Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry Paperback – January 2, 2015

This book was exactly what I didn’t know I needed. It explained anxiety in such a clear, almost comforting way—like walking into a messy room and suddenly knowing where everything goes. The breakdown between the emotional “fear center” and the logical “overthinking part” of the brain made so much sense, and once I saw how they both play a role, I felt less stuck. The science stuff didn’t go over my head at all, and the techniques actually feel doable, not just theory. I’ve started catching myself mid-spiral and being like, “Ah, this is cortex nonsense,” and it weirdly helps. Definitely one of the most useful, brain-calming things I’ve read in a long time.Highly recommended.

This book was absolutely awesome. It truly helped me get to the bottom of my anxiety. For the first time, I felt like I really understood what anxiety is, where it comes from, and why it shows up the way it does. Examples in the book are great and everything is easy to understand.I feel less overwhelmed and I loved reading it!!

This book was so informative and definitely helped me a lot in my journey! I recommend it to anyone who is struggling with anxiety and is unclear what is happening. It a very good place to start to understand our bodies better.

Decent read..Not only for health care professionals but for regular people who may not access professional help due to personal reasons. Doctor Pittman gives you practicalself-help steps that can help alleviate or eliminate anxiety throughout the book.

Rewire Your Anxious Brain by Catherine Pittman and Elizabeth Karle offers an enlightening exploration into the neuropsychology behind anxiety. If you've ever wondered why you feel anxious, panicked, or overwhelmed without understanding why, this book provides the answers through a science-backed, approachable explanation. What sets this book apart is how it explains the roles of two key brain areas: the amygdala, responsible for primal fear responses, and the cortex, which fuels worry and overthinking. By understanding how these pathways contribute to anxiety, the authors empower you to take control of your emotional responses with practical, easy-to-apply strategies. I found the examples and exercises particularly helpful in offering real-world solutions to manage anxiety. This book doesn’t just offer theory; it gives you actionable steps to rewire how your brain reacts to fear and stress, promoting long-term resilience. If you're looking for a deeper understanding of anxiety from a scientific perspective and want practical tools to help manage it, this is a must-read.

There are books that go into much more detail on specific strategies for dealing with anxiety and panic attacks or avoiding them altogether. They would be a great supplement to this book. What this book does is lay out clearly, in layperson terms, the neuroscience behind anxiety and panic attacks. Once you understand better what's happening biologically, you can find better strategies for dealing with it. They give you a good place to start by covering the basics of exercise, sleep, mindfulness, and CBT strategies, and they include in the resources section other books that go deeper into those topics which is very helpful. This book helped give me perspective and some goals, and I thought it was pretty unique. I cannot recommend enough.

I suffer from Anxiety. I found this book and decided to buy it base on the review. Hope it can helps me to understand anxiety better. Is not a joke to suffer from this and try to live a normal life. I would rate it once I finish it.

Ok but not what I expected. Too boring to listen to.