of anxiety to give you the tools to make sense of a paralysing sensation. Really liked the narrator's voice, pace and intonation.

Brilliant!!!!

Thank you for helping me understand, great advice and mentoring. Would recommend this book to anyone suffering from anxiety.

Good book

very useful book and very easy to understand and to learn from . would recommend.

Very helpful!

I've been listening to this book as well as seeking CBT. I found this book incredibly helpful and it has helped me to understand how my brain works and that I CAN change my brain and rewire it. It is very good and I would recommend this to anyone suffering with anxiety (it even helps you identify what sort you have).

Excellent!